The NBA announced today that Miami HEAT guard Tyler Herro was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, December 2 through Sunday, December 8. This marks Herro’s first Player of the Week award, becoming the 17th player in team history to earn the honor and the 62nd overall time a member of the HEAT has been named Player of the Week.
Herro helped lead Miami to a 3-1 record for the week with wins over Phoenix, L.A. Lakers and Cleveland after averaging 25.3 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.5 assists while shooting 50.7 percent from the field, 43.6 percent from three-point range and 87.5 percent from the foul line. He was the only player in the entire NBA to post at least those averages and shoot those percentages for the week. He was also the game-high scorer in two of the four contests and led the HEAT in points three times and in assists, steals and minutes once each.
Herro led off the week with a team-high 19-point effort in Boston while recording five rebounds and four assists on December 2. On December 4 vs. the Lakers, he scored a game-high 31 points, including 21 in the third, the most for any quarter in his career, outscoring the Lakers by himself, 21-20, in the period. He connected on seven three-point field goals in the third, becoming just the second player in team history to make at least seven treys in a single quarter. He also grabbed five boards and dished out four assists to help Miami complete the 41-point, 134-93, win, marking the largest margin of victory by either team in their 73-game history. In a 10-point, 121-111, win vs. the Suns on December 7, Herro recorded 17 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and a team-high two steals while shooting 8-of-12 from the field. In the final game of the week, he helped lead Miami to a, 122-113, victory over top-seeded Cleveland after scoring a game-high 34 points to go along with a game-high seven assists and six rebounds.
Herro has currently connected on a three-point field goal in 56-straight regular season games dating back to last season, and is now just one game short of tying the second-longest streak in franchise history. He has also currently scored in double-figures in a career-long 52 consecutive games and previously hit multiple treys in the first 13 games of the season, the longest streak to start a season in team history. Additionally, Herro has led the HEAT in points a team-high 11 times, in double-figure scoring games a team-high 21 times, in 20-point games a team-high 13 times, in 30-point games a team-high four times and has recorded the only 40-point game.
