The Miami Heat F#@KED UP! 

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In summation: Cronin was looking for any excuse to not send Dame to Miami, and Riley lowballing him was the perfect excuse

The risk of playing hardball in trade negotiations is that it might blow up in your face spectacularly like this

It's about time for them to bring in fully healthy back to top 5 in MVP race form Isaiah Thomas

I like the part where the Heat wanted Dame but messed up so they didn't get him😅

Miami Heat really did all that just to not get Dame

Yea dame and jokic is going to be unstoppable💪🏾

Bro! The Blazers just traded Jrue Holiday for Robert Williams, Malcolm Brogdon, AND two more first round picks. Now that Dame package is starting to look AMAZING. They essentially got Ayton, Williams, Brogdon, Camara, 3 1st round picks (two unprotected), and two pick swaps for Dame and Nurkic. That’s a pretty freaking wicked package of assets. And they could potentially flip time lord or Brogdon for more assets later on. I think the Blazers just turned the Dame trade from like a C+ into an A or A+

9:44, Legit, imagine Dame and Jokic together

Max Struss wasn’t coming back regardless. Nothing to do with Dame. Heat didn’t have enough money to even pay him. He got 16m from Cavs. The heat had around 8m to spend. No way the heat could pay him

As someone who deals with stingy cheap assholes, seeing Miami lose out was gratifying. Sucks for the fans though

As a bucks fan,all I can say is, I never underestimate Miami. They always bounce back and are so well coached . I understand fans being upset , but I can tell you . As a bucks fan , it's like that monster movie , where you think you have slayed the monster, and you look up , and there he is . Lol . Miami Heat has given me plenty of sleepless nights on how good they are . Lol

Miami should've made a good enough offer that Cronin rejecting it would've made him look like a villain. Offering less than Bucks (bc far-future picks/swaps from a very old team can be super valuable) lets Cronin off the hook bc he could make the same decision as if ego wasn't a factor. If Miami added 1 more pick and young player, Cronin would've had to wear that cross to Blazers fans/owners. People would've called for his head if Blazers underwhelmed bc they'd say he let his ego ruin a better deal. That aspect might have had Cronin reconsider but Miami didnt even try

I’m tired of people acting like a Herro centered package for a team that has 3 young guards that need development made any sense at all not to mention the huge contract herro has, the Bucks got a deal done bc Ayton was involved ( a player that fits Portlands timeline and is a position they needed with a aging injury prone Nurkic)

Trade package so good we even got Jokic!

“I HAD A GOD DAMN PLAN ERIC” -Pat Riley

i really like the point you made regarding how the lakers and pelicans handled the AD trade as televised as it was that AD wanted to go to the lakers, the lakers still gave them a fairly huge haul. Miami were way to cocky with everything. especially their fans

Dame in Bucks Jrue is Boston and Miami..... "What the hell just happened?!?"

The asking for Jimmy or Bam is standard negotiation, same way Rockets asked for Kyrie or KD for Harden or Nets asked for an all-star for KD. If they really wanted to the Heat and Blazers could've gotten a deal done, but Heat stayed firm with their offer and didn't want to outbid themselves, that lead to Portland getting mad and ignoring Miami. For example, Heat could've given Herro (flipped for another first), Jovic, 3 firsts, 2 swaps, Lowry, Duncan Robinson, Caleb Martin, Jaime Jaquez but when it's going on for months, they get sick of hearing from Miami and went forward with the Bucks offer of Jrue, Grayson, 1 pick, and 2 swaps

Ik the title is for the views and I respect that but since the Haynes and Shams Articles came out Miami was never given a fair chance because Portland got too emotional But the Heat were at fault too for lowballing their initial package which made Portland pissed and made them never seriously negotiate with Miami again. Happy for Dame tho, He gets to contend for a chip now

Really loving Pat Riley! We didn't need Donovan Mitchell or Damian Lillard when we have an underdog roster! 🔥🔥🤩🤑(When will the suffering end)💯💯🙌🙌🤑🤑🔥🔥

Dame and jokic…. That would be legendary

Dame to the Bucks broke the NBA Rusty

Pat Riley and the rest of that front office is just an extension of their fan base. Overvalue and overhype borderline good players (Nikola Jovic or Jamie Jacques Jr) or good players who they believe should be untouchable (Tyler Herro). You have no idea how many Heat fans I have as friends who said “Bro we can’t include NIKOLA JOVIC and/or CALEB MARTIN in a trade for Damian Lillard.”

