00:0015 Minutes of Heat is brought to you by the Lexus RX.
00:03Experience amazing at your Lexus deal.
00:05I got Heat Basketball Preseason Edition tonight on WQAM.
00:10Solana will get you going at 6.30 with pre-heat.
00:13And Jason Jackson will have your call from the Heat's house starting at 7.30 tonight.
00:19Spoh implying yesterday that the Stars are going to play, so that'll be cool.
00:23Vlad sent this to me yesterday.
00:25This diabolical Bill Simmons is double-dipping.
00:29This is his classic move that he loves to do.
00:31You know, that's my new fun.
00:33What?
00:33Just sending me clips?
00:34Yeah, funny stuff, I know that's going to just get him going.
00:39The thing that annoys me about him the most, though, is he just can't stand it.
00:42He loves to do this move.
00:44There's part of me that wants to respect Bill Simmons because he's an A1 hater.
00:48No, you don't.
00:49There are parts.
00:50You're an A1 hater, and you don't want to give props, and he hates the Heat.
00:55He hates the Heat.
00:55He hates the Knicks.
00:56He's a Celtics fan through and through.
01:00But then this is honestly, Vlad, this is the stuff that pisses me off even more because
01:05then he's a weasel, and he likes to cover both bases before the season.
01:10And so he did this thing yesterday where he's like, I can tell you, I watched a little of
01:17Miami's preseason, and perhaps I was too harsh on them.
01:21Because mind you, the last time we heard from him, he was like, he's telling Zach Lowe, like
01:27Zach Lowe's an idiot, like, who's going to defend for them, Zach?
01:31And Zach Lowe rattles off every person on the team, of course, except Bill Thompson, because
01:35that's what any natural person who follows basketball is.
01:36And Clay, if he plays maybe 25% of the way he used to, he'd be average.
01:41And he's like, well, good luck.
01:43Look at the plate.
01:44And why did you even extend Pella Larson?
01:46So anyway, this was this jackal yesterday, Vlad sent me this clip, and now all of a sudden
01:51he's number one Giannis cheerleader.
01:54All right, Miami.
01:55I'm really fighting off the urge to wonder if I might have been wrong on being too glass
02:00half empty on Miami.
02:03I watched some of their preseason game.
02:05It's great.
02:05It's preseason.
02:06Giannis looks great.
02:08I said the 14 minutes, swung you, swung you.
02:11Giannis looks great.
02:11I have no idea how him and Bam are going to play, but obviously their swing guy is Wiggins
02:17because you can even, you know, you can see it from when you read this stuff and just in
02:23general, like Giannis just, he creates open space for guys.
02:29You still have to put the wall up if he has the head of steam.
02:32And I just think Wiggins is in a nice spot.
02:34This is the perfect situation for him because Giannis is going to get all the attention.
02:38He culture, Spolstra, and, you know, they, they double down.
02:43He did this extension.
02:44That was a pretty fair price.
02:46Like he's making, he signed an extension for half of what Peyton Watson got two for 34.
02:52And at least with Wiggins, like we saw him, he was the second best guy on a title team.
02:56I think he slipped a little over the last couple of years from that level, but, um, but this
03:01is a nice spot for him.
03:04Unbelievable.
03:05What, what a guy minus one.
03:07I'm going to tell you, yeah, that, that, that, that.
03:11Unbelievable, dude.
03:12Have some, have, have some shame, Bill Simmons.
03:15You didn't even last 10 days on your heat take.
03:18Because he probably looked at the heat and realized, oh my God, it might be better than
03:21a Celtic.
03:22What a concept.
03:24You mean, oh, Giannis has a bigger acquisition than Paul George.
03:30Crazy.
03:31Who'd have thunk it, Leroy?
03:33Who'd have thunk it?
03:33Who'd have thunk it?
03:34I, it's like, listen, what are we doing?
03:39I think we all have a little bit of that in us.
03:43That you fight not being wrong to get the truth out there, the reality out there.
03:53But he did do it relatively quick.
