MIAMI — The Miami Heat want to control their excitement over rookie Justise Winslow with the same stoicism that the 19-year-old brings inside the lines.
But that's getting harder as each game reveals what everyone already knew: He had no business being on the NBA draft board when Miami's 10th overall selection came around.
In June, Heat team president Pat Riley described the drafting of Winslow as "falling to us in a very blessed way," via Hot Hot Hoops' Surya Fernandez. By October, league executives tabbed the versatile forward as the draft's biggest steal as part of their annual survey.