Gilbert Arenas blasts Pat Riley for costing the Miami Heat star players

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Gilbert Arenas blasts Pat Riley for costing the Heat star players causing they guys to enter a quibble concerning his criticism.

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00:00Can I tell you somebody who's not my guy?

00:01Who?

00:02Gilbert Arenas.

00:03Ugh.

00:03Gilbert Arenas?

00:05He has a podcast, because everybody does these days.

00:07Yeah.

00:08And he was very mad at Pat Riley.

00:11Over the Jimbo thing.

00:13He can't be mad at nobody.

00:15Some of his shenanigans.

00:16He's mad at Pat Riley.

00:18Here's Gilbert Arenas.

00:20He moved to the Knicks.

00:21He ain't doing nothing.

00:23He moved to Miami.

00:24He got shot.

00:26I mean, he got Dwayne Wade.

00:27He came and got Shaquille O'Neal.

00:30Then they brung a whole bunch of other players to help win.

00:34You can't pretend you that got them.

00:37You're not bigger than them.

00:38You're pretending you are.

00:40They left.

00:41LeBron came.

00:43They won a championship.

00:45You can't pretend you're bigger than LeBron.

00:47LeBron leave.

00:48This is crap.

00:49Jimmy Butler comes.

00:51He gets you to the championship.

00:52If he tells you, bring me one more star, mother

00:55Bring him one more star.

00:57Because if he can get you to the championship with this,

01:00bring me one more star.

01:01I got you.

01:02So for you to pretend that you are the heat culture

01:06and you can do this, you're lying.

01:09Because when he leaves, nobody's coming there.

01:12I got this.

01:13Nobody's coming to.

01:14You got South Beach in your favor.

01:16Yes.

01:17And you treat South Beach like it's a prison.

01:26Valid points.

01:26I don't like that.

01:27No valid points.

01:28Valid points.

01:30Here's the deal.

01:34And we all have said this.

01:38You've made this heat organization about heat culture

01:42and not about the heat players for years, OK?

01:49Heat culture may set the tone, but heat players win games.

01:53Oh, yeah?

01:53Yeah.

01:54Agent Zero's record, his career against heat culture was?

01:57See, here we go.

01:58Here we go.

01:59Yeah, 3 and 18.

02:00Wait.

02:02Can both things be true?

02:03Nah, it's just like.

02:04Can Gilbert Arenas not be very good against the heat?

02:07And what Gilbert Arenas said has some valid points.

02:09You think the heat are never going to get anybody again?

02:11No.

02:12I don't believe that.

02:13Well, that's what he just said.

02:13OK.

02:14No one's coming here.

02:15All right.

02:20There is a standard that is set here.

02:23I agree.

02:25I agree with how everybody does it, OK?

02:28I just think some people got it.

02:30But here's what I also believe.

02:33The heat have been great when their star players

02:38have been more selfish, right?

02:43Remember when the big three were here.

02:46When did it turn around?

02:47When LeBron stopped being a chicken against JJ Varela.

02:50When D-Way went to LeBron and said, do your thing.

02:53Because why?

02:54Oh, my god.

02:56Because why?

02:57See how he.

02:57See why we have problems.

02:58Because why?

02:59Marcos, see how we have problems?

03:00Why don't you acknowledge the.

03:02Because they didn't win.

03:03And why didn't they win?

03:08Why didn't they win?

03:10Because Dwayne Wade didn't give LeBron the right role?

03:14Or because LeBron James saw.

03:15Ah, don't film.

03:21He shrunk.

03:22It's OK.

03:23Like, you're lashing out.

03:25I'm not lashing out.

03:26I'm telling you what I'm.

03:28No, no, no.

03:29Here's a little thing I'd like to do.

03:31I'd like to do a little thing called, let's say what happened.

03:33OK.

03:34That's what happened.

03:35OK.

03:36And then the conversation happened after that.

03:39Yeah, that's the conversation that happened.

03:42That's what happened.

03:45So silly.

03:46Like, we sit here, and we placate,

03:48and we have to change things.

03:50They should have won the championship.

03:52They should have won the championship.

03:54Nobody's placating.

03:55OK.

04:02Again.

