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At your job, do you ever have to deal with a nose roller? How about a snub bully? Well, if you're installing a new conveyor belt system, dealing with the different components can sound like you're speaking a foreign language. Luckily, you've got a team ready to help. Granger's technical product specialists are fluent in maintenance, repair, and operations. So whenever you wanna talk shop, just reach out. Call clickgranger.com or just stop by. Granger, for the ones who get it done. What's good, y'all? Welcome back to Believe in Mommy. He brought you by the Believe Network. So I was on your host, Anthony DiNardo, coming to you with another long-form podcast. I'll probably try to start doing these once a week or so, but I'll see how much time I have. Anyways, that's about all the energy that I have for this episode. I'm not gonna lie to you. 'Cause I'm recording this about 10 minutes after the Florida Panthers lose game six. And they have now officially blown their three-nothing lead over the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup final. But the good news is we have one more chance to not make epic history and be the first team to blow a three-nothing lead in the Stanley Cup final since 1942. So yes, if you are wondering, teams have blown three-nothing leads in hockey before. It's actually happened four times as recently in 2014. So not too long ago, even though that is 10 years ago now. Jeez, but it has only happened once in the actual championship, which was basically in another lifetime, 1942. Things were different back then. So the good news for the Panthers, they got game seven on Sunday to not have the most epic collapse ever. And the only thing that I can say while I've been watching this run and really this collapse over the last week or so is the only thing I've been able to say to keep myself sane is thank God this is not the mind of heat. 'Cause if this was the mind of heat, I will be going mental. Let's bring it back to last year where the heat were obviously up three of themselves, not in the championship, but in the conference finals. And that series was also pushed to a game seven. Now, it's kind of hard to compare one series with the other because the Panthers have kind of got, I don't wanna say they've gotten blown out the last three games because there was some empty net goals today to make it look a lot worse than it was. And in game two or in game five, the second to last game ago, they were kind of getting blown out, but then they made it close. And then the game four, they did get blown out. So it's a little bit different, whereas the mind of heat, I believe they were up three-oh. And I don't think that game four or five was that close if I remember correctly, but that game six was an absolute heartbreaker, which was of course the Derek White buzzer beater. And I'll kind of relive that experience real quick. I don't know why, but I'll tell y'all the story because it was quite possibly the worst nights of my life, which being able to say that a super little sporting event is the worst night of my life, I've had a pretty good life and I do acknowledge that. But that doesn't discount the fact that I was miserable. I was distraught that night. I really was. I was actually in New Mexico with my girlfriend visiting her family. We got like a giant Airbnb. There was like a dozen of us in there or so. So it was a lot of people in there. And there's other people there that watch basketball and enjoy basketball as well. I was the only Heat fan though. So of course I'm watching the game. Everyone's watching with me. And the whole game, they're looking at me 'cause they know how big a game it is. If the Heat win, we go to the finals and everyone is staring at me. And Jimmy had a chance to take the lead. He took the lead of the free throw line. If you remember Al Horford fouled him and he was able to right his wrongs of the year before, missing that three-pointer on Al Horford. And I started getting emotional, man. Jimmy went to the free throw line, knocked all three down. And I was like, wow, they really did it. Like Jimmy Butler is that dude. He's a magical special person. And just being able to right his wrongs is truly incredible. And I can't believe that after all of that, like the whole season that we went through with the playing tournament and everything, I can't believe they're gonna be right back in the NBA finals. And then Marcus Mark puts up a three, won't go. Rebound Derek White puts it in and I say, oh no. Don't tell me he got that off in time. And the second I saw the very first replay, I knew instantly that Derek White got that shot off. And my face went from littered with tears of joy to just straight stone cold. All the excitement and emotion that had overwhelmed me instantly flew out of my body and I was just left with nothingness. And a room full of a dozen people who were all staring at me either trying to console me or make fun of me or laugh or they don't