"South Florida's NBA team did something few expected, moving up three spots in the draft to take a point guard.
South Florida's best high school player of the past decade ended up going somewhere he didn't expect. And the rest of the NBA played musical picks as teams slogged through Thursday's two-round NBA Draft.
The Heat gave up the No. 31 pick, which was the first pick in the second round, a future second-round pick and cash to move up to get the No. 28 pick, Cleveland State point guard Norris Cole. This pick originally belonged to the Heat but went to Toronto, then to Chicago. Chicago took Cole and traded him to Minnesota, which traded him to the Heat.
Because of NBA rules, the Heat made the No. 31 pick, taking 6-7 guard Bojan Bogdanovic of Croatia, and traded him.
Because the transaction had not been officially approved as of midnight Thursday by the NBA, the Heat couldn't discuss Cole or the trade.
Although the Heat targeted point guard as an area for improvement this offseason, team president Pat Riley tends to eschew rookies. But Cole, 22, who is 6-2 and 170 pounds, is a rarity these days: a four-year college player who started 105 consecutive games."