WEBVTT - The 2010-11 Miami Heat: Introducing The Heatles 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.240 Welcome to Special Teams, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.960 Greetings and welcome Inside the Special Teams Podcast. I'm your host, 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.920 Jason Smith. The esteem man on my left is Mike Harmon. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.440 We are Fox Sports Radio hosts. Our show is on 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.199 five nights a week, ten pm to two am on 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.879 the East Coast, seven pm to eleven pm on the 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.640 West Coast on over four affiliates. It is our pleasure 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.479 to bring you the Special Teams Podcast, where we take 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.600 a look at special teams from individual years in sports history. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.760 Always a fantastic run, the good, the bad, the ugly, 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.519 the historically bad, the teams that we mock and the 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.960 players we have great fond memories of, and some others 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.400 that have fallen to the wayside. Tonight's episode the two 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.480 thousand ten, two thousand, or or really today this episode 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:04.960 two Caul. You be listening anytime that's to be tonight, today, today, tonight, tomorrow, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.039 last week's episode back to the Future. It's whenever you 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.720 want to listen. Well, it's like inception, just a matter 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.720 of where you come into the story. Well, you gotta 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.280 watch in the beginning or you don't get like the 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.200 middle of the movie. You can't go into the exception 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.560 the beginning, it's like, I don't understand what this is 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.959 a lot of people watched in front to end and 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.119 had no idea what the hell was going on. Anyone's like, oh, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.959 this is back when Joseph Gordon Levitt was in like 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.039 every third movie and then like, okay, we need less 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.959 Joseph Gordon and then he became Batman. He yeah, he 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.760 kind of did become Batman. Well, you know, I gotta 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.800 say Five Days of Summer was probably my favorite Joseph 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.200 Gordon Levitt movie. Okay, that's a pretty good one. I 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.680 couldn't stand Zoe Diistionnelle's character, and then it kind of 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.920 just flips at the end. I go, oh, now I 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.400 get it. Yeah, but he was in Ten Things I 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.240 Hate About You, Right, I like the eight things that 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.400 they hated, but the last two things I wasn't a fan. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.400 Not too far, Yeah, too far? It was a bridge 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.320 too Yeah. I think he had an extra ten minutes 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.160 for those. The two thousand ten, two thousand and eleven 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.640 my Emmy Heat now a team that went to four 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.200 finals in a row and won two championships. It's the 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.079 first year we're dealing with because quite honestly, the two 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.560 thousand ten year began with the Miami Heat changing the 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.440 National Basketball Association the way we know it. Why because 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:21.480 this is when the decision became everything that sports fans 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.119 wanted to talk about. Lebron James deciding, after hitting free 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.240 agency for the first time, he wanted to leave the 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.960 Cleveland Cavaliers and join the Miami Heat. And the decision, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.600 which was broadcast live on national television throughout the country. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:39.400 What team was Lebron James going to? It enraptured sports 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.799 fans everywhere, and it's still is gonna wind up being 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.120 one of the top four or five stories of my 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.720 lifetime in sports because the decision and the attention surrounding it, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:52.440 Lebron James leaving was really a watershed moment in both 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.960 television and sports media. The way this team was constructed, 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.760 the way it all came together, the hype of that 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.040 year's free agency class as to what was going to happen. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:07.440 Would these superpowers joined up, would they just change teams? 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.320 Dwayne Wade, what was the future in Miami? I mean, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.240 all of those things came to a head, and I 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.640 remember the rumors here on our airwaves of Fox sports 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:22.680 radio Stephen A. Smith calling his shot for for days 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.720 ahead of the decision, and the funny thing is one 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.720 of the things I remember going into the decision was 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.200 where was Lebron gonna go? Obviously, and Stephen A. Smith 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.440 had the story said it's gonna be the heat. But 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.800 there was so much information going out there with people 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.960 saying this is where he's going, this is where he's going, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.800 he's staying, he's this, it was impossible to figure out 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.880 what insider had the right information. I remember Stephen A. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.080 Smith the time was telling everybody, no, I got this, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.920 He's going to the heat. It's gonna be I got it. