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LeBron James watch continues… The Miami Heat leaked an introductory press conference for Monday July 27 "by mistake" by the Heat's social media department while preparing for the possibility of LeBron picking the Heat. Honest mistake of the truth?
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00:00okay so
00:06last night i was perusing heat reddit and i saw this i didn't believe it i kind of dismissed it
00:13britney i was like i'm looking at my heat reddit he read it's one of my favorite places to be
00:16now
00:16mind you i am locked out of my twitter right now which is very annoying so i only have a
00:19browsing
00:19account which is basically just still like i was wondering oh i'm locked out they're like check
00:25back with us in seven days i'm like how about double middle fingers i was i mean just like
00:29are you kidding me what kind of website is this seven days it's ridiculous what is it would you
00:34like me to mail uh my identity you could get that in seven days i could get that to you
00:38i could get
00:39physical things in less than seven days it doesn't matter you know what i don't care um but last night
00:45i was jealous because i was locked out of social media and i would have loved to i would have
00:48loved
00:48to be on twitter reacting to this last night it was so reddit has this post and i'm like that's
00:55not
00:55real that's fake and what it was was a post where it had lebron james introductory press conference
01:07scheduled for july 27th it was a live stream that was upcoming and i'm like that's not real and then
01:15people started and so i i dismiss i'm just whatever all right people are people have gotten too far
01:20i can't you know i've already gotten to the point where it's like i've heard lebron james is making
01:26his decision today like i mean uncle on those tweets everybody so i just you know i think we
01:33all had a little bit of lebron fatigue after he didn't make his decision on monday we're like you
01:36know when it happens it happens okay i'm just that's where i was at so i see that i'm like
01:41that's fake
01:41and then i just start getting bombarded with dms last night you know people are hitting me up on
01:46instagram hey you see this you see this you see this and they're all sending me different screenshots
01:51they're sending me like some guy has it on computer some guy has it on phone i'm like whoa okay
01:56i guess
01:57i gotta look into this and then the real crazy thing is somebody had last night i don't remember if
02:03it
02:03was like heat central but somebody had the link and you can click the link and it like pops and
02:09then
02:09like slowly like well and then it goes private you know it's kind of like they tried to take it
02:14off
02:17i don't know what to make of it i don't know what to tell you guys you know the heat
02:22they had given
02:23a statement to uh anthony chang was the first guy i believe who got a comment shams has gotten a
02:30comment that this was a mistake by somebody in the social media department in anticipation if
02:40lebron james were to choose the miami heat if that were to happen they just happened
02:48to schedule for the possibility now this is where my bulb leaf detector goes off and i love you guys
02:54listen everybody knows that department everybody knows you guys know i love you it happens to the
02:59best of us we've mislabeled podcasts we've put curses over the air we've all made mistakes okay so
03:05everybody who knows knows i love this first of all i don't think anybody deserves to be fired over
03:10this i don't think anybody deserves to lose their job over this because this is good news i don't
03:14know why we're all upset lebron james is lebron james this is the first smoking gun that we have that
03:19lebron james is choosing the miami heat and i and i good news oh yeah first of all like anybody
03:25who
03:25thinks if lebron james made up his decision britney okay let's say theoretically lebron james gives the
03:31call last night to rosa goes hey i'm gonna make my decision tomorrow riley gives the call to
03:36whomever and they you know let the people know who let the people know right you're telling me
03:43lebron james is gonna go change his entire play after mulling over this decision for weeks
03:49lebron james is gonna change his decision because his press conference date got leaked why he's a free
03:55agent who cares he's not like it's not like he left a team who's he offending you know what i
03:58mean
03:59himself his ego it's great news yeah i got you but like i think it's a funny thing i think
04:05it's
04:05funny i think you're lebron james you make a joke about it right out of the gate on monday when
04:09this
04:09press conference obviously is so you actually think that this press conference is happening
04:14britney i'm sorry and and and it just you just don't do as somebody who posts on social media and
04:22posts live streams and posts all this stuff who the hell schedules something for a matey
