00:00The other news happened last night.
00:01Other Niko, Nikola Jovic, he got himself a four-year contract extension
00:09worth $62.4 million.
00:13In a year, that's going to look like he's on a bargain deal.
00:18Yep.
00:19I believe that.
00:20Every year it's going to look like that because the salary goes up.
00:24Well, not that.
00:25I'm just saying based on they signed him up early, right?
00:31Based on what I feel his contributions are going to be.
00:35Yeah, it's about 15 and a half a year.
00:40And he is, you know, obviously, you know, Spoh and Adam Simon went over to Serbia
00:46this summer, some talks with his management over there,
00:49some hobnobbing going on at those dinners.
00:52And now Niko gets locked up for the next four years at a very reasonable number.
00:58Again, in today's NBA, I think the average salary is like $14 million.
01:02Right.
01:02Crazy.
01:03Um, so he gets a little, uh, a tick over that, but I'm happy.
01:08I think that, look, is this a sign that he's going to start?
01:11Is this a sign?
01:12I don't know.
01:12But I think that you see the, the talent, the development, 22 years old.
01:16I mean, super young, this guy, the, you know, the heat of, I've seen this guy develop.
01:21I think they've been happy with it on very, unfortunately had a fluke injury last year
01:25with the hand breaking.
01:26Um, but even came back and, and, you know, tried to give everything that he could, even
01:31though he probably didn't have a shooting hand with him in that playoff series.
01:35Not that it would have helped, but it was, uh, you know, just the fact that he was trying
01:39to make it back for his team to do whatever.
01:42And I think we saw like super accountable kid and, uh, is willing to do whatever for
01:48this team.
01:48So very excited for, uh, for Nico to get his, uh, his extension, both Nico's Nico's galore,
01:56dude, Nikola and Jovich, they get paid.
02:03So training camp will continue today for the Miami heat at FAU Spoh, of course, uh, has
02:09a couple of injuries in the backcourt with Pella Larson with a quad contusion and Terry
02:14Rozier with a strained hamstring emotions, dude, strange stress, strained, that's
02:21motion, strained, strained and stress tend to tend to work hand in hand.
02:27Yep.
02:28Um, I mean, you could just like even saying hi and him saying, what's up going by, you
02:34know, he just, it weighs on you, man.
02:38These guys are human too.
02:40Like that will weigh on you.
02:41Um, I'm sure he just wants all this, uh, gambling stuff to be behind him.
02:46I don't know what it will be.
02:49I mean, what's worse.
02:50Have it not being, uh, uh, have it still being in the conversation or being told that you were
02:57out of the conversation, but weren't.
03:00Oh, that's worse.
03:02I'd be furious with Shams.
03:05The Shams began willy nilly on that McAfee show.
03:07It's not good for his, his credibility.
03:09Cause he just, he likes to party with the boys and it seems like he's just like, oh yeah,
03:14this is going to be the craziest summer ever.
03:15We get a summer of Kaminga, you know, who's still not have been traded yet.
03:20No, he just, he just signed.
03:22He signed a one.
03:24He basically signed a one year deal, a one year fluffer with, um, with the Warriors.
03:29Oh yeah.
03:31Yeah.
03:31We got, we, I mean, like, and that was the only thing that we had, you know, it was a
03:34Kevin Durant thing.
03:35We all knew that was happening.
03:36Norm Powell was the, I told you it was the biggest surprise of the summer.
03:39It was the biggest signing of the summer.
03:42It was basically, they opened up extension talks.
03:45Norm Powell talked about this to, uh, to Mark Spears.
03:47He's like, yeah, we were having extension talks, but my agent said, if I call you the
03:50next day, it's cause you're traded.
03:51And he got a call the next day.
03:53He goes, you're on the heat, buddy.
03:57And Spears talking about this again.
03:58He goes, he goes, I gotta be honest with you.
03:59That was kind of a surprise.
04:00It wasn't on our radar.
04:01Just popped up.
04:03Would you like a, would you like a prolific score for, for Kevin Love and Kyle Anderson?
04:08I mean, when you say score, whoever it was, the, he just said, yes.
04:13Yes.
04:13Would you like, uh, yes.
04:15We, what do you, well, what do you guys want for him?
04:17Yes.
04:18We'll take him for slow-mo and Kevin Love.
04:20Excuse me.
04:21That, you sure?
04:25I thought it was like back to that day where Mark Cuban was messing with names on trade
04:29calls.
04:29They were probably like, that's it?
04:32Anyway.
04:33Was, was that the one where he thought he was trading for a different?
04:37Yeah.
04:37He claimed, uh, the, he thought they were trading, I think Goran.
04:40And he's like, oh, I thought you guys wanted to trade Derek Jones Jr.
04:42It's like, all right, Cuban.
04:44No.
04:44What was the one where they guys had the same name?
04:48That did happen.
04:49I think that was a son's thing.
04:50That wasn't a.
04:50Okay.
04:50All right.
04:51I remember that.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Do you think Paul Maurice texts Eric Spolscher this morning?
