Udonis Haslem HYPES UP PACERS FANS & describes Miami Heat culture 🔥 | The Pat McAfee Show

Udonis Haslem HYPES UP PACERS FANS & describes Miami Heat culture 🔥 | The Pat McAfee Show

ladies and gentlemen joining us now is a threetime NBA champion his number is retired in Miami feels like he could beat everybody’s ass in this entire state ladies and gentlemen you [Applause] came up here with the champion he got a championship ring today too holy you got you got a championship ring on too that how you feel and a watch oh that is a nice watch you look clean as but TV ready that suit is not off the rack man look at him holy nice shoes boy look at you got your E style today thank you that’s right look the domesticated version domesticated version you showed up to work today boy look yes sir yes sir got a ring on you see i mean sheesh how many years in the NBA in total 20 jeez 20 this guy’s going to be collecting his 401k as soon as he’s done with an NBA salary you look unbelievable the championship ring looks spectacular obviously that’s what we’re all hoping for here in Indiana pacers have never won an NBA title whenever you think about the grandness of that is that something that the players think about the weight of that you think is on the Pacers shoulders or are they just worried about individual games no I think the weight of it is definitely on their shoulders they understand they have a chance to make history um it’s not easy to get to where they are obviously I think nobody would have picked them to get this far but me loving the underdogs I picked the Pacers to win this series hell yeah you love the underdogs i picked the Pac series but if if it’s one thing that I do think they have there you go finally that’s good stuff okay that’s good stuff yeah great stuff great stuff we appreciate you doing that too tricky tricky Ricky rick Carile yes tricky i think Rick Carile is going to let these guys know what time it is they understand the moment they understand that they’re fortunate to be in this situation they will not take this for granted and they will give their best version and give their best foot forward so I’m with them you’re undrafted so I think that’s potentially why you love the underdog story i think you’re also a guy that was a uh culture setter for teams we have a guy named James Johnson have you seen this guy that’s my That’s my guy okay he was my young fell okay so that makes a lot of sense with that being said uh I’ve heard he has a black belt everybody just says like I heard he had a black belt like he is the real deal oh I’ve seen it first i’ve seen it firsthand okay i love that i’m going to ask you about his role and you think the importance of it because I watched it against the Knicks so there was three Knicks fans that were sitting front row i just so happened to be in those seats that were next to the bench felt like I was part of the team we got a big win that night okay so there was a uh timeout happening and there was three Knicks fans that were front row and this guy was a great talker obviously clearly out of New York had a little bit of an accent but he was targeting Tyrese Hallebertton in this timeout loudly okay coming over my shoulder james talks to this man says something horrendous i would I would say something very very very uh I mean just a shot right across the bout that guy immediately turns his attention off of Tyrese talks to James Johnson the rest of the game okay that’s leadership bingo that’sip like I literally watched his role unfold in real time everybody thinks he’s like a a guy that’ll come and clean up or like a a body guy if there’s a fight but I saw him literally take a talker away from Tyrese to him that role seems to be very vital also a lot of clapping a lot of upping everything like that is that the role and is that how you kind of felt throughout a lot of your career yes and that is a very important role to be not only a protector but also a connector and James Johnson is a guy who not only protects those guys but he connects those guys in the locker room when we talk about being a part of something that I was a part of when you talk about culture that’s a brotherhood that is something that is not just built in practice from those practice hours that is spent time off the basketball court getting to know one each other’s family getting to know how somebody got to where they point and also it’s something that me and James always say have enough heart for everybody have enough heart for everybody if this guy doesn’t have enough heart don’t worry about it i got you if you don’t have enough heart I got you don’t worry about it we’ll be fine i remember when there was a conversation I think about Jimmy and Spo getting into it a little bit and I don’t remember if you came out publicly and said it or if everybody else was saying it for you uh UD will fight for coach Bolstra anybody if you Yeah I was going to whoop Jimmy ass so it’s okay and I and I love Jimmy that’s nothing against Jimmy but before I let one guy take