More details on the moments preceding the Heat superstars bombshell reveal. Leroy gives his take on what will happen with Jimmy Butler, will He play or be traded? We hear more from Jimmy Butler last night as he made it very clear which direction he wants to go.
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00:00Miami Heat lost last night to the Indiana Pacers almost came back.
00:06Kalel Ware show.
00:07Oh, really?
00:08No, Jax is almost came back like you mean that was one of those things of got it to
00:16respectable.
00:18They did get it to respectable though.
00:19Their heart was in the right place.
00:20By the way, Jax is right with that Kalel Ware three ball just like slow motion rolls up
00:28there.
00:29But that puppy was going in last night.
00:30They let him walk into him.
00:31It was great 25 points for Kalel.
00:34No rebounds.
00:35I don't like that though.
00:36No rebounds.
00:37I don't like the no rebound thing.
00:38Well, because you know what they were doing, right?
00:41They hit him out on the perimeter so much.
00:44Yeah, that and then he had to make a whole memory had to make a whole lot of decisions
00:49because they did pick and roll.
00:51Somebody's going to who he's trying to figure out.
00:53Do I go after the ball or go after the guy that will stay on the guy I'm on?
00:56He got in that a lot.
00:57I'll tell you who I liked in his minutes.
01:00Keyshot jobs.
01:01Keyshot.
01:02That two places.
01:03Asshole does.
01:04He had like two blocks and like six rebounds or whatever time he had.
01:07He was all.
01:08He was a monster.
01:09It's almost as if someone's been stifling him the whole season from shine.
01:12You really got to make this a Drew Smith take right now.
01:15How selfish can you be?
01:17You really are making a Drew Smith take right now on a day like this on a day like this
01:235.6 rebounds done by you.
01:26Of course.
01:27Plus 11.
01:28Plus 11.
01:29Come on.
01:30Come on.
01:31Jimmy Baller.
01:32Minus 27 years.
01:33And they felt all that.
01:34I just kept watching him.
01:38I'm just like there was a point where like he's like, oh, my use it.
01:42Like there was a point where he's on the court with like Niko Haywood Highsmith.
01:47Alec Burks.
01:49I think it was scary, Terry.
01:52That's Jimmy time.
01:53Yeah.
01:54I was just like, hey, and then I think Haywood Heisman did like a spin move to the rim.
02:00I'm not for that.
02:01Like, he's like my usage, my role, like, no, your bank account, like, we know what you're
02:08pissed about, dude.
02:09Come on.
02:10Oh, masterful job, by the way.
02:13What a weird.
02:14I will tell you.
02:15Weird.
02:16Weird yesterday, because like, you know, they're like spoke talks.
02:20They're like, Jimmy's going to talk in here.
02:23And Jimmy walks in, his agent walks in, media relations walks in.
02:28I was like, what is the president speaking?
02:30What the hell is about to go on here?
02:33And well, they're trying to get at Pat now, right?
02:35Oh, yeah.
02:36Well, because Pat put it put Pat put out the statement.
02:39And obviously, based on side, I that didn't go great.
02:43Maybe he's just saying that to get more people to step up.
02:48Well, Pat.
02:50Yeah, maybe.
02:52If he tells teams, look, I have no intention of trading him, but if you want me, I might
02:56not have a choice.
02:58This is from the Miami Herald, Anthony Chang, Barry Jackson, hours before Butler's fiery
03:02press conference on Thursday, there was a conversation between heat officials and Butler's
03:06representation, according to leaked sources.
03:09To the Butler was bothered after a discussion because Butler and his agent perceived heat
03:16officials were implying that Butler didn't play his hardest in the Heat's home win over
03:20the Pelicans on Wednesday.
03:23Butler scored nine points on five shots, didn't play in the fourth quarter of that contest
03:25in his first game after a five game absence stemming from an illness.