04:29nobody on top of nobody i 1000 agree with you and i also think that at 11 o'clock at
04:37night
04:39what social media person is testing the waters of this youtube like at 11 o'clock at night like you
04:46have a whole work day ahead of you tomorrow right that to me shows that you were scrambling
04:50you're kind of putting pieces together you just got this news you're trying to figure things out
04:55and that's how things slip to the cracks now i will play devil's advocate here okay and say
05:02it is standard procedure for news outlets and these types of organizations to prepare for
05:11case scenarios where these players are or this big news is going to hit you know as like i remember
05:19working i mean going to school and they teach you like you have a skeleton like you have a skeleton
05:24sure um i saw that draft on the side and you keep it there so that way once the news
05:30breaks it's like
05:31you're immediately posting that and it's a hypothetical thing sure i saw a lot of that argument yesterday
05:37uh barry jackson put out that argument i know ira has been on here and he's talked about i have
05:42drafts
05:42for each story here's the problem with that okay there is no other scenario to have like you would
05:49like those types of things they're talking about like espn probably has packages to go already
05:55lebron goes to the heat lebron goes to the warriors all of them of course because they have to be
06:00a
06:00breaking news entity with a lot of options on the table the miami heat there's only one scenario
06:07you're having a press conference for lebron james and that's if you're getting lebron james
06:10no i it's hard for me because i'm trying i'm the thing is is i don't want to hype myself
06:16up and get
06:17excited you should and then just be disappointed that that it wasn't true and that they were telling
06:22the truth and it was just practice and a test for the hypothetical possibility that lebron james
06:28comes to me i mean i can't like the way in which i jumped out of my bed last night
06:33when i saw
06:34this news and i called like everybody i knew and i was like are you guys seeing this like this
06:40is
06:40crazy and the cover oh oh there's no other option the heat don't have a press conference
06:45if he goes to the warriors there's not a pat riley press conference says hey we didn't get lebron james
06:51so no that doesn't pass the smell test to me it's it's okay i guess you have to do something
06:55now here's the funny thing now i don't know what to do with because this could go a lot different
07:00ways people today have gone on linkedin and they went to the miami heat job application no they didn't
07:07i swear to god they didn't swear to god and the miami heat have listed two openings on the jobs
07:16a director of youtube strategy and a junior social media content creator and i had this was another
07:23one i had to go check that it was real because i saw this i'm like that's not real that's
07:27real now
07:28that's so bad for the record this has been these got reposted yesterday about 18 hours now you said
07:3511 this kind of leaked a little earlier than 11 when it first hit the internet um i don't think
07:41it was
07:4118 hours i don't know so it could just be a quinky dink but i will say here's the thing
07:46whether they
07:48either need somebody now nobody should get fired over this i just want to say i want to shake that
07:51person's hand whoever did this i want to shake their hand i i want that person give that person
07:56put that month of the rafters to me but what if they're wrong they're not wrong they're not wrong
08:01no what if it's not true we're getting lebron james i don't know what to tell you
08:06if liroy was here you're just you're we're getting lebron james i don't know what to tell you
08:10we're getting lebron james this is i feel like i'm aiding and abetting a criminal because
08:15i unfortunately am too much of a heat fan to not be excited about this
08:19i don't know what to tell you like we're getting lebron james like the heat just can like
08:23you want to know why everyone you want to know why they're sitting they're pissed because like
08:26oh no they know we're getting lebron james now because we're getting lebron james and
08:32whether okay this goes two ways either the miami heat unfortunately and wrongfully let go of that
08:38person they shouldn't have done that um or that means they don't have people doing the right job
08:44doing that job yeah because here's the funny thing here's the funny thing people are gonna
08:48blame an intern on this let me tell you something right now no intern is handling that kind of
08:54it's not even that britney you want to know what it is and this is the facts of it that's
08:58a mistake
08:58of the old an old person makes that mistake that's the truth i'm telling you right now and people don't
09:04want to hear this because people always blame interns it's true young people don't make that mistake
09:09mistake the old make that mistake you want to know why because i know the old don't know how