understand circumstances completely. It was a horrifying experience. Now luckily we had a giant Airbnb in the mountains and no better place to ponder than in the mountains. Am I right? So I sat out there on the balcony and just for a couple hours just looked out into the stars and just questioned why I even care about basketball so much. And it was a dark time, as you can see. But we actually flew home the morning of game seven. And flying home, I was watching ESPN on the plane, maybe ESPN2 and all these other networks, FS1. And they're all talking about, oh Miami's gonna blow this, they don't have it in them. And right when I started hearing all that doubt, that is when I got my guts back. And I knew that every single time this Miami Heat team was doubted, that's when they would come to play their best. So going into that game seven, I had the utmost confidence and that he spanked that ass. Now for the Florida Panthers, as I'm not truly a giant hockey guy, you know, I keep up during the regular season and I really only started tuning into the postseason, you know, last year when they went on their Stanley Cup final run and this year they're the same thing. So I'm not the biggest hockey guy, I'm not super tuned in. But I don't know how to feel going into game seven. This looks like a completely different Panthers team since game three. Now they've had periods here and there over the last few games where they look dominant, they just have a lot of, it looks like an easy attempts on goals, they just can't quite punch it in. And they have a lot of sloppy turnovers that have led to goals by Edmonton. So it seems like it should be easy to clean a couple of those things up and walk away with a Stanley Cup championship in sunrise at home, in front of your crowd at Amherst Bank Arena, seems like they should be able to do that, but it also seems like they should have been able to do that today or last game and it hasn't happened yet. I think I had a lot of guys that need to step up, play better than they have then. I know Barkov scored today, but I still think he can do more. Obviously Kachuk has been quiet other than his goal last game, Connor Rehege, where the hell have you been? I don't quite blame Babrowski because I feel like half the Edmonton goals are off fast breaks, off of dumb turnovers, and that's not Bob's fault, but I wanna win this one just because, even though I'm not a huge hockey fan, I know I usually talk he basketball, winning, I support all the local teams at extends to the Marlins, and I am a diehard Miami Dolphins fan, and I do watch all the hurricanes football games too. So I'm tuned into the football and basketball side of things on the baseball and hockey, and even in Miami, I do watch a little bit of them, but I just sort of keep up mostly. But winning a championship is not something you can take for granted, it's quite frankly something that might never happen again in my lifetime, and I don't think that's an exaggeration. Look at the Dolphins, they haven't won in what, 40 years now, at least. The Miami Heat has been over a decade for now them too, the Florida Panthers, it's been never, so you can never assume that you're gonna see these things again, and I just wanna be able to enjoy this, and I don't wanna take this for granted, this opportunity that the Panthers have, is because again, even though I'm not the biggest hockey guy, I have been way tuned in over the course of the last few months, and I just, you wanna win this one. You really do, especially as a guy myself, who's such a Miami, South Florida sports fan. But we'll see what happens Monday, I was hoping this podcast would be a celebration, it is not, we push it to Monday. But now let's get to the bulk of the episode, which I wanna talk about, is with the NBA Draft, coming up next week, it is on Wednesday, June 26th, I think it's Wednesday, 'cause I believe the draft is two days. So the day one, yes, is on Wednesday, with the second round being on Thursday, June 22nd. So I kinda wanna talk about what type of player, I think the Heatja draft, of course I've posted a ton of draft videos over the last couple of weeks we've talked about, maybe close to 10 players already, everyone from Zack Edie to Eve Missy, and Jared McCain, Isaiah Collier, basically everyone, right? And I will have my official top five, I'll probably sometime this week, coming up maybe Monday, I'm thinking, I already did a top five a couple of weeks ago, but certainly my opinion has changed since then, especially since there's really not like, a certain candidate in this draft, does not, the tears aren't super defined or nothing. So that's why I kinda wanna talk about, who the Heatja target? Now I will say this, I am a big proponent of always taking the best player available. I don't care what the circumstances are, I don't care if you're a championship team, I don't care about none of that, always take the best player available, especially if you're a bad team though. I guess if you're a good team that's trying