IN THE LANE ACT II?

Having participated in the Jr. Heat basketball clinic at Hard Rock Stadium ahead of this weekend’s Rolling Loud music festival, Heat guard Victor Oladipo was asked about possibly reprising his Thingamajig persona from his appearance on The Masked Singer.“I wouldn’t mind putting the Thingamajig mask on and doing a little one-two step for the crowd. I think it would be nice. Maybe I could get a place in the rotation,” he quipped. “There’s never not room for Thingamajig, just being real.” Matt Zingler, a founder of Rolling Loud who helped coordinate the Heat’s clinic, said he sees the natural crossover between music and sports. “A lot of athletes want to be musicians,” he said. “A lot of musicians want to be athletes. So there’s a lot of respect there in the industries.”

STILL PUSHING: Bam Adebayo might prove able to push past last season’s disappointment of losing Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals to the Celtics, but he apparently is not letting go of being beaten out for NBA Defensive Player of the Year the last two seasons by Marcus Smart and Rudy Gobert.“I should have won it the last two years,”Adebayo told the assembled campers at the Heat’s youth clinic, when asked about his ongoing goals, “and I will win it this year.” Caesar’s Sports Book has Adebayo as the second choice, at +700, to win 2023 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, behind only Gobert (+550), well ahead of Smart (+1000).

MOVING ON: Despite the solid play of guard Kyle Allman Jr. for the team’s summer-league roster, the Heat’s expectation is that Allman will move forward with his commitment to his French League team. Allman concluded summer league by converting the winning 3-pointer against the Clippers’ summer roster. The 6-foot-3 guard who went undrafted out of Cal-Fullerton in 2019 said during summer league he was keeping his options open.“I’m open to everything,” he said. “I can go back to Paris. Obviously we’re still negotiating stuff, but I’m open to everything right now.”Allman said it was a worthwhile experience.“They like me and I thought it was a good opportunity to play with them to showcase what I can do,” he said. “And they gave me the opportunity to play point guard, shooting guard and show my skills. So it was like a mutual kind of [agreement].”

MOVING ON: The rollercoaster year for Kyle Guy now includes a contract to play in Spain with Joventut Badalona. Guy last August played summer league for the Golden State Warriors, followed up by attending camp with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and began last season with the Cleveland Charge of the G League. He then made an instant impact as a Heat emergency addition during the team’s COVID outbreak in late December, scoring 17 points in his debut. From there, he received another Heat 10-day contract and then a Heat two-way contract on Jan. 17, lasting until he was waived on March 24, when he was waived and replaced by since-waived Mychal Mulder. Guy finished the season in the G League.