00:00just waking up we have some good news folks the mighty have landed Giannis Antetokounmpo
00:07in uh one of the bigger trades uh you'll see uh in the NBA here this is a uh this
00:14is a monster
00:15uh Shams called it a blockbuster the Bucks uh trading he called him franchise icon Giannis
00:21Antetokounmpo and uh lesser known icon Bobby Portis to the uh to the Miami Heat for Tyler
00:28Hero Kolo where Jaime Hakes Jr. Kaspers Yakuchonis three first round picks including tonight's
00:34number 13 one pick swap and one second rounder so it is a big package um so how many times
00:41I have
00:42to say big package here this morning that's uh that's at least three or four so far um but it
00:47is
00:47a it is a it is a large you know offering that the large trade yeah uh that the Heat
00:54had to put
00:54together here to get this done but nonetheless um and I saw Ira had uh you know he said to
01:00thank uh
01:01you know guys like Adam Simon Keith Askins the guys in the Heat front office that have drafted so well
01:06and were able to earn these uh these players you know Tyler Hero again I have nothing but respect
01:11and love for Tyler Hero as he goes out the door here uh nothing bad to say I have nothing
01:16bad to
01:16say about any of these guys Kolo Ware um Jaime Hakes Jr. was in the doghouse was in the doghouse
01:21down here for for a few years let's let's be honest about it Tyler Hero was probably the player
01:28who represented Heat Culture the least he never played defense wasn't always available
01:33Kolo Ware do something to you no I wasn't a fan um you go for an autograph after a game
01:39he told you
01:40to go you know no no no no no no listen listen he was a nice player we polished him
01:46up and packaged
01:47him for our whale that's what we knew we were doing uh right he was born for this because every
01:52it's every big name player every big name player the Heat had been linked to the past five years
01:58Tyler Hero has always been hypothetically traded so we could find we take the hypothetical off of it
02:04it happened now thank you Donald let's tell the truth about this one rank um hold on I'm not done
02:09here I'm not done here I don't hear your hot takes on the deal anymore listen Kolo Ware has spent
02:14two years in the doghouse of okay it's done Omar it's done he's gone he's gone all right uh if
02:21you
02:21don't like them they're gone for whatever reason I don't know I'm I was a Kolo Ware fan but the
02:26man
02:26has spent two years in the doghouse I know and how many luck is finally got I thought Kolo Ware
02:32played
02:32really well in the uh in the play-in uh game but nevertheless he they are gone they are gone
02:37it's
02:38over it's done um where does this one rank as far as just in general like uh you look at
02:46stars that
02:47have been brought into this town and Giannis is like I mean this is LeBron territory yeah it's not
02:55that feel it's not as polarizing of a deal because the LeBron thing kind of all came together with Dwayne
03:01and Chris and it happened very quickly and so that obviously not as polarized or this is not as
03:07polarizing as that but as far as star power Giannis is on top of the mountain right I mean there's
03:13uh
03:13he's right in the mix yeah I I think this is this is somewhere I don't think anything that the
03:19heat
03:19could ever do again would be as big as LeBron Bosch and keeping Wade the big three like so that
03:26that's
03:26where you set the bar that's the highest bar I think this one is a little bit below that to
03:32me
03:32I think this is even bigger than the Shaq deal now the Shaq one it might have felt bigger at
03:39the time
03:39because Shaq is like he's a multimedia star like he's got the sort of gravitas that Giannis just
03:46doesn't have because Giannis Giannis is a great basketball player Shaq was like doing movies and stuff
03:50and the guy's like eight feet tall and everything yeah but I I think this this to me basketball wise
03:56I
03:56think this is bigger than Shaq it's somewhere below the big three so this this is the best I've felt
04:03like on any day talking Miami Heat basketball offseason wise of course we're not talking winning
04:08championships but this is the best I've felt since the big three came together um I would I would
04:14definitely put this behind Shaq uh when oh really oh absolutely when the heat acquired Shaq I mean
04:21that that was that was one of the biggest stars in sports yeah I I couldn't name a bigger star
04:27at
04:27that time because I believe Shaq was bigger than Kobe at that time um and and he had won championships
04:35and Giannis had won championships as well but we still had a good team that we needed to piece
04:41together to to win a championship I would argue that this is pretty much a good team and I and
04:47as I said
04:47previously I'm a huge Bobby Portis fan I I love that acquisition uh um the trade seems a little bit
04:55steep but now that you throw in Bobby Portis as a sweetener I'm all good with it um Omar doesn't
05:01care
