00:00This is Dwayne Wade.
00:02Dwayne Wade yesterday was on Carmelo Anthony's podcast and, uh, he had his thoughts on the
00:09scenario.
00:10Obviously D Wade heat legend had a very famous breakup with the Miami heat and then a beautiful
00:15reunion with the Miami heat.
00:18But, um, mellow wanted his thoughts on the whole situation and D Wade said that, uh,
00:23I guess he was getting a lot of calls on both ends of this whole saga and, uh, it says he
00:29doesn't like how the whole PR battle had played out.
00:32Here was what Dwayne Wade said on Carmelo's podcast.
00:35I got a lot of calls.
00:36I was about to say, I ain't getting no checks, but I got a lot of calls.
00:39I'm sure you had to play Switzerland a lot too.
00:41I ain't getting no checks, but I got a lot of calls.
00:43Sometimes bullies get bullied, man.
00:46I just hate that for us.
00:49I hate that for Miami.
00:51I don't like how, I don't like how the bull started to creep in.
00:55Right.
00:56But I think both parties did what they were supposed to do.
01:00Jimmy stood on, we talked about standing on what you stand on and he stood on, he stood
01:03tall.
01:04Yeah.
01:05It was time.
01:06It's time.
01:07It was time.
01:08Don't even, let's not even play around with this.
01:09Like I hear everything that's going on.
01:11I hear the little whispers.
01:12I hear the side conversations.
01:14I know what I'm doing and what I'm not doing.
01:17Right.
01:18Let's not, I don't, let's not play this game.
01:19Nah.
01:20Nah.
01:21You don't want to get me out of here.
01:22I'm going to get myself out of here.
01:23I hate the PR game that's being played.
01:25Yeah.
01:26I understand it, but I hate the PR game that's being played.
01:29What Jimmy did in Miami, not a lot of players that's going to put on that jersey is going
01:33to be able to accomplish.
01:34Not, he didn't do it by himself.
01:35Right.
01:36But as the leader of that team, as the best player, what he did there, not many players
01:40that will put that jersey on will be able to do that.
01:43So for the legacy of the Miami Heat organization, you know, I hope one day he can come back
01:48and stay courtside and we can all sit there and laugh and joke.
01:52But also too, Jimmy may not ever come back.
01:54Let's go take some time.
01:55Let's go take some time.
01:56I'll ask you this though.
01:57Like you might go to a Minnesota game before you go back to Atlanta.
02:02There you go.
02:04That was D Wade on, uh, on Carmelo Anthony's podcast.
02:08Damn Tobin.
02:09It really ended that nasty.
02:10Like I knew it ended nasty, but he would rather go back to a Timberwolf game then.
02:15I think right now it's really bad, but Vlad, you know, like the Heat have bad breakups,
02:20you know?
02:22And now Shaq is the chief fun officer of carnival.
02:25You know, like I don't think it's impossible.
02:28Jimmy has said he's a, he's petty.
02:29Jimmy has said that.
02:30So I don't know if it'll ever happen.
02:34I think if D Wade were to leave the jazz and come back in the fold in some way with the
02:38Heat, that would obviously help in some way, shape or form.
02:40I do like that.
02:41He's, you know, he's been, he's been saying a lot of things on the state of the organization
02:45this year.
02:46And I think it's going to be interesting because I don't know if he ever will be brought back
02:51into the fold with the organization, because it seems like he's getting his Michael Strahan
02:55on this week.
02:56Like he's hosting the today show.
02:57He's probably going to be, you know, one of the voices of NBC basketball.
03:02Um, but you know, it's obviously he's, he's the guy that kind of guided Jimmy here.
03:09It is a weird situation for him and he's, but he's also made it known like he wasn't,
03:13he wasn't thrilled with a lot of the stuff that he were letting Jimmy get away with and
03:17all this either.
03:20So, but I, I totally agree with his whole PR about like the back and forth that is,
03:25is going to go back and forth with this whole thing of, Oh, we let Jimmy do this.
03:29And Jimmy's like, Oh, do Pat Riley's on it right now.
