{"id":326652,"date":"2026-07-01T23:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:44:09","slug":"heat-officially-sign-second-round-pick-ryan-conwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326652\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat officially sign second-round pick Ryan Conwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/T74WKL3I7FG57CQSZGE4MZQJYE.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Miami Heat President Pat Riley speaks on April 27, 2026. (WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The Miami Heat announced Wednesday they have signed guard Ryan Conwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Conwell was acquired by Miami in a draft-night trade after being selected in the second round, 37th overall, in the 2026 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The former Louisville guard started all 34 games as a senior last season, averaging a team-high 18.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.1 steals and 30.9 minutes per game. He shot 40.8% from the field, 34.5% from 3-point range and 83.2% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Conwell earned All-ACC Second Team honors and was named to the NABC All-District Second Team. He scored 638 points last season, a single-season career best, and finished his college career with 1,991 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also made 124 free throws and 112 3-pointers last season, ranking among the top 15 nationally in made 3-pointers. Conwell had 15 games with at least 20 points, including two 30-point performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He led the Cardinals in points, steals, defensive rebounds, field goals made, 3-pointers made, free throws made and minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMiami Heat President Pat Riley speaks on April 27, 2026. (WPLG) MIAMI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-326652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}