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.840 I got it. But it was met with all right, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.440 we have a lot of stuff. We can't be wrong 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.120 about this. So it was almost like ESPN decided to 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.280 make a conscious decision to say, we're not gonna broadcast, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.920 We're gonna We're gonna wait and the decision is gonna 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.120 come out and we're going to go with it then 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.920 because nobody went, but nobody knew because he was connected 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.720 to what the clippers, to the bowls, to the nets, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.480 I mean, you just go down. Whether he was gonna 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.839 just stay in Cleveland and be done with it, and 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.440 it was gonna be this good moment, right. You got 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.480 all the Boys and Girls clubs representatives there. You know 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.440 what's always lost in this is that several million dollars 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.520 went to the boy and Boys and Girls clubs. It's 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.799 kind of a good thing, right, For as much hate 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.839 and vitriol his game out of this from Jim Gray 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.559 hunt down the line, I mean, it worked out pretty 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:45.000 well for for a bunch of kids, but from Lebron James, 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.200 I mean, everybody remembers what they were doing that night. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.960 I mean, and when it came down, how quickly the 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.480 phone started blowing up. I was like, can you believe this? 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.960 Coming off the two thousand ten season, Lebron's free agency 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.400 was all anybody wanted to get into. He took meetings 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.039 with every team. Don Nelson, who was running the Knicks 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.200 back then, was in a wheelchair, and they wheeled him in, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.640 you know, to be able to present his side to 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.880 the Lebron James and and his contingent. And it was 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.039 very soon after I think the Nets went and and 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.640 and presented, and I remember hearing that during the Knicks presentation, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.920 Lebron and everybody just spaced out, like it's been enough. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.080 It was a big process and Lebron's free agency was 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.720 going to change the National Basketball Association. And so when 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.960 it was announced the decision was coming up July seven 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.560 of two thousand and ten, everybody's watching TV and watching 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.440 Jim Gray ask one question for an hour to Lebron James. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.800 When he finally comes up with the I'm taking my 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.839 talents to Miami line, which has become lampooned and and 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.479 a part of sports history. South Beach, Baby, it was 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.239 a big whoe. He's really going to the heat. He's 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.520 really going to the heat. It was a tremendous night 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.479 for basketball, and in the end, it turned out to 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.800 be one of the worst nights for Lebron because all 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.280 he did was get all kinds of flak because he 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.919 was leaving his hometown team. He got a lot of 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.119 flak for that, for going on television for an hour 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.400 and making a decision in which he presents as it's 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.600 a big night for boys and Girls Club, But yeah, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.839 it is. But it's also a night where you decided 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.760 to take control of a storyline for an hour when 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.280 you already knew what was going on. You're the kid 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.719 with the hats going to college. It was the beginning 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:33.240 of the polarization that Lebron James had going forward in 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.520 his NBA career, because up until then, it was boy 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.200 Lebron is fantastic, and you had a little bit of detractors. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.360 And there's a few things that happened with Lebron that 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.360 you were like, I don't know. You remember he had 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.960 the whole situation where the one kid from college dunked 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.320 on him during the summer and Lebron's people tried to 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.680 hold onto the video. Absolutely, you had stuff like that 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.719 going on with Lebron James, but still overwhelmingly Lebron James 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.599 was next. We are all witnesses going to the finals, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.960 uh and and but getting swept by the San Anto 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.440 Neo Spurs. But Lebron James decides for the heat and 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.080 this is where he became polarizing, but at the same 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.600 time became even more of an icon than he was 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.920 before he got global because of the news cycle he 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.280 was able to grab and what he's held onto really 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.240 since that moment, I changed the game forever. In this 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.240 moment where we didn't know that it would become as 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.560 prolific a style of making a decision of how to 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.680 rebuild and reformulate teams, find your friends and team up 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:36.160 and change courses of many franchises with the stroke of 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.120 a pen. So the Miami Heat have pat Riley who 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.480 was running things, and Eric Spoelstra, a young hen coach 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.480 that nobody knew if he was going to be any good, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.480 and suddenly they had to fit things around because Lebron 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.880 and Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade decided they wanted to 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.440 team up and play in Miami. They wanted to play 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.000 together because they were all tight, something that came up 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.640 probably at the Olympics. Hey, you know, it would be 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.760 pretty cool if we all played together. I don't think 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.480 it was well thought out by Lebron and Wade and Boss, 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.239 which are gonna get to coming up in a few minutes, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.720 but it was something that still was a work in progress. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.200 Had to figure things out as they went. I don't 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.160 think they thought they'd get the backlash. I don't think 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.200 they thought it was gonna be as difficult as it was, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.560 that there would be as many people that would say, Oh, 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.520 I think you're a superpower, now I want to see 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.560 you lose. They announced they want to play together and 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.280 pat Riley I loved him taking all kinds of credit 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.880 for you know, we had to fit these people under 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.559 the salary cap and figure things out, and it's whoa, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.360 whoa dude, you didn't do anything but answer your phone 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.640 when Lebron called in Today we all figured out we're 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.280 coming here to the heat. I mean, we got to 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.719 That's all you did, pat Riley, was do that. Yeah, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.400 I mean the only question at that point was was 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.679 Lebron James also giving him a list of guys he 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.079 wanted him to go get, and then you figure out 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.160 the rest of your roster and that becomes uh an 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.920 arduous task as well. We'll get to in a moment. Now. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:53.520 He had to make some trades. He had to make 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.640 some moves. He had to trade four first round picks 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.959 to the Calvs and the Raptors in order to get 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.400 Lebron James and Chris Bosh and that kind of made 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.120 them stuck a bit because that hurt when they got 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.200 to the NBA Finals, something we'll get too later on 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.240 in the podcast. But having to trade away all these assets, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.480 they didn't have a lot to go get the other 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.800 players to fill out their team. It was can three 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.240 guys basically win a championship. I remember when they decided 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.800 to come. The Heat had four players, and they're going 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.360 into the summer going all right, who are you gonna get? 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.520 Who's around? We're start making phone calls. Who wants to 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:27.400 come play? Well, it's like the Lakers heading into right 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.720 Lebron James go figure it's him again, going all right, 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.000 I got my core and I got my one guy. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.480 As Anthony Davis comes over and I got coused by 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.640 I like him. All right, what else we got? Who 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.840 else are we got? I mean that's like Ocean's eleven 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.160 trying to fill out. You're the rest of you, guys. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.800 We need one more. I think we need one more. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.160 Let's go get one more. The roster that they had 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.400 to put together was just Okay, we're gonna piece meal things, 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.959 and that's the best thing we're gonna do. Will you? 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.400 Mario Chalmers, Hey, we love him. We got Donna's hassle, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.520 m Eddie Houses on that team. Juwan, how Howard? I 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.439 mean they were calling guys up, going hey, just come 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.880 here and play for whatever. Mike Miller was a big 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.640 acquisition for them that you know, we're gonna get Mike Miller. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.040 That's a big thing for us. It's oh, these are 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.719 the guys, these are the guys. Championship. Yeah, you want 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.000 to you want to come play and potentially win and 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.000 hang out in South Beach. That was the team that 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.240 was going to wind up taking the court for them. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.480 They had four second round picks to Shaun Butler's one 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.520 of those picks, Dexter Pittman's one of those picks. But 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.000 it was gonna be these three and what else can 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.320 they put together? This was the Miami Heat team that 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.560 change the way the NBA works because now everybody wants 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.640 to be super teams and join up together. But going 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.600 into the season, now, how are they going to make 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.679 it work with a really, really thin roster. The backlash 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:48.120 was immediate and the hate watching began for Lebron James 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.400 and company. Well, the other part of it was their 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:55.760 big introductory press conference, which was when all the fireworks 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.640 are going off and Lebron James said, We're not here 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.040 to win one championship, not to not the not four, 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.880 not five, not six, not seven, And it's, oh, my god, dude, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.760 what are you kidding? Are you? This is but this 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.520 is feeling good, feeling not thinking that saying that was 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.679 gonna come back to haunt them be something that we 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.720 talked about. Oh, here's the guys, I'm joining a team 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.959 and he's gonna win eight championships with the Miami Heat. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.720 I love the bravado in the moment. I thought it 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.440 was one of the great w W E heel kind 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.320 of turns right, he's doing it for the Miami Heat 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.320 and their crowd as they're all excited, right, building the 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.880 perfect beast, the Summer Heat Welcome Party is what it 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:39.080 was called. And they were introduced as the Three Kings, right, 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.200 and they came up on their little risers and the 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.920 whole thing. So when he gives the speech, Mike, all right, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.960 they're playing to the home home fans. But it was 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:51.440 almost the al right, the threat, the calling out of 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.680 every other NBA team. So yeah, you get a little 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.040 bit of the the w W E heel with the 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.400 mic skills. So this is how the Heat go into 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.600 the eleven season. Coming up next on the podcast, Dwyane 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.679 Wade crying after the first few games. What was the 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.160 rest