04:04By the way, Jimmy Butler seemed to, you know, first of all,

04:06the idea that Jimmy Butler has it run like a prison,

04:09you mean the guy who stays at five star

04:11Airbnbs on every road trip?

04:15Yeah, so every road trip.

04:17He goes to tennis, does whatever he wants.

04:20It's run like a prison?

04:22No, dude.

04:22No, no, no.

04:23He didn't get his extension.

04:24But this is the thing.

04:25Like, I'm fine.

04:26I can understand.

04:28I told you.

04:29No, I know you're not.

04:29I'm talking about Agent Zero here, who, you know,

04:35he spent his career getting his tail kicked by the Miami Heat.

04:40OK, but he wants to act like he knows what it's like.

04:42What does that have to do with what he said?

04:44Because he's sitting here and being like,

04:45oh, no one's going to come there because it's run like a prison.

04:48Jimmy Butler's not mad because of that.

04:49Jimmy Butler's mad because he's not getting his money.

04:51No, again, the Heat have done what they need to do.

04:56And the culture part of it is, I love it.

05:03I love that everybody comes here and plays with a certain way.

05:07There's a certain level of intensity that you're required.

05:11I love that part of it.

05:13Again, culture doesn't win games.

05:15Players do.

05:17So I'm also saying that, yeah, he made some valid points about Jimmy.

05:23But Jimmy did this to himself, OK, by missing so many games.

05:29And then it got, and then look, here's what happens.

05:33And this is the honest truth.

05:35The organization, who has given you everything that you've asked for,

05:40let you have re-reign.

05:44You've given him 60 games and they're like, we need more games.

05:48Like a lot of these situations we end up with in the postseason,

05:51we wouldn't be in if you played more games.

05:52Sorry, Pat Riley, I believed in Lamar Odom and paying you,

05:55and paying him and not you.

05:56Sorry.

05:57Oh, so you sided with Jimmy Butler?

05:59I have sided with Jimmy Butler.

06:00I'm the one who said to pay him the entire time.

06:02No, he shouldn't be paid.

06:04OK, that's fine.

06:04You are paid with a promise of what you're going to do.

06:08I haven't said that there aren't points on both of these arguments.

06:11I haven't said that.

06:13But the idea that people say things like,

06:15oh, the Heat run it like a prison.

06:17Who said that? One guy.

06:18He literally, that's who I'm at.

06:20One, who cares?

06:22I'm not even talking, I haven't even talked about that point.

06:24You're freaking out one point to make his whole argument not valid.

06:29Oh, dude.

06:30OK, but you're sitting here and being like,

06:32oh, it took a talk from Dwayne Wade.

06:34No, I'm just.

06:36No, no, no, LeBron James, he shriveled.

06:38OK, him and Dwayne Wade ran roughshod

06:41through a tougher East that year.

06:43They lost to the Shawn Stevenson.

06:46All right.

06:48Like you stick on a couple of points, I'm like, OK, facts, whatever points,

06:54facts, whatever you want to call them.

06:56OK, the overall thing that I took from Gilbert, not even like, yeah,

07:03there's certain organizations that run a certain way

07:07and demand a certain style of play from their play.

07:11There is nothing wrong with that.

07:13Nothing wrong.

07:14Danny Jimmy should have been used to it because he played for tips.

07:16Maybe we should play Russian roulette.

07:18OK, like they're doing.

07:18But.

07:20You don't think it would be playing Russian roulette,

07:22given Jimmy and they literally were playing Russian roulette

07:24in the wizard's locker room.

07:26I know, but you don't think that that Pat would be playing Russian roulette

07:30if he would have gave Jimmy an extension?

07:32Oh, see that.

07:33But that's it.

07:34Can you pay 60 million?

07:35I don't know.

07:36But then he's a dummy for that.

07:37He can't win.

07:38You know what I mean?

07:39Like Pat can't win.

07:40You're either it's more like you're either you're either an ingrate

07:43because you didn't pay Jimmy Butler or you're a dummy because you paid

07:45Jimmy Butler here.

07:46There's not it's not a win situation.

07:48Let me let me ask you a question.

07:51What is more likely to happen?

07:54Jimmy Butler plays more games

07:57or Jimmy Butler plays the same amount of games he's played in my games.

