They have been almost inseparable the last three weeks.



It was hard not to find Miami Heat guard Jimmy Butler and rookie Tyler Herro together during training camp and the preseason. Butler latched on to Herro because he saw the potential. He saw the work ethic, the confidence and, most of all, how Herro resembled Butler himself when he was younger.



The tutelage of a four-time All-Star did wonders for Herro. He averaged a team-high 14.2 points on 46 percent shooting and was easily the team’s biggest talking point during the preseason.



“He don’t give a damn about what I think (of him),” Butler said recently. “I have that quality, too. A lot of people don’t, but he has it. He’s comfortable in his own skin. He’s not worried about what anybody says. He’s confident because he works on his game. He listens. He asks all the right questions. At 19, (if) you’ve already got that mindset, you can only get...