Video: Heat’s Udonis Haslem Ejected After Confronting 76ers’ Dwight Howard

Udonis Haslem made his season debut Thursday evening, and it was once over practically as soon because it began.

The Miami Heat forward, who was once showing in barely his 15th game across the closing three seasons and fifth within the closing two seasons, lasted two minutes against the Philadelphia 76ers sooner than he was once tossed for making contact with Dwight Howard. Haslem and Howard had gotten snarled in an earlier play leading to the Heat forward falling to the ground.

He logged four factors with a rebound in two minutes.

While it wasn’t exactly gorgeous, it was once also historical. Haslem will turn 41 on June 9 and as such was the oldest participant to hit the court for the Heat in franchise history. He might presumably be the oldest participant to seem in an NBA game this season, taking the title from 38-twelve months-ragged Anderson Varejao in Cleveland, per Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press. 

Haslem is in his 18th season within the league and has spent all of them with the Heat. He signed a one-twelve months deal with the group within the offseason, and it be willing to raise him abet “as a captain and within the abet of-the-scenes participant who would now not play” subsequent season. 

“I factual take it one day at a time, and we’ll figure it out,” Haslem stated, per Reynolds. “The goal now’s to ranking a championship. And then, you realize, we’ll plod from there. I will’t in fact contemplate past as of late. I’ve been told factual take it one day at a time and likewise you realize when I derive to the summer season, that’s when I contemplate about that.”