Like sands through the hourglass, so are the seconds of Haywood Highsmith’s Heat life

At a point of the season when every minute counts, Haywood Highsmith has found himself at a juncture where every seconds counts, with that essentially how his playing time has come to be measured.

Injected into the Miami Heat mix when backup center Cody Zeller was sidelined with a broken nose and when Omer Yurtseven was unable to gain the confidence of coach Erik Spoelstra as the backup to Bam Adebayo, Highsmith emerged as the ultimate short-timer.

In Saturday night’s home loss to the Brooklyn Nets...