Miami Heat: Breaking down team and player performances by uniform

Kendrick Nunn, Tyler Herro and Derrick Jones Jr.

Like Dragic, Tyler Herro lights it up from 3-point land when wearing red, shooting 48.4 percent from deep. The rookie guard averaged 14.3 points and 3.0 assists in the Statement threads, which respectively rank second-best and best across all uniforms.

Herro and fellow rookie guard Kendrick Nunn buck the trend of playing worse in white uniforms. Herro posted his two highest-scoring games with 29 and 27 points and averages highs of 15.7 points on 44.3 percent field goal shooting in the white threads. Nunn, the three-time Rookie of the Month, averaged highs in points per game at 16.4, field goal percentage at 49.2 and 3-point percentage at 41.5 in the Association uniforms.

Both rookies are the least efficient when wearing black uniforms. Nunn shoots 39.5 percent from the field and 28.4 percent from beyond the arc while averaging the most turnovers at 2.2. Meanwhile, Herro only averages 6.9 points and shoots 33.0 percent from the field and 25.0 percent from beyond the arc. He made 15 triples across seven games in red and just 10 over 11 games in black.

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Reigning dunk contest champion Derrick Jones Jr. soars the highest in the black uniforms, averaging 11.1 points and 1.7 steals on 56.8 percent shooting. The Icon jerseys are the only ones in which Jones averages double-digit points. Jones averages the most rebounds (4.7) and shoots the best on triples (30.6 percent) in the white jerseys.

In the ViceWave uniforms, Jones posts lows in field goal percentage at 46.6, the only uniform in which Jones shoots under 50 percent. He also shoots a low point from beyond the arc at 23.7 percent, but he also shoots a high point from the charity stripe at 88.2, the only time he cracks 80 percent.

Of the seven players mentioned, all of them except Nunn and Herro average the lowest box score numbers in white jerseys and post most of their highs in either black or red jerseys. The rookie guards flip this trend.

Thanks to Miami’s fluctuating uniform schedule, the correlation between uniform and performance includes sufficient sample sizes for each uniform. The data reveals just how starkly a player’s performance can vary between jerseys.