Speaker 1: I mean it's different eras. So there was regular seats, which.
Speaker 2: Are beautiful, and there was woods, which are beautiful too.
Speaker 2: So you probably see me when I started to be
Speaker 2: able to touch them woods, because the energy in the
Speaker 2: regular seats is unbelievable. Anywhere in that arena is beautiful,
Speaker 2: you were saying. But it's also a blessing to be
Speaker 2: able to sit on the woods right beside the heat
Speaker 2: and just feel that energy and hear the conversations and
Speaker 2: the thought processes and then the pressure, you.
Speaker 1: Know, up coach and personal. It's a blessing.
Speaker 3: Just about everyone who was anybody wanted to be near
Speaker 3: this Miami Heat team once things turned around, not just
Speaker 3: DJ Khaled. Welcome back to four years of Heat. I'm
Speaker 3: your host, Israel Dutierrez and this is episode three, The
Speaker 3: Big Failure. Last we checked, the Miami Heat were rolling
Speaker 3: into twenty eleven, winning twenty one of twenty two games.
Speaker 3: In fact, they'd won twenty two of twenty four, with
Speaker 3: the only two l's being those foreshadowing losses to the
Speaker 3: Dallas Mavericks. But there would be another formidable foe testing
Speaker 3: every last nerve of the Miami Heat. That team was
Speaker 3: the Chicago Bulls. But unlike the rivalry with the Mavericks,
Speaker 3: this conflict had a couple more layers to it. This
Speaker 3: one began before Miami even signed Bosh, Wade and James,
Speaker 3: because the Bulls were trying to do the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: Signed Bosh, Wade and James, probably in that order.
Speaker 4: We were trying to get all those guys to come
Speaker 4: to Chicago. You know, the goal was always to get
Speaker 4: the team as strong as possible.
Speaker 3: That was Joe Kim Noah. He was a thirteen year
Speaker 3: NBA veteran, a two time All Star, and the Defensive
Speaker 3: Player of the Year in twenty fourteen. He also won
Speaker 3: a pair of national titles for my Florida Gators in college,
Speaker 3: which is probably an unnecessary note, but hey, the host
Speaker 3: gets a little leeway. He spent the first nine years
Speaker 3: of his career with the Bulls, and given that his
Speaker 3: teammate Derek Rose wasn't the most vocal or outgoing of stars,
Speaker 3: the gregarious Noah was offering his best recruiting pitches when
Speaker 3: Miami's trio were free agents in twenty ten.
Speaker 4: But I remember Chris Bosh coming to Chicago and he
Speaker 4: wasn't sure yet. I could tell and I mean Chicago
Speaker 4: would have been such a good fit for himself. I
Speaker 4: always felt like if Bosh came that he could get
Speaker 4: those other guys too.
Speaker 3: This wasn't some desperate dream for Chicago either. Remember when
Speaker 3: Wade said he didn't talk to Lebron for a few
Speaker 3: days prior to the decision. Well, Wade wanted to make
Speaker 3: sure all his bases were covered before he resigned with
Speaker 3: Miami as well, and that meant checking in with his
Speaker 3: hometown team of Chicago one more time before committing. As
Speaker 3: Brian Windhorst a ESPN tells it, Wade made one final
Speaker 3: visit to Chicago with the very real intention of trying
Speaker 3: to bring the trio to a Bulls team already featuring
Speaker 3: Rose and Noah.
Speaker 5: When Dwayne Wade had two meetings with the Bulls, he
Speaker 5: didn't have that second meeting for fun. He was seriously
Speaker 5: wanting to listen to them. And the dynamics around that
Speaker 5: were very interesting because in the first meeting with the Bulls,
Speaker 5: the Bulls didn't give Dwayne Wade their entire pitch because
Speaker 5: they were afraid that Dwayne was going to take their
Speaker 5: ideas and their plans for free agency immediately back to
Speaker 5: the Heat, they thought they were getting a cursory meeting,
Speaker 5: and after meeting with the Heat and hearing the triple
Speaker 5: threat idea from pat Riley to get himself to stay
Speaker 5: and to add Bosh and Lebron, when Wade asked for
Speaker 5: the second meeting with the Bulls, he asked the Bulls
Speaker 5: if they could create enough salary cap space to be
Speaker 5: all to be able to bring in Bosh and Lebron,
Speaker 5: and so in a way, when the Bulls first met
Speaker 5: with Dwayne, they were concerned that he was going to
Speaker 5: be a mole, when in fact, at the end, it
Speaker 5: was actually Dwayne that took the Heat's plan to the
Speaker 5: Bulls and presented it because frankly, with Joe, Kim, Noah
Speaker 5: and Derek Rose on the roster, their team could have
Speaker 5: been even better with the big three than the Heat
Speaker 5: could have been.
Speaker 3: In the end, the Bulls wound up signing free agent
Speaker 3: Carlos Boozer from Utah to add to their youthful mix
Speaker 3: of talent. With the Bulls having been the closest team
Speaker 3: outside of Miami or Cleveland to sign Lebron Boscher Wade,
Speaker 3: it provided the backdrop for what would be a contentious
Speaker 3: season between the teams. Noah and the Bulls settled comfortably
Speaker 3: into that rivalry, not just because they had a talented
Speaker 3: roster headed by a player who would be named MVP
Speaker 3: at the end of the season, but because they felt
Speaker 3: the support from around the country from people who wanted
Speaker 3: to see Miami fail.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of people who hated the Heat,
Speaker 4: so we actually kind of felt like we were like
Speaker 4: the underdog, you know, the guys who had a chance
Speaker 4: to get them, and that was that was pretty cool,
Speaker 4: you know. I felt that not just for love from Chicago,
Speaker 4: but from from all around the country, you know, because
Speaker 4: there wasn't too many teams that could even compete with them.
Speaker 3: Indeed, the Heat were thirty and eleven going into the
Speaker 3: first regular season meeting with the Bulls. Miami had lost
Speaker 3: too straight went without James to start a road trip,
Speaker 3: but it was nothing like the panicky losses from the
Speaker 3: start of the season. That is, until the Heat got
Speaker 3: to Chicago. January fifteenth was the first of three regular
Speaker 3: season losses to the Bulls, all agonizingly close games. And
Speaker 3: if there were major questions hovering around the Heat at
Speaker 3: the time, among them was the classic who lead the
Speaker 3: way late in a close game. Not so much for
Speaker 3: the ninety nine to ninety six first loss to the
Speaker 3: Bulls because Lebron sat that game out and Bosh was
Speaker 3: playing through an aggravated back injury. The second meeting with
Speaker 3: the Bulls happens five weeks later, again in Chicago. Here's
Speaker 3: where it really started to look like the Bulls had
Speaker 3: the Heat's number. Miami had its three stars available, but
Speaker 3: only two really showed up to play on this night.