to fight for a championship, maybe if you were to Boston Celtics, okay, that I do get a little bit more, you may need some cheaper contracts to fill out the roster, but especially if you're a bad team, always take the best player available. Now I'm not saying the Heatja are a bad team or anything, but that's just a philosophy in general, that I tend to agree with. I mean, look at the Heat back in 2003, a lot of people think they shouldn't have taken D-Wade, Pat Riley included. Or the story goes, he wanted to take Chris Caimi because they needed a big. They already had Eddie Jones, why the hell would they take Dwayne Wade? And obviously drafting Dwayne Wade changed the entire course of this franchise and we'd likely have zero championships if this franchise never drafted him. And they got all of that because they took the best player available. So if not for the very least, maybe you draft a superstar like D-Wade, I know that is, you know, outliers sort of a once in a lifetime thing, but if not that's, well then it is maybe the best bargaining chip for a trade. Let's say the Heat are able to get a guy like Rob Dillingham or a guy like, I don't know, maybe a bigger name like Zack Edie, does he have a lot more trade value? I don't know, at the very least it can't hurt, especially when you're trying to get a well. And you know that this draft pick is one that would obviously be included in any trade. So maybe Zack Edie's not the best example, maybe you take one of these other guys who are really young with more potential, maybe like a Ron Holland is a better example, something like that. That is another reason I always believe getting the best available. But also it's because drafting for fit, I think is kind of stupid because I know right now a lot of Heat fans want to go for a center, they don't want to go for a guard because we have Tyler Hero and Terry Rosier, but there's too many moving variables. What happens if a trade we do a month or two from now includes Tyler Hero and/or Terry Rosier and/or Duncan Robinson or one of these other big contracts we have which is really just our guards for the most part, right? Outside of them to bow. Well now you're losing those pieces. And now all of a sudden your fit wasn't a guard, but now your needs does include a guard and you could have taken one of the draft. So I just think there's absolutely too many variables there when you're talking about trying to trade for fit, especially when you're in the Miami Heat and you're looking to have an active off season. And if anything, if you do draft a Devin Carter or a Jared McCann, Jacoby Waller, maybe now that makes Terry Rosier expendable or Tyler Hero. Guys that you might have been more hesitant to trade at first, now maybe you are more willing to. So always, always take the best player available just because I think it's so beneficial from so many different aspects there. Now, if we are talking about fit and what I think the Heat being most coming out of this draft, well certainly last year their biggest problems were size and scoring. Now, if you're looking to address one of those two in the draft, it's kind of difficult because I'd say they're two polar opposites. Most of the bigs in this draft tend to be more defensive than offensive and obviously most of the guards tend to be offensive than defensive. So I kind of broke this down into two sections on really the best bigs and then the best guards just because for the most part, you're talking fixing the size or fixing the offense, I don't think it's really possible to fix both with that first round pick. Now with the bigs, there's how many names did I list here? I listed seven names here I believe and I did it in order of guys that I want the least to the guy that I want the most. And some guys are more fours than fives, but you know what I mean? This is kind of your front court guys, power forward, center in the draft. The guy that I want the least is Zach Edie, not not very unpopular opinion 'cause he's a very polarizing player. You either hate him or you love him. I don't love him. He's a bit older. He's very slow and because of that, I don't think he'll work well in this heat system just because they like to switch a lot on defense and obviously you have space and concerns there as well since Jimmy and Bam aren't really three point shooters and I just don't love the fit. Now that being said, if the heat took him, I would be immediately excited because that tells me that the Miami he believed they can develop Zach Edie and if they think they could develop that seven, four, three hundred pound behemoth, then I have no choice then to be excited because he obviously has a lot of the tangible tools like size, you know, he does have experience. I do prefer a bit of the older prospect we'll get into that later, but I just don't think he'd fit very well in this heat system at least. Kyle Philopowski is the next guy. He's the like 6'11 center from Duke. Can shoot the three ball pretty well. Okay, rebounder, but just