This career-high performance by Tyler Johnson apparently sets another milestone: the highest-scoring game off the bench in Miami Heat history. Excited yet? No, not really. I’m not either. It’s still kind of interesting, if only to look at the other names on that list.
Voshon Lenard used to hold the record, with 29 points back in 1999. You know, Voshon Lenard. The guy who won the three-point contest and then tried again the next year even though he was injured to heck and back? Yeah, that guy. Crazy, huh?
Then a bunch of other dudes scored 28 off the bench for Miami, like Michael Beasley and Udonis Haslem and Kevin Edwards (twice) and Jon Sundvold (lol) and Eddie House (double lol, no, make that a triple lol). All those dudes except Lenard didn’t even matter because they didn’t have the record, and now they matter even less because of Tyler Johnson’s kinda-sorta-stat-padding when the game was already pretty much over.
Unrelated: instead of showing a Johnson free throw, the Heat TV people decided to show sad looking puppies waiting to be adopted, and it pretty much broke my heart into a million pieces. If you live in Miami, and you aren’t going to rescue one of this little cuties right this second, I’m going to ban you from my channel. FOR LIFE.