Tyler Herro breaks silence on Bad Adebayo fight as new details emerge

The Tyler Herro-Bam Adebayo beef had been brewing for some time.The two former Miami Heat teammates had a solid relationship before things began to fall apart over the past year, as the team took a different offensive direction, according to a new report from ESPN, culminating in Friday’s fight at a court in Las Vegas in which Adebayo reportedly punched Herro.“Honestly, I’m just trying to move past all of it,” Herro, who was dealt to the Bucks in the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade, told ESPN.

“I’m focused on Milwaukee and building something special.They obviously just traded the greatest player in their history, so we want to come in and help continue what they’ve been doing.”Adebayo reportedly confronted Herro over critical comments made on social media after the Heat-Bucks trade.Adebayo then “took exception” to Herro’s verbal response and struck Herro near his chin, ESPN reported.

Herro, who was not knocked to the ground, “was restrained by others in the gym from responding physically.”Herro and Adebayo began to grow apart over the past year as Herro played in just 33 games last season due to various injuries, and even when he did play, he struggled to adjust to changes made by coach Erik Spoelstra.It became clear that the offense would revolve around Adebayo as their primary scorer rather than a pick-and-roll-heavy approach from years past.The Heat ran just 5.3 pick-and-roll ball-handler possessions per game and just 5.6 percent of the time, by far the least frequent in the NBA, with the Spurs coming in second at 12.2 percent of their plays.This is a massive change from the season prior, when the Heat ran pick-and-roll on 16.2 percent of their plays, middle of the pack in the NBA.

Miami ran the pick and roll less than any NBA team since at least 2015, when the data began being tracked by the league.When Herro returned to the offense from injury to make his season debut on Nov.24, Adebayo made some interesting comments about their star g...