Speaker 3: Bosh not only had his worst career shooting night, going
Speaker 3: one for eighteen from the field with Noah guarding him
Speaker 3: most of the night, but he had probably the floppiest
Speaker 3: moment of his career, falling to the ground and grabbing
Speaker 3: his face after Boozer maybe grazed it with his elbows.
Speaker 6: Boser and Bosh.
Speaker 7: Offensive time.
Speaker 8: Now did they collide?
Speaker 9: That Ooser and Bosh collide for the offensive Albert, because
Speaker 9: all of Boozer did was turn right into him.
Speaker 3: This is all about selling it.
Speaker 1: Caw, which sometimes you've got.
Speaker 10: To sell it.
Speaker 3: And if it was support from the others Bosh was
Speaker 3: hoping for, he wouldn't get that either. The Heat bench
Speaker 3: scored all of two points in this game, and Eddie House, Bucket,
Speaker 3: Oh and Lebron, Wade and Bosh all played more than
Speaker 3: forty minutes in a regular season game in February. That's
Speaker 3: almost unthinkable in today's regular season NBA. Miami still only
Speaker 3: lost that game by four points. Then there was the
Speaker 3: third and final meeting of the season, the only one
Speaker 3: in Miami, just two weeks removed from the last matchup.
Speaker 3: This time, the Heat bench tripled its output, giving the
Speaker 3: Heat six wopping points from reserves. Rose out scored everyone
Speaker 3: with twenty seven points, and the Heat lost a one
Speaker 3: point game, scoring just eighty six points, the lowest total
Speaker 3: of the three meetings, and it was a painful finish
Speaker 3: that fed into all of the Heat teams and securities.
Speaker 3: Here's a portion of the NBA TV highlights from that
Speaker 3: night with Mark Fine and Brent Barry.
Speaker 11: Now Chicago off won last play, Who's going to get
Speaker 11: the ball?
Speaker 12: Lebron Oh, Lebron James here on an isolation on Noah,
Speaker 12: you take your chances here, But again, Miami Heat is
Speaker 12: the talk of the town. Not Able to finish, gets
Speaker 12: a second chance and no good.
Speaker 13: Two of the three d missed there and hey, great
Speaker 13: win for the Chicago Bulls on the road beating a
Speaker 13: Miami t team that again desperately wanted to win.
Speaker 1: They have lost four straight.
Speaker 3: Now after the game, head coach Eric Spolster wanted to
Speaker 3: get across to the media and viewing audience just how
Speaker 3: much his players cared. But Sposter apparently broken unwritten rule
Speaker 3: that professional basketball players can't show emotional vulnerability.
Speaker 14: That's the only thing that's about right now, and this
Speaker 14: is painful for every single one of us going through this.
Speaker 14: There a couple guys crying in the locker room right now.
Speaker 14: It is not a matter of want. It is a
Speaker 14: matter of doing and continuing to put ourselves in this
Speaker 14: position until we break through.
Speaker 3: Spolster's revelation led to Wade being asked about the emotional
Speaker 3: locker room.
Speaker 15: I know, you guys get tired of sitting up here
Speaker 15: explaining the same thing over and over again. But sposually
Speaker 15: said it was an emotional locker room. Afterwards, some guys
Speaker 15: were crying and that kind of thing. What where is
Speaker 15: this team right now? Mentally just from a psychic standpoint, well,
Speaker 15: right now.
Speaker 16: You know we we we f we lost four in
Speaker 16: a row. You know, we lost three, three out of four.
Speaker 16: That we should have won, could have won at home,
Speaker 16: so you know we had to figure it out. You know,
Speaker 16: we it'side our locker room. You know, we stay together.
Speaker 16: You know we're brothers. You know we win together, we
Speaker 16: lose together. Outside of the Miami Heat are exactly what
Speaker 16: everyone wanted, you know, losing games. The world's better now
Speaker 16: since the Heat is losing. But we're figured out. You know,
Speaker 16: it's just it's just painful.
Speaker 1: It hurts.
Speaker 16: You know, we're competitors' winners, we're human, and and we'll
Speaker 16: move on and try to learn from it through frustration.
Speaker 16: You wanna know IFOU was cr why you wanna know
Speaker 16: if I was crying? The question is I'm not gonna
Speaker 16: tell you that.
Speaker 3: I remember leaving that postgame news conference with Spolster thinking, Wow,
Speaker 3: regular season basketball doesn't get more intense than this, And
Speaker 3: Spoe really brought that home with just the one observation.
Speaker 3: What the rest of the country seemed to be saying, though,
Speaker 3: was some combination of the Heat or a weak minded group,
Speaker 3: and Spolster is not the coach for them if he's
Speaker 3: betraying locker room confidences. Frankly, it was some of the
Speaker 3: harshest overreaction to this Heat team, and that's saying a lot.
Speaker 3: I mean, how often does a sports viewing audience love
Speaker 3: to see the raw motion of competition? It humanizes athletes,
Speaker 3: and we love it. Apparently not when it's Lebron weighed
Speaker 3: in bosh. As reports eventually surfaced that players on other
Speaker 3: teams were quietly mocking the emotional Heat, it would be
Speaker 3: regular season wise the Heat's lowest point lower even than
Speaker 3: the nine and eight start, because those were expected growing
Speaker 3: pains from a group of new teammates. Tim Reynolds of
Speaker 3: the Associated Press believes the Heat actually needed to experience
Speaker 3: both the losses to the Bulls and the reemergence of
Speaker 3: all the questions surrounding the team.
Speaker 10: Every loss was enormous, and there was no joy in
Speaker 10: the wins. So it just seemed like with every loss
Speaker 10: when they was twenty seven that first year, I think
Speaker 10: they went fifty five something like that, it just felt
Speaker 10: like they went o in twenty seven, the wins were forgotten,
Speaker 10: and so with every loss it just got progressively angrier,
Speaker 10: The questions got louder, The joy for a lot of
Speaker 10: people got heightened by They're not good enough, They're not
Speaker 10: good enough, They're not good enough, They're not good enough.