defensively, he's not great and if I get a big in the draft, I want it to be a guy that can play defense just because we got bigs that could shoot, you know, we got Nicole Yovitch, we got Bam and a bio who has a nice mid-range game. I don't really see a great fit for Philopowski here. I'm looking for a guy that can maybe guard up, you know, the other team's centers. When Bam switched out onto the perimeter and now, you know, your paint was always open last year. Guys were always getting rebounded. I don't think Philopowski fixes a lot of that just because he's a little more perimeter oriented. So I'm not a huge fan of him. Tyler Smith, kind of the same deal. He's more of a powerful, definitely a better shooter than Philopowski, that's certainly what he does, but he's just too raw a prospect for my liking. And if we're trying to just draft a stretch four, I don't see an immediate role for him on this team just because we do have Nicole Yovitch. Khalil Ware is an interesting one because he might be the most talented of the bunch. He's a true seven-footer, dominant shot blocker, shot like 43% from three last year on like two and a half attempts a game. So some volume there, but not a lot, but he's just ultra athletic, like a pick and roll monster. Like I said, great defensively, you can block shots, can move his feet, you can't switch him around. He definitely has the size, but there was a lot of rumors that his motor isn't great, it's kind of a low-energy player. It doesn't seem like a heat-culture guy, and truthfully, I tend to stay away from those guys because I am under the belief that I like getting a guy with maybe a little less talent, but as the work ethic, because then I think you can turn that player into a really, really great player, and that's what the heat seemed to do. The next guy, I do love a lot. It's Eve Missy, and to tell you about him, he's basically a Clint Coppella mold to AT, super athletic, great rebounder, great shot blocker. He is also a pick and roll monster that's pretty much where the offensive game ends, but I don't care. Like I said, I want a big deck and play defense, so when BAM is out of the paint, the heat don't get screwed on the inside, and Eve Missy, I think, can play interior defense right now in the NBA. Super strong, super physical, you need a body like that. When you go against these yogiches and in beads, I am a big fan of his. The second to last guy I got in this category is Tristan De Silva, who is basically also a stretch for, but he's just, he's a little bit more ready to play now than like Tyler Smith. He is 23 years old out of Colorado, basically 6'9, and he is a sniper. An absolute sniper can shoot on the ball, off the ball, great movement shooter, coming off the screens, flying out, sitting in the corner, could do everything. And he's also fast enough to be a pretty switchable defender. He's not a great shot blocker, but he is a guy that could kind of hold his own one-on-one. And I just think he is a superior all-around player right now, compared to the rest of the guys I mentioned previously, even though he is basically that stretch for type, so I don't think he would start him and he just because you got Nicole Yovitch, but I do think he would have a defined role off the bench in sort of like a Kevin Love role. It may be a lot of Kevin Love to not play as much as we need him to, as the roster currently stands, so he can sort of get some rest and stuff too. But you're still still the guy that is ready to play now. Now, my favorite big in the entire draft is the Ron Holmes II, just dropped the video covering him a few days ago, and he's a guy that is 6'10, super athletic. I want to say super athletic, but has good athleticism to him. Great shot blocker though, and he could also stretch the floor. His form is beautiful. He shot a decent 3-point percentage in college on a few attempts per game, and he also is a little bit older. I believe he spent three years at Dayton, so he can contribute right now as well, and I just feel like he's the best of both worlds as a defensive-oriented center that could also score and stretch the floor, and he is just my overall favorite prospect, and I heard he hustles hard no matter what. He doesn't put his head down. He doesn't let his offense to affect his defense. He has acted hands 100% of the time. Really seems like a heat-culture guy, and that is why he is my favorite big in the draft. Now, I do want to move on to Gar's a little bit where here, I also have four, five, six, seven. I have eight guys in this category. The first of which, I didn't necessarily rank them in the order of who I want versus the most versus the least, because it changes a lot. Now, I know who I do want the most. I'll say that to the last pick, but the first guy I want to talk about is Ron Holland, who is a very raw prospect coming from the G-League at night. He's about 6'8", gets to the rim at will, has a lot of great defensive potential because of his 6'8" frame. But the three-point shooting is