Kendrick “Nunn So Vile” Nunn had a somewhat Dwyane Wade-esque performance on the same night where D-Wade had his jersey retired by the Heat (Pat Riley apparently having forgiven him for his jaunts in Chicago and Cleveland [LOL (lots of laughs)]). 24 points and eight assists? If D-Wade had dropped that in his prime, everybody would be nodding their heads sagely and saying things like “Another good game for Wade” and “Wade with a solid outing, he makes the exceptional seem commonplace” and “He’s done so many roids that his jaw is literally a rectangle”.
Nunn’s not on Wade’s level when it comes to being a perpetual All-Star (or being a roid junkie with a jaw that looks like it was formed by a succession of facial reconstruction surgeries gone awry, each one being more botched than the one preceding it), but, to this uninformed observer’s eye, there are enough similarities that you can see why Heat fans have so quickly become attached to their beloved rookie. I don’t see Nunn having the kind of career that ends up in a jersey retirement, but you never know. Maybe Nunn being there for Wade’s jersey retirement lit the flame of inspiration within him.
Except I think all the Heat players were in the locker room getting ready for the second half while Wade was giving his speech. So Nunn was probably just chugging Gatorades and taking a potty break instead of having some kind of seed planted in him that will result in him averaging 25 PPG for the Heat over multiple superstar-level seasons.