Erik Spoelstra continues to tease us with Nikola Jović and Kel'el Ware minutes. Tim Hardaway Sr. went on Sirius XM NBA Radio and ripped Jimmy Butler, claiming he went to Prime 112 instead of playing in Orlando!
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00:00Hey, we got heat action tonight.
00:01The heat take on the Clippers at 1030.
00:04Oh, damn, it's late, dude.
00:07Get a get get get later.
00:09Give me a nine o'clock, baby.
00:11Now there were nine o'clock versus the Jazz.
00:15That game was not very entertaining.
00:16Yeah, I gave the last is this football tonight.
00:19So the Blazers game was surprisingly entertaining, especially when Hero
00:23and Simon's got into like a shoot off in the third quarter.
00:26That was crazy.
00:27Those guys couldn't miss.
00:29Simon's put a scare into us.
00:31I tell you who didn't, though.
00:32Scoot, scoot, scoot.
00:35Dude, I cannot stop laughing at Nikola Jovic
00:39continuing to call Kahlil where his rook.
00:41I think it's every time.
00:43Isn't Kahlil older than him?
00:45No, I think he's like 10 months younger than Nico.
00:49Like barely.
00:51But it's like those two.
00:53And I got to tell you, I got a bone to pick with Spohr, too.
00:56He keeps going.
00:58Respectfully, with all due respect, Spohr, he's doing this thing, right?
01:03Um, where, you know, people are asking, obviously,
01:07about the two young bigs, which any heat fan will tell you right now,
01:12the most fun part of the game is tall time.
01:13Yeah, all time gets going.
01:16And it's just like those guys are looking for each other.
01:19We're looking for lobs.
01:21Nico, you never know what he's going to pull off.
01:23He's like throwing behind the back.
01:25He's got the razzle dazzle.
01:26But they're also big.
01:28And Kahlil's just blocking.
01:30Dude, you see that one?
01:31He swatted into the seats.
01:33Do you see that, frog boy?
01:34Haven't seen that since Whiteside swatted it into the seats, dude.
01:39And Kahlil's like, mm hmm.
01:41Mm hmm.
01:43Very exciting.
01:44But Spohr, he's doing this thing, right?
01:48Where he's like, I don't want to talk about it.
01:51He doesn't want to give any flowers to the young guys
01:54trying to keep the old ego in check.
01:57I'm like, hey, hey, you know what I don't like?
02:00Mm hmm.
02:01I don't like that you sat here
02:05and you were like, mm hmm, I'm going to play them.
02:07I'm going to play them.
02:09Now they're out here playing.
02:10Well, you're like, I'm not going to talk about it.
02:11I'm not going to talk about it.
02:13We're going to develop it. Shh.
02:14In our little hub.
02:15Do you get this frog boy Spohr from yesterday or from two days ago?
02:19Because he's like, we like the minutes.
02:21We like the minutes that we're giving.
02:22But then he's like, shh, shh.
02:23Just he's like, he's like, let us just develop them.
02:26Like, what?
02:27You know, they're yours, your secret.
02:31Now you get to say, oh, you guys don't get no, no, no, no, no, no.
02:34We're not going to let their heads get too big.
02:36I didn't like that.
02:37I got a bone to pick with them.
02:39Just what do you mean?
02:40Let's throw a little flowers at the young bucks and how they're playing. No.
02:45Just refuses to to go overboard with it.
02:50Just got to be cautious now, you know,
02:52keep players egos at an all time high, apparently.
02:56I don't think they are high.
02:59Well, we're just having a little fun, baby.
03:01And Spurge just wants to keep everything basket hand.
03:06Never can just say we can never go overboard with them.
03:10How dare he be focused?
03:12How dare he ever can go?
03:14They just never can go full dive in.
03:17And he's like, he's scolding us early in the year.
03:19He was like, Nation, you know, we're, you know,
03:23I know everybody wants to the moon, but it goes like this.
03:26And I don't know, dude, because right now I see a couple of tall astronauts.
03:31That's what I see with Kahlil Ware and Nikolaevich.
03:35Well, this was Spurge about the minutes that those.
03:39And we like those minutes.
03:40I mean, how how can you not?
03:42You know, they're developing a nice chemistry.
03:44It's not just about the lob,
03:48you know, but Niko does throw that that pass really well to him.