Speaker 10: Chicago probably was one of a lot of tipping points
Speaker 10: that year. But again, that team, it didn't know it then,
Speaker 10: but it needed nine to eight. It needed something to chase,
Speaker 10: It needed to stumble against certain teams. It needed to
Speaker 10: have questions, It needed to have doubters. If they'd gone
Speaker 10: seventy three and nine like the Warriors did in sixteen,
Speaker 10: they probably wouldn't have won either. They needed that for
Speaker 10: whatever reason. They needed these opponents, real or imagined, to
Speaker 10: pop up and get in their path.
Speaker 3: The Bulls were very real, not imagined, and they would
Speaker 3: definitely pop up again. The Heat ended that season winning
Speaker 3: fifteen of their last eighteen games, settling into the number
Speaker 3: two seed behind those Chicago Bulls. The first round against
Speaker 3: the Philadelphia seventy six ers of Drew Holliday, Elton Brand
Speaker 3: and Andrea Aguadala was a drama free five game series
Speaker 3: win for Miami. The second round was another five game series,
Speaker 3: this time over the hated Celtics. This felt like such
Speaker 3: an accomplishment. Lebron got on his knee and bowed his
Speaker 3: head after the game.
Speaker 1: Jeez over Pears, he the tugger something still.
Speaker 9: One demastating turnover.
Speaker 17: But thanks to after another less just going into the chess, Lebron,
Speaker 17: Miami is going to close it out. Drain Wade and
Speaker 17: Lebron James exercised.
Speaker 3: Some demons dramatic for a second round win. But that's
Speaker 3: how big a rival the Celtics were to Lebron, who
Speaker 3: would apologize to the city of Cleveland afterward for having
Speaker 3: to leave there just to beat Boston. It was a
Speaker 3: bit of a tease, though, as the most intense series
Speaker 3: against Boston was still a year away. So we'll just
Speaker 3: move on to the Eastern Conference Finals against those confident Bulls.
Speaker 3: It was the first time the Heat were actually expected
Speaker 3: to fail. They were facing the number one seeded Bulls
Speaker 3: that matched up well against Miami, and they had the
Speaker 3: explosive MVP and Derrick Rose, who was threatening to take
Speaker 3: the league right from under Lebron in the Heat. The
Speaker 3: Bulls took Game one of the series in Chicago with
Speaker 3: relative ease, one o three to eighty two. Bosh, who'd
Speaker 3: had his career worst shooting performance against the Bulls earlier
Speaker 3: in the season, managed to drop thirty in Game one,
Speaker 3: but James and Wade combined for just thirty three, had
Speaker 3: a very.
Speaker 18: Quiet night full of Ron James just five for fifteen
Speaker 18: fifteen parts to Wayne Wade seven of seventeen just eighteen
Speaker 18: parts his Paul Bull.
Speaker 1: But here by the Bulls they sling it out watch
Speaker 1: him for three Hopson, I have been.
Speaker 17: To the mountain top of back tas Gibson with the
Speaker 17: followed dunk Jr. Bowles is excited about this young, energetic team.
Speaker 18: Nine parts, seven rebounds and a couple of sensational dunks
Speaker 18: by Gibson. The Bulls just brought out for Cluck a
Speaker 18: sensational right put the balls.
Speaker 1: Here like take final series like you what.
Speaker 3: That Prodically After the game, however, Joe Kim Noah made
Speaker 3: note of what he saw from the heat, or rather
Speaker 3: what the heat made him notice.
Speaker 19: You know, we won, game won, And something I remember
Speaker 19: from that was the whole Miami team was just waiting
Speaker 19: outside outside the locker room after the games.
Speaker 4: Usually you go straight back to the bus, you handle
Speaker 4: your business. But the whole they really send a message
Speaker 4: by just all being outside like like.
Speaker 8: We've been here before.
Speaker 4: I'll never I'll never forget that they wanted us to
Speaker 4: see them, you know, before we left and let them
Speaker 4: know like bro right you know this is a long series,
Speaker 4: so yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 3: And you think that was one intentional like they wanted
Speaker 3: you to see that.
Speaker 4: You know, that's that's the game with in the game,
Speaker 4: you know that people you forget, but talking about it,
Speaker 4: I never talked about these things.
Speaker 6: But you know, it's a real war out there.
Speaker 3: It's not check as it's chest. The Heat made their
Speaker 3: presence fell despite the loss, and the team had another
Speaker 3: surprise for the Bulls in Game two. You remember all
Speaker 3: the hullabaloo around you Donnis Haslam and the Heat's main
Speaker 3: players taking pay cuts to bring him back.
Speaker 20: To the team.
Speaker 3: Well, all that sacrifice didn't result in much to this point,
Speaker 3: thanks to a foot injury early in the season. Haslam
Speaker 3: had surgery to repair a list frank fracture in November
Speaker 3: twenty ten, and it was believed to be season ending.
Speaker 3: But by the time the Eastern Conference Finals arrived, Haslam
Speaker 3: had played three brief minutes late in the Boston series
Speaker 3: and the final four minutes of garbage time in Game
Speaker 3: one against Chicago. He was ready for more.
Speaker 21: I remember that. I remember that. I mean Joe Kim Noah,
Speaker 21: I remember Joe Kim Noah and Bouza was kicking our
Speaker 21: eyes physically. Yeah, they were young, they were they were ambitious,
Speaker 21: they were physical, and they were giving us everything we wanted.
Speaker 21: And you know, even though we had you know a
Speaker 21: lot of bron and a lot of the Wade, they
Speaker 21: were a good team. They were a good team that
Speaker 21: Kirk Heinrich, you know there was they were solid. They
Speaker 21: were if it was any team that was probably built
Speaker 21: to give us you know, hell, there's probably that team.
Speaker 21: You know what I'm saying them in Indiana. So I
Speaker 21: just remember coming in practice the day before and telling
Speaker 21: Sport I want to play. I'm ready, I want to play.
Speaker 21: I think I can help us. I went through that
Speaker 21: practice the day before I got okay, and I just
Speaker 21: knew the next day I was I was going to play,
Speaker 21: and I just knew that I was going to have
Speaker 21: an impact because I've been watching that series. I've been
Speaker 21: watching the physicality, and I'm thinking in my in my mind,
Speaker 21: I'm saying to myself, if I'm in their locker room,
Speaker 21: I'm going to try to beat these guys up. You know,
Speaker 21: this is how I'm going to come back. The greatness
Speaker 21: and the athleticism and the speed and the skill I'm
Speaker 21: just gonna beat them up. I'm making physical and once again,
Speaker 21: that's right up my alley. Like I told you, they can't.
