and Bobby Portis Jr<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve been through a lot, and I think just being able to come here with a new slate, brand new team, brand new organization, brand new coaching staff, like I\u2019ve said before, we all have chips on our shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\nAlso as part of the Bucks\u2019 sweeping overhaul, Doc Rivers was replaced as Bucks coach by former Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins.<\/p>\n
\u201cCoach Jenkins himself has a chip on his shoulder. The guys who came in to trade with me, it\u2019s not just about me, I think everyone on the team has a chip,\u201d Herro said. \u201cObviously, there\u2019s going to be people who probably don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to win many games, but that\u2019s the opposite of what we\u2019re thinking. We want to win as many games as possible and really set a culture from Day One.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Herro never made an issue of the Heat bypassing his extension window last fall, the issue did factor into the Heat\u2019s approach going forward with the 2019 first-round pick out of Kentucky.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not really worried about it right now,\u201d Herro, 26, said. \u201cIt\u2019s a new slate for me, for the coaches, really for the organization as a whole. I don\u2019t think that needs to be a burden over anyone\u2019s shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n
Herro previously received a four-year, $120 million extension from the Heat prior to the start of the 2023-24 season, one that pays $33 million this season. Without an extension, he would become an unrestricted free agent next summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I\u2019m just happy to have an organization that wants me and wants me to play for them. Like I said, I\u2019ve been a Bucks fan my whole life,\u201d he said, for years having been mentioned in trade rumors during his Heat tenure. \u201cSo, taking all the other stuff out and just being a kid from Milwaukee. Take the contract stuff away, I\u2019m home playing for my home team. That, itself, is as much value as any other contract or anything like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I\u2019m happy to just be home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Herro made clear during his Heat tenure his allegiance to his hometown Milwaukee Brewers, featuring the team\u2019s logo in a tattoo near his left hip.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the Packers, the Brewers, or the Bucks are good and competing, there\u2019s nothing like it in the state,\u201d he said of the Wisconsin sports scene. \u201cSo, like, ultimately, I love the city of Milwaukee. I know people don\u2019t think highly of it. But if you haven\u2019t had a Midwest summer, you need to come down and check out a Midwest summer in Wisconsin. It\u2019s beautiful. And, obviously, the winters are the winters, but we\u2019re hardworking people and we love to work hard. And we love to see our teams win.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd, obviously, that\u2019s what we\u2019re here to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Herro\u2019s Heat tenure ended amid tension with Heat captain Bam Adebayo, including a scuffle in Las Vegas during NBA summer league, he said his goal is to step up as a leader for the youthful Bucks.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of veteran players in my career who I\u2019ve looked up to,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I think just being that for as many young guys as possible. There\u2019s different ways to lead.<\/p>\n
I try to lead by example, first one in the gym, last one out.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderstanding that this league is crazy, anything can happen, day by day, things change. And, I want to be a guy guys can lean on and ask questions and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Later this week, the Miami Heat will learn when the reunion will come, with the release of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,123,125,2490,124,2295,110],"class_list":["post-367059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367059","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=367059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}