03:53You know, they have size and versatility defensively
03:58when they're both gaining confidence.
04:00You know, so we just want to be open to where this can grow.
04:03And, you know, the more we can just kind of
04:07shelter, you know, everybody and, you know, let us do our job,
04:11you know, developing these guys.
04:14I think it is exciting when you add the work that they put in.
04:18But now with the confidence, you know, it's coming from that.
04:23What does it mean? Shelter, let us do our job.
04:26Shelter. What?
04:29This is ridiculous.
04:31Shelter, you know, you want to put your love out there
04:35for all these games from love out there.
04:37Oh, yeah. Tell you who we had to take shelter from his bricks.
04:40How? Okay, he'll be back.
04:45But then when he throws that lob to Kahlil.
04:48Oh, it's like it's so exciting, dude.
04:57So exciting.
04:58Now, another thing that's exciting, Leroy
05:02had a lot of chitter chat from the players around this,
05:06the former players around this Jimmy Butler soccer.
05:08I feel like a lot of chitter chat.
05:11And I feel like most people have been on Jimmy Butler's side,
05:14especially on this Paul Pierce.
05:16Sick this Paul Pierce like no one's ever going to play for the heat again.
05:21Which remind me, did he finish a wizard?
05:23Yes. Yes. Yes.
05:25Um, but you have a lot of former players.
05:28But but we needed one former player to step up with honor.
05:33One of Pat Riley's own.
05:36Tim Hardaway was on NBA radio.
05:40Oh, boy.
05:42And Tim Hardaway.
05:44I remember Tim Hardaway came out this summer.
05:46He was on the all the smoke podcast.
05:48And he said, I'd rather stick a Jimmy Butler.
05:52Sick of them, dude.
05:55And I was like, come on, Tim, that's a little strong.
05:56Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
05:59Seems like Timmy knew.
06:01Seems like a mute.
06:02We know right now that we're in the midst of a suspension.
06:06And I don't know if there's been an appeal yet or anything like that.
06:09I don't think there has.
06:11But Tim Hardaway says that's because the heat did their due diligence.
06:16They put in a book, Leroy, to the league with video evidence.
06:21How here was Tim Hardaway?
06:23Disrespect authority.
06:24And that's what Jimmy Butler has been doing.
06:26And I tell you this, Pat Riley, this boat is going to sail on top of the water.
06:31As long as Pat Riley there.
06:32Jimmy Butler is trying to sink that ship.
06:35That ship is not going to sink.
06:37I'm all with Pat Riley.
06:38You want the contract?
06:40You know, you play up under this contract.
06:42And we may see where all the chips may fall.
06:44But and you got to and you and you can opt into fifty two million dollars
06:49next year that you say you're not going to opt into, which just doesn't
06:53is mind boggling to me.
06:55How are you going to opt out of fifty two million dollars?
06:58All right. But, you know, it's all about, you know,
07:01authority saying no to somebody.
07:05And these guys can't take rejection.
07:09And that's what it's all about.
07:10It's about accountability.
07:12If you can't take rejection because everything has been saying, yes, yes, yes,
07:16yes, yes to you.
07:18Now you upset that in the world is coming to an end.
07:21Oh, I can't play now because he's not going to give me the money that I want.
07:25No. Well, then play you on the contract.
07:27Go ahead and play.
07:27Yes, I know, Pat.
07:29And that's what is going.
07:30That's what's happening.
07:31And I knew that I said, look, I got a 10 page letter
07:35to the Players Association, and he's going to have film
07:38showing why he suspended this man before that even happened.
07:43And guess what? He suspended him for seven days.
07:46And I know he gave him a 10 page letter.
07:48And I know he gave them some film to show them why he suspended them.
07:54Wow. Hey, wow.
07:56Was that an expression?
07:57He noticed I noticed that we haven't heard anything about an appeal.
08:02Not yet. Not that I'm aware of.
08:03I haven't seen it yet.
08:05He's he's right from this standpoint.
08:09As a player.
08:12You seem to be a little unrealistic
08:16to hold your team hostage.
08:19For two years down the road.
08:22Not this year, not next year,
08:25but you're doing this over 2026.
08:32So at what point can the team demand
08:36that you play for the contract we just gave you?
08:39And we'll figure that out.
08:41They have every right to say that.