atrocious. I shot like 26%. Just too raw of a prospect for my liking, even though he does have a ton of potential. Same is really said about Nicole Atopich, another guy I dropped the video about recently. He's basically a 6'6" go on logic, no jump shot. Now, his handle is amazing. His finishing abilities is so crafty, can finish in a variety of ways. He's so tough at getting into the paint and finishing, but his shooting is just not good. And he's also one of the younger prospects. So again, potential through the roof, but just too raw for my liking right now. A guy that I just posted a video about yesterday was Rob Dillingham from Kentucky, a guy who is an elite shooter and not just spot up. He is one of the shiftiest, most change of pace players I've seen in a long time, has a crazy pull-up jumper game from the mid-range and from three, and he's just an overall bucket. That is what he does. He is a lethal scorer. And I do think he has some ability to pass the ball, but there's been some questions about it, whether he'd play point guard in the league. I don't think so. I do think he'd be more of a two, which is concerning 'cause he has a very small frame at 6'1, and all the defensive liabilities that come with that. But his best comparison is Lou Williams, and as a heat team that needs scoring, I kinda do like Rob Dillingham. He probably has the most talent out of this bunch of guards 'cause he was even projected as high as number two a couple months ago. But I do think once he went in the combine, got his official 6'1 measurements, weighs like 164 pounds. I do think he dropped a little bit in the mocks because of that, but he is still uber, uber talented. The next guy I wanna talk about is Tyler Colick, a guy that I think it was the ringer had the heat taking in their most recent mock draft. And he is basically your stereotypical white point guard. Meaning he could do two things very well. He could shoot, and he could pass the ball. And at 23 years old, he is also a prospect that I like a lot, not to mention that he came from Marquette, and that he had some history with taking guys from Marquette, like D-Wade, and now I guess Jimmy Butler. And shout out to Jay Crowder too. But anyways, Tyler Colick is the guy that can play right now. I do think the heat still need a true point guard, a true facilitator, 'cause Terry Rose there is okay at it. Tyler here has shown improvements, but they are still more scorers at the end of the day. So I do think Tyler Colick could definitely play roles as a facilitator. Maybe he could start at points when guys are hurt, or he could just run the bench unit, and I do like him a lot in that regard. I also got Jacobi Walter, who was also kind of a bucket, but he was very inefficient at Baylor, and I just think he's still too raw a prospect. Don't got too much else to say about him, but he is a guy doing a look into more personally. I also have Jared McCain, who is also another sniper, shot over 40% in college at Duke. Most of his attempts coming from three takes a lot of transition threes, can get his shot off, excellent score, and I do think he can be a facilitator at the next level. He is a little bit bigger than Rob Dillingham, so I think that's good. And I don't think he's a better player than Rob Dillingham, but I do think fit-wise, he is a little bit better on the Miami Heat. He also is 20 years old, so he's a little bit older, not too much, but I do like Jared McCain as well. I also want to talk about Devin Carter. Seems to be a favorite of a lot of Heat fans. He's a guy that was ranked mid-first round. Now he's gone as high as seven in some mocks. He's a bit of an older prospect, Anthony Carter's son, current assistant coach in the Miami Heat, elite defensive player, a guy that will hound you on defense, fight through screens. He is only 6-3, but averaged nine boards a game, so he's elitted that too. There's some questions with the jumper, but in his senior, I think, yes, his senior season in college at Colorado, he shot almost 40% from three, so we don't know if it's flooky or not, but he obviously did show the potential there. And lastly, my favorite prospect, Isaiah Collier. Everything that I'm going to say about Isaiah Collier makes me sound hypocritical because he is shorter and he has questions shooting. There's shooting concerns there. Those are all things I don't like, but I just got a good feeling about Isaiah Collier, man, because even though he's only about 6-3, he has broad shoulders, he's strong, and he's physical, super muscular, and he can get to the rim at will, knows how to use his body very crafty at finishing his layups, and it's his size that I think will make him a very, very great defender on the defensive end. I think he will be big enough to guard a lot of twos, maybe some threes, and the jump shot wasn't perfect, only about 34% from three in college, but it's not terrible, and I do think his form was good enough. That shows me some promise going into his shooting future. So he is my favorite