05:01about Giannis Omar celebrating Bobby Portis this morning I was with the Bobby Portis trade listen
05:06nice player I I give you that Omar he is a nice player he is a uh he is a
05:10he's got heat written all
05:12over him effort energy you don't want to pay his 15 million dollars a year for the next two years
05:16that's
05:17why he's part of the trade not because the heat pounded the table for Bobby Portis I'm I'm just
05:21telling you man listen salary they threw in Giannis as a sweetener like the heat wanted Bobby Portis
05:27and the Bucks were like all right if if you take this Greek guy off of our hands you can
05:31have Portis
05:32all right really quick uh before we hit uh the seven o'clock hour let's get to Davis uh you
05:37can call
05:37us by the way at 305-567-056 you're taking calls all morning here uh Davis go ahead are we
05:42taking what's going on guys uh how you doing man yeah I'm doing good doing good I'm I'm super pumped
05:47up you know let's go Miami everything I think uh Miami's a uh a great destination even better now
05:52for athletes to come down there absolutely I'm just like super excited um go Miami everything I'm in New
06:00Jersey here so I gotta deal with this mess up here but um listen I think Spoh does the most
06:05with less
06:06and I think the era after the big three with Spoh and the organization just seeing their development
06:12and what they squeeze out of players even when they come here uh to Miami my expectations are high
06:17and I don't know if that's unrealistic or what that's kind of where I'm at but I'm super excited
06:22beyond let's go Miami everything let's go yeah this is such an exciting day uh for the heat and it's
06:29funny too right like if you look at the heat over the years they haven't had a real stretch
06:35of like bad basketball and you had the Jimmy Butler years right and and I know the Jimmy thing
06:42ended poorly and we're not gonna call the last two years bad basketball uh the last but but here's
06:49the thing though Omar they still were competitive they weren't bad I wouldn't say bad they were bad
06:55the year when they ended up drafting Michael Beasley okay that was like a little blip on the uh on
07:00the
07:00radar but like the heat don't have like you know a five year stretch of missing the playoffs or
07:07you know like look at look at the Knicks how bad the Knicks were for so long the heat don't
07:14have that
07:14in their history right ever since Pat Riley got here the heat of at the very least had this attitude
07:20of
07:20we're gonna go for it you know we we might screw it up you know we might sign some bad
07:25contracts which
07:26they have but they at least have the uh the basketballs to always go for it and and that's
07:32that's exciting right like this it would have been easy for the heat to stand pat with this this roster
07:37that they had and yeah well they had a lot of draft picks if they wanted to do like what
07:43the bucks are
07:43doing the the bucks are going to rebuild you know the heat certainly could have gone down that route
07:48but you know they they said no we're going to try to win right now and we're going to put
07:53a
07:53mega star next to bam out of bio who's another star and you know and look guys i don't know
07:58like i've
07:58seen a lot of people that are you know oh he'll only play half the games you know this i've
08:03seen a lot
08:03of that right like who knows who knows i don't know that i can't tell you today if yannis is
08:08going to
08:08play 82 games or if he's going to play 50 games i can't tell you if the heat are going
08:13to win the
08:14championship or if they're going to end up still as a playing team nobody knows but i can tell you
08:19that at the very least if you're a tick you're a season ticket holder you're a heat fan you sit
08:25and
08:25watch those games every night with uh with e-reed uh you're excited this morning i wonder how season
08:32ticket sales are going to do today um it's not way up it's not going to be the lebron situation
08:37where they have to fire the whole staff probably but uh it'll still be good this is a very good
08:43for
08:43business move here for the heat uh we're going to take a pause here speaking of good for business
08:47we're going to take more of your phone calls in the seven o'clock hour we just want to hear
08:50from
08:50heat fans uh this morning it's a celebration here on wqam uh the home of heat basketball by the way
08:57and i should throw in if you're listening to heat basketball jason jackson here on qam you're excited
09:03uh here this morning so uh yeah it's it's a good morning guys this is big uh this is one
09:08of the
09:09biggest moves in the history of our town and uh we'll have time to digest it and you know rank
09:13it
09:13and and all that good stuff but this is certainly one of the biggest moves in the history of miami
09:18sports to bring in a a star of this magnitude uh here this morning so we'll take a pause we
09:24have
09:24the seven o'clock hour next here on a celebration morning here on wqam
09:28you
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