03:29But the Heat contends it was more of a macro level discussion regarding the team's concern
03:34over Butler's behavior in recent weeks since the trade noise has grown louder.
03:40So we're we're we're we're in a pissing contest, you know, here's where we here's here's in
03:46the words of Tobin.
03:47Jimmy Butler is making a stink poll.
03:52He's making a stink, dude.
03:53And and and Pat Riley is like, Pat Riley ain't having it.
03:59What do you think?
04:00What do you think?
04:01You think they just tell him to stay away?
04:02Leroy?
04:03No, they're not going to tell him to stay away.
04:04Or you think the Heat are going to deal him?
04:07Or you think he plays like, do you think, like, he'll actually get a game play?
04:12We had that.
04:13You think he gets dealt by the weekend?
04:15You think he gets dealt before they go to the West Coast?
04:17I don't know.
04:18I'm just saying this.
04:20Jimmy ain't going to play.
04:23So unless they have a conversation.
04:27And and and to.
04:30My issue is, is that you have other guys, young guys, young, impressionable guys.
04:37Do you want this?
04:40Going on and having them see it?
04:44Jennifer Torres says, I blame Pat Riley and his ego.
04:48Jimmy should not be leaving the chase.
04:51Jimmy has an ego, too.
04:52That's fine.
04:53Chase passes.
04:54Jimmy's being Jimmy.
04:57Pat Riley's being Pat Riley.
04:59Pat Riley has been Pat Riley longer than Jimmy has been Jimmy.
05:02So let's be clear about that.
05:04So the chances of Pat Riley.
05:08As you play basketball on his court.
05:11To think he needs to buckle or folder or do anything to anybody.
05:19Chase Pat's a fossil.
05:2080 years old.
05:21Wade Pat is to blame.
05:24Haven't gotten anyone next to Butler.
05:27He tried Dennis trade him to Siberia for a wet napkin.
05:34I feel like a Siberian wet napkin would just like freeze frozen napkin, frozen napkin.
05:40Absolutely.
05:41Of course.
05:42Kind of napkin doesn't clean.
05:43Gabriel.
05:44In fairness, Pat does not look 60.
05:45That's true.
05:46Handsome.
05:47We had a handsome off last night in the arena between David Beckham and Pat Riley.
05:52Crazy.
05:53Steve, they're going to send his ass home.
05:58I kind of agree with that.
06:00You think I see?
06:01I don't.
06:02They'd sell.
06:03I've never seen it happen.
06:04That's why I've never seen it happen.
06:07With the Miami heat that they just send somebody home.
06:12Dade South.
06:13The old love being stubborn.
06:14He's right about that.
06:15The older set in their ways.
06:16Yeah.
06:17But Pat Riley has been doing it for 50 years in his ways, right?
06:23So is that being stubborn or is that just being him?
06:27Here's more of Jimmy from last night and his press conference where he was letting it be
06:33known.
06:34He's ready to leave.
06:35Is that something that you're amenable to and is that something that might be necessary
06:38to get you back closer to the top of your game and your form?
06:42That ain't going to fix it.
06:46Jimmy, when do you feel like your role in the offense changed and what has been the
06:50toughest adjustment to that change?
06:53It's not a tough adjustment to me.
06:55I'm going out there to compete to win either way.
06:58Whether I score nine points or 29 points, I will compete.
07:02That's one thing that I will say.
07:03So you won't say that I'm out there not playing hard.
07:08It may look like that because my usage is down and I don't shoot the ball a lot, but
07:12we won't sit here and say that I don't play hard.
07:16What will fix it?
07:17What do you want to see happen to fix it?
07:19What do I want to see happen?
07:22I want to see me get my joy back from playing basketball.
07:26And wherever that may be, we'll find out here pretty soon, but I want to get my joy back.
07:34I'm happy here off the court, but I want to be back to somewhere dominant.
07:42I want to hoop and I want to help this team win.
07:45Right now, I'm not doing that.
