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If you're a facilities manager at a warehouse and your HVAC system goes down, it can turn up the heat. Literally. But don't sweat it. Granger has you covered. Granger offers over a million industrial grade products for all your operations, including warehouse HVAC maintenance. And even better, they offer access to experts and fast delivery, so you and your warehouse can both keep your cool. Call 1-800-GRANGER, click Granger.com, or just stop by. Granger. For the ones who get it done. What's good y'all? Welcome back to Believe in Rami. He brought you by Believe Network. It's always having a host, Anthony. Denardo. And yeah. My watch says that it's a yappy hour. So we will be talking about a lot today, but including a lot of heat stuff, like Brandon Ingram, Trey Young, Jimmy Butler, Josh Richardson. But timestamps are down below. If you want to find the topic that you're interested in because a lot happened today. Now, I guess I should start for the people that are new here, which there is a lot of people because the channel has had great growth in the last few days since the draft. But this is my long form podcast. I have an audio version on all your platform, Spotify, ApplePod, et cetera. I put the videos up here on YouTube. And once a week or so, I like to do just these no edits or low edit long form podcasts where I just get to sit down and talk to y'all having an engaging conversation about all things heat and just everything else going on. And I guess I should say it's technically a podcast with Mario Chalmers. We had a couple episodes, one on Zoom, one in person. It was really dope, but he's just a busy guy. But maybe we'll reconnect one day. But yeah, I had a very busy day myself. And I promise I will get the Zion pulling video out. I know a lot of people have been asking for me to talk about the other two-way player that was signed today because I did get a video out on Kashad Johnson, which I am super excited about him. If y'all haven't seen that, go check it out. But he is basically a PJ Tucker with Derek Jones Jr. athleticism. That's how I describe him. But I was sitting here and I was working on, you know, some videos and scripts and stuff, but we had plans to go hoop at this indoor gym at eight o'clock every time I'm back home and for a lot of day over here, me and the boys, we like to rent out this indoor gym and we just get like our own private runs, capping at fifteen. It's a good time, right? And today was actually really fun there. I played pretty well. It was good. Maybe I'll show some highlights while I'm talking here. So if you're on the audio side, this is a good excuse to come over to the YouTube. Check out the video as well and at least hit subscribe. But yeah, I'll probably make some hoop mixtape. For some small YouTube short hoop mixtape that y'all may see in a week or whatever. But anyways, today was good. But there was this one guy there that was annoying the living hell out of me. He was one of those dudes that likes to play very physical. Every time he drives, he drops his shoulder into you. Every time he tries to get around your screen, he's shoving you and he just plays very physical. But here's the thing though, I'm cool with that. If you want to play physical, I am down. I think it's fun. You play physical, you bump bodies and at the end of the game, you dap each other up. That's what basketball is. It is a contact sport. But the people that I don't like is the people that like to drop their shoulder into you. And then when you do it back or try to defend yourself, they cry and whine and call foul a thousand times. And that's what happened today with this dude. It wasn't my homeboy. I had only seen him like once before at these runs that we do, someone else invited him. But y'all know the type of dude I'm talking about. I'm sure you do. There's one at every core. But we ended up lighting his ass up, I'm not going to lie to you. I think I dropped like eight points in a game when they're on his head. So it was a good time. It was also a good time because coincidentally, I met a former Heat player there. And if I give y'all a million guesses, you will never guess who it was. Go ahead, try. Comment down below the most random Heat player that you can think of, ready? You are wrong. It was Henry Walker, formerly known as Bill Walker. Now, it's not surprising that I ran into him there because my boy Will that plays at this gym more often saw him there earlier, you know, a few weeks ago because he actually coaches a team that trains there. So I was hyped that he was still there today when I was there because I wanted to say what's up to him. And of course, if y'all don't remember Henry Walker only played like 24 games for the Heat. But he had one of the most memorable games you can ever remember. Some crazy comeback versus the Orlando Magic where he like went off in the last 60 seconds. Some of y'all may remember what I'm talking about, but anyways, so I saw Henry Walker there and I went up to him and I said, "Hey, yo, I'm a Heat fan. I appreciate what you do." And I dapped him up and I said, "I will never forget