down this locker room I whoop your ass that’s awesome uh it’s very evident why all of your teams there’s 15 other guys here got the right mindset before I let this one guy take down these whole 15 i’ll whip your ass so we talked to Mark Messier the other day uh and he’s considered like the captain and he was giving a speech basically for the Edmonton Oilers if he was their captain do you find yourself doing the same thing for teams cuz I just heard your leadership on display for that one comment let alone over 20 years in the NBA do you feel like you uh get in a moment where you’re like I wish I could say this to this team or this at this particular time all the time all the time i mean that’s why I got into TV cuz I sit at home watching games and I started to complain and throw at the Excuse me i started to complain and throw stuff oh okay i can say good i started to complain and get frustrated at home and that’s why I got into TV because I always have something to say even now with social media now you can reach out to these young guys how many young guys got DMs from me and I ain’t sliding your DMs for the wrong reasons i’m sliding I’m sliding your DMs to give you advice i don’t even know you have never met you have never played with you but if I’m watching your game and you’re not playing the game the right way you might get a DM from OG about that’s that bull headed out you could have said it there once again we figured that out you were uh I think you still are in player development for the Heat yes um do you just kind of look at like a player like Pascal Seakum and show guys like hey this is how you can go through the GLeague through do it the right way and then you know become all NBA become a champion what is kind of your excuse me strategy for developing is one of my favorites i I love I love using guys like Pascal Seakum guys like myself because at the end of the day you got a better chance of being me or Pascal than you got to be LeBron yep that’s just the reality of the situation i think everybody looks at what LeBron is and what he’s capable of and I take nothing away from you know what he does on the basketball court and how hard he works but at the end of the day everybody ain’t going to be 69 270 and and can run a 43 and can jump 48 inches in the air that’s just not the reality for everybody so I like to lean in on the hard work i tell everybody don’t trust me regardless of what I say I can say anything trust the work that you put in the work is never going to lie to you so I love workers i’m always going to bet on the guy that’s going to put the work in work ethic is the greatest thing on earth it’s the greatest trait to have seakum you talk about being 69 being able to run at 43 he’s unbelievable oh yeah he He’s He ran the Knicks off the court i I mean it was very clear what he didn’t he wins the MVP and his wingspan might be 8 foot i I it’s and he’s I’m going to give you a guy bins that reminds me of a guy you play with Reggie Wayne oh yes he just get out there and go get it don’t he he just get out there and go get it don’t he i know them hurricane boys now i’m a hurricane guy i know all the hurricanes that came through here edge the Edrey James the Reggie Ways i know all them guys i know you didn’t play with EJ but he was here though i I love Edge i heard Edge speak uh at he spoke at Mr ursy’s funeral it was maybe the greatest speech of the entire day very edge very U throughout the entirety while honoring Jim Emerce but yeah the U has a great history here in Indianapolis reggie so smooth i think that is a great way to describe Pascal because he’s just so damn smooth debb South Florida boy has a question for you south Florida boy first of all thank you for everything you did for the organization down uh for game three with the Panthers even with Bam on the drum needed that big ass whoop bring that energy but um we talking about leadership hard work work all that we had a conversation I think about uh Mike Beasley with the 101 you talked about it he was drafted to a different team maybe things have went a little differently i I know so like going heat culture that’s one of the buzz words almost like Patriot way in football what is it really about being in that building with Rouse we had Braun on he mentioned it too what is it about you 20 years so what is it about being in that building that’s kind of different than other builders i’m looking at some of these free agents giannis KD potentially on the move that could potentially fit in down there what is it about that building who can’t fit in it down there the thing about heat culture is he heat culture is about something that’s always going to be bigger than you that’s the first thing and foremost when you step into heat culture that it’s always going to be bigger than you even the superstars it’s going to be bigger than you it ain’t going to be bigger than Raleigh but it’s going to be bigger than you so when you step into So when you step into that arena you understand you’re stepping into