08:43And so that's the whole part of the thing that.
08:47You know, caught me off guard because Jimmy said, well,
08:49I'm just going to go out and ball.
08:51That's the thing that's completely deterred all of this, right?
08:53It's like Jimmy said this entire time.
08:55Well, I'm going to go out and prove it.
08:57Well, then why is it that you're not proving it?
09:00Right. Why did you why did you coast?
09:02Why did you go away for two weeks?
09:04Right. Why did you what?
09:06You know, why?
09:07Why apparently won't you go to a team that doesn't have an extension in hand?
09:10You only will go to one team.
09:12Right. Because if it's all about proving that you.
09:17Deserve that money.
09:19You shouldn't have a problem proving that anywhere.
09:23That's the part.
09:26That throws me off.
09:29And where I wouldn't even consider what you were saying.
09:33Now I'm thinking about it.
09:36Is that maybe he thinks he's too banged up to make it that far.
09:40And he wanted to get that contract because he know two years from now,
09:43he ain't going to be able to play.
09:45Timbo Slice says, because he's a big face liar.
09:49Oh, whoa, dude.
09:52Tim Hardaway.
09:53He didn't throw out some accusations, Leroy, about Jimmy Butler
09:57saying that maybe.
10:00He was potentially getting some stone crabs, some, some, some,
10:05some, some old place that we disgrace because we dress.
10:08I dress like an elf there that Jimmy Butler,
10:12while his team was in Orlando playing basketball,
10:16he was kicking it up, kicking back at prime 112.
10:21It does affect the team.
10:22And that's all about Jimmy.
10:24And that's Jimmy fault.
10:25And you can blame all that on Jim.
10:28You know, you have the contract.
10:29You obliged by that contract.
10:31You go out there and play under that contract.
10:34You know, it's not about, you know, you trying to.
10:39You know, you're trying to get a new contract.
10:40Everybody understand that.
10:41But you still on the contract.
10:42You got obliged by that contract that you signed, that you wanted.
10:47OK. And it's hurting those guys.
10:49Yes, it is hurting those guys.
10:50And you and you let those guys down.
10:53And you know why you and you let those guys down by,
10:57you know, not playing in Orlando
11:01and being out kicking it somewhere.
11:05People are calling me saying, man, you're not even playing in Orlando.
11:08Yeah. Prime 112 kicking in the evening, hanging out with folks, you know.
11:12So that's and they hear the same thing, you know.
11:16And that's what's so bad about, you know, that whole situation.
11:21Hey, hey, that that is.
11:25And again.
11:29If he heard it.
11:32Then Pat Riley heard it.
11:34What do you think?
11:35And what do you think is how Pat Riley is handling that?
11:38Oh, not great.
11:39And I don't know which Orlando game it was, but we had the game
11:44because they remember they had that weird schedule
11:45when they were in Orlando, home back to Orlando.
11:48One of them was the one he was supposedly stick.
11:51The other one was a reconditioning to competition, whatever.
11:56Right. So I guess you got to eat.
11:59But. Something, something
12:03says that Tim Harder was like fishy.
12:08And he must be hearing something that like the heat don't feel that way.
12:14I just I just.
12:17I. There's a difference in a 25 year old.
12:22One is extension.
12:24And remember, Tyler wanted his expansion extension.
12:29Bam wanted his extension.
12:31They played through it and they both had the attitude of.
12:36You know, that'll come right now, it's time for me to hoop.
12:40Now, granted, they're at different ages.
12:43There are different points in their career.
12:46So they can have.
12:49Those, you know, those thoughts because they're so young.
12:54Jimmy may feel differently about that, but.
12:59Think about how you would feel if somebody really talked you into doing
13:02something two years from now and say, you got to do it now, you got to do it now.
13:07Wouldn't you have questions about the stuff you buy?
13:10When you have questions about the stuff you're paying for,
13:12because if it's a good deal, it'll be a good deal tomorrow.
13:16If it's a good deal, the only way it could be a bad deal
13:19is if what you're getting under contract for is broken.
13:23Well, the worst look for him is going to be if he can get to a higher record
13:27than they've ever had with him this year.
13:29Right.
13:30Like they've been at that three over 500.
13:32It's kind of been the hurdle, the highest they've been able to get to.