that Orlando Magic game." And then Henry started dying laughing and I'm like, "You know what I'm talking about?" And he's like, "Yep, I do." And then I told him, I said, "Now, correct me if I'm wrong." But I think you also killed Miami when you were with the Knicks one time too, right? And he looked at me and he's like, "Yeah, I did." And then he started dying laughing, but I told him, "I messed with him. He's a cool dude. I appreciate what he does. Enjoy your night." So it was like a minute interaction, but he was smiling ear to ear. He was laughing the whole time. I could tell that I really made his night by one recognizing him, but also remembering some of his work. Because I did like Henry Walker. I felt like he had a pretty nice stints here as a Miami Heat. I feel like he was a decent enough shooter, but it was a good time. Good runs today, and that's why I'm coming to you. I'm literally recording this at 1 a.m. on, I guess, technically Saturday morning. That's why I wanted to come to y'all with more of a chill episode. So I have some more time to work on my script for like a Zion pooling video and some more collie aware stuff that I have going on. But yeah, the reason I should say that I did hoop so well today is because I got a fresh haircut, man. I don't know if y'all noticed, man, but my beard looking right, you know, the side looking to fade is clean. And I have to shout out my boy Frankie, AKA cut says, who cuts out of the players lounge in Davy. So listen, if y'all are in the Broward County area and you need a cut, I know you do because I know a lot of y'all looking musty. I'm kidding. I should not say that about the people watching this. But hit up my boy Frankie, AKA cut says she is the best barber in all of Broward County. Once again, cuts out of the players lounge in Davy, Florida. So shout out to him, make sure to hit up my boy if you want the best cut and you want to hoop on the court like I did today because that's how good a barber he is. He got special powers, but all his stuff is linked down below. So make sure you reach out to him and set up an appointment if you are in the Broward area. Frankie, shout out to you, my boy, because now I can at least go a couple days without getting a comment about my mustache. I know my mustache is not good, but the reason I don't shave it off is because I literally look like a child without facial hair. And plus, like I said, after Frankie lines it up, it looks pretty good for a couple days until I screw it up myself by trying to trim it and I'm just not very good at cutting my facial hair, which is patchy as is. But anyways, before I was actually getting ready to hoop today, we had an 8 o'clock reservation for the court, the Dejante Murray News broke, essentially. That happened right around 7-ish p.m. And obviously the big news is that Dejante Murray was traded from the Hawks to the New Orleans Pelicans for Larry Nance Jr., Dyson Daniels, and I believe two first round picks. Now, I wanted to get a video out about that right away and stuff, but I posted a couple YouTube shorts to kind of share my thoughts, but I feel like I should kind of explain more. So that's kind of what I want to do here right now. Now, a thing I saw a lot of Heat fans saying, I even tweeted it out myself, is the Miami Heat could have beaten that. And yes, I certainly think they could have beaten that because I do believe now they have two tradable first round picks again, because since the 2024 pick was made, I believe now 2031 now opens, and I think that is now a tradable pick. But either way, you still could have sent Tyler Hero. You could have sent Khalil Ware, who I know we like as Heat fans, but he just got here yesterday. Literally, his introductory press conference was today. It seems like a great kid, by the way, I really, really do like Khalil Ware, but I would have sent Khalil Ware, Tyler Hero in the first round pick, or Tyler Hero in two first round picks. I think that's better than Larry Nance, Dyson Daniels in two first, personally, obviously if the Heat really loved Dejeontay Murray, they could have attached Jovitch or Hameh. But I might have did it for Dejeontay Murray, I don't know. I'm just kind of at the point now as a Heat fan where anything is better than running it back, and I love Trey Young, but the fit with Dejeontay Murray might also be better, so I don't know. It's a bit of a dilemma. But that does beg the question, kind of my instant reaction when I saw the Dejeontay Murray trade news is what's next for Brandon Ingram and what's next for Trey Young. Because those are two guys that we've heard a ton of trade rumors about over the last several months, really the last year or so. And my first, my initial kind of thought when I was thinking what's next for Trey Young is either the Hawks and I want to build around Trey Young, or trading Dejeontay was step one of blowing it up completely, and step two is now trading Trey Young to get even more assets. And kind of what that reminds me of is I remember when the jazz traded Rudy Go Bear. I said, "Oh no. Does that mean that they picked Mitchell and they want to build around Mitchell?" And that's why