09:15to use social media and they don't know how to make youtube posts so i'm telling you one thousand
09:20percent whoever is covering that job for todd the intern that they haven't hired yet or whoever they're
09:26going to pay whatever college kid they pay out of barry university for that job that was not the
09:32mistake of a young person that was the mistake of someone who is older because whoops no it can happen
09:38trust me you can switch i'm like oh i hit scheduled or i hit unlisted youtube's buttons are very close
09:45they're very close but i mean that is not an intern mistake that is somebody who's covering for we don't
09:52have an intern or a junior media person yet so i'm telling you right now dude also like what junior
09:59media person or intern is handling something as serious as a lebron james press conference well it's
10:04not like honestly that's that is what you should you know that's that's basically like hey that's
10:10really serious that's a lot of sensitive information it is sensitive information that's fair that's which
10:15is why again i think this is a mistake that's what i'm saying like it has to be somebody you
10:19know and
10:20when they go to them they say hey why did you do this they're like that's todd the intern's job
10:24i don't exactly know why the heat would need to to have that ready to go because you can make
10:30a
10:30youtube link in three seconds but but as exactly what i was thinking but as jfig points out listen
10:38do you have i don't know if you guys saw dave mcmenaman yesterday dave mcmenaman
10:43he's a lebron mouthpiece espn reporter um been covering lebron basically since his second
10:50sit in cleveland right he said yesterday that gms were already complaining to him who are like we
10:57have family vacations planned so let's just say let's say the heat know lebron is going to make
11:03his announcement on sunday okay they know they know okay press conferences the next day okay or friday
11:10whatever lebron's gonna make his announcement we're gonna do it on monday because training camps all
11:15start on wednesday let's you know nfl training camps start on wednesday we can all move on with our
11:21summer but the heat like any other business they're like hey we know lebron's making his choice
11:26let's get ready uh joe the youtube guy is like well i'm going to the keys for a few days
11:34while i wait
11:34for lebron james to choose come to my heat i'm gonna prepare and have this ready to go posted now
11:42we're
11:42ready to rock oops i forgot to hit unlisted and i know that this seems stupid because it sounds like
11:50oh basketball no it feels like we're we're like pulling out that shirt i don't think it is
11:56britney not everything in an organization a basketball organization is oh my god it's it's
12:02we all think of the heat as it's running all the time these are still regular people who go there's
12:08the majority of the people they have cubicles they clock in they have businesses they have vacation days
12:15and if you are trying to just cover your bases because hey i'm not going to be here until
12:22saturday and you know i just want to make sure this is good to go and i could find some
12:26things
12:26you just put it maybe you're a person that just like preps things i could easily see this happening
12:31after they get news that lebron is coming to the heat so hey i want to shake that person's hand
12:36again because we're getting lebron james i don't know what to tell you guys like if you need more
12:40confirmation that we're getting lebron james i don't know what else you other than lebron just saying
12:43hey i'm going to miami you got me got me i don't know you know i i can see both
12:51sides of it that's
12:51the problem it's like i can see that it's a mistake and we are getting lebron but i also can
12:58see where
13:00there is just an over preparedness happening and there was still a mistake on that end because like
13:06my my thing is is like lebron famously didn't tell miami that he was going to go there
13:16in 2010 he told him the day of like an hour before he went and made the decision on tv
13:22i've heard that
13:23argument too here's the other thing this is why that doesn't smell past the smell test again this
13:28goes back to this and this is why i don't think it's going to scare off lebron when lebron had
13:32the
13:32decision there was going to be genuine consequences of hate for that decision cleveland was going to be
13:38cleveland was and was going to be furious okay it was going to have a bad reaction for people
13:46he's not he may get some of that from cleveland i know that there's some radio hosts who are like
13:53grow up all right go get a binky get a snuggie calm yourself and go watch the door sanders tape
13:59okay
13:59you'll be fine you had lebron twice all right you won a championship all right everybody up in
14:05cleveland needs to calm down there's no fan base he's really gonna anger if he lets him know hey
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