Speaker 21: They wanted me to be here for a reason. You know,
Speaker 21: they sacrificed for me for a reason. So once again
Speaker 21: I'm gonna give them the money's worth.
Speaker 3: Haslam's toughness, rebounding, defense, and leadership where elements the Heat
Speaker 3: had been missing all season, and in this game too,
Speaker 3: Haslam provided it all in his first real game.
Speaker 1: Back Ice passed that couch you file killing drawer.
Speaker 22: Now the Rebottles handled five again the Heat in the
Speaker 22: open form.
Speaker 1: You thought us hauslo down. I know, Pads Gibson was
Speaker 1: playful way every this game. Who's got Haslem is got
Speaker 1: Battle's a channel right here for Miami.
Speaker 3: The Heat held the Bulls to seventy five pointints and
Speaker 3: they outrebounded Chicago by four after getting buried on the
Speaker 3: glass in game one, all part of the haslm effect.
Speaker 3: Now Lebron did his thing also more. Actually, he not
Speaker 3: only led the Heat to victory, but he helped calm
Speaker 3: some of the concern that he would fold under pressure.
Speaker 3: Back in Miami, the Heat managed two more wins and
Speaker 3: headed back to Chicago to close the series. Even that
Speaker 3: required a superhuman finish from the duo of Wade and James.
Speaker 3: Down twelve with just over three minutes left in the game,
Speaker 3: the pair scored sixteen of the game's next eighteen points
Speaker 3: to take the lead with thirty seconds remaining. What couldn't
Speaker 3: they do?
Speaker 1: Seventy seven sixty five? Chicago waight on a wrong mike shit.
Speaker 23: Halway James for free? Yes, Lebron, James down job wait
Speaker 23: on a step light for prey and he was foul.
Speaker 23: Oh Drames for free. I'm the Davis time.
Speaker 1: That's seven nine The polls call for time. So Lebron
Speaker 1: with the strip five.
Speaker 23: Yes, Miami, that's taken away.
Speaker 3: A pair of Boss free throws and excellent defense by
Speaker 3: Lebron against the MVP rows sealed the eighty three eighty
Speaker 3: win and a berth in the NBA Finals. A regular
Speaker 3: season of aggravation and tears versus Chicago turned into just
Speaker 3: another five game series win for Miami.
Speaker 1: Battle three, Battle two. Here's Rose, can it get it off?
Speaker 1: It is block have come for the high to the
Speaker 1: three forty cargos.
Speaker 24: Eighty three eighty and Miami is headed to the NBA
Speaker 24: Finals for another match up the Bawds.
Speaker 20: So this we came together for get back to the
Speaker 20: finals and give ourselves an opportunity to host that trophy.
Speaker 20: De Way's done it once and I've been working my
Speaker 20: tail off for eight years to try it to do it,
Speaker 20: and uh, you know, this is a big step for us.
Speaker 3: It felt like the fairy tale had already been written.
Speaker 3: The Dallas Mavericks would eventually await them in the finals,
Speaker 3: but that team couldn't possibly provide the nightmare fuel the
Speaker 3: Bulls did throughout the season. Sure, they swept Miami in
Speaker 3: the regular season, but both of those happened before the
Speaker 3: Heat found their true groove. Yep, that's pretty much what
Speaker 3: the rest of the basketball viewing audience figured as well.
Speaker 3: He'd be MAVs. It was going to be a coronation
Speaker 3: for King James. This is where the narrator is supposed
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 13: It wasn't Terry move me to his right, to the
Speaker 13: top of the ark and down a dark He's open
Speaker 13: for three all the way.
Speaker 1: God, that's God. What twenty six? What seven seconds remaining
Speaker 1: a twenty to two run.
Speaker 9: One of the most incredible comebacks in the NBA Finals history.
Speaker 3: The twenty eleven Dallas Mavericks finished third in the Western Conference.
Speaker 3: They finished second in the Southwest Division. They had one
Speaker 3: All Star, Dirk Novisky, and a reputation for not getting
Speaker 3: it done in the playoffs, whether it was a finals
Speaker 3: loss after being up two games to none in two
Speaker 3: thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Jerry puts up go break Way the Bay Heat. They've
Speaker 1: done it. They won their first championship in franchise.
Speaker 3: History or a first round exit with the MVP version
Speaker 3: of Navisky, the greatest.
Speaker 1: Up shop in the history of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 22: Their half of pre books Up Dallas coveris in such
Speaker 22: as for sin Freddy Comes from Above, You Want to
Speaker 22: Love It eighty six a Final four.
Speaker 3: But entering the twenty eleven finals, they had just accomplished
Speaker 3: three series victor. Is that, at least in their own minds,
Speaker 3: erased all of those past frustrations. Series wins over the
Speaker 3: Brandon Roy led Trailblazers, the two time defending champion Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Lakers, and the young Oklahoma City trio of Kevin Durant,
Speaker 3: Russell Westbrook, and James Harden had the Mavericks believing they
Speaker 3: were prepared for any challenge.
Speaker 13: For the second time in franchise history, the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 13: will play for the NBA Championship, and five years after
Speaker 13: the fact, there's this matter of unfinished business.
Speaker 3: Mark Cuban may have been one of the few who
Speaker 3: actually thought the Mavericks could win the series. All I
Speaker 3: can say is, there's twenty.
Speaker 9: Some thousand people in this building who believed in us
Speaker 9: when nobody else did. There's all the guys in this
Speaker 9: organization and on the court who believed in us and
Speaker 9: thought every game, every minute of the way.
Speaker 1: And all I can tell everybody is we ain't done yet.
Speaker 3: And sure it'd be great to get a detailed look
Speaker 3: back at those finals with Novitzky or even Jason Kidd,
Speaker 3: the point guard on the team who's now the Mavericks
Speaker 3: head coach. But trust me, Brendan Haywood is going to
Speaker 3: provide the twenty eleven finals recap you didn't know you needed.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 3: Haywood was a center on that MAVs team, but he'd
Speaker 3: also had plenty of experience playing against Lebron in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: as he was part of a Washington Wizards team that
Speaker 3: lost to James and the Cavaliers in three postseason series.