13:35But if they like you said, if they can come back and they're five over
13:39and you're sitting here and being like.
13:41And I don't want to hear anything about the competition.
13:44Does it help?
13:45Does it?
13:46Here, if they come back five and one.
13:50Yeah, I'll say four and two.
13:54And they come back and they're feeling good.
13:57Is it more?
13:59Of a hindrance for Jimmy to come back?
14:03With how you would have to play him, when you would have to play him
14:07dealing with, do you start him or not?
14:09Wouldn't that disrupt Dabblecard even more?
14:13I think yes.
14:14And no, like, I think it does.
14:16But things I think you always handle things better when you're
14:19in a better record position.
14:21Because, yeah, OK.
14:23Yeah, I get that because you're not going to feel like
14:27the disaster for the heat would have been they suspended him
14:30and everything keeps happening like they did against the jazz.
14:33And like, they just couldn't mentally handle it.
14:34That would have been the worst case scenario, right?
14:37You know, because it would have been feeling like, OK,
14:39we just got to get this guy away.
14:40It's almost like, you know, being desperate to trade Kyle Lowry last year
14:45because you just didn't want the headache and you get foisted
14:47into a desperate move of trading for terrorism in the first round
14:50and and trading away a first round pick.
14:52If they if they can finish this road trip four and two,
14:57then, yeah, I think that they're going to feel them
14:59like they're going to be in a strong position no matter what.
15:02But this is what it's like looking at the chat.
15:05In what world do you think Jimmy comes back and plays hard?
15:08That's that's the question I have, and like,
15:12unless he's just been like, I understand the doubt.
15:15I think you guys, your doubt is is right.
15:18The only thing that he could that could stand to reason for him is being like,
15:22hey, Bradley Beal doesn't want to be traded.
15:25Like if the if it literally can just be, hey, man, the one we had a trade.
15:31Here's the only things that could change.
15:32Leroy, they had a trade for him and he nuked it somewhere else.
15:36Somewhere else.
15:37And the only place you want to go, the guy that wants to be traded
15:40doesn't want to be traded. Right. So now what? What are you going to do?
15:44That's the only way.
15:46But yeah, but I get everybody who thinks he's going to go out there
15:50and just take a poop on the court. I understand it.
15:53Tim Hardaway also had some words
15:57because this Paul Pierce has been a rat bastard.
16:01Still with Paul Pierce, like, let him go.
16:04Tim Hardaway had this to say about Paul Pierce.
16:07OK, let's talk about about Paul Pierce.
16:10Paul Pierce said he's better than Dwayne Wade.
16:14I'm going to stop right there.
16:16You out your your mind.
16:17You've been smoking too much to the truth.
16:26Wow. That was a bizarre take on Paul Pierce's end, though.
16:29But I mean, but Paul Pierce just did that because D-Wade was being his
16:33but I'm just going to stop here with the case.
16:38This man said he was better than Dwayne Wade.
16:43Before we close this out, we, of course, have to with all this Tim Hardaway
16:47content, have to be reminded of one of the greatest show answers
16:51in show history, which is, of course, when Tim Hardaway was asked,
16:55what is worse, brain freeze or hitting your funny bone?
16:58And this is what Tim Hardaway had to say.
17:00And one more ruling before we get you out of here, Tim Hardaway.
17:02What is worse in your mind, hitting your funny bone or brain freeze?
17:07Oh, I mean, shoot.
17:11I would say, man,
17:14both are terrible.
17:15I think in your funny ball, man, in your funny ball, your whole arm goes numb.
17:21I mean, for about, you know, it goes numb for about a minute, minute
17:23and a half with the brain free brain freeze for about 40 seconds.
17:27And you back at it.
17:28But you're hitting that funny ball.
17:30Oh, I mean, you have to get a sub.
17:34You got to get a sub.
17:38That ain't nothing nice.
17:39That ain't nothing nice.
17:41Wow. The worst thing in the world is I'm going to tell you
17:44what the worst thing on a football field is.
17:47Is the injury where everybody on the field knows it hurt like hell,
17:52but you can't tell nobody what it is like when it's cold.
17:57And we used to have those cleats and people get their toes stepped on
18:01or they foot stepped on.
18:03You see tears coming from their eyes because it hurts so bad.
18:07It is so cold.
18:09And you just look up and say somebody stepped on your toe.