04:59He goes, Hey man, what the bleep?
05:01He goes, well, maybe it was just, you know, I was like, I was shooting the stuff on, on
05:04Alexander Barkov.
05:05He goes, all right, but like you ruined our secret plans.
05:08He goes, he told me what he told me.
05:10All right.
05:10Just because he told me that he was finished Wolverine.
05:13What am I supposed to do with that?
05:15It's not that man.
05:17Like, I don't know how to tell you a lot of times they don't know the severity of the injury
05:23until you have the surgery.
05:25Yeah.
05:26But the team put out the statement.
05:27It's not like they guessed.
05:28They put out seven to nine months and Barkov was like, show you seven to nine months.
05:35So like, it's not like that.
05:36I'm not guesstimating and being like, you know, the team put it in their statement, seven to
05:40nine months.
05:41And then Barkov's out here talking to Spoh and Spoh's got a blabber mouth over to everybody.
05:46You know, that was his own player.
05:47He wasn't going to.
05:47Oh, he would have been so mad if that was gogi.
05:50Oh my God.
05:51He would be furious.
05:51That's why I'm saying Paul Maurice is probably texting him.
05:53Like, Hey man, you can't keep some things.
05:56But it sounds like Eric Spolstra loves Alexander Barkov so much.
06:00And it's such a, you know, cat fever.
06:02Wait a minute.
06:02Think about it.
06:03If you can make any Panthers player, a heat player that, that Spoh would want.
06:10Oh yeah.
06:10It's the offensive and defensive guy.
06:13Oh dude.
06:13He was gushing over him.
06:15He was gushing over him.
06:16I mean, he's like, oh, Barky.
06:18He's like, man, I need another DN three.
06:20I love that three guard the wings.
06:24Oh man.
06:25He was sitting here and he was just like, he was fawning over him.
06:28And I was like, man, this Eric Spolstra really wishes he had Alexander Barkov.
06:33It's crazy.
06:34As much as you were finding over him when he said, I don't remember.
06:37Yeah.
06:38Well, that was great.
06:38That was a great time.
06:42Let's be real.
06:42That was a fun, that was a, that was a fun, that was a fun little time.
06:46This was Spoh yesterday.
06:47It's very inspiring.
06:48Dr. Anderson, who works for the Panthers, works with us, brought him to the arena last year during a weekend in September.
06:57And we all were able to bring our families and our kids and everybody in the organization came out.
07:03We were able to hold the Stanley Cup.
07:05It's one of the few times that it wasn't in an ocean or in a party.
07:10And he's so inspiring.
07:12You know, I love for all the guys to see him over there.
07:18It's been an electrifying run that they've had the last three seasons.
07:23And he's a major part of it.
07:25And, yes, he has the talent.
07:29But then when you start diving into what everybody says about his character, his leadership, his mentorship, he's about all the right things.
07:37But he moves a locker room because of what he's about.
07:41So, you know, that's real talent.
07:46And, you know, I see those kind of possibilities with Bam.
07:53But everybody else, it's inspiring to see that.
07:55And it is heartbreaking, you know, to see him in crutches.
07:58But then you talk to him and you say, oh, no worries.
08:02I'll be back in five or six months.
08:04And, you know, I love that spirit.
08:07I'm sure their medical staff will be.
08:09Oh, yeah.
08:11Okay.
08:12Yeah.
08:13I love that guy.
08:15I love everything he's about.
08:17I love him.
08:18I love him, too.
08:18Doesn't it sound like somebody said.
08:20I love that guy.
08:21Somebody just looked at him and said, Spode, Spode, he said seven to nine months.
08:24Yeah, yeah, okay.
08:25Yeah, sure, sure.
08:26Whatever, dude.
08:27Love him.
08:29Spode just became a fan.
08:30He's just like, ah, I got lost this off.
08:32Spode likes any athlete that gives that vibe of a player that he would like to have on
08:40his team, right?
08:42Isn't that every coach?
08:43Huh?
08:45Isn't that every coach?
08:46Yeah.
08:47So, like, I think if any coach met Barky and they go, wow, defense and offense, team player,
08:55yeah, I'm in, right?
08:57I think that's, you know, but Spode, yeah, he's even, well, because he plays a sport where
09:04they got to play both, you know, on both ends.
09:07The Panthers, they got the deets.
09:11It's eight years, five million a year for Nico Mikula.
09:16All right.
09:18He's Panther.
09:19I mean, this Bill Zito just keeps getting guys bargains left and right.
09:22Everybody else is paying twice that for their backup defenseman.
09:25These cats, they just keep getting everybody.
09:27That's because there's a difference in being there and trying to get there.
09:33If you're playing for a player and you're trying to get there, right, then you got to
09:39pay premium.
09:41If you're already there, then you just have to be fair.
09:46And I think that's the difference between if he were to go somewhere else versus being
09:53here with the Panthers.
09:54And that is something that even athletes think about, right?
09:59If you're going to send me to a bum team and trade me, I want the max.
10:03Boom.
10:04The max.
10:06Like, why?
10:06Because look at where I'm going.
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