they got rid of Go Bear. And then of course, very shortly after they traded Donovan Mitchell to the Cavaliers. So I do think that there's potential that the Atlanta Hawks might be doing the same thing. And that means that Trey Young could be on the markets very, very soon. Especially since you consider the package that they got for Dejeontay Murray, they got a young guard and picks. Those are not wind now moves. So to me, that kind of portrays the direction that the Hawks want to go in. And if that's the case, the Miami Heat should be calling the Landry Fields right now. Yes. Landry Fields is the GM of the Atlanta Hawks, the old player that played for the Knicks. He had the pre-game ritual with Jeremy Lin, that Landry Fields. So the Heat should be calling his line right now saying, "What do you want for Trey Young? Here you go." Because as a Heat fan, I would give up quite a bit for Trey Young. I'd give up Tyler, Ware, all the picks. Definitely one of Homme Hockes or Nicole Yovitch may be both. Listen, before you comment, I know you're not going to, like I said, take it back. I'd give up one of the two kids. I really would. Probably Homme Hockes, just because, and I like Hockes, love Hockes. Y'all know I love Homme Hockes Jr. But if you're getting Trey Young, you're obviously getting pretty small, and I would like to at least keep the size that Nicole Yovitch brings. Even though Yovitch is a ball handler and so is Trey Young, but Yovitch could spot up better for Trey Young's passing. There's so much to love about Homme Hockes and Nicole Yovitch deciding which one to trade is literally like picking which one of my kids to send away. It's tough. It's a really tough decision. But the point is, I really like Trey Young and his fit on the mind of Heat. He has been very polarizing. I think I either hate it or love it, because the Heat fans that love it like myself say, "Hey, this Heat team can't score." Trey Young has led a top 10 offense almost every single year he's been in the NBA. Last year, the Hawks were 12th, but he was hurt a lot of the season. But the years before that, they were like 4th, 7th, 8th, 6th. So every year he's led a top 10 offense. And for a Heat team that was scoring under 90 points the final three games of the season, I want to see this offense get better. And I think that's something that we can all agree on. And Trey Young brings that. He's a guy that can score 50 points on any given night, allowing Jimmy Butler to kind of do what he does and coast in the regular season, let's say preserve his body. That's the nicer way to put it. Although Jimmy Butler's in a contract here, we'll talk about that later. But still, it allows Jimmy Butler to not have to go balls to the walls every single night because Trey Young can score. But more importantly, Trey Young is an elite with a capital E facilitator. So he will make everyone else's jobs easier, especially your franchise cornerstone in Bam and Abayo, who you now lock down for another three years at almost $60 million. Imagine what Trey Young is going to do for him. Being able to finally have a guy that can do pick and rolls, that can do picking lobs, I know Terrios here is not bad at it, but Trey Young is elite. There is levels to this. He will find Bam and Abayo in the dunker spot, find to mid-range, find him at the three point line for God's sake because he is that good a passer with that good a vision and he knows how to run an offense. And the people that are against Trey Young say, well, he's not a Heat culture guy because he's one of the worst defenders in the entire league. And that's also not an exaggeration. But I would like to believe that Trey Young in this Heat system with the defensive coach of Eric Spolstra and the schemes that he's ran for Tyler Hiro, who also was bad at defense, mind you. It's not like they're sending out a great defender for a bad one. No, it's, you know, pretty lateral there. I do think Spolstra could do a good enough job hiding Trey Young on defense, especially if you were ever going to put Trey Young on a team that could help his defense, it would be a team that has Jimmy Butler, that has Bam and Abayo, that has, if you could resign, Heywood Highsmith, that has the long right already. They just, you know, Doss Richardson just picked up his player option. That's another very good point of attack defender. So obviously the Miami Heat have guys that can play defense, that can cover up for a Trey Young. And I just think it is a perfect, perfect fit. So I would absolutely love Trey Young in the team so bad. And I hope he's on the team by the end of the week. I would rather go all in on Trey Young right now and scoop him, then wait and sit around and see if Donovan Mitchell's on the move or not, because that seems to be the plan at this point. Now, to the other side of things, you also have Brandon Ingram, because there's been a lot of trade rumors about him that the Pelicans might want to let him go. But then I saw that they traded for Dejeonta Murray. So to me, that's a little wind now move. So in my head, I'm thinking, well, the Pelicans don't want to trade Brandon Ingram anymore. They got a core