2025 Regular Season Thread Vol. 7 - It’s about to go down

insfo · Post #1461 » by **insfo** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:16 pm

MettaWorldPanda wrote:

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Yeah, this smells of pure speculation! How does KD get to veto a trade? lol, some of these twitter folks just post pure nonesense

Rapaz · Post #1462 » by **Rapaz** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:21 pm

Pat Riley logic:

We’re offering you Jimmy Butler and Josh Richardson, the guy we traded to get Jimmy Butler, so essentially we’re offering you two Jimmy Butlers.

Who else is offering you two Jimmy Butlers?

Exactly.

Umbooki · Post #1463 » by **Umbooki** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:22 pm

McBone Bruise reincarnated!

powerball1373 · Post #1464 » by **powerball1373** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:28 pm

Lmao on Jeff teague's podcast he said PJ told him he felt like he just got drafted again and was so pumped to be going back to Miami

Also mentions how he's more excited about Wiggs in Miami than Jimmy in GS.

Watch on YouTube

Post #1465 » by **MettaWorldPanda** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:30 pm

Rapaz wrote:Pat Riley logic:

We’re offering you Jimmy Butler and Josh Richardson, the guy we traded to get Jimmy Butler, so essentially we’re offering you two Jimmy Butlers.

Who else is offering you two Jimmy Butlers?

Exactly.

twix2500 · Post #1466 » by **twix2500** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:33 pm

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EMC5466 · Post #1467 » by **EMC5466** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:56 pm

Ramona Shelbourne says Jimmy’s behavior was “unhinged” during his meeting with Mickey Arison.

dshearn · Post #1468 » by **dshearn** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:57 pm

powerball1373 wrote:Lmao on Jeff teague's podcast he said PJ told him he felt like he just got drafted again and was so pumped to be going back to Miami

Also mentions how he's more excited about Wiggs in Miami than Jimmy in GS.

Watch on YouTube

I feel for PJ...that sucks

PJ was not (I don't think) some 100m dollar ball player that has the luxury of leaving millions on the table to choose personal wants over financial security. Leaving Miami was probably not personal....and if he really did want to come back...he had just enough time to really get happy about it before the carpet was yanked out from underneath him.

SA37 · Post #1469 » by **SA37** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 9:57 pm

twix2500 wrote:
MettaWorldPanda wrote:

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Get him on a 2 way stat

Yes please pick him up, bring him in to Souix Falls. That is Ware former teammate.

Walmart Wemby and ???.

SA37 · Post #1470 » by **SA37** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:01 pm

MettaWorldPanda wrote:Message from management:

We sincerely apologize for the forum outages this week. This has been a frustrating few days where we had a brief outage on Wednesday and then a total outage for several hours at the trade deadline. Of all days to have an outage, this is obviously one of the worst, especially right as the trade deadline is wrapping and everyone wants to discuss it.

Our server host had issues with the increased demand and the alarms in place to fix it did not reach them for several hours. We were scrambling behind the scenes to bring them back live, but it took entirely too long for it to be fixed. More importantly, it shouldn't go down at all. This was a common occurrence at the trade deadline and draft approximately 20 years ago, but we've taken a number of steps to improve site performance over the years and it hasn't happened recently. We thought the forums could withstand the traffic, but we were clearly wrong.

Any info on your or Wiltside's check?

Grumpy Heat Fan · Post #1471 » by **Grumpy Heat Fan** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:14 pm

is this a lie by Butler's camp? i am out of the loop, been super busy

all this stuff about Riley crying to Butler about his dead father and giving him "unsolicited parental advice" ??

even IF that were true, you would think a near 80 year old man, who was your friend (?) and is twice your age, you would have no issue with that person giving some advice.

Either way, Butler seems to be a trash human being.

Grumpy Heat Fan · Post #1472 » by **Grumpy Heat Fan** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:23 pm

Pat : "Son, you should think about this, children sometimes need xyz"

Jimmy : "SHUT UP, YOURE NOT MY REAL DAD"

storms out and slams the door

twix2500 · Post #1473 » by **twix2500** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:23 pm

Grumpy Heat Fan wrote:is this a lie by Butler's camp? i am out of the loop, been super busy

all this stuff about Riley crying to Butler about his dead father and giving him "unsolicited parental advice" ??

even IF that were true, you would think a near 80 year old man, who was your friend (?) and is twice your age, you would have no issue with that person giving some advice.

Either way, Butler seems to be a trash human being.

Remember the "Butler told Riley he wanted to be traded IN HIS FACE", like c'mon what was the IN HIS FACE suppose to really mean

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EMC5466 · Post #1474 » by **EMC5466** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:23 pm

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3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1475 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:27 pm

MettaWorldPanda wrote:

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Niko off limits

Jesus **** Christ.

Post #1476 » by **MettaWorldPanda** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:38 pm

SA37 wrote:
MettaWorldPanda wrote:Message from management:

We sincerely apologize for the forum outages this week. This has been a frustrating few days where we had a brief outage on Wednesday and then a total outage for several hours at the trade deadline. Of all days to have an outage, this is obviously one of the worst, especially right as the trade deadline is wrapping and everyone wants to discuss it.

Our server host had issues with the increased demand and the alarms in place to fix it did not reach them for several hours. We were scrambling behind the scenes to bring them back live, but it took entirely too long for it to be fixed. More importantly, it shouldn't go down at all. This was a common occurrence at the trade deadline and draft approximately 20 years ago, but we've taken a number of steps to improve site performance over the years and it hasn't happened recently. We thought the forums could withstand the traffic, but we were clearly wrong.

Any info on your or Wiltside's check?

Post #1477 » by **BBallFreak** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:48 pm

3ammy3uck3ts wrote:
MettaWorldPanda wrote:

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Niko off limits

Jesus **** Christ.

I don't think we actually wanted him if that was our offer.

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1478 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:51 pm

Read on Twitter

Lol

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1479 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:53 pm

BBallFreak wrote:
3ammy3uck3ts wrote:
MettaWorldPanda wrote:

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Niko off limits

Jesus **** Christ.

I don't think we actually wanted him if that was our offer.

Yea unfortunately I’m sure we didn’t, we’re idiots

twix2500 · Post #1480 » by **twix2500** » Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:55 pm

The Heat found it disrespectful that Butler’s "CAMP" characterized Riley’s demeanor as “unhinged” in that moment. Instead, the Heat viewed it as a raw, human moment from Riley and nothing that Riley was using as leverage against Butler. That portrayal particularly angered the Heat. ▪ The Heat also resented the Butler camp’s characterization of Butler dragging an undertalented team with him to two Finals appearances. A Heat source said that disregards all that Goran Dragic, Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro, Jae Crowder and others contributed to the 2020 title run and what Adebayo, Caleb Martin, Max Strus, Gabe Vincent and others did in the 2023 run. ▪ Butler’s camp told The Athletic that Riley agreed to shorten Butler’s seven-game suspension during the Jan. 7 meeting, but a Heat source insisted Riley agreed to no such thing because the meeting with Riley did not go well. A subsequent meeting with Micky Arison and Nick Arison also did not go well, two sources said

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nba/miami-heat/article299939979.html#storylink=cpy