Longtime basketball coach David Thorpe thinks that the Miami Heat have the best backup center in the NBA right now in Thomas Bryant.
Bryant agreed to a two-year, $5.4 million deal with the Heat in the offseason after spending the 2022-23 season with the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets.
The 26-year-old big man played his best basketball of the 2022-23 season when he was a member of the storied Lakers organization. Bryant averaged 12.1 points and 6.8 rebounds per game while shooting 65.4 percent from the field in 41 games played with Los Angeles during the 2022-23 regular season.
In February of 2023, the Lakers dealt Bryant to the Nuggets.