Miami, FL – The NBA announced tonight that Miami HEAT guard Tyler Herro has been selected to participate in the Three-Point Contest at the 2025 NBA All-Star Saturday Night event in San Francisco on February 15. Herro, who participated in the event in 2023, will become the fifth HEAT player to do so multiple times. It also marks the 14th time a Miami player has participated in the event, joining Duncan Robinson (2020), Wayne Ellington (2018), James Jones (2012 & 2011), Mario Chalmers (2012), Daequan Cook (2010 & 2009), Jason Kapono (2007), Glen Rice (1995 & 1991) and Jon Sundvold (1990 & 1989). Additionally, four different HEAT players (Jones in 2011, Cook in 2009, Kapono in 2007 and Rice in 1995) have won the event, the most players by any team in NBA history.
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Herro has appeared in 48 games (all starts) this season averaging a team and career-high 23.9 points, 5.6 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 35.5 minutes while shooting 46.9 percent from the field, 39.3 percent from three-point range and 85.9 percent from the foul line. He has made 183 treys this season, the third-most in the NBA, and connected on a three-point field goal in a HEAT franchise record 79-straight games from December 18, 2023 through January 29, 2025, which also tied for the 12th-longest streak in NBA history. He made a three in each of the first 41 games to start this season, the longest streak to start any season in franchise history, surpassing the previous record of 28 games held by Tim Hardaway during the 1998-99 season. Herro is averaging career-highs in scoring average, rebounds per game, assists per game, field goal percentage and three-point field goals made per game and leads the HEAT in points, assists, field goals made, three-point field goals made, free throws made, double-figure scoring games, 20-point games, 30-point games, 40-point games and double-figure assist games. Additionally, he scored his 1,000th point of the season on January 23 at Milwaukee, doing so in his 42nd game, marking the fewest number of games to 1,000 points in his career.
Other invitees include Jalen Brunson, Cade Cunningham, Darius Garland, Buddy Hield, Cam Johnson, Damian Lillard and Norman Powell.
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