Speaker 3: He already knew how to lose to Lebron, so he
Speaker 3: was confident his coaching staff in Dallas, led by head
Speaker 3: coach Rick Carlisle, would teach him how to beat Lebron.
Speaker 6: We had a great coaching staff I'm talking about. You
Speaker 6: got Rick Carlile on there. You got Dwayne Casey leading
Speaker 6: our defense. You got Terry Stotts who's our offensive coordinator.
Speaker 6: We had an incredible coaching staff. So we were more
Speaker 6: focused on, let's focus on what they're saying on how
Speaker 6: we can beat this team. Because every single series that
Speaker 6: they gave us the blueprint to how we were gonna win,
Speaker 6: we won doing exactly what they said do and it
Speaker 6: worked every single time. So we weren't worried about what
Speaker 6: the heat were doing. Like, hey, if we listen to
Speaker 6: these guys, we have a chance.
Speaker 3: So what was the game plan?
Speaker 6: The first thing was Rick Carlile showed us lebron shooting
Speaker 6: percentages for the playoffs and it was something ungodly like
Speaker 6: fifty eight percent or something like that. And then he said, okay,
Speaker 6: this is what he shoots outside of fifteen feet and
Speaker 6: it was something incredibly low, like seventeen percent. It was
Speaker 6: this kind of similar, similar strategy that we had with
Speaker 6: Russell Westbrook, and so we were like, okay, so what
Speaker 6: are we going to We have to make sure that
Speaker 6: the paint is walled off. If you go back in
Speaker 6: that series, you'll see Jason Kidds on Fast Break sprinting
Speaker 6: back to make sure that Lebron doesn't see an open
Speaker 6: painted area or is Sean Mary and whoever it is.
Speaker 6: So the first thing we had to do with we
Speaker 6: got to load up and stop him from getting into
Speaker 6: the paint. I don't care if we're giving up shots
Speaker 6: on the weak side. We're gonna help off Dwayne Wade.
Speaker 6: We understand he's great, but he doesn't really want to
Speaker 6: shoot from three. We might even give up a couple
Speaker 6: of threes to make sure that Lebron doesn't go superhero
Speaker 6: mode in the lane that was number one. We're going underscreens.
Speaker 6: But we did it differently. And here's where guys mess
Speaker 6: up with Lebron.
Speaker 8: James.
Speaker 6: They give him space because, like I said, especially early on,
Speaker 6: because he doesn't shoot it as well from three as
Speaker 6: like a step Curry. So they back up. That's the
Speaker 6: worst thing you can do because he takes up the space.
Speaker 6: So Rick wanted Sean Marrion, Shawn Stevenson, Jason Kidd pick
Speaker 6: him up full court as much as possible. I want
Speaker 6: you even in the half court. I want you to
Speaker 6: be into him. And then when Tyson on myself call
Speaker 6: out scream, we want you to recognize where the screen
Speaker 6: is coming from and meet him on the other side.
Speaker 6: We'll give up as many jumpers as possible, and if
Speaker 6: you get beat, don't worry you have weak side head.
Speaker 6: We'll even give up some of those jumpers. But everything
Speaker 6: was pressure Lebron and don't let him get into the lane.
Speaker 6: Where people mess up guarding Lebron is they back up
Speaker 6: off of them and they let him see everything. So
Speaker 6: now he sees the whole floor and he can attack, you,
Speaker 6: get downhill, dunk on you, create free throws or even
Speaker 6: when he misses, three guys had to try to block
Speaker 6: his shot. So now the week's side rebound is open,
Speaker 6: and we just did We just did things slightly differently at.
Speaker 3: That point, So it was it was obviously a big
Speaker 3: three from them, but you were more concerned. The game
Speaker 3: planning was around Lebron and then Dwayne and Bosh were
Speaker 3: like secondary defensive strategy.
Speaker 6: We really didn't have a game plan for those guys. Wow,
Speaker 6: And that's no disrespect. That's we were like, yo, like
Speaker 6: that's the guy. We got to stop that. If we
Speaker 6: don't stop that guy, the rest of this stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: Like Chris Bosh, obviously, hey man, we don't want him
Speaker 6: shooting easy jumpers. We don't want him get hi left.
Speaker 6: But there was there was no second and third tier
Speaker 6: coverages for Chris Bosh like we had for Lebron And
Speaker 6: with Dwayne Wade, it was more play him straight up,
Speaker 6: don't take his pump fake. You know, he was great
Speaker 6: in the mid range and you were a pump and
Speaker 6: get guys up in the air. But for the most part,
Speaker 6: we were like, hey, we feel like if we switched
Speaker 6: Sean Marion onto him that we liked that matchup.
Speaker 3: Well, Wade didn't mind that matchup much either. In fact,
Speaker 3: Wade led the Heat to a Game one win with
Speaker 3: twenty two points, ten rebounds, and six assists.
Speaker 13: Here's a kid around of the yard to the right,
Speaker 13: had it stripped by Bibby up the head left side
Speaker 13: for James touch pass way down the lane.
Speaker 1: Later in with a foul ox Stevenson, where he continued
Speaker 1: their assault. The MAVs fought hard, but once again Miami
Speaker 1: learned to close love of the rid.
Speaker 22: It takes those it down for the Dagger in Game one,
Speaker 22: dominant performance from Minami Heat.
Speaker 1: One to oh in the best of seven for Miami.
Speaker 3: The series shifted in Game two, not because of a
Speaker 3: strategy or injury. It turned because of a celebration. It
Speaker 3: was the ex Zach type of sports mythology fans want
Speaker 3: to believe all the time, but Heywood insists this was
Speaker 3: one hundred percent real. Wade had just hit a three
Speaker 3: pointer that put the Heat up eighty eight to seventy
Speaker 3: three with just seven minutes and fourteen seconds left in
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 22: Lebron straight down the middle inside Chalmers, don't wait for three?
Speaker 5: Got it?
Speaker 8: Wait?
Speaker 1: Pop down down.
Speaker 13: I was like, he'd have closed this game up, but Miami,
Speaker 13: they're largest late.
Speaker 3: Of the night fifteen Wade always want to savor the moment,
Speaker 3: left his hand in the air for a few extra
Speaker 3: moments in front of the MAVs bench, and with Wade
Speaker 3: on his way back to his bench for a time out,
Speaker 3: James walked backward in front of him before eventually shadow
Speaker 3: boxing with the superstar teammate. It apparently set the Mavericks ablaze.
