Wayne Ellington was not the most likely player to take the NBA’s 3-point revolution to its latest extreme. He was known for his shooting even as he bounced around the league. But he had never been fully unleashed to shoot.

And then he signed with the Miami Heat. Ellington’s seventh team in six years was the first to make him believe that he wasn’t being used the right way. They wanted this peripatetic bench player to shoot as much as he possibly could.

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