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Impact of Jimmy Butler's Upcoming Trade on Miami Heat & NBA
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1/27/2025
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You and I keep talking about Jimmy Butler, like when are they going to cut the cancer
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out of the Miami Heat because he has destroyed the team.
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I don't care what anybody says, the team's destroyed.
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And what is the deal with this five team trade?
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What are the particulars?
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We're hearing him to the Suns, like Portis and Middleton that Miami, Beale to Chicago.
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What else is happening in this big deal that's allegedly going to happen?
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I mean, listen, it's kind of crazy here, first off, that we continue to talk about this every
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single time.
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Folks, I only come on the show like once or twice a week.
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I feel like we've been talking about this for, what, two months?
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But the particulars of the trade is a five team trade, right?
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Phoenix will receive Jimmy Butler, Chicago will get Bradley Beale and DraftPix, Milwaukee
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gets Zach Levine, Miami gets Middleton, Covington and DraftPix, and Detroit gets Bobby Portis.
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And if you think about it, the salaries match up.
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It makes sense.
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Why?
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Kevin O'Connor, I think, was one of the first people to, I think, report this.
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One, because of the trade that Utah made with Phoenix, they got those three first round
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picks.
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So there's that draft pick-up that they got from Utah that can now push them out, right?
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Miami will get Chris Middleton, somebody that can come off the bench, Pat Covington, fortify
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the bench, and DraftPix, right?
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Bobby Portis, experienced, will go to Detroit.
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A team I think makes the playoffs.
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Zach Levine becomes that two guard next to Damian Lillard, a guy that's a proven scorer,
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can shoot it from three.
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And Bradley Beale can go become the number one option in Chicago along with DraftPix.
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So it makes a lot of sense.
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What doesn't make a lot of sense is the fact that Jimmy Butler continues to act like a
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grade-A you-know-what.
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And it's getting worse.
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And if you're Riley, you're right.
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If you're not trading them yet, you've got to cut them, you've got to get them off the
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team, away from the team, because it continues to be a headache.
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This Miami team is sitting at the 7th or 8th place in the Eastern Conference.
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They are fighting for their playoff loss.
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Now, I don't think they make the playoffs, but they still should be able to get in the
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play-in right now and be possibly a factor.
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And that's when you get Spolster in a one-game situation, arguably the best coach in the
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league.
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You've got to get this trade done sooner or later.
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I think it gets done before the deadline.
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Yeah, I mean, I've heard everything.
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Butler and DeLon Wright to the Suns, Dunn, Middleton, and Portis to the Heat, Bowles
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get Beale, Bucks get Levine.
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I mean, there's so many.
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The Dallas has been mentioned, Golden State has been mentioned, Houston has been mentioned.
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What do you believe?
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Because I trust you.
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I think it's Phoenix.
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I think he's going to try and get his way to Phoenix.
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That team is basically just saying they have to make a move.
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They have to make forward right now.
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If you get Jimmy Butler engaged, does that make Phoenix a title contender?
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Yes, it does.
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It does.
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Because they're also going to turn around Pharrell because that trade for Nick Richards
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has been really good.
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I think 15.3, 12.3 in about 28 minutes.
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I knew Nick Richards was going to be a great trade.
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They still could also take Yusup Nurkic and move him for other parts to try and fortify
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that bet.
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He barely plays.
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What is going on there with Budenholzer and his Nurkic?
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Forget he barely plays.
03:27
He don't play.
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They don't play at all.
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I know.
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I know.
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Well, listen.
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Well, at the end of the day, listen.
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Yusup Nurkic is a defensive liability.
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He doesn't really guard anyone.
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And Nick Richards is so— Sounds like me.
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Well, you know, it sounds like me, too.
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At 48.
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You're getting—hey.
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At 48 years old.
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At 49, son.
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Either way, you're getting one-sided the ball with Pharrell and Coach Young, and it ain't
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going to be our defense.
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So, I'm going to score and get mine.
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I don't worry about— That's what's up.
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That's what's up.
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But when you look at it, yeah.
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It just makes sense for them to get rid of him, too.
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Listen.
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Besides Richards and Plumlee, they're going to play the Iguodoro kids from Marquette as
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well.
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So, yeah.
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Pharrell doesn't like it.
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We don't play no damn defense.
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Come on now.
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