Speaker 3: Here's Heywood, Lebron James comes in front of him.
Speaker 6: They do the little rap video punch thing and all that.
Speaker 6: I remember it like it was yesterday in the back
Speaker 6: watching it, and I'm livid, like I had strained my hip.
Speaker 6: And then it was like from that point on, Dirk
Speaker 6: and Jason Terry went on demon time and it was
Speaker 6: they Miami didn't score again. I don't think, or if
Speaker 6: they did, it was like some free throws. I don't
Speaker 6: think they had another bucket for the rest of the game,
Speaker 6: and we end up coming back. If we don't win
Speaker 6: that game, we probably don't win that series.
Speaker 3: The Heat managed exactly five points after that, a pair
Speaker 3: of Lebron free throws and a Mario Chalmers three pointer
Speaker 3: that actually tied the game at ninety three, all with
Speaker 3: twenty four seconds left. Then, with just three seconds remaining,
Speaker 3: Novitsky completed the comeback with the drive past Bosch for
Speaker 3: a layup. Wade missed a three that would have won it,
Speaker 3: and the Mavericks cracked the Heat armor.
Speaker 23: The wet street spit inside the Repsky the easy layup
Speaker 23: and end with three point six left.
Speaker 1: Wait Cull Lebron, Jay st wait wait for the way,
Speaker 1: No dallass Miami and went ninety five ninety three.
Speaker 22: Bill remember June second in the Dallas Mavericks franchise Forever?
Speaker 1: What a comeback?
Speaker 20: Give up?
Speaker 1: Never give up, I never give went light up there.
Speaker 3: Jason Terry recalled the huddle just before the Mavericks began
Speaker 3: their comeback.
Speaker 25: We looked at each each guy in the huddle. To
Speaker 25: a man, me specifically looked at Dirk and said, there's
Speaker 25: no way we're going out like this. It's too much
Speaker 25: time left in his game. And for us to go out,
Speaker 25: you know, in a blowout ty fashion, with them dunking
Speaker 25: on us, shooting threes on us, it would have really
Speaker 25: been disheartening.
Speaker 3: Not enough to keep the momentum.
Speaker 14: Though.
Speaker 3: The Heat won Game three in Dallas by two points
Speaker 3: behind another strong performance from Wade, But there was another
Speaker 3: element coming into play. By Game four, Lebron hadn't been
Speaker 3: his dominant self at all in this series. All the
Speaker 3: game planning from the Mavericks appeared to be getting in
Speaker 3: his head. His point totals dropped from twenty four to
Speaker 3: twenty to seventeen in the first three games to this point,
Speaker 3: with the Heat leading in the series. It was more
Speaker 3: of an interesting note than a sign of panic. Wade
Speaker 3: seemed well on his way to a second Finals MVP.
Speaker 3: If the series kept trending in this direction, Lebron would
Speaker 3: almost certainly be labeled the Scottie Pippen of the pair.
Speaker 3: Hardly an insult, but certainly not the sidekick moniker James
Speaker 3: was hoping to take on. Then Game four happened, and
Speaker 3: Heat fans would have loved a Scottie Pippen type game
Speaker 3: from Lebron.
Speaker 12: In that one.
Speaker 11: They got far less James. This is go freethrows. He's
Speaker 11: struggling from le Field. This is a couple of free
Speaker 11: throws too. Of eight tromble Field two four for the
Speaker 11: free throw on.
Speaker 3: Carlile made some adjustments that flummox Lebron mid series. In
Speaker 3: Game four, he started Jj Barrea, a five foot ten
Speaker 3: point guard, and brought to Shaun Stevenson off the bench.
Speaker 3: It was a move designed to boost the Mavericks offense,
Speaker 3: with Carlisle figuring Berea can defend Miami's starting point guard
Speaker 3: Mike Bibbie without much concern, and while it didn't have
Speaker 3: quite the effect on the offense in Game four that
Speaker 3: Carlile had hoped. The coach's other adjustment made that a point.
Speaker 3: Carlile went to a zone defense that in twenty eleven
Speaker 3: was still quite rare in the NBA. It was Lebron's
Speaker 3: kryptonite insomuch that his sudden weakness was inexplicable.
Speaker 1: James fires away short.
Speaker 3: Brian Windhorst had seen a version of this just a
Speaker 3: year earlier. Lebron's last in Cleveland, in a Game five
Speaker 3: with the series tied, James put up just fifteen points
Speaker 3: on three or fourteen shoot in forty two minutes at
Speaker 3: home against the Celtics, and the Calves lost by thirty two.
Speaker 3: One game later, he was pulling his jersey off on
Speaker 3: his way out of the city.
Speaker 5: So to have that happen and back to back years,
Speaker 5: you know, in with at the highest stakes against teams
Speaker 5: that his team was better than to be honest, and
Speaker 5: for him to do that two years in a row,
Speaker 5: I wondered, because in my view, a lot of people
Speaker 5: felt that Lebron quit on the Calves and that's why
Speaker 5: he played poorly in that series. He didn't play poorly
Speaker 5: in that series. He played poorly in that one game.
Speaker 5: And I never believed he quit. I believe that the
Speaker 5: pressure got to him, and I think the pressure got
Speaker 5: to him in Dallas. And so after two years of
Speaker 5: seeing that happen and back to back times, and this
Speaker 5: is a guy who always raised his level. He never
Speaker 5: before in his career could you ever say his team
Speaker 5: lost because of him. You know, they made the finals
Speaker 5: in two thousand and seven. In two thousand and eight,
Speaker 5: he played one of the classic games of that decade
Speaker 5: in Game seven when they got eliminated against the Celtics
Speaker 5: eventual champion Celtics. He and Paul Pierce both went over
Speaker 5: forty points in Game seven. In two thousand and nine,
Speaker 5: when they lost in the Eastern Conference Finals to the Magic,
Speaker 5: Lebron had one of the greatest series in history by
Speaker 5: a player on a losing team. It was comparable to
Speaker 5: Jerry West at the Lakers in nineteen sixty nine when
Speaker 5: Jerry West won the MVP as a losing team. That's
Speaker 5: how comparable that series was. Dominated So never before I
Speaker 5: ever could I ever look at Lebron and say you
Speaker 5: were the reason your team didn't win. And that happened
Speaker 5: in twenty ten and twenty eleven at the highest level,
Speaker 5: and so It made me wonder if something within him
Speaker 5: had been broken and whether or not he was going
Speaker 5: to be able to get to the highest level.