03:33The Heat, the Heat right now are a, are not in the winning hand.
03:36They're not in the winning position right now.
03:38There's not much you could say.
03:40And any of that stuff that you're trying to, to, to paint, to make yourself look better,
03:44unless it's like something wholly disrespectful that you have to come out and clarify, man.
03:51Best is the hope that that, that Warriors team crashes out in some way in the, in the
03:55playoffs and that your bet, the ultimate thing of this was you guys bet on the fact that
04:02Jimmy Butler at 37 was not going to be anywhere near worth 60 plus million dollars.
04:09You got to hope you're right on that.
04:11And then you also have to hope this doesn't end with, uh, with, with him holding a trophy.
04:16That's where it's at.
04:17But for right now, but for right now, there are no PR wins for the Heat.
04:22Yeah.
04:23You only put it this way.
04:25If it wasn't for the fact that the, um, like you said, the sons and six years stunk son
04:33Sixers.
04:34And I mean, everybody's laughing and the math trading of Luca.
04:39And then all of a sudden in AD and Kyrie got hurt, but they're getting a little bit
04:43flat.
04:44Like, listen, ESPN was toasted Miami this week saying like, this has been a disaster
04:48trade.
04:49Uh, Jeff Teague was saying this week, he's like, blow it up.
04:52It might be time for Riley to, to leave and Eric's supposed to take over the show there.
04:57What do you mean?
04:58Blow it up?
04:59Because you're not trick.
05:00You have a nice little nucleus.
05:01It's not like anybody's.
05:02It's not like, I mean, you, you could say Tyler's a star Bam's a star, but nobody's going to
05:07make a move for those guys.
05:08Like they are not going to, it's not right now.
05:10They're not going to give up like first round picks for these guys.
05:14So I blow it up when they say blow it up.
05:16What does that mean?
05:17Get a new voice.
05:18Like, I don't think there's a new voice that needs to be heard.
05:21Well, that's the interesting thing too.
05:24Like man, Pat Riley was thinking about walking away back when LeBron was here and then LeBron
05:29left and he's like, Nope, more dug in.
05:33So I could see, it was interesting because like, I kind of felt like in the year started
05:38and Pat Riley was doing the whole statue, like Nick court named after him statue in
05:43LA next year, part of me kind of felt like this, you know, Riley's turning 80 soon.
05:49I think he's, I think his birthday is coming up.
05:51Like, is it like this week?
05:54Um, and yeah, when is he born on his birthday, March 20th, his birthday is in a week.
06:03Um, part of me felt like, Oh, those are kind of signs that maybe Riley is really ready
06:09to ride off into the sunset.
06:11And now like this happens, you know, this is a, this is a very prideful, stubborn man.
06:18So you think there's a new battery in his back now?
06:20I don't know.
06:21I don't know.
06:22I don't know.
06:24I don't know because it's different when you're, you know, 10 years ago, you're turning 70.
06:29Now you're turning 80.
06:30I don't know how he feels.
06:31He's still at those games and he's still, he's still watching them and he's still, you
06:36know, in it with all of them.
06:37And I know that there's more guys that are putting their input and suppose got his imprint
06:41on the team a little bit more, but it's tough, not like this is the season.
06:46So you're going to let Jimmy walk away, get his money, leave your team in tatters.
06:52And you're going to call it a career.
06:53I mean, it doesn't ruin his legacy.
06:55His legacy is golden.
06:56He, he is Miami heat basketball, but I can't imagine some batteries you don't need.
07:04Like, you know, like this might be a rail vac.
07:07This is not an energizer.
07:08This, you know, this is not a Duracell.
07:11That's not the type of battery he needs to like, keep going.
07:13It might be time to, you know, yeah, you know, gracefully bow out.
07:19It might be, it might be, but I can't, I can't, I can't imagine that.
07:24I don't know.
07:25It's tough for me to say like, this is going to be the year.
07:27This is going to be the one that he ends on, you know, I, I think if the year would have,
07:34I think if they would have been able to get to the finish line year, right.
