Miami Heat Playoff Push THREATENS Draft Position | Are They Making a FATAL Mistake?
Can the Miami Heat navigate their playoff path without losing their draft pick advantage? As the NBA season winds down, the Miami Heat’s standings and draft scenarios are at the forefront of basketball discussions.
Wes Goldberg and David Ramil ask why the Heat are bothering to win these final two games when their play-in position is virtually decided and the worst-case draft scenario. Plus, they dissect Austin Reaves’ comments on white players in the NBA.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:30 Austin Reaves on stigma of white NBA players
14:13 Heat’s standings and draft lottery scenarios
21:54 Heat’s need for draft picks
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22 Comments
Flag is not a finisher
That's why the Heat's win streak was a huge mistake, they were in the 8th spot in the lottery, had they have continued losing games, they would've been somewhere in the top 5. Now we may not have the chance to be in the top 4 and possibly, we gonna get another role player in the draft and be stuck in the play in AGAIN😢
We need a dominant leader to finish off games. Tyler is only a #2 guy and Bam #3. The draft should've been their focus!
Harper or Bailey are better for the Heat than Flag.
Spo talking about doing whatever is necessary to make the playoffs… WHY?????
They said last years gentleman’s sweep was good experience for Niko and Jamie. Yeah ok 👍🏽
Most racism is coming from blacks and its been like this for decades now but you can’t point this out because they will call you… wait for it, wait for it… rAcIST!!!!
Front office has been expecting championships out of a 8th-10th seeded team for 3 years now LMFAO
The whole white nba player garbage is just a product of American culture that constantly wants to bring race into everything. Austin Reeves is just a solid role player just the same as other white and black players. People (including AReeves) need to get over this nonsense.
I don’t understand why you guys think this team is going to be championship contender through the draft anytime soon. I am so confused.
Austin was speaking about white American born players. White America will always look for there great white hope.
Extremely racist quote that’s also just not true
I want Walter Clayton Jr
The Heat always do this win meaningless games at the end of season and hurt their draft position. I agree totally with Wes and David, it's completely ridiculous at this point….But Heat Culture hubris upset the greatest player of this generation to the point where he wanted to leave so…
Why do y'all assume the player Pat Riley would draft with the last lottery pick is not going to still be on the board at the first non lottery pick? There is no incentive to be the last lottery team.
Losing should never be an objective… This is sad.
I hope they find a way to tackle the tanking issue.
This is ruining nba, i'm glad miama is not going with the tanking trend
You guys really could have went on without that segment
"The balls on that kid" – Pat explaining why we are where we're at.
Luka, Jokic, Homlgren, Franz Wagner, Alex Caruso (90% of his game is defense), Herro, Porzingis…
There are actually a lot of really good white basketball players in the NBA.
Maybe he meant specifically white Americans. But most white people are European.
So it would be weird if he meant just white Americans. Austin Reaves sounds like kind of an idiot.
Rasheer flemming
Last I checked Rosier was black
Anyone who says making the playoffs is a fatal mistake for draft position should have left town with Not Himmy already.
I'm shocked you guys are actually calling out the Heat for refusing to sit players. Normally you guys back up the team regardless of how damaging their decisions are. Maybe people will finally start calling them out for their failures.