A release date is set for the new Netflix series, "Starting 5," which follows our very own Jimmy Butler, LeBron James, Anthony Edwards, Domantas Sabonis and Jayson Tatum on and off the court during the 2023-24 season. Are there concerns regarding how Jimmy Butler may be depicted? Will this Netflix documentary anger or elate Heat fans?
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00:00This was just released this morning.
00:01We knew the show was coming out, but we have a release date on it now.
00:04Um, the Netflix show that was following a lot of the NBA stars, including Jimmy
00:12Butler has a release date on it.
00:15It's called starting five and it's, uh, coming out, uh, in October, October 9th.
00:21I don't know why I got to try to sneak.
00:23Uh, I don't know why I got a French version.
00:25Who they always try to sneak, sneak old Tatum in there.
00:29Tatum's in the show.
00:30Yeah.
00:30Well, it follows LeBron Tatum, Anthony Edwards, the Monta Sabonis.
00:37They always include Tatum in all of these NBA things.
00:41Yeah.
00:42Well, I was just watching the, uh, the commercial, which doesn't,
00:45it's not that great of commercial.
00:46It's like all, all five of them in a group chat of, uh, of, um, on Instagram
00:54and Tatum's the one who starts it off.
00:55Says last year was a movie guys.
00:57Let's relive it.
00:58And like, there's no way Jimmy Butler's responding to that in the real world.
01:03He's responding to that chat.
01:05Like a, like a response from Jimmy.
01:07Was he like, yeah, they do.
01:08Yeah, it was, it was the most unrealistic thing.
01:11Smith and says it perfectly.
01:14How about Jimmy puts a release date on some playoff wins?
01:18Well, you want to know something.
01:19That's the thing I'm actually interested with this show.
01:21Right?
01:21Because I'm wondering, Jimmy's a very fascinating guy off the court.
01:25Very fascinating guy.
01:26He has a lot of, as a, has been dubbed side quests.
01:30And I think he's going to be, you know, I would, I would think if you showed
01:34me a show of who is going to be the most interesting to follow between these
01:38five guys, I'm going Jimmy, uh, off the court and I'd say probably on the
01:43court, Anthony Edwards, because I want to hear him bleep talk all the time.
01:47But yeah, I'm sure LeBron's got some stuff, but it's produced by LeBron.
01:51He ain't giving us the goods.
01:52So, um, I, I am kind of curious because everybody feels like, you know, Jimmy
02:01dogged it a little bit last year and found reasons to miss games and, and,
02:06you know, went to tennis, but then I couldn't play the Knicks, you know,
02:09like all like, is this show going to reveal some of the struggles that
02:16Jimmy went over, or is it going to piss off the heat fan?
02:18Cause you're going to get a look and say, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey.
02:22Why are you hanging out with Carlos Alcaraz, but can't hang out on the court?
02:25Like I want to know what the reaction is.
02:27So you don't want to see they're showing them showing everybody getting ready
02:30for games and stuff and Jimmy hobnobbing through South Florida.
02:35Well, four of these guys play a lot of games, you know, LeBron and Tatum.
02:40So bonus, they don't miss a lot of action.
02:43Jimmy, he missed a lot of games last year.
02:45And I'm wondering what this, I am curious, like what the
02:49reveal is going to be on this show.
02:51As far as like what went on last year and why there was a, this, this, uh,
02:56these many missed games, or if it's going to show that the guy was really,
03:00really banged up last year and he couldn't go a lot, taking the
03:04playoff injury out of it, obviously.
03:06I know he had a real injury at the end of the season.
03:08Do we know, uh, more or less when it starts?
03:11That's what we're trying to find out.
03:12Right.
03:13Cause I want the show.
03:14Yeah, not, not, uh, not the show be like, when did the coverage begin?
03:18I want to know if, if we're going to have an opportunity to see him on a horse in
03:21Miami, or are we going to have an opportunity to see him in that music?
03:25I think, I think all of it was last.
03:27I think it followed him all of last year, the Netflix cameras, you know?
03:31And that's why he lived a hell of a life last year because he always
03:35lives a hell of a life he does.
03:37But last year I was like, well, okay.
03:38You know, we got the bubble guts after the U S open.
03:41Is that what we're talking about right now?
03:43Or whatever Wimbledon, I don't know.
03:44That's like, that's going to be the thing.
03:47It's like, oh, if Jimmy has these, well, like, uh, and Jimmy Butler has a love for
03:51all sports outside of basketball.
03:54And then you see him just pounding drinks at the U S open and be like, I
03:59don't know if I got this one in me.
04:02Tomorrow.
04:02We got to go.
04:03I got to call out tomorrow guys.
04:04We have to call out.
04:06That's what I'm wondering.
04:07Like, is this, is this Netflix show going to annoy the heat fan or, uh, or,
04:16uh, is it going to be, uh, or is it going to be like, oh, now I get why
04:20Jimmy missed so much action.
04:22I think it's going to annoy him because why would a fan understand or think
04:32that if the, if Pat doesn't, yeah, I feel like Pat didn't make Pat didn't
04:41say Jimmy went through some stuff.
04:44Right.
04:46Pat said he needed to play more games.
