Thursday, February 05, 2