Speaker 3: The signature failure from James was when he couldn't successfully
Speaker 3: post up Berea, who was nearly a foot shorter and
Speaker 3: probably eighty pounds lighter. James managed only eight points in
Speaker 3: an NBA Finals game in which he played forty six minutes.
Speaker 3: It's commonly considered his worst game as a professional. Chalmers
Speaker 3: believed college would have helped Lebron.
Speaker 7: No seriously, now this is my personal opinion. I don't
Speaker 7: know if this is how he felt everything. I felt
Speaker 7: like he was a little confused. And what I mean
Speaker 7: by that is like when you go to college, you
Speaker 7: get to see every type of defense you want through.
Speaker 7: Pretty much when you get to the NBA is man
Speaker 7: up guard. Your man will help you this way or
Speaker 7: will help you that way. It's not a lot of
Speaker 7: zones to play. So when Dallas perfectly formed that zone
Speaker 7: to slow down Lebron, I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 7: we had the mindset to really help him, you know,
Speaker 7: get to the spots he needed to to make him
Speaker 7: more successful, to make ourselves successful as a team. I
Speaker 7: think we just kind of forced things, and the more
Speaker 7: we forced them, it played into their hands instead of
Speaker 7: spacing it. So I just don't think That's when I
Speaker 7: go back to saying IQ, I just don't think we
Speaker 7: had the total IQ to be ready for what everything
Speaker 7: that Dallas threw at us. It was just thinks he
Speaker 7: wasn't comfortab like he's used to being getting the ball,
Speaker 7: being on top, being able to drive, see what's in
Speaker 7: front of him, see how to attack.
Speaker 10: And when you got little J. J.
Speaker 7: Berrera, you know, swimming around, you can't really just put
Speaker 7: the ball down freely. You gotta always be aware of looks.
Speaker 7: So I just don't think he was comfortable in the positions.
Speaker 12: That he was.
Speaker 3: Adding to that sense of lost opportunity was the condition
Speaker 3: of Dallas's lone star Dirk Noovisky was suffering through a
Speaker 3: sinus infection and who knows what else. That night. It
Speaker 3: was evident throughout as he had his worst game of
Speaker 3: the series, shooting just six of nineteen from the field.
Speaker 13: We've confirmed that Dirk Nooviski is playing to night's basketball
Speaker 13: game with a fever, perhaps as high as one hundred
Speaker 13: and one or one hundred and two.
Speaker 24: Degrees.
Speaker 20: Levinsky has been brilliant here in the finals, but he
Speaker 20: desperately needs some help.
Speaker 3: But that zone defense and Lebron's subsequent disappearing act kept
Speaker 3: the Mavericks in the game. The Heat went scoreless for
Speaker 3: more than five minutes in the fourth quarter, and Dirk
Speaker 3: managed to fight through any discomfort and score ten of
Speaker 3: his twenty one in the period.
Speaker 1: And there it is in the hands of a visky
Speaker 1: who's got about a hundred two fever.
Speaker 3: Lebron meanwhile, managed only one shot attempt in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: He missed it and had two turnovers.
Speaker 4: Wait he gets it back up top to teams, James
Speaker 4: Stakes drives.
Speaker 1: Pull up Tupper, won't go Miller the offensive rebound.
Speaker 3: As if it wasn't bad enough to try to explain
Speaker 3: why the league's best player was apparently shrinking Under the
Speaker 3: brightest of lights, James and Wade fanned the flames with
Speaker 3: an attempt at humor that fell horribly flat. In between
Speaker 3: Games four and five, cameras were surrounding the pair as
Speaker 3: they appeared to mock Novitsky's acknowledgment of his illness.
Speaker 15: Oh did all hit me?
Speaker 8: Called thin' gonna say? Hey, just web man that weather's
Speaker 8: ray hard to go from eighty five degree, whether man
Speaker 8: go to mountain, that's switch.
Speaker 3: It might have been an attempt from Wade to take
Speaker 3: the attention away from Lebron and his dwindling numbers. It backfired.
Speaker 3: Here's heywood.
Speaker 6: It just that's one of those things that it just
Speaker 6: gives you a little bit more buzz when you run
Speaker 6: around the court, because they were disrespecting all League, and
Speaker 6: Dirk already felt a certain way because of what happened
Speaker 6: in the finals when he lost to Miami the first time,
Speaker 6: and people were saying that, you know, like there's rumors
Speaker 6: that Dwayne Wade and said Dirk would never be a leader.
Speaker 6: So Dirk already it wasn't like he had a beef
Speaker 6: with Dwayne Wade, but he was already looking at Dwayne
Speaker 6: Wade's sideways. And so then him and Lebron out there
Speaker 6: laughing at the fact that he's sick. So Dirk's looking
Speaker 6: at it funny, the locker room's looking at it funny,
Speaker 6: and so and that was the first time in our
Speaker 6: eyes we were like, yo, these guys really think they're
Speaker 6: better than us. Like they they think it's they think
Speaker 6: it's playtime. They think they just gonna flip a switch
Speaker 6: and beat us, and so that it just became like
Speaker 6: a rallying cry. It's just one of those things that
Speaker 6: when everybody went out there on the court, it was like, Yo,
Speaker 6: if we come out here and just play hard to
Speaker 6: the best billies, we can punch these guys in the mouth.
Speaker 6: And once we punch them in the mouth, do not
Speaker 6: let your foot up off the gas. And like just
Speaker 6: the mentality, like Jason Terry was literally sitting there talking
Speaker 6: about Lebron can't guard me, and he really and he
Speaker 6: didn't mean that. Like one on one he's like, man,
Speaker 6: I'm about to run hi ragged. He don't want to
Speaker 6: run around these screens, and at that point he didn't.
Speaker 6: To this day, Braun hates guarding guys that run around
Speaker 6: in screens, Like Jason Terry, hit, I'm gonna running ragged.
Speaker 6: Get any shout out of want Ain't none he could
Speaker 6: do about it. He up here, and he's like he's
Speaker 6: up here laughing at dirt. I want to see him laughing.
Speaker 6: Come check me. Like that was the mentality. These were
Speaker 6: conversations that were actually had.
Speaker 3: The Mavericks scored eighty six points or less in three
Speaker 3: of the games at this point, and somehow the series
Speaker 3: was still tied at to a piece, and now Dallas
Speaker 3: had added motivation. Noviitsky was feeling better in Game five,
Speaker 3: and the Mavericks offense re energized, managing to pull away
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter to take the game and the
Speaker 3: series lead.