03:56You, if, wait, wait, wait, I gotta tell you, I know a bunch of people that will still fight
04:00it, oh, wait, they haven't played a game yet, let's wait until December, like, to give
04:04themselves more of a window.
04:06Yeah, but that's the flip-floppery though, Leroy.
04:08Die on that hill.
04:09Yep.
04:09You, you stand, you stood on that hill, you die on that hill.
04:12Right.
04:13I, you know, I, why couldn't I die on the hill of not predicting games?
04:17Because you started predicting games.
04:18No, I didn't.
04:19You said you have a chance of winning four games.
04:21That's predicting.
04:22That's not, no.
04:23I made you tap out.
04:23You're predicting wins.
04:24So, in the beginning of the year, when we say how many games you think your team's gonna
04:29win, you don't have to pick which games.
04:31I'm having the urge to say 74.
04:33You see what I'm saying?
04:34Relax.
04:35Okay.
04:36See, that, can't wait.
04:39Oh, I'm so excited.
04:41Bella Larson.
04:42Actually, I gotta give you credit.
04:43You're actually saying they can lose eight games.
04:45Knowing you, you probably say 82-0.
04:47Yeah, you got back-to-backs, you know.
04:48You gotta, and then you'll have some sit-down games once the one seed's locked up.
04:52You think, you, you, what seed do you think Miami will be?
04:55I'm just curious.
04:56Four or five?
04:57No, he thinks they're gonna be the one seed.
04:59Come on, Leroy.
04:59I kinda do think they're gonna be the one seed.
05:01I do.
05:03I do.
05:03Knicks aren't gonna try this year.
05:05They're, they're, they're, they're in playoff.
05:06Wait, wait, wait, wait.
05:07Been there.
05:07They're not gonna try.
05:07What do you mean they're not gonna try?
05:08You're not gonna try.
05:09What, in the regular season?
05:10No.
05:10Oh, no.
05:11No.
05:11It's all about the postseason.
05:13They got 47 wins all over them.
05:15No, no, no.
05:15Five seed, they're cool.
05:17I've been there.
05:17I know what they're gonna do.
05:18Time out, time out, time out.
05:19We're not 47 wins, and we're not a five seed.
05:21You're a five seed.
05:22We're gonna be either between one to three.
05:24I don't know, dude.
05:25I don't know.
05:26I think you guys are gonna take it easy.
05:27We're not gonna take it easy.
05:28You're gonna rest Brunson a little bit.
05:30We know what to do.
05:31To the victor, go to the spoils.
05:32I know what's gonna happen.
05:33And when you're the champs, you just wait to defend your title in the postseason.
05:35That's what I'm saying.
05:36I'm talking about two different things.
05:38You asked me about regular season seed.
05:43Regular season, I just feel like the Heat are gonna play an annoying, balls-to-the-wall
05:50style, and yeah, I think they could be the one seed.
05:53I do.
05:54I think that this East, everybody's been sitting here, and they're like, oh, the East
05:57is so good, the East is so good.
05:59It's only good because the other teams made moves to improve.
06:03Everybody else that was up there, why do they have to stay up there?
06:05You really think Detroit's gonna be winning 60 games this year?
06:07Because I don't.
06:09I don't think they're gonna do it.
06:10I think they got a sweet deal last year.
06:12Boston's not gonna be as good without Jalen Brown.
06:15They don't believe that.
06:17That would be my biggest, like, you think your team's gonna be better with only Jason
06:23Tatum?
06:23Can I tell you, let me tell you that dodged a bullet.
06:26I'm so glad we never got the spite of Mitchell.
06:28This guy is, he's got stock.
06:29What happened?
06:30I saw this clip of him yesterday.
06:32Doing what?
06:33I saw this clip of him yesterday, and somebody asked him about James Harden.
06:37And you want to just say too much?
06:39Oh, I don't know.
06:39This, Tovin.
06:40Tovin?
06:40Dude?
06:40That's his teammate.
06:41I understand.
06:42You can't, but you can't, you can't say what he said.
