MIAMI — The Miami Heat have identified a 26-year-old guard currently installing drywall at a mixed-use development in Fort Lauderdale as a potential addition to the team’s playoff rotation, according to people familiar with the organization’s latest player-development initiative.

Team evaluators reportedly became interested after observing the 6-foot-3 subcontractor slide laterally across an unfinished corridor while carrying a tool belt, absorb contact from a rolling scaffold and complete the task without requesting a foul call.

“The footwork stood out immediately,” a Heat development official said. “He kept his base, communicated through traffic and never once lost track of the corner. Those are transferable skills.”

The prospect, whose professional basketball experience consists primarily of a 2019 men’s league in Sunrise and several aggressive lunchtime games at a municipal recreation center, is believed to have already completed a preliminary conditioning test by working three consecutive twelve-hour shifts without a scheduled television timeout.

Miami staff members are said to be particularly encouraged by his willingness to take charges, although sources clarified that most of those incidents have so far involved delivery carts, extension ladders and one unsecured pallet of joint compound.

The organization has not yet determined a formal role, but internal discussions have included spot minutes at guard, emergency point-of-attack defense and “whatever Caleb Martin was doing that one spring.”

A team source said the Heat remain confident in their ability to convert overlooked local labor into postseason rotation players, citing a proprietary scouting model that heavily weights wingspan, work rate and whether a candidate can be reached by car in under 45 minutes.

The prospect is expected to attend an informal workout after completing a punch-list inspection at the construction site. Miami officials said he has been advised to bring basketball shoes but may keep the knee pads if they prove useful defensively.

If signed, he could become the latest Heat contributor to arrive with minimal national recognition and immediately cause opposing fan bases to ask why their own front office did not know he existed.

Sources said the team has already begun monitoring a left-handed electrician in Pompano Beach.