07:46Can you get your joy back here on the court?
07:49Probably not.
07:50Thank you, Jimmy.
07:51Hey, you know, once he said that, you hear the PR guy, thank you, Jimmy.
08:01All right.
08:02All right.
08:03So, like Dade Sousa's answers, Dade Sousa, Tobin should have asked a harmless question
08:11to see if Jimmy would have answered it would have been great last night if I just finished
08:15it all off with Jimmy, what did you think of Colo?
08:20It's like, oh man, most gorilla.
08:27What's up, man?
08:28Hey, what's going on?
08:31Can you tell me about it?
08:32It's low, man.
08:33Hey, by the time we get over with that, I think we should go ahead and get rid of him.
08:41Go ahead.
08:42Trail, man.
08:43Don't be like the Dawkins, man.
08:44Have good players and hold on to them.
08:46You lose for nothing.
08:47You can get something for them, you know what I'm saying, at this time.
08:52That's all I say.
08:53And another thing, the media, they need to stop trying to give us the old broke down
08:57Bradley Bill.
08:58We don't want him.
08:59You know, I agree with you, man.
09:00I know it's great.
09:01Some guy was nothing, man.
09:02Don't lose it.
09:03Nothing.
09:04Some guy in Washington last night was trying to convince me of Bradley Bill.
09:05He was like a Washington guy.
09:06And it was funny because he actually, he was a reporter that remember the night Bam wore
09:07the Bradley Bill Jersey backwards and I was doing well, you know, because I was like,
09:08oh, no one's ever done that before.
09:09We're, we're a Jersey post game.
09:10Dude, can I just tell you what?
09:11Retired.
09:12Retired.
09:13Retired.
09:14Retired.
09:15Retired.
09:16Retired.
09:17Retired.
09:18Retired.
09:19Retired.
09:20Retired.
09:21Retired.
09:22Retired.
09:23Retired.
09:24Retired.
09:25Retired.
09:26Retired.
09:29Have you ever heard a whale?
09:30No.
09:31Never.
09:32Because has there ever been one that has come through?
09:36Jimmy.
09:37Dude, you've made whale noises for a lot more players than just Jimmy.
09:48You just asked if ever.
09:49You just throw it, throw it up against the wall.
09:51One of them will stick.
09:52Right?
09:53So you got 17 whales just on rotation.
09:56I mean, I mean, the fisherman does not limit himself to just one cast.
10:02You throw as many harpoons as it takes.
10:07That's stupid.
10:14Even Marcos is like, it sounded deep.
10:17It sounded deep.
10:18It was shadow.
10:19Does it limit oneself to a simple cast?
10:24Tobin's whale has turned into Lolita, just a sad floating whale at Miami
10:28Seaquarium.
10:32Dude, what are we doing?
10:35You used to make, I mean, every time somebody wasn't happy.
10:39So you think that somebody somewhere else, another place, they're doing
10:47whale noise for Jimmy?
10:49Definitely.
10:50I respect it.
10:51Okay.
10:52I respect it.
10:53It's not Pat.
10:56That's Pat Riley's fault.
10:57Not Tobin.
10:58The whale noise must live on.
10:59Agreed.
11:00Listen, I shouted down this summer to get off his godfather ass and go
11:05make a move.
11:06He didn't.
11:07What do you want me to do?
11:08I've tried.
11:09I've done my part.
11:10He lost.
11:11Look, here's Pat.
11:12You want to know what Pat Riley screwed up?
11:13Okay.
11:14Yeah.
11:15Whatever.
11:16They did with the Damian Lillard move.
11:17All right.
11:18They put their nuts on the table thinking we're going to bully the
11:21Blazers into getting Damian Lillard.
11:23They whiffed.
11:24They didn't get him.
11:25He ends up going to the Bucks.
11:27Then the Bucks get true holiday to the Celtics.
11:30That's what they lost over.