04:49That's it.
04:49Point blank.
04:52So why would a fan watch something and then go, oh, Pat, you were hard.
05:00No, I don't know.
05:02Because what, like, you know, what if it shows, what if it shows Jimmy ball is
05:07like, guys don't know, but I gotta go through, get some more electric pole
05:12shock therapy to get it going.
05:15Just to, just to get the old wheels turned for the next day.
05:18Wasn't aware that if that was happening, I don't know.
05:21Come on.
05:22I don't think the team would know what he was going through.
05:25I think Jimmy's kind of got his own operation.
05:27Oh, well then he should have been a little more clear and Pat
05:31maybe wouldn't have went that route.
05:32But if Pat went that route, you think a fan is not going to go that route?
05:36That's what he like.
05:37I don't know.
05:37It was great.
05:38That's crazy.
05:39I mean, I don't know.
05:40I was like listening to a podcast yesterday with Hassan was on the OGs
05:43and he was talking about, Hassan was talking about Pat Riley.
05:46One time worked him out at the heat.
05:48Like nobody's ever worked him out harder.
05:49He worked him out.
05:50And while Pat was wearing full suit, making him lick his
05:53palms and touching the backboard.
05:55He's Pat Riley.
05:56Like he goes from a different era.
05:59Again, injury is injury.
06:03Right.
06:04And you think Pat is going to say something like that with his star player?
06:12I mean, he's done it.
06:13He was hurt.
06:14He's done that plenty of times though.
06:15He's done that with Goran, even with Goran banged up.
06:18He did that with Goran.
06:19He did that with D Wade.
06:20He's called guys out, even being banged up.
06:22He's done that before.
06:23And I would think that maybe he had a point that he maybe felt that there
06:28was some games, right, that these guys could have went and they didn't for
06:35whatever reason, like that's something you just hear, that's something
06:41you don't just say with just to say when Pat Riley said that you don't
06:48say it just to say, and so I'm thinking, you think fans are going to say,
06:54Oh Pat, you were too hard on Jimmy.
06:55Look at what was going on.
06:57No, it's possible.
07:00Oh, okay.
07:02All right.
07:02I'm willing to hear things.
07:03I'm willing to, I'm willing to see Jimmy side on this.
07:08If, if the camera show again, all I'm saying is this without seeing anything,
07:16should there be something you see about Jimmy's injury that
07:20the heat didn't know about?
07:24And if the heat knew, then why would Pat be going after him like that?
07:29That's my whole point.
07:30Well, in fairness, Pat was going after him for chitter chatter.
07:33Mostly, you know, he told me to keep his mouth shut because he was talking
07:38about, you know, games that he wasn't playing it.
07:40I'll say so.
07:41Why don't they?
07:42Why does his, Oh, look at Leroy making assumptions of what
07:45Pat Riley meant by his words.
07:48He said exactly these words.
07:51He need to play more games.
07:54He did say that.
07:55So I don't know what the hell you talking about.
07:57Waddle baby waddle.
07:59Wow.
08:02And I'm not making no assumptions.
08:03He did say that.
08:05And I said, would he go after Jimmy?
08:09If it is shown that Jimmy was actually really hurt and why
08:15wouldn't he know that?
08:18Josh Hart says, why Sabonis had to sprinkle in some intangible.
08:22Yeah, I think we all have the same question.
08:24When Sabonis is brought to things of why Sabonis you insane that since
08:28Indiana, not a fan, you hate Sabonis the way Leroy.
08:33Hey, you see this?
08:34Then look, now they do what you do.
08:37So I make a valid point, call him out on his mess and you're just lashing out.
08:44It's not that I hate Sabonis.
08:46It's just like Sabonis.
08:49No, I don't hate Sabonis.
08:50It's nothing against Sabonis.
08:52It's just like, Oh, like Sabonis does something that like Bam doesn't
08:56sleep.
08:56Luke also bonus.
08:57You're the best 15 and 15.
09:00Congrats.
09:01Sabonis 900 straight double doubles.
09:03It's like, yeah, but can he stop a chair?
09:05You know, can he, can he do anything?
09:07It's actually, it is actually weird.
09:09Didn't he make the all defensive team?
09:10He made all T he made all NBA last year.
09:15Yeah.
09:16So, which I find a little bit, he is one of those guys that gets pumped up a
09:23little more than maybe he should.
09:28Because I think there's a lot of players who could easily do what he does.
09:34This is, look, I don't, he doesn't really play defense.
09:37All he does get rebounds and put backs and stuff like that.
09:41I don't mean to be a, I don't mean to be the old man in the poker room here and
09:44be like, he's good.
09:45You good.
09:46You look November the bottle, you know, like that's how I just feel.
09:49I feel like, you know, he gets, they just have these guys like
09:53media darlings people love.
09:54But anyway, maybe he'll be, maybe he'll be, uh, maybe he'll be like Kirk
10:00cousins, you know, he'll surprise everybody in this Netflix series.
10:03And it was like, Oh, I love Sabonis now.
10:06Oh, I loved him.
10:07Everybody loved Kirk cousins after the quarterback show.
10:09It was a media diamond.
10:11Loved it.