Miami Heat linked to ‘largest sports memorabilia heist’ in US history!

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A Heat Heist! The Miami Heat are linked to the ‘largest sports memorabilia heist’ in US history! Marcus Morris is arrested for allegedly getting $115,000 from the MGM Grand Hotel

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00:00discuss something a little bit serious we're all uh fans on the show probably not leroy although

00:07he's in possession of a lot of memorabilia it's all of his own he didn't get that as a fan but

00:13uh britney figgy i'm sure you guys as i fans of jerseys various cards of our favorite teams right

00:20of course i have some pretty cool memorabilia actually what's the coolest coolest uh item

00:26you think you have oh i have okay there's two so i'm gonna say two um i have a signed bam at a bio

00:33jersey really well it's not a jersey it's a shirt but you know okay wow

00:41it was when he first got signed like right before he even started playing i went and i met him and i

00:49got a heat shirt signed oh that's pretty cool mine's not game worn or anything but it is a jersey

00:57um i wanted at an auction anyways well actually i didn't win at an auction my aunt won it and then

01:04she was like i know how much you love him here he is this for free and i said thank you um and then

01:12i would say the next thing i have it is a game worn devon a chain jersey i mean sorry not jersey

01:18it's a glove a pair of gloves oh okay and then i haven't you he like threw them out and you caught

01:25them or no no no no no so you don't you don't earn anything i don't know if i can say this i don't

01:30know if i can say this oh she stole that you can possibly see that for a while oh well too late

01:40no it's not even that interesting it's just i don't want to get someone else in trouble okay so

01:44say their full name give their social okay i'll just say this because there's no trace i mean

01:48sorry sorry um my cousin's boyfriend works for the dolphins oh my gosh they like throw away their

01:59their gloves and things like that and so he takes them and like gives them to us okay move in we

02:06finally got her move in move in move in i have a game worn vanquino jersey i do have that not

02:13a more because of that situation anyways oh yeah i mean he left so that makes sense i got some stuff

02:22yeah i'm sure i'm sure you have probably the best stuff the coolest thing i probably have

02:26is a signed rookie michael jordan basketball card in mint condition and that's a lie i don't have

02:33anything but that would be cool right i literally don't have anything cool um let's see i have i have

02:41a barry bonds baseball lero this isn't fair oh that's oh yeah that's that's not fair but that's still

02:47cool i have i have uh a magazine signed by tiger woods when he was in high school

02:55huh golf world in high school why did you like he was in high school did you was he already a

03:03phenom then and you're like saying this no he played in a um remember the honda classic used to be down

03:10here and he used to it was at western hills and he played in it wow all right um let's see what else

03:18i have my most prized possession yeah a um autographed picture of gail sayers oh you know what i do have

03:28a very strange piece of autograph remember i showed you i showed you yes you did show me the gail sayers

03:34yeah it's the only thing i have up on my wall yeah i have a i have a glenn rice signed that's cool

03:43see i i wouldn't get i wouldn't get an autograph of glenn rice what your friends oh because he's

03:48we went we went to school together yeah it makes sense he's your class i uh i have a signed picture

03:55of nate archibald that like someone and i'm like what the hell are we even doing i'm so sorry can

04:03you please tell me how you got that i think i think strangely enough i think i went to like

04:09a kenny anderson basketball camp and i think for some reason kenny anderson gave us that and so it's

04:17like a hand-me-down picture of a guy from the 60s i don't even know when he played basketball 70s maybe

04:25and that's not cool but it is so shocking as to like yeah i think i have that i think i think that's

04:32pretty much it so i'm a loser but nonetheless i ask you guys all of this because rumor has it

04:41according to uh an nba insider former team executive amin el hassan who was on the dan levitard show

04:51says that the miami heat are at the center of what could be the largest sports memorabilia heist in

04:57u.s history uh millions of dollars stolen in nba finals gears sold for many many millions of dollars

05:06uh over the course of about 18 months both out in the open and on black markets uh they believe a

05:13police officer is at the center of this oh no uh some individual jerseys worth six figures um

05:24it's difficult to track these things you know they're saying that they could post it on ebay

05:28and sell it piece by piece and they'll never be able to uh you know track it down necessarily but

05:35from what they're hearing that this is the largest heist of its kind and chances are if if you purchase

05:44any of this very expensive miami heat memorabilia in the past 18 months that you could have been

05:53unknowingly involved in this heist which uh you know is shocking like how much how would she think

06:00you know lebron james or how about this a ray allen jersey from game six how much do you think

06:08you know that can go on the black market you know that's a million dollar jersey in my opinion yeah

06:15well it depends on who buys it well this is what i don't understand because i feel like that also

06:20falls on the players in the organization and that's why like i mean not to say that the man should have

06:25stolen everything but from what i've learned based on my cousin's boyfriend working for the dolphins

06:30the players have an opportunity to purchase those jerseys themselves like they have to buy them from

06:35the team yeah and if they don't buy them then they throw them out or people take them or whatever

06:41no they're they're ordered wait you talk about the so if you get one of your own jerseys or you get

06:50a jersey you know through the team then they just order them they're not sitting in stock the only

06:59ones that are in stock are the ones they sell at the stores what about the one that you wore in

07:04the game though like your last game we're talking about like the game worn yeah just keep it they

07:10won't charge you for it but what if you're like yeah i'm just gonna leave it like i don't care to

07:14have that i'm going to like the for example the van ginkle one he's getting signed by minnesota

07:18he doesn't want to drive in to pick up his jersey wait no they don't give you a jersey

07:23they don't i'm saying the one no listen when you understand what i'm saying yeah they don't give

07:29you a jersey that you keep it's always going to be at the facility i'm saying but like if he's like

07:33hey i'm gonna go to whatever and i'm i'm not going to yeah they have a certain amount of time to pick

07:41up their jerseys and then if if they don't want them they don't want them in the facility what are

07:47they doing with them what are we doing with the van ginkle jersey what are we going to do with that

07:51otherwise um you give it it'll go to like charity so like you know when they have when you go to

07:58these golf tournaments or maybe they'll do something like they have a team so every team usually has a

08:05tournament um in the summer and they could you know say oh raffling off uh andrew van ginkle jersey

08:14that they got from you know the team because it's charity um stuff like that so it's not

08:22you know like keep in mind at the end of the year we sign about a hundred footballs

08:31and they give them to like um to like clients that the team may have or you know for all these

08:44different events and stuff but we sign like probably a hundred footballs a year unless you're you're

08:49gilbert arenas and and as he admitted or as richard jefferson spoke about in that clip i sent in the

08:55chat yesterday you may take 50 of those and and you know head to tony romas and be like hey what's

09:01up man here's the sign ball from the whole team let me get a free tab real quick but uh that's interesting

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