guard prospect in the draft. Maybe my favorite prospect in the draft. I just love the rim pressure that he provides, and he's also a decent facilitator on top of all of that stuff. So those are kind of my favorite prospects from kind of the two categories there, bigs and guards. Now, should the heat draft more of a project, or should they get a guy who's ready? Well, I've been saying in most of this time, I prefer the guys that are more older, 'cause in theory, they're ready to play now. I kind of culminated that list here. I counted older as guys who are 21 years old or older, and that list is Zack Edie, Tristan De Silva, Tyler Colig, Deron Holmes II, and Devin Carter. Now, I don't think all those guys are ready to play right now, specifically Zack Edie. I would argue the rest of these guys probably are, ready to play now. But just on a heat team that is trying to win a championship, I don't want a project. There's a time and a place for a project. Maybe they do it in the second round, but I just honestly, I want the guy that can sort of contribute now, just like Hamehakis, right? That's part of the reason I loved the Hamehakis pick, and sure enough, he came in and was pretty much as great as any of us could have expected. 'Cause yeah, we love Nicole Owens now, but when he was drafted, he really didn't see the floor for like a year and a half, two years. And now, I think he'll be a pretty decent player, but when you only got a couple of years left to Jimmy Butler's prom, I'm trying to win right now. I want to get the ready now player. Although again, if they're looking to make some trades, maybe the higher trade asset is the guy that has more potential. Who knows? 'Cause I think Hamehakis has a lot of potential now, and that's because he was ready to come into the league and show what he can do immediately, and he has some high trade value because of that. Now, do the Heat even keep their first or second round pick? I don't know. I mean, one reason I think they should keep the pick is because it's a cheap contract, and you already have a ton of money tied up into Jimmy and Bam and Terry and Tyler and Duncan Robinson, and you need some good value contracts to help fill out the roster. That's how you get some depth, but on the other hand, they could still get a good value player in the undrafted territory like they always do, like Duncan Robinson and Gabe Vincent and Max Truce, even though Max Truce was in the league a little bit prior, but he was still undrafted, same as Kendrick Nunn. You know what I mean? There is these guys in the undrafted territory, so maybe the Heat even trade out of their first round pick to go into the second round, get two second round picks. Maybe they trade them both to get on draft to guys, or maybe they trade them both and Donovan Mitchell's on the mind heat in the week. Who knows? No, I don't think that would happen 'cause he's not eligible to sign. Actually, he is the eligible to sign his extension. I read that some guys like him and Bam are eligible to sign prior to July 6th, and he is one of them. So the fact that he hasn't signed yet is good news for the mind heat. Not Jimmy Butler, he's not actually eligible to July 6th or July 7th to technically sign, so there's still some hold up on them, but we'll see what happens, but that's pretty much all I gotta say regarding the draft. Let me know what y'all value down below. Do you wanna go big? Do you wanna go small? Do you like projects or do you like wind now players? Let me know your favorite prospects down below, and I will be having some more draft coverage going forward. Now outside of the mind heat, there's a couple other interesting things going on around the league. You had your first trade. That was exciting. Alex Caruso was sent to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Josh Skitty and nothing else. I kept refreshing Twitter to see what kind of picks the Thunderwood attached, 'cause I know they got 1,000 of 'em. They don't even have the roster spots to fill out all those picks, but no. The Chicago Bulls being the terrible franchise that they are, get no picks with it. Now, I'll be honest though, I don't think it's as bad a trade as a lot of people think because I personally still do think Josh Skitty's a very good player. I just don't think he was in a great role for him in OKC because he needs to be ball dominant, can't shoot well enough to be off ball, and obviously in OKC, Shay is getting a ton of the reps there. But basically from me and obviously for OKC, great trade, Caruso is a Hooper. And that's kind of what I wanted to talk about as how this impacts the heat, 'cause I do think the Bulls were a potential trade partner for the Heat, and obviously a lot of Heat fans, including myself, would've loved Alex Caruso because he fits perfect here. I would've liked to get Trey Young, pair him with a defensive guard, Caruso would've been perfect. I also don't hate Nicole Vusovich, especially since he's looked at as a negative asset. I feel like we could've