08:00So if Pat Riley wanted him to play more and it was never going to happen

08:05and he said, I'm not.

08:07Isn't that the responsibility of his organization, though?

08:09Like, what is that?

08:09What Pat owes to the organization to make sure they don't make bad decisions?

08:13Right.

08:13So if he felt it was a bad decision because this is all the games.

08:17What if the best that I could do with the amount of games

08:19Jimmy was going to play was playing?

08:21Is that good enough for you?

08:24If he can beat the if he could beat the one.

08:25No, you're making it.

08:27How does that happen, Tobin?

08:29Well, it just happened.

08:30No.

08:32He did it one time out of how many times

08:34ever in the history of the NBA?

08:37Twice, three times, seven, six times, six times.

08:40And how long has the NBA been around?

08:42One. Right.

08:44Do you understand?

08:45Like, you can't live like that.

08:47I just wish you'd stop deflecting on the 2011 finals and just admit that

08:53you're deflecting.

08:54I'm not deflecting on it.

08:55JJ Barea wouldn't go all that.

08:57See, here's what you do when we get into an argument and I'm making sense.

09:03You go to the one or two points that you can just keep.

09:07OK, here you want to know what?

09:10Here's my problem.

09:11Here's what I'm going to say.

09:12I don't know.

09:12Can I tell you what my problem is?

09:13Can I tell you what my problem is?

09:14No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

09:15Let me.

09:15Hold on.

09:16Let me hear you say it.

09:17Hold on a second.

09:17Hold on.

09:18Let me.

09:18Let me tell you my problem.

09:19Let me just.

09:20LeBron should have dominated JJ Barea.

09:23Let's move on from there.

09:25Great.

09:25Can I say a point?

09:26Sure.

09:29Pat Riley is not without fault here.

09:31OK, I understand.

09:32I understand.

09:33OK, as you can put job on the organization.

09:36OK, did Pat Riley whiff and go a little too much balls on the table

09:40with the Damian Lillard situation?

09:42Yes.

09:43Yes.

09:43So did you, though?

09:44You really want to really want to know if nothing's here.

09:50Yours were right next to it.

09:51Can we just have on Cronan?

09:53You got no move there.

09:54Wait, stop.

09:55It's fair.

09:56It's fair.

09:57I'll acknowledge I overplayed my hand.

09:59OK, he got my tell.

10:02Joe Cronan has to be Howlin right now, even though he's still stuck

10:05with Scoot Henderson, but I just want to make nobody's been in school.

10:09Nobody's been in school, but let me just make one point.

10:11Can I just make one point?

10:14Twenty twenty five.

10:16What can we get back to?

10:17Yeah, I just make a point again, but I'll allow people to take their

10:23shots at Pat Riley, however, and however.

10:27Gilbert Arenas and Paul Pierce being more unreasonably upset at Pat Riley

10:33over this past week than Shaquille O'Neal was is a little weird.

10:39Does nobody find that a little strange?

10:41Shaq was literally here on television the other day saying like, listen,

10:45nobody knows about angry and Pat Riley.

10:46When you anger Pat Riley, that's it.

10:48I don't want to tell you, but these guys are sitting here being like, oh,

10:52no, it's never going to come there.

10:53Oh, no, it's never going to come there, except after Shaq, they got LeBron

10:59and after LeBron, they got Jimmy Butler and after Jimmy Butler,

11:01they'll get somebody else.

11:02So stop Gil and your arena here, here and your agent number here.

11:08Why are you giving him that much credit for knowing what's going on?

11:14That's the point, though.

11:15He likes to act like he knows what's going on and he doesn't.

11:18I so why are you so like, no matter what point I give you,

11:23all valid points, you know what you go to?

11:26You're going to read this.

11:27It's you just don't like the idea that Gilbert Arenas,

11:31Boogie Cousins and Paul Pierce are all sitting here acting like

11:36they know about winning or they know about Pat Riley or any of that stuff.

11:41Paul, why are you the fact that you've given them that much of a voice?

11:46Shame on you.

11:47No, not shame on me.

11:48I'm going to call out the fraudulence.

11:53All right.

11:53Can I make my point now?

11:55No, we're out of time.

11:55Oh, yes.

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