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9:45 Damn I didn't realize Dame got trade to Denver 😂😂

Giannis is finna have an all time run with Dame and i feel so bad for Miami😂

My man said Dame and Jokic. 9:48

9:46 🤨 When did that happen?!

Nikola "Joe-vich" 😂 I hope that was on purpose to illustrate the point lol

Damn was that a Fear the Deer shirt in the ad read? You switching teams, bud?

9:46 this is the exact moment giannis became jokic

I really only see 1 of 2 options for them post trade, and that is to either see what they can get for a combination of Lowry + Robinson + Martin + literally all their picks (probably would be divided into two trades) or just trade Jimmy and Bam (and maybe even Herro in that case) and blow the team up.

Keep counting us out we better as underdogs! Just dont be shocked when we shock the nba again!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team in recent memory fumble this hard

Small market helping out each other instead of the big market team

Am sorry so if you know so much, which team did you help build and pick for?

One key difference between the AD and Lillard situations is that Lillard had multiple years left on his deal. AD didn't. This means that Lillard had way less leverage than AD. So for Miami and Dame to act like the Blazers HAD to trade him to Miami looks even more ridiculous. The other difference is that LA actually had great assets to offer for AD.

Rusty Buckets light mode

Heat fans... what are you guy's honest thoughts on this whole thing?? I understand majority of fans are a bit salty, but do you guys see another Finals appearance in the next 2-3 years? Where is this team even headed after this??

Couldn't agree more.

The Heat will be fine, they always are and then you all will look up and they will have another deep playoff run. #HeatNation

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5:15 - People didn't hate on Anthony Davis because he hasn't spent the last decade talking about how loyal he is and actively attacking other players for moving to different teams. Anthony Davis didn't sign a supermax contract the year prior, then force a trade, he had 1 year left on his deal and had the leverage to demand to go to the Lakers and use his free agency to discourage other teams from trading for him. 6:30 - Also, I don't know if that's true. I remember the reports saying that it was Tyrese Maxey who they didn't want to trade (which turned out being the right decision)

Dang Miami missed out on Donovan Mitchell Bradley Beal Damian Lillard kyrie Irving at this point they might as well sign James harden

Been saying this jake

Joe Cronin is such a goon bro if I was a Blazers fan I’d be pissed

@9:47 Dame and Jokic?!?!.... don't scare me like that bro

Its wild how the fact Miami did nothing lead to their greatest enemies doing everything

Time will tell but they could still potentially end up with Jrue Holiday or another player that is a part of a potential Jrue Holiday trade like say CP3 or James Harden.

If I'm Portland I'm asking for Butler if Miami has the nerve to make an offer😂 But they don't need anything cause the great Tyler Herro is coming back 😂😂

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What package would've been better?

"Dame and Jokic" come on man..

"heat culture" 🤣

I just sent this to one of my best friends that’s a Miami fan so let’s see what I wake up to tomorrow

imma keep it a buck fifty whitcha big dawg you ain’t very wrong

As a dame fan, I'm happy

Dames agent needed to keep his mouth shut. It caused Miami to get too confident and lowballed their offer while pissing off Portland.

If Miami ends up with Jrue Holiday, they'll come out ahead

Cronin asked for jimmy or bam. They’re not serious lol

You went from looking 35 in your old vids to a prime 27

According to Chris hanes in a article Miami is off the table from the start

Miami done messed up😭

You know that jimmy’s coming for bucks neck again in the playoffs 🤣 a fan of neither team but I’m excited for those mil/mia match ups this coming season

Hair’s looking great

Rusty thank you as a blazers fan who wanted to see Dame go to miami. This is by far one of the best analysis of the situation that Ive heard from most media. Dame also didn’t help by making things public but he lashed out cuz of Cronin going against everything he’s said to him the last 2 years and also because Cronin refused to negotiate in good faith with the heat despite everything Dame has done for the organization