an atmosphere where you’re asked to sacrifice from the jump immediately i understand what you did when you was at Chris Bosch i understand what you did when you was at LeBron i understand what you did when you were here Dwight that doesn’t matter anymore we all have to sacrifice so when you talk about heat culture it’s about sacrificing man and that’s a foreign language to a lot of guys when they get in this position it’s easy when they say Q have to sacrifice or you D have to sacrifice but then when the coach say I got to sacrifice it’s a who me me too no not me so now when you have 15 guys 16 17 guys on the same page one accord willing to sacrifice for one common goal I think that’s when you get into heat coaching a lot of times you just don’t have that in every locker room because you have superstars but we had the big three in the little 12 and the little 12 was just as valuable as the big three and you don’t have that in every locker room a lot of times you have the superstars and the other guys kind of just hang out over here now I said from this point cuz he’s in a special unique situation cuz he was there for his whole career i’m a person that’s been in a lot of different locker rooms and can speak to why that’s different because when I you remember when I got there that me was there the first day when I got there and James Johnson in the gym I got straight off the plane when I say straight off the plane don’t take me to no hotel nothing I got my bags in the locker room first thing you do strip down weight and body fat then you go run until you throw up and I’m not UD I’m not that I came down in the locker room UD was sitting there I’m I’m I’m over here just laid out you did and JJ UD say I ain’t even going to too much about lie to you boy he like they trying to see if you going to quit he like they just throwing the kitchen he’s like they throwing you ain’t supposed to be doing the stuff you doing yet he was like you ain’t give up though he was like he like Bill going to take a picture of your throw up every day i thought the workout was done i done threw up down here visiting the court cuz he come walking down there and snapped a picture said it’s and his what’s his what’s his quote it’s a great day to work great day to work great day to live great day to live so it’s not like that everywhere you say listen the thing the thing that makes it different because Yeah everywhere you go can you win in 2025 like that 2026 yes yes you can yes you can but like the difference is this cuz like I’ve been places say like like Bill the guy we talking about he come say “Dude you got to work out you got to lift.” He going to tell you that and walked away other places you got people that’s going to try and massage the situation and work with you and we can work nah look this what you got to do if you don’t want to do it go up there and talk to Pat it’s frowned upon it’s frowned upon for the guys that quit it’s frowned upon in not being in shape it’s frowned upon from the other 14 guys so before Pat has to say something before supposed to say something the guys in locker room have already released this situation if you quit now then you can quit in the fourth quarter i don’t know how you Hey I love that i just got uh back from Paris Island uh boot camp for the Marines and I love everything about it but it’s like that’s their mindset is like uh we need to it needs to be hard now cuz whenever we’re out there together obviously it’s different than a basketball game or a football game but we’re going to need you when we’re out there so we’re not scared of hurting your feelings right now because we’re going to need it inevitably i do wonder in basketball if in 2025 2026 that can go because I think Carlile kind of has a similar operation and he talk about the cardio jj Reick mentioned it with the Lakers we need to be in better shape it happens in in pockets playing no games out here papovich before he stepped away wasn’t playing no game they had it’s it’s places where there’s a real culture in place obviously Miami is a is a standard but I mean it’s it’s still pockets of teams around the league that they they operate in that way well how did it work with Shaq then because it felt like at least in Shaq’s documentary he he would basically talk about the first two months of the regular season is when he’s just getting into shape and then by by Christmas he’s living how was it in Miami with Shaq then how was it they had to alter it a little bit for Big F he was he wasn’t on this the 5% body fat scale like everybody else he used to put oil on Yeah we’ll get into that he got he got down to about 10 12% body fat which was great for him yes but he used to put baby oil on so when they try to pinch him when they try to pinch you to take the body f they used to slip he used to slip so he probably was about 15 but after it slipped it was about 10 to 12 but that’s just when I got there no when I got there they would tell they they would tell the stories of like how they had how they had to