taken him on from the Bulls without us Caruso. So there's options there that I think the Heat could've used to at least change their roster to not running back. And now that Caruso is out of the picture, I do think that eliminates a lot of those things because I don't really see an avenue for the Heat and Bulls to make a deal without Caruso. Why would the Bulls want Tyler here or now? They just got Josh Skitty. They already got Kobe White. You know, at Zach Levine, the Bulls will trade him, but you haven't really heard the Heat's name in there. Thank God, 'cause I don't want him anyways. So I just, I don't think that there's really an avenue there. So that does change things a little bit because I do think Caruso was a legitimate guy that the Heat could've targeted. Obviously, 'cause he didn't really go for that much, but that's not gonna happen. I also wanna talk about J.J. Redick, who officially got hired by the Los Angeles Lakers. Now, I don't really like it truthfully for a couple reasons. One, I don't like the idea of former players getting head coaching jobs immediately when they have no experience. J.J. Redick was coaching his son's AAU team, and now he's the head coach of the damn Lakers. I don't think that's fair to a lot of assistant coaches like Chris Quinn on the Heat, for example, who have been busting their ass for years and are certainly more than qualified to get a head coaching job, but J.J. gets it just because of his name. I also think it's a really weird dynamic because he has a podcast with LeBron, which might end, which also sucks, 'cause it was a good podcast. But if you're a player on that team, particularly a young player, how are you gonna look at that and say, oh, our best player has a podcast with our coach. They're talking about us on the podcast. They're best friends. LeBron and him are the same age. I don't know, it just seems like a weird dynamic. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Just doesn't make a ton of sense. And also on top of all of that, from a Heat fan perspective, I kind of wanted LeBron. And it didn't sound like he was really leaving over these last couple of months. So maybe if he could draft Bronnie, it'd be a nice bargaining chip to get LeBron over here, 'cause I still do think LeBron is a top five player in this game and I would've loved him to return to South Beach. And I started getting a little hopeful when the Lakers said they were gonna hire Redick, then hire Hurley, then Hurley said no, then they don't know about Redick. And I was thinking maybe if that whole situation could collapse, LeBron would ask out and wanna leave and go elsewhere. But they just hired his boy JJ, which the report came out, LeBron had nothing to do with the JJ hiring, which is just stupid. Like, why are they, why do they want us to, why are they even think that we would leave LeBron? I know, saying that that's just stupid. But anyways, they obviously got his boy, so LeBron is not leaving and that's that. The last thing I wanted to talk about was Paul George. It does seem like there's a lots of conflicting rumors on what he's gonna do. At first, Philly was all in, and now Philly doesn't want him, they prefer Zach Levine, they prefer Jimmy Butler. At first, the Clippers don't wanna resign Paul George, now they believe he's gonna stay. That's why I think all NBA offseason reporting is stupid because it's all narrative based agendas and conflicting rumors. I just wanted to ask y'all from a Heat fan perspective, do you wanna get in there on Paul George? Is that some of that interest you? It does not interest me because I think he's a habitual playoff choker and I don't want the man anywhere near my team. Now, in theory, it makes sense. A great two-way player that could score and play defense and switch, but just not a fan of Paul George. I'm gonna leave it at that though because I do plan on having a full-par George video outs at some point within the next week or two. Maybe we'll see how much draft coverage we really gotta talk about. But I just wanted to let y'all know, y'all thoughts down below on Paul George. Now, that's all I gotta say for this video. If you stay to the end of this video, I know you were real one. And if you wanna prove to me that you're a real one, go ahead and comment down below. Let's say, just say, Panthers is seven, baby. That way I know you stay to the end. I'll give you a harder comment. And it means a lot to me. All the support genuinely does. Make sure to like the video and subscribe 'cause I'm on my grind to hit 5K subs by the start of next season. Check out the audio podcast. Just search, believe in mind, the heats. That's B-L-E-A-V. And if you're on the audio side, come over to the YouTube, search Anthony Nardo and do all those good things I was just talking about. 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Discussing Miami Heat news, Florida Panthers going to Game 7 in Stanley Cup Finals, Alex Caruso trade, JJ Redick is Lakers next coach, and Paul George Free agency.