11:32Checkmate.
11:33Everybody moved against the heat because they knew if you had Jimmy
11:37Dame, bam, that's dangerous.
11:40They lost.
11:41It was over as soon as the Damian Lillard trade happened.
11:45Pat lost.
11:46They thought they had it in the bag.
11:50We all sat here guilty as charged telling Joe Cronin, come on, bro.
11:55Just do it.
11:56You know, you're going to do it.
11:57He gave double birds and he says, no, thanks.
12:01And that was it.
12:02Pat Riley got checkmated by a buffoon.
12:06Was he?
12:08Yeah.
12:09I mean, who did he get?
12:10I mean, did he not get the best deal for?
12:12Did he?
12:13I mean, you know, who does he have right now?
12:17I'm just saying.
12:21Yeah, I'd say Joe Cronin took a worse deal, but, but I will.
12:30I'll say this Joe Cronin.
12:31I respect the petty.
12:33You did your worst and you ruined our organization.
12:37Ultimately he won.
12:39All right.
12:40But I'm sad.
12:44I'm sad.
12:45I'm sad.
12:46I hate that.
12:47Every time the heat of a legendary player comes to this.
12:50I mean, look, when you say legendary, you're basically saying old.
12:56I mean, that's kind of, that's kind of what sports is now.
13:01Pete guys don't play with one franchise anymore.
13:04I know.
13:05So like, you notice.
13:08And, and at some point your favorite player or the guy you love on your
13:13franchise is going to get to that point where he wants to get a thank you
13:20for all you've done contract.
13:23And it would handicap the team.
13:27So organizations are not making these deals anymore and guys are getting
13:34upset, but this is nothing new.
13:37And especially if you have a guy who's, you know, probably he tried to
13:42play the good guy.
13:43Probably here.
13:46Let's just look at the reality.
13:49Okay.
13:50And, and this is what I look at what the organization is looking at.
13:57A 35 year old that hasn't played a bunch of games the last two years and
14:05wants an extension.
14:07I don't care what franchise you put that situation in.
14:12They're all going to have pause.
14:14They're all going to be hesitant to give that guy an extension.
14:18This is not a LeBron James situation, right?
14:24Every year for the last two years, Jimmy Butler has missed substantial time for
14:30whatever reason.
14:31Now, if some of those games, he was just missing because he got it like that,
14:37then understand that two years from now, when the team looks back and says,
14:43you don't play enough basketball for us to give you an extension.
14:46Who's to say if they give him an extension, Jimmy then says, oh, I got
14:51him now.
14:52I'm going to sit out these games.
14:53Right?
14:54That's how they're looking at it.
14:55Well, he hasn't.
14:56The one thing I can say on his part is, you know, I don't know what's
15:00going on behind the scenes.
15:01It seems like it's been pretty contentious, but I don't.
15:05Yeah.
15:06I'm talking just this year.
15:07I don't know how this, you know, I don't know if this will ultimately
15:11benefit him.
15:12I guess if he's off the team, you know, he says he'll be traded to anybody.
15:15You know, we'll see, but I don't play basketball.
15:20How is he going to get an extension from anybody?
15:23I don't know.
15:24I think he thinks he's going to go wherever and, you know,
15:29his ankles are never going to twist and his back is never going to get
15:31tight.
15:32Never going to get seven day bubble guts.
15:34And he thinks that he's going to turn into playoff Jimmy immediately
15:37and contract Jimmy.
15:38I think that he were hopeful contract contract year.
15:41Jimmy would play for them and contract year.
15:43Jimmy wants to play for somebody else who's going to actually pay him
15:45because he doesn't think that he will ever pay him.
15:46But so, so you see where, where this whole situation is.
15:51A lot of the contention is due to the facts of this situation.
16:00Like to say it's Pat Riley's fault and Pat Riley did like,
16:04you can't give a guy an extension.
16:07If you have questions, if he's going to be available.