Bad Take. Heat never wanted Dame. Heat were willing to take Dame for the bare minimum, being tyler herro and a couple picks. Anything past that, not so much. Also much more info came out from Dame's camp stating that Cronin never even wanted to negotiate with Miami and specifically didn't out of spite. There was no chance Miami was getting Dame with Cronin's pettiness. Dame speaking up about one and only one destination backfired and it is what it is. Miami have been to the finals twice in 4 years, and ECF 3 times (game 7 one three from winning even for a third finals visit) all with basically the same roster year in and year out. They can do it with or without Dame. It was never about Dame.

nah we did not screw up, its all good. As soon as phoenix got involved i knew right then and there it will be nigh impossible to make the trade for Dame. But even so, without Phoenix even involved the ask was either Jimmy or Bam (which would fuck Dame over anyway) 2 of our youngsters and all our futuer picks untill 29. It was not gonna happen that way. This is a heated debate in the fandom of the Heat at the moment, with the "fans" thinking we screwed up while the fans think we all good. I disagree we put all our eggs in that one basket, it was never a certainty and it was not even close to the AD situation. Also i remember Dame giving a statement that regardless where he would end up he would perform. As well as it was not Jovic that was the deal breaker, they wanted either Jimmy or Bam, but i would not trade Jovic as well and the additional side of the package was crazy as well. We were prepared to trade Tyler Duncan and Kyle and our picks to get the job done, we were prepared to include other players as well. We dont need no back up plan per se, we need a decent center and pg still, which would still be the case if we get DAme, we'd still be undersize as hell. The Bucks needed to make the spalsh to retain Giannis. Again you are missing the mark big time, the problem was Phoenix joining in the trade, thats why we lost on Dame, not stinginess. Nah, we keeping Pat ty, only "fans" are pissed at him right now, no hardcore fan is really mad, we gonna be good im not worried

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The Heat weren't going to win a chip with Dame, it's not that big of a fuck up. Trade Butler and Bam and start all over.

Everyone dissing my heat lol all good still got to see us especially in playoffs

There's something going on with Mikey Arison, the owner of the heat because if you go back and track Miami moves, its just have been to duck under the first apron

No way Miami would beat Dame and Jokic for sure XD

Almost 3 minutes into the video before it actually starts. smh

9:45 Giannis and jokic are the same player

Can’t wait for dame to prove u wrong.

I feel so bad for jimmy he legit proven he needs a better team juiced tf outta every lemon they gave him and they can't help him. I'd leave tbh if I was him. Miami doesn't deserve him.

Not a fan of Cronin. But he did really well with the Dame trade.

The fact that the Heat didn’t throw everything they could (minus Bam and Jimmy) at a Dame trade right off the bat shows they don’t respect the guy. I’m happy that he ended up in Milwaukee where the organization and fan base will truly appreciate him

Miami is going to beat Milwaukee even with Dame

Did i miss something or is Dame traded to Denver? ... 🤣 9:46

If they got dame they might’ve been able to get giannis in free agency

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If Portland asking for Bam or Jimmy is true which is reported by Shams, then it’s clear from the start that nothing was going to happen. Portland requesting their ridiculous request is most likely what led the heat to barely show genuine interest in dame at that point. Emotions of Cronin and Pat definitely played a factor in the trade not happening as well.

Cronin wanted Bam Adebayo....where as Pat offered Tyler Herro....and then David Silver interfered..

Dame and jokic lol

It’s a negotiation…..you start low and work your way up to the best offer you feel comfortable making….Portland simply didn’t want to trade dame to Miami and that’s the bottom line! Jrue and a first? That’s a joke cronin gave them dame to spite him and the heat!

Dame n Jokic

those heat picks lookimg better

Probably they won’t get far this year, but I tell you that in 2 or 3 years they will be in finals or even they will win a ring. I am glad that they didn’t get a dame for 60, he is not worth it. ES and Heat Culure is something else

The difference between AD and Dame situations: AD was on an expiring, Dame isnt

Warriors should get Dwight Howard so I could see that match up in the finals

The fact that they traded him to the Bucks specifically which is a direct adversary to the Heat is clearly a sabotage move from Portland 😂

9:43 well good thing they don’t have to unless jokic is getting traded to the bucks

Heat may have to blow it up as a fan but this team isn’t very good outside of butler and bam

Dame and jokic😂😂😂

So basically the Miami Heat screw the pooch not getting Damian Lillard.

The Miami Heat Flamed out🔥🚒 on this one