four. They got CJ. They got Dejeonta. They got Brandon. They got Zion. But then what puts out the tweet that says, the Pelicans are committed to building around CJ McCollum, Zion Williamson and nobody, no mention of Brandon Ingram. So it still does sound like that team is looking to offload him. And I would like Brandon Ingram on the Heat's obviously skill wise, he's great because he is also a great score and provides size and the Heat are still obviously looking to get bigger that just started with Khalil Ware. But the injury concerns are pretty big. And for a Heat team that already led the league and missed games, you know, due to injury last season and sending out Tylie Hero, who's very injury prone and getting Brandon Ingram, who's even more injury prone, that's something that does slightly concern me. Now Ingram hasn't been a guy that's always gotten hurt like Zion, even though Zion was actually healthy last year coincidentally. But there is still, you know, lingering injuries because Brandon Ingram was not his self last year. He was dealing with a lot of injuries and obviously wasn't all that great. So that does scare me. But at the end of the day, my mind said this offseason is anything is better than running it back. So if you can get Brandon Ingram, especially if it's for a package similar to the value of Dejeonta Murray, one young player in two picks, Tylie Hero two picks, oh, I would do that all day. Now if you're saying we have to trade one of the kids, Hakkez, or Yovid specifically, I'd be a little bit more hesitant. So just to kind of summarize everything, Trey Young could possibly be on the move, we're waiting to see if Atlanta wants to blow it up or build around Trey, I would go all in on Trey pretty much, you know, for all intents and purposes, Brandon Ingram, it does look like he's on the move. I think his value will be less. So for that reason, I do think he's maybe the more realistic option. And I suppose I kind of do like that as well. The other news we got today, almost at the same exact time, is Josh Richardson picked up his player option for a couple million bucks, like three million, not surprising. It kind of does suck for Jay Rich because he took less money last offseason to sign with the Miami Heat in hopes of rebuilding his value on the market. And then obviously opt out of his player option this summer and, you know, sign elsewhere for more money. I think that was the goal with Jay Rich, but he did deal with some injuries early on in the season. Then he, you know, broke his shoulder to end the season, didn't play the rest of the regular season, missed the playoffs. And for that reason, his market value is kind of the same. So that's why he's going to kind of opt into the final year of his deal here. And then basically run it back. I know those words scare heat fans, the phrase run it back. But I think Jay Rich is going to try to have a contract here himself and then the likely resign elsewhere next season for more money, obviously we love Jay Rich. I'm very happy that he's staying. They can use what he brings because when he was healthy last year, he was sitting in his mid-range shots. He was sitting in his three pointers. He was bringing the defense that you like to see, not as good as, you know, rookie Jay Rich and year two Jay Rich, but he was still very solid on that end. And obviously as a heat team that might be losing Kayla Martin, maybe Hayward Highsmith, you could really use Josh Richardson. So that's kind of the plan with him. Now speaking of Kayla Martin, he's one of three guys that's actually on Sunday or Saturday at 5 p.m. They have to decide if they want to accept their player option with Miami. So by the time you're watching this, maybe we already know. I mean, the first guy is Kayla Martin, obviously we kind of know he's going to opt out. His player option is only for like seven million. I think he can get at least 15 on the open markets. I really do. It depends because I think most contenders would want him and those are the teams that don't have cap space. So now maybe you're talking about a sign in trade, whether he can get some assets and maybe get a piece in return, that'll be something that I'm very interested to see. But I think we'll find out very soon. Like I said, maybe even by the time you're watching this, another guy is Kevin Love. He has a player option for four million. I think he either won, accepts it or declines it and resigns with the heat kind of the same deal two year, eight million dollars second year player option. Essentially what he did last year, I could see him re-upping it. For that case, the same with Thomas Bryant, who also has a two point eight million dollar player option. I don't see him getting more on the open market. So he will either accept or re-sign a similar deal with the Miami Heat. And obviously I want to keep Kayla, I like what he brings to his team, veteran leadership, his three rebounds. I think he had a good season last year when healthy. And Thomas Bryant as a minimum big, I'm cool with that too. You're still going to need like a third string big. I know they got Orlando Robinson, who I think is okay