07:36And they would have been able to figure the Jimmy thing out and done, it would have gone
07:41a little bit more gracefully than I could have seen his career just ending just based
07:46on the signs of the court, the he's going to have celebrate be celebrated by the Lakers
07:51next year.
07:52It was in, but now I don't know.
07:54I don't think he's going to go out like this.
07:57And, but I don't like, I don't think that he'd have a lot of great paths out of this
08:01either.
08:02Like, you know, what is it?
08:04Everybody's going to point to Durant is going to go ahead.
08:11I'm sorry.
08:12Sorry about the, I was asking you, what do you think these guys are going to do?
08:14Because it's like, you can't look at the rent at 37 coming to your squad.
08:19And that's going to be the, that's the guy that's going to get you over the top and aunt
08:23and jaw and Zion, Zion's the one where I'm like, that's a, that's a by-low, but he's
08:33incredible, incredibly talented.
08:37And if you're believing in your organization and talent, and you need a guy, who's like
08:43the star of your team, that's the one where I'm like, all right, that makes a lot of sense
08:48for the heat.
08:50It makes a lot of sense.
08:52The ant thing, it could happen.
08:55Maybe eventually the Luca thing, maybe I'm not going to rule the, ever rule the heat
08:58out of being in the game, but they're not happening anytime soon.
09:01They're not going to happen this year.
09:03They're not going to happen.
09:04They're not going to, I mean, we'll, we'll know that once, uh, once Luca, if he signs
09:09an extension or not the ant thing, a rod just got control of the team.
09:14Hard time believing he's going to let go of, and the wolves are on fire lately too, by
09:17the way.
09:18Um, so got a hard time believing that, like, so I'm looking at like, what are the realistic
09:23options that are out there for Miami Zion or Laurie marketing?
09:28Like those are like the guys who are like, oh, all like really talent.
09:31Yeah, I know.
09:32I know.
09:33I'm just trying to think like, who are the guys who are like actual all-star talents
09:37that Miami could get their hands on next year, like to get, to add to this team next year.
09:43That's what I'm looking at as far as, as far as the team is concerned.
09:47And that's without giving a bam and Tyler.
09:53To get a superstar.
09:54Cause I'm trying to figure out to get a superstar right now with the, in the, in the league.
09:58And not because obviously with the plane situation is pretty much 20 teams are having a chance
10:03to make the post-season.
10:04Right.
10:05Yup.
10:06And then you have to look for maybe a team that's has a superstar that is not playing
10:11well.
10:12And, but a lot of these superstars are older, but you're not going to want to take a chance
10:16on Kyrie Irving next season, say Kyrie upside.
10:19He's a free agent.
10:20And you're not going to, do you want to take a chart at Kyrie Irving coming back from a
10:23knee injury and a knee injury that they say he might not even back for the full year in
10:2725, 26, man off the ACL.
10:33That's a tough one.
10:34Okay.
10:35It's a tough one.
10:36I wouldn't be against it.
10:38Like I wouldn't be, I don't know what you'd have to give up though.
10:43Like I think that that's a, that's a squirrely one with, with coming off of that injury.
10:47And then Katie's 37, bro.
10:49And I know he's still a bucket getter, but that it's not the same impact as it was before.
10:53And if you're Katie, like look where the heat are right now, does he want to come to Miami
10:59to play?
11:00You know, I know he knows bam.
11:01I think he had like a, I don't know what his relationship was with Tyler.
11:04I know like he's, he knew Tyler coming out of college and things like that.
11:08Like is this, it's the perfect fit for him as far as like, okay.
11:14But is it like a true contender with him at his age?
11:16Like he just has, he hasn't moved the needle.
11:20Like he hasn't been like that since, since leaving golden state.
11:24Not really since that one Nets year where he almost beat the bucks.
11:27So I don't know, man.
11:28I don't know.
11:29And then you got to also figure out what's the heat's pick situation going to be.
11:32Are they getting two picks?
11:33Are they getting one pick?
11:35So that's all, that's all they're out on the table right now.
11:37We'll take a break, play a little, you did to me to close things out.
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