get a new scale cuz he would he would try and hide the scale they had the joint that you What was it you animals on these scales right this is the move so we had guys that would be trying to get around the scale every Friday it was a weigh in so Thursday nights guys were drinking the things that you do before you do a colonoscopy just so you your pants out let it all night yeah aq Shipley is the person I’m referring to he had to lose like 12 lbs every Thursday night he’d get on a scale and he would try to sneak just one finger on the thing in front of you could lift off like 5 lbs if you just press like making all these rules it sounds like Shaq with the baby oil was uh was the right play i think AQ Shipley maybe should have been lubing up a little bit yeah but 7 foot three 300 lb greased up at least 300 i was like “Yeah you go ahead take your body fat by yourself i’m I’m going to just wait outside.” Connor has a question for you yeah w with that era the sh like you played through both of them there’s there’s old clips coming out of the finals in you know 2006 and there’s two guys on the block and now everyone’s out on the perimeter how was that transition for you as a player and just kind of watching the league change as you know from 2006 for the next 20 years i mean fortunately for me I was undersized anyway so once the league started to change a little bit the the the guys that could guard multiple positions kind of came into play i was one of those guys that guarded multiple positions um the thing that changed for me was when the three-point line became the most important thing you know what I’m saying it was just we don’t want anything but dunks and threes we don’t want any mid-range once the mid-range got taken out of the game I think that changed my career a little bit but um I think you made some threes though that was crazy towards the end i couldn’t believe that but you made some You know me perception ain’t reality how are you able to shoot with that pinky oh this one feels like that would Yeah but I feel like that would jab not at all not at all off the ball that’s just like a guide it ain’t really doing much yeah but I mean that thing’s not guiding anything it’s saying turn right you just put it on the side of the basketball yeah it don’t matter how long has finger been like that uh he said that pinky gang long as I can remember pinky gang long as I can remember what’s What’s the point of getting it fixed i’m probably gonna break it again that’s what I said i’m just gonna break it again jersey or basketball basketball just bang how many busted fingers in basketball live i broke I’ve broken them all they’ve all been broken well carrying around all those rings a little heavy down here they’ve all been broken but guess what never missed the game never came out hell yeah that’s what I’m talking about has a question for you yeah you’ve been so on so many good teams you talked about all those teams that went to the finals i mean you as an eight seed you guys went to the finals you went Shaq and Wade the big three what was the one constant with all those teams on why they went to the finals and do you see that in either of these two teams we weren’t the best team but I think we were the most we were the most connected team we were the most connected team and and that’s what I learned from the great leaders i think all the leaders that I played with the Shacks the LeBron um the All Lonzo Mornings is regardless of how good you are how good you coach if you don’t really mess with your teammate like that if y’all don’t really get along if y’all haven’t created a brotherhood in this locker room because I tell you what it’s easy to punch in from one to two or whatever your hours are but when you’re playing for a brother instead of a teammate it just takes it to a whole another level for you so I think the power of connection and that’s what you guys have here this is what these guys were talking about in Indiana the power of the brotherhood come on you know what I’m saying to me that beats a talented team seven days a week and twice on Sunday i’m taking the brotherhood i’m taking the connected guys okay you picked the Pacers in this series go ahead no with on that note like obviously lifetime Heat fan you were there 2011 Heles you go up against a Carile coach team what is it like being in the trenches against a team that’s coached by obviously that was a much different team very different makeup but I feel a lot of similarities with this uh Pacers team what’s What’s it like being in the trenches real quick trigger man trigger let me tell you Trigger Rick is a hell of a coach rick Carl is a hell of a coach and not just offensively because we talk about what they do offensively but defensively as well he threw a zone at us in that finals and you would think that 15 grown men can score on the zone we didn’t know what the hell to do went all the way to the finals and could not score against a zone out of all things so Rick Call out through that you know for me um I