Speaker 1: Got it and the.
Speaker 13: Mavericks are one went away from an NBA championship.
Speaker 1: What a performance from the veteran Dallas Babriicks.
Speaker 3: The finals format at the time was still two three
Speaker 3: to two, which meant Game six and seven would be
Speaker 3: back in Miami. Carlisle wasn't the coach of the Mavericks
Speaker 3: when they lost to Miami in the two thousand and
Speaker 3: six finals, but he did borrow a move from then
Speaker 3: Heat head coach Pat Riley. But knowing that if you
Speaker 3: don't win a night, you have a second chance.
Speaker 8: Not even thinking about it, you know, I packed one suit,
Speaker 8: one shirt, and one tie.
Speaker 3: When the Heat were headed back to Dallas after taking
Speaker 3: a three to two series lead, he told his team
Speaker 3: to pack one suit and one tie because they wouldn't
Speaker 3: need a second game to win the title. It worked then,
Speaker 3: as Miami won that sixth game and the championship. So
Speaker 3: Carlisle put his own twist on it. Here's Heywood.
Speaker 6: Well maybe that's where they felt it from, but we
Speaker 6: didn't know that. So all we knew was and if
Speaker 6: you go back and look, everybody had one suit, but
Speaker 6: everybody in black, whether it was a black button up,
Speaker 6: a black polo, a black jacket, everybody was wearing black.
Speaker 6: There was in our mind, there was no Game seven.
Speaker 6: It's game six. We're winning the game, and then we're
Speaker 6: getting out of here, getting ready for our parade, and
Speaker 6: oh yeah, let's let's we're all black because it's funeral music.
Speaker 6: Time you get down towards the end of that game,
Speaker 6: it's probably like anywhere from three to five minutes left.
Speaker 6: I looked down there, and the heat down like ten,
Speaker 6: still enough time to possibly come back. It's probably like
Speaker 6: three minutes left. And I looked over there and the
Speaker 6: only person in the huddle speaking or showing any type
Speaker 6: of heart was Mario Chalmers.
Speaker 8: Like you can tell, like bron was.
Speaker 6: Thinking about what he's gonna sayt the press conference. Dwayne
Speaker 6: Wade's over here, Like I looked though, and I remember
Speaker 6: I'm tapping Toshoun Steepens.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, dog, look at look at the huddle.
Speaker 6: I said, they're done.
Speaker 1: Do They're done?
Speaker 6: That was when I knew the series was over. There
Speaker 6: was no camaraderie, there was no cohesion, there was no
Speaker 6: raw ross beats. That was when I knew they were done.
Speaker 6: Three minutes left to play Game six, it was over.
Speaker 3: The Heat didn't have a response left in them. Novitzky
Speaker 3: and the Mavericks celebrated their first championship in franchise history
Speaker 3: on Miami's floor with a Game six win.
Speaker 18: Novitsky pucks it up, puts it in, makes it up
Speaker 18: time one game and only fitting Dirk Nevinsky sealing the deal,
Speaker 18: elevating his status sunks the NBA's greats.
Speaker 13: The Mavericks had scaled the NBA playoff mountain, had had played.
Speaker 1: That their flag. They are the NBA champions for two thousand.
Speaker 3: Tag twenty eleven, Bosh was in tears again, falling to
Speaker 3: his knees in the hallway leading to the heat locker room.
Speaker 3: An entire season of extremes ended in stunning fashion, and
Speaker 3: the examination of just how that happened was well underway.
Speaker 3: All eyes were fixed firmly on Lebron James. The Heat
Speaker 3: didn't withstand all the hatred from everyone outside of Miami
Speaker 3: all season long, just so James could fail them when
Speaker 3: they needed him most. The ending to his first season
Speaker 3: with the Heat couldn't have gotten much worse for Lebron,
Speaker 3: and then it did. If his performance in the finals
Speaker 3: wasn't enough ammunition for an entire off season of mockery,
Speaker 3: his performance on the postgame podium would prove just as bad.
Speaker 3: In a series where Lebron James had never looked more human,
Speaker 3: he managed to appear less relatable than ever with an
Speaker 3: answer to one question, and it would set the tone
Speaker 3: for a dark, lonely extended off season.
Speaker 26: Does it bother you that so many people are happy
Speaker 26: to see you fail? Absolutely not, because at the end
Speaker 26: of the day, all the people that was rooting on
Speaker 26: me to fail, No, at the end of day, they
Speaker 26: gotta wake up tomorrow. I had the same life they
Speaker 26: had before they woke up today. You know, they got
Speaker 26: the same personal problems that they had today, you know,
Speaker 26: And I'm gonna continue to live the way I want
Speaker 26: to live and continue to do the things that I
Speaker 26: want to do with me and my family and be
Speaker 26: happy with that. So you know, they can get it
Speaker 26: a few days or a few months, or whatever the
Speaker 26: case may be on being happy about not only myself
Speaker 26: but the Miami heating and not accomplishing their goal. But
Speaker 26: you know, they got to get back to the real
Speaker 26: world at some point.
Speaker 3: Coming up next on four years of the Heat.
Speaker 14: When Lebron and Savannah got into the house, he was
Speaker 14: looking over the balcony on the second floor.
Speaker 3: And jumped over the balcony into the pool bellout.
Speaker 21: He got in the lab, and he came back and
Speaker 21: completely different basketball player, which was crazy because you already
Speaker 21: thought he had reached the pinnacle who he could be
Speaker 21: and what he could be.
Speaker 3: I looked around and I hadn't felt like this edge
Speaker 3: ever in the NBA.
Speaker 21: You know.
Speaker 3: It reminded me of my days a duke, like, oh
Speaker 3: but this.
Speaker 6: This, you're right then we're winning this.
Speaker 21: I understand Lebron and Dwayne is great, but don't disrespect
Speaker 21: the work that I put in. Don't disrespect my craft,
Speaker 21: don't disrespect who I am. And I felt like that
Speaker 21: was disrespectful.
Speaker 22: I don't believe that there is ever in my lifetime
Speaker 22: covering sports in this market a more pressurized game than
Speaker 22: that one that Lebron James played.
Speaker 3: In Game six in Boston. We knew what was on
Speaker 3: the line, right, but the look, the look on you know,
Speaker 3: Lebron's face. I got this, I got this. Four Years
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