06:45You can't say what he said.
06:45Tovin!
06:45You can't say what he said.
06:47What did he say?
06:47He said, basically.
06:49He said.
06:50Basically.
06:50That we talked.
06:51Which means he didn't say it.
06:52He didn't always say it.
06:53He basically said this.
06:54I swear to God.
06:55I swear to God.
06:57He basically said.
06:58I don't have.
06:59For Leon.
07:00He said, James Harden is kind of LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
07:06He just doesn't have a championship.
07:07And I got, dude?
07:09Yeah, that's kind of the point, Donovan Mitchell.
07:11Minus one.
07:11That's the point.
07:13That's exactly why he's sitting with you in Cleveland.
07:17With an extension.
07:18With an extension.
07:19I would say this.
07:21I would rather have given him the extension than Jimmy.
07:25James Harden?
07:26Yeah.
07:27Why?
07:28At the same time when you would have given Jimmy the extension.
07:32I would give Jimmy the extension.
07:33I would have given it to Harden.
07:35Well, they didn't.
07:37No, they didn't.
07:37That team didn't.
07:38Look at them now.
07:39Right.
07:40And by the way, call some LeBron.
07:41Because they would have gone to Cleveland.
07:42Yeah.
07:43They didn't want to play with James Harden.
07:44He didn't want James Harden.
07:45Mm-hmm.
07:45Yeah.
07:46What a hill to die on.
07:48What?
07:48Cleveland.
07:49So basically, LeBron just told them, the trade you made, you should have kept the guy.
07:54Because that's my guy.
07:55That's his guy.
07:55Garland's his guy.
07:57Garland's his guy.
07:59Now, can't defend either.
08:00But still, that's his guy.
08:01Just imagine when somebody who can't defend says he's going to put your guy in crisscross applesauce.
08:07Right?
08:08And your guy is Tyler Hero.
08:14But a guy who can't play defense is saying your defense is suspect.
08:19What is that saying?
08:22Unbelievable.
08:22They could have had a non-defensive ball.
08:24What a series by Tyler Hero.
08:26Because Tyler Hero basically got caught saying, we need Jimmy Butler to a reporter.
08:30And then was just getting called out by name by another Ole twin.
08:36And then they had the biggest margin of defeat in playoff history.
08:40Oh, my God.
08:42Unbelievable.
08:43But not knowing the heat and their ads and everything like that, are they still doing the 50% off
08:51after everyone?
08:52Papa John's?
08:53Yeah.
08:53Yeah.
08:53I think you got it for even preseason.
08:55Oh, really?
08:55Really?
08:56Yeah.
08:56I think we'll, yeah.
08:57I'm pretty sure you got Papa John's for the preseason, too.
08:59Second.
08:59Don't you think they should do something with, like, some Greek culinary?
09:04They're doing Greek night.
09:06I forget what day it is, though.
09:07There's a Greek night.
09:08I think in January they're coming up with.
09:10There should be something like we're, if.
09:11There's nothing better than a good Euro.
09:13That's what I'm saying.
09:14If Giannis gets 30 points and 10 rebounds, a double-double.
09:18So great.
09:1950% off a Greek place.
09:20Yeah.
09:21So good, dude.
09:22We traded our hero for a Euro.
09:25Unbelievable.
09:25I'm going to give you that.
09:26I'm going to give you that.
09:27I'm going to give you that.
09:28Who's the hero?
09:28I'm going to give you that.
09:29I'm going to give you that.
09:30He's in Milwaukee now.
09:31Point for Euro.
09:34I'm going to give you that.
09:35That was good.
09:36That was good.
09:36I like it.
09:37I like it.
09:37I like it.
09:39Perhaps I was too hard in Miami.
09:45Ridiculous.
09:46What a bum.
09:47This guy.
09:47You believe that, Jennifer?
09:50No.
09:50Bum.
09:52She's not paying attention.
09:54Clearly.
09:54Yes, I am.
09:55For fraudulence.
09:57Yeah.
