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Miami Heat: Why “Airplane Mode” Derrick Jones Jr. is the future

This is a Miami Heat story, but we must first set things up. If you will take a walk with us down the proverbial NBA memory lane, we will begin to paint a picture.

Before the newly formed Brooklyn Nets had claimed both Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving in free agency, the Golden State Warriors was the home of the University of Texas alumn and on top of the NBA world. If it wasn’t for Durant’s ruptured Achilles tendon, the Warriors would’ve probably been the first team to three-peat since the Lakers back in 2000.