of the world looking at besides Lebron James at 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.679 the NBA season began all that more? Right here, on 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.600 the Special Teams Podcast, The two thousand ten two thousand 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:36.640 eleven Miami Heat. Continuing on with the Special Teams Podcast 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.760 as we look back at the Miami Heat, who changed 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.800 the NBA forever, as they get set to make their 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.480 debut after a long offseason of anticipation. What was the 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:55.400 rest of the world talking about. Well, Lady Gaga wore 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.640 the meat dress, and I'm just thinking, boy, when I 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.160 was younger, if I could wear a meat dress, It's like, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.360 if it's cooked me that I could actually, But you know, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.760 wearing a meat dress was pretty risque even back then 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.960 for her. You've never worn a meat dress. Now you 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.520 could go the opposite, Uh, wear a vegetable dress, like 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.040 like like broccoli. You wouldn't let it get that close 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.400 to your body. Ten wat dress. The top movies of 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.360 two thousand and ten you mentioned one a couple of 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.600 minutes ago. Inception, a movie that drove people crazy. Oh 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.840 is the thing gonna spin at the end? Is it 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.080 falling over? Is it staying up? Is it falling over 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.080 and staying up? Inception was on everybody's mind. How about 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.720 your favorite TV show premiered Sons of Anarchy? Yes, and 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.760 The Walking Dead? Both premiered. I was very excited about 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.760 both of them. Not a Walking Dead guy. The thing is, 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.960 I stopped watching The Walking Dead, and that's been a 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.120 big piece of of social currency, is when did you 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.600 stop watching the Walking Oh that's pretty because people don't 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.280 watch it. It was when did you stop? Well? I 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.800 stopped watching the beginning of the second season of Negan. Oh, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.240 that's a good time to stop. That's pretty good. I 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.520 like that that that's that. That's a cool guy that 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.640 stopped watching then. I mean it is cool. I mean 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.160 Andrew Lincoln is the on in law of Ian Anderson, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.240 of Jethro Tull, not running down his nose? Do you 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.559 know any other lines? But what other rock song could 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.640 you say? Snot running down his Nose? I mean, that's 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.760 a good one. I'll give you that. But Sons of Anarchy. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.960 I still miss Sons of Anarchy. I mean I I 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.840 still missed that. I I walked around with I had 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.880 the T shirts that they wore, and then the TV 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.480 show had the Sam Crows shirts. I had everything. The 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:26.920 Apprentice kept going the league. It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Yeah, 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.840 and now they're on like seasons. Always say, if it's 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.280 still making money keep going. So that's what people were 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.760 talking about in two thousand and ten, and then early November, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.800 the Miami Heat tipped off for the first time and 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:46.320 they started nine and eight out of the gate as 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.960 they really had to figure things out. And in the 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.360 middle of this is when Dwyane Wade had his quote 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.920 meltdown crying after a game, saying, oh, now everybody could 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.080 be so happy the Miami he'd have problems and I 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.840 remember that vividly, saying, oh, dude, you gotta be more 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.240 mentally tough than that. You just decided a month ago 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:04.880 to have a press comments where you're set, or have 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.800 a an event where you're saying not two championships, not three, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:10.920 not four. No, you want to do that. You can't 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.960 cry and be upset when you're nine and eight. You 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.440 got a lot of backlash. Anytime you want to stand 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.840 up and say hey, I'm great, this is me, you're 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.160 gonna have people sling arrows at you. And the Heat 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.240 weren't ready for it, which is why I say it 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.440 wasn't that well thought out. It was one of those 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.360 things that happened and they had to figure it out 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.800 as they went along. People might have liked the novelty 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.240 of it. But if you're looking for competition, you're sitting 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.240 there and going, all right, if I'm a fan of 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.640 one of these other teams, I hate this because a 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.600 my team didn't think of it, and they if my 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.800 team was in the running, they weren't able to get 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.240 it done. The thing that bothered me most. And look, 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.200 all these years later, never faulted Lebron for the decision, 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.640 never faulted him for the not two, not three. Always 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.160 thought it was nice, like I said, a whole w 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.960 w e heel thing. But then once the crowds are 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.880 actually against you, don't cry about him. You said it 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.440 up this way. All the rumors that started at that 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.400 point with the heat struggling, where Eric Spoelstra is gonna 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.880 be fired and pat Riley is gonna come down and 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.920 coach the team, right, that Lebron didn't like Spolster, the 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.000 very famous, the very famous video of him just blowing 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:16.720 him off walking by in the huddle, and it was 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.040 by Erik Spoelster is getting fired. Man, It's just a 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.240 matter of time. And really, are you gonna trust Eric 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.920 Spoelstra with all these guys that are basically coaching the team. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.720 You needed somebody who was gonna come down and and 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.280 command respect, and Spoilster was not the guy or well, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.800 because the other part was I think for many NBA 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.800 fans that had watched this thing come together, pat Riley 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.240 as much as front office pat Riley wanted some credit. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.440 Don't tell him. He didn't want his slick back hair 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.560 back on the sideline, right, So people were waiting for 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.280 the coup at mid season just so he could finish 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.120 the job. Right, all right, Spoilster, you you do the 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.960 hard work here. These guys will start playing together, and 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.680 then I come down from the rabid look. I saved 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.800 the season and I made these two for stars like 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.320 it was a hero moment in the waiting. But what 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.720 saved him, and I think saved NBA history from being different, 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.600 is that once December hit, that was it. The heat 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.840 go on a big run. They go fifteen and one 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.800 in the month of December and they never looked back. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.399 I mean that was that. That was where everything starts 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:23.640 coming into focus and the slotting of the superstars became 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.320 a little bit easier. It wasn't well, it's the three 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.480 of us. It was okay, this is becoming Lebron's team, 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.200 and Wade's gotta be okay being the one A and 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.840 Chris Bosh has to be okay being way over here 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.000 being the three right, it was, it was going to 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:41.280 be the three of them, but you knew it was 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.520 gonna morph, and it morphed to Lebron's team with Wade 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.080 playing the supporting role. And that's something that people don't 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.199 take into account when they talk about the greatness of 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.919 this run, is that Dwyane Wade on his own team 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.120 that he already won a championship with when they beat 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.520 the Mavericks being okay taking quote a back seat to 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.040 Lebron on welcoming him in, allowing him to take over 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.800 and to be Lebron without that, if he's fighting Lebron 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.600 for control of the team or who's gonna be the 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.000 alpha on any night, it's gonna fall apart. And you know, 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:13.639 we saw it with Shack and Kobe in l A. 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.320 They fought each other and they only made it a 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:19.040 few years. But in the modern NBA they made it further. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.879 Because Dwyane Wade and Lebron were friends and Wade was 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.800 okay seating the spotlight to Lebron. He made this thing happen. Yeah, 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.320 one for those guys showing up, but too for knowing 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.800 when he needed to be player b. That's when Lebron 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.199 also coined the heatles. Yes, so everybody comes to see us. 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:41.000 They were selling out everywhere. It's us coming into your 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.280 town and it's wherever you were doing. Hey, where are 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:48.160 the Heat? Remember it was all those ads for bad teams. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:51.240 Hey our it went from the our season. Our Clippers 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.560 season ticket package includes a game against the Bulls and 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.879 Michael Jordan's two. Hey, we got the Heat coming in 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.280 next month. But that was what it was, appointment television. 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.480 Every night that Heat played, it was a story. And 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.320 the NBA, how often do you get stories every night? 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.560 Two games season? You're exciting time they played, whether they 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.520 won by fifty, they played a close game, the rare 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.280 times they lost, they were the big story. Yeah, because 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.320 they played a lot of close games in this first 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.640 couple of months of the season. And that was one 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.800 of the detractors, like, well, you got three superstars. You 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.200 got these superstars, and you can't blow these bad teams out. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.159 They trade from Mike Bibby at the deadline, and that 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.440 turns out to be a pretty big move back when 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.080 Mike Bibbee was still Hey, Mike Bibby is not bad, 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.359 and he might be a big addition because they needed 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.760 more shooters, and that's what the Heat needed. They needed 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.800 guys that could make shots, that could contribute more offensively, 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:41.920 because look, we mentioned it a few minutes ago, we're 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.200 gonna talk about a lot later. You gotta have those 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.880 support players to win the NBA finals, and the Heat 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.919 were still trying to mix and match. They were a 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.760 great regular season team. They want up finishing second in 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.639 the Eastern Conference. They won fifty eight games, they finished 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.680 second to the Bulls, and it was boy, here come 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.240 the Heat, and they were expected to roll through the playoffs. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.000 But winning championships, you need those support guys to come through. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.480 You can't just rely on your stars. That's the one 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.440 thing people forget about the NBA, whether it's the Warriors, 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.399