{"id":46712,"date":"2025-05-21T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/46712\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:23:13","slug":"miami-heat-reacts-to-major-kelel-ware-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/46712\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat Reacts to Major Kel&#8217;el Ware Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat took to social media on Tuesday to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/miami-heat-rookie-kelel-ware-202233805.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kel&#039;el Ware;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kel&#8217;el Ware<\/a> was voted to the NBA All-Rookie Team. The center from Indiana was selected to the second team.<\/p>\n<p>Ware showed tremendous growth in his inaugural campaign. He started to come into his own when he was paired with Bam Adebayo in the front court. When those two played together this season, the Heat outscored teams by 6.45 points per 100 possessions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>His ability to rebound and work hard inside the paint paid dividends for the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>The former first-round pick averaged 9.3 points and 7.4 rebounds a game. He also shot 55.4% from the field.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Miami Heat center Kel'el Ware (7).Kyle Ross-Imagn Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/777117f123122fa03114f57f3e475b04.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat center Kel&#8217;el Ware (7).Kyle Ross-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>He was just 12 points short of making the First Team. He finished behind Alex Sarr of the Washington Wizards. Ware received 44 votes for First Team and 50 for the Second Team.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with the middle of January, when Ware became a fixture in the Heat&#8217;s every-game rotation, the big man averaged 11.1 points, 9.7 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 2 blocks in 28 minutes a game.<\/p>\n<p>The more impressive statistic is that he led all rookies in double-doubles with 15 despite playing less than other rookies.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In games where Ware played, the Heat outscored opponents by 2.4 points per 100 possessions when he was on the floor. The Heat&#8217;s offensive rating increased by four points when Ware was on the court, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/heat\/miami-heat-acquire-two-time-nba-champion-in-blockbuster-trade-proposal-01jvmy4mvpt4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBA writer Alex Toledo.\u00a0;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBA writer Alex Toledo.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/heats-wnba-post-backfired-fans-215721332.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Heat&#039;s WNBA Post Backfired as Fans Send Clear Message;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Heat&#8217;s WNBA Post Backfired as Fans Send Clear Message<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Heat took to social media on Tuesday to announce that Kel&#8217;el Ware was voted to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[979,1179,7,144,113,1241,295,189,3881,6,12476,1176,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-46712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-heat","12":"tag-indiana","13":"tag-kelel-ware-2","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-heat","16":"tag-miamiheat","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-all-rookie-team","19":"tag-the-heat","20":"tag-washington-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114543683387338305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}