as well. But Thomas Bryant was fine. People that were mad at Thomas Bryant last year, they just had two unrealistic expectations. I mean, you know who you get when a minimum bigs? You get Cody Zeller, you get Dwayne Deadman, you get Omer Jurtivin. And Thomas Bryant was way better than those three. So I'd be cool with Thomas Bryant being, you know, your backup big. If you ask to play when guys get hurt, get in foul trouble, I think he can contribute. We've seen him bring energy for 10 minutes a game, you know, in certain spurs. I do not mine in the heat, hold onto Thomas Bryant. And lastly here, we got to talk about Jimmy Butler, because the big news broke a couple of days ago now, essentially saying that he is not going to sign an extension with the Miami Heat or any other team, everybody freaked out thinking that means he's going to walk for nothing. You got to trade him, but now you can't trade him because other teams are not going to give you good value because they think he might just walk in the off season. That's not what's going on here. Essentially what happened is kind of what I hoped. I'm shocked it happened, but it sounds like it did is the heat told Jimmy Butler, hey, we got concerns about your health. We don't want to give you this money now. And I think Jimmy said, you know what, you're right. I did coast last year. I did miss the playoffs, the least I can do is ball out next year. And then instead of signing an extension for another year, I can sign a four year contract now, which I think gives him an extra two years, if that's correct. Maybe if the years aren't the same, I do know he would get more money that way. So essentially to kind of recap, his options are, you know, sign an extension right now or finish out this season. He also has a player option next year, technically. So if things go very bad, he could just opt into that player option, but the more likely case scenario now that we know he's not getting extended is he will play out this season, decline his player option, and then resign on a three or four year contract. Whatever the maximum years is that allows him. And the point is though, he wants to resign with the mind of heat. He just wants to bet on himself, bet that he will have an amazing season and that way he can get more money next season. And I like that approach, because if you're the mind of heat, there was a lot of concerns on how much Jimmy Butler has left in the tank because of the injuries, because of the lack of days ago play last season. So at least now we get to see if that was a fluke, if he can bounce back, if he can get back to playoff Jimmy form and carry this team. I mean, if they win a championship, give him whatever the hell he wants. I don't care. I'll bite the bullet, but even if he's still very great in the postseason, that makes you feel a little bit better as the mind of heat to give him his money and extend him until he is 38 years old. There's no debate that by the time he's 38, it's not going to be a good deal. But sometimes you just got to do what you got to do to lock the guy in right now. But at least if they wait this season out, maybe they feel more confident that Jimmy has another year or two left of his prime. So that's kind of all I got to say related to the mind of heat. I think that pretty much covers all the news. I do want to say, y'all see, I got the Florida Panthers Championship shirt on for all the people going to the parade on Sunday. Make sure y'all safe. Make sure y'all have a great time. I know the Panthers have been lids out. I saw the Stanley Cup at the club 11 in Miami. I see the Chuck going crazy, Bar-Cov starting, Bar-Cov chance in the club. You love to see it. I'm in for a lot of doubt. I thought I might go to the parade. I don't think I will. It's just going to be so hot. I told myself the next heat parade, I'm definitely going. I've been saying that for 10 years now because I didn't go to any of the last heat parades because I was pretty young. With the next heat parade, I'll suck it up. I'll be hot outside. I'm definitely going to that. The Panthers one I'll probably pass for now, but if y'all go, have a great time. Be safe. I think that's pretty much all I got to say for this video. Make sure to like and subscribe because I do greatly appreciate it. We are on pace to smash that 5K subs by the start of next season, but let's not take anything for granted. Make sure y'all sub because that still is the goal here. If you made it to this point of the video, which is now almost 23 minutes in, go ahead and comment. Comment. Qasad Johnson is the goat. Let's do that. Then I'll favorite your comment and let y'all know that it lets me know that y'all are real ones, man. So extra appreciation to you. Anyways, I'll see y'all next time. If you're a facilities manager at a warehouse and your HVAC system goes down, it can turn up the heat. Literally. But don't sweat it, Granger has you covered. 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Talking Miami Heat rumors, Dejounte Murray, Trae Young, Brandon Ingram, Josh Richardson, Jimmy Butler, Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Pelicans, and more.
