Norman Powell Reveals How Miami Heat and Erik Spoelstra Are Making Him Feel Welcomed To Franchise
Welcome on in guys. Tobin here with you and thanks for checking out the channel. If you guys have stopped by for the first time or maybe you have stopped by many times, don’t be afraid to hit that subscribe button. Huh? Hit that like button, that thumbs up. It’s always uh good for, you know, the algorithm, I think they say. So, I don’t know. I always get people are like, “Hey man, make your thumb art a little bit better, your thumbnails a little bit better.” Be like, “Maybe one day. Maybe one day we’ll get there, dude.” You know, right now we’re kind of keeping it we’re keeping it uh we’re keeping it grunge. We’re keeping it underground right now. We’re just uh we’re just putting text over this ugly mug. Maybe every once in a while we’ll we’ll put a picture in there or whatnot. But uh you know, I got a couple things I want to talk about. Speaking of graphics, the Miami Heat warmed my heart today because admin, shout out to them. They have co-signed my Pella Lararsson name. Uh which this Pella Larson, I mean, handsome fella. Let’s be real about it. Sweden, dude. I mean, that is that is a that’s a that’s a good-looking crew. But this guy draped with the Swedish flag gets the little cosign from the Miami Heat. Swedish swish. Hey, glad to see it is it has broken through the mainstream. Every once in a while, dude, every once in a while, you know, I’m I’m a bit of a volume shooter, but every once in a while, the old franchise be like, Tobes, you’re on to something there, dude. I know. I know. But, uh, happy for it. Again, I’ve I’ve said enough how I’m looking forward to the Euro basket. Excited about all these guys playing some international ball just to kind of see everybody in action. Man, I’m jonesing for it. Can’t wait for it. You know, we had it last year. We had Bambio in the Olympics. We had Yovic in the Olympics. We started getting going with the Olympics. And this year, it’s almost like you got to be a little bit more patient. Mostly it’s just people on vacation. don’t even have any any cra, you know, any anybody doing some what’s the word? You know, uh subtle shade on uh on on Instagram. None of those posts. None of the uh the me. I did see though Keller riding a camel, which I mean, quite frankly, that’s that’s that’s awesome. I mean, he’s out there. The camel looks like he’s having a good time. I did see that Pella Larson posted like a rascal on Kellwware’s Instagram. I know that camel is dying, which I don’t think is I feel like the camel should be just fine. Are camels known to carry big luggage over the desert? Isn’t that the the magic that is? Of course, the sand horse or whatever the hell camels are related to one hump, two hump, who knows? Hump day. But Koware looks like he’s having a good time out there in Egypt. It’s been it’s been nice to see the the international travel that’s been going on as this heat team uh gets ready and raring to go. Uh, I did want to mention this because I was on a vacation last week and uh took a couple days off, but I saw something that was in the ether that like annoyed me and it was Daryl my sticking his beak where it don’t belong where he was he was weighing in on the finals run in 2020 of the Lakers and was talking about how like if he’s like it’s a legit championship cuz if I would have won the championship, you know, I would be celebrating it but people don’t look at it as a legitimate champion. ship and I’m like what a what a cowardly cop out from this Daryl my who by the way why are we listening to any standard of championship from Daryl my whether it is from him directly or from his sources about anything Daryl my should be sitting here he just gave a boatload of money to Joel Embiid who we’re getting reports every single day about how terrible his knee is doing and that he’s maybe never going to be physically the same which is terrible for Joel Embiid but you know That is the move that Daryl my put out there and then also invested in Paul George who hasn’t exactly been the barometer of health throughout his career and somehow was sitting here and got rewarded with a third overall pick. Go figure that out. You want to think that things are are fair. But like I I was like Daryl my shut the hell up. If you want to put an asterisk on anything from that year it is quite obviously not the bubble but the fact that Gorand Drag and Bam Alabio got hurt in the finals. That’s where the obvious asterisk is. But I’m so sick of the bubble thing being brought up left and right. If you want to talk about the facts of what actually deterred what led to the Lakers of being champion, go with what was actually on the court, not the fact that they were playing at Disney World. Okay. Secondly, and I cannot stress this enough, the Faker championship was the next season because all of the teams that have basically been good for this half decade all stunk the next year in the playoffs because they had no rest and a quick turnaround on all of their rosters and nobody was able to do anything in the postseason the next year. So, I’m tired of it being a debate. I certainly don’t want to hear from Daryl my you know m Mr. Mr. the loose goose flooy over here who was sitting here in his his idol James Harden who was always his numero uno then ends up backing I will say James Harden seen some pictures from China not exactly on that Luca plan not neither here nor there my point being is Daryl my being out here discussing oh what’s a championship what’s who the hell is Daryl my to to to bring this into conversation whether he said it people that he’s talking to said it. Do it. Just just zip it, lock it, put it in your pocket, Daryl my want to hear it anymore. Okay? Shh. And if you want to mention asterisk next time when it comes to the bubble championship, do it correctly and say the Lakers only won because Gorand Drag’s foot exploded. That’s the real answer. Anywh who, um, getting back to the Miami Heat in international play, Norman Powell been, uh, doing a lot of media rounds. I was reading today a fantastic interview done by the great Anthony Chang of the Miami Herald. Shout out to Anthony Chang. Shout out to Ira Winderman. Go check out their work in uh, Anthony the Miami Herald and Ira Winderman in the Suns Sentinel, respectfully. Um, really