I I look at Rick Carile and I look at that team and I say to to myself he’s the X factor you have a lot of guys you you you have Obie who’s going to step up benedict finally got it going last game he’s a guy who you depend on offensively as well miles Turner got it going um but I think Rick Carl is the X-factor okay let’s talk about Dags on the other side people saying he’s an incredible coach obviously he’s younger than coach Carlau for the Oklahoma City team what do you see from their squad that he potentially brings hell of a he’s a hell of a coach and also he’s a Gator so go Gators i got to give him that now i got to give him that got to give him that i got to give him that you guys might have a football team again you know basketball champs yeah basketball champs might have a football team again too oh yeah that QB and also uh Napier’s like culture like settling in turn around not give up last year yeah yeah but I I love what he does and one thing what I’ll say about Dagenolon is how you can tell that he’s a good coach is that he got a young team playing the right way on both sides it’s not just playing offensively the right way they play defense the right way they hold each other accountable the five guys on the string you can tell guys are rotating and pulling triggers you can tell they go through dummy defense at practice yeah you can tell they dig the elbows they take their 2.9 side they do everything so they’re very well coached what should we look for tonight at the beginning that’s going to indicate who’s going to win this game can we tell well I think both teams are going to be more settled in i think we we’ve only had six lead changes in two games which is crazy you know what I’m saying six lead changes in two games total is crazy so I think this will be more of what we’re accustomed to a lot of lead changes i do think Tyrese Halenberg will be a lot more aggressive in the first first half to set the tone of the game even if it’s not in full court and half court I think he needs to target those bigs in the pick and roll they’re in the drop coverage that way he can get to his pullup three you also got the throwback to Miles Turner so he needs to attack the fiveman on the other end when I look at OKC man I was a little disturbed because once again I picked Indiana it was scary to me that they went on that run in the second quarter without SGA in the game that that made me a little nervous if I’m Indiana so I’m looking for those guys on OKC to look at that lineup and say “Okay we went on a 19-2 run with SGA on the bench to finish out the second quarter we can go with this lineup a little more.” So I’m looking for them to play that small lineup with just one big but to have Wiggins um Kase Wallace Caruso and Jay Dub running the point that was a good matchup for them that was a good lineup all right we’ll look for that uh obviously need to pick and roll with the big man picture it do the whole thing got the foul to hit that yeah dig elbows out chop wood bob Wood uh we appreciate you so much are you on TV today or are you just always dressed i’m on TV today but this is domesticated OG no it ain’t don’t try to get him fooled now listen he show up and he look presentable like he’s supposed to be for work he dressing in flipflops if he ain’t doing this he got flip flops comfort going we Chicago turn Florida boy you don’t wear gym shoes hear flip flops all the time yeah yeah yeah trust me once again once again I just look like this don’t run up on me on the street playing that’s not I’m not the guy i just look like this i know you are the guy class of 98 too you know we same class of high school this guy been playing against each other for years since 15 that’s when we first met each other yeah cuz in basketball you guys like in high school basically playing against guys that you know are going to make it right we met each other in New was it New Jersey at ABCD Adidas camp we we got this thing we say real recognize real so when I got to the camps I’m like don’t want to hang out with those guys don’t want it them Chicago guys look like the kind of guys them look like my kind of guys these these Chicago guys look like our kind of guys you know what I mean jeff Teague buried Chicago in the first hour i don’t know if you heard him yeah he buried right to his face well he actually was looking this way said Indiana’s better at basketball indiana’s better at basketball indiana ain’t got no chips all right ladies and gentlemen Indiana got no chips a man who’s won three NBA titles a cultivator of culture incredibly fly looking tough guy ladies and gentlemen you [Applause]

Live from Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Udonis Haslem joins The Pat McAfee Show ahead of the Game 3 of the 2025 NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers.

0:00 Championship mentality
5:15 Leadership and advice
8:27 Heat culture
12:43 Shaq weigh-in story
15:56 Creating a brotherhood
16:52 Praising Rick Carlisle

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