the only reason I have subscriptions, you know, those are those are the guys I’m checking out on my apps. But, um, first off, shout out to Ira because in his ask Ira today, he was like, uh, somebody asked him, this wasn’t even a question. He just stated to Ira, Pat Riley hates LeBron James. Move on. And that was from Mitch. And Ira reported to responded to Mitch and said, um, no, he doesn’t. Pat Riley in 2025 is not the same Pat Riley who got blown off by LeBron James at that Vegas hotel in 2014 free agency. They’d have repeatedly shown an ability to put the past differences aside when it comes to the greater good. If LeBron can find a way to go back and play for Dan Gilbert, Pat Riley certainly can offer an embrace if needed. And I was like, “Oh, really? Ira Winderman, you rascal.” Listen, I was I I was like, “This is the greatest answer to to ask IRA I’ve ever I’ve ever had in my life. Thanks a lot, Mitch. I appreciate you bringing that out from Ira.” But um they uh they both had some some great stuff on Norman Pal. But I was excited about this because he uh he explained to Anthony in his piece what went down with the Haywood Highmith uh decision to get number 24. And I was like, “Oh, it seemed like there was some negotiations that went on here to get uh his beloved number 24.” If you guys didn’t see it, Norman Pal is wearing his 24. Haywood Highmith has switched to number eight. For those who missed it, maybe you were enjoying your summers. Um, but he was talking about the players who had reached out to him and he said, “Bam has reached out to me. Da’Von Mitchell has reached out to me. I’ve had talks with Hwood Heismith about the jersey and we were able to get something done for me to get 24. I know Haime Hz from UCLA. I know Wiggins. So, I know a few guys on the roster. I’m just excited to put my stamp on the organization and get with these guys. And so, he goes into it basically talking about it. You guys go read the whole article, but he uh basically says that they had a little, you know, he he was thankful that Haywood was willing to do it, gave him respect. He then mentioned that he did this back as a rookie with one of his players that he gave up his number. Um, but that there was some kind of a negotiation that went back and forth. He wouldn’t reveal what it was to Anthony, but uh something something got worked out. Something got worked out. So, that was uh that was pretty cool. And then uh this piece was uh nice where he talked about the you guys remember that he had this workout with uh in Las Vegas where he lives in the off season and I guess he’s he was supposed to go to the facility on Monday the team facility looking for maybe a place to live you know get settled down because he’s with team team Jamaica right now but they’re training at FAU and he had talked about if you guys remember from summer league the team the coaching staff uh Spo and a lot of the staff that was out there went and watched him work out and he said, “I’ve never had a turn turnout like that for a workout. It was awesome.” Uh all the staff, front office members coming to watch me work for the first time since the trade. I didn’t know that they were coming to the workout, but just going to the workout, them sitting there and hearing them talk about um what I’m doing. It was great. It was a great workout for me and the support shows how much they’re excited to have me on the team. It’s definitely welcoming for me to be embraced like that and to have the staff there in the front office. Spo one of the greatest minds in the game and he remembers shots and stuff that I’ve made against him during the season. It’s like there are so many games. How do you remember that? But it was definitely cool. So, he seems pretty pumped up. I’m really excited to see what this Noran Powell thing is is going to bring to the Miami Heat. you know, it’s been discussed as like a new dynamic for Miami, but from uh you know, from BAM and and adding a little bit of of sizzle to this team, making them a little bit more interesting dynamic. SP talked about that that the team needs to be a little less predictable to figure out. Um, so I’m hopeful that that is uh you know that that is going to happen with the with the addition of of of Norm to this team. But, uh, he certainly seems jacked up for it. I I think that that’s that’s a pretty exciting thing, you know, like no shade, but like Andrew Wiggins getting dropped in the middle of the season, he was kind of just here pros pro. Um, and I know that there wasn’t a whole summer to get giddy about it and we haven’t even really heard anything from him since. All we’ve seen, we’ve seen like one video of him at the gym shooting some buckets. Like he’s a man of mystery this Andrew Wiggins. But Norman Powell, he’s just been doing like a bevy of media because of the the team Jamaica thing. Um, and so I’m just, it just seems more active on social media, too. So, you just get more of insights, different ways for different guys, but certainly with this team, we’ve talked so much about what they haven’t gotten. This guy seems genuinely excited to be here. He’s got an opportunity to make an imprint on the team. Maybe they find that he is the extended. He’s obviously got a very high opinion of himself. um and has these aspirations of becoming an all-star. Thought he should have been, thought he was, you know, slighted last year and not being an all-star. And now he comes to an east that, yeah, is is a little bit more open as far as the opportunities. Hell, who knows what that that East Now you have Joel Embiid who’s going to be hurt again. I mean, who the hell knows what this East squad is going to look like this year. So, exciting stuff from uh from that side of it with Norman Powell and uh as we lead into uh to his first season with the Miami Heat.
Miami Heat co-sign Swedish Swish, Kel’el Ware goes on a camel, the Bubble Finals still being questioned and Norman Powell explains how Erik Spoelstra is making him feel welcome and how he got 24 from Haywood Highsmith
Miami Herald: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nba/miami-heat/article311573872.html
Sun-Sentine: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/04/ask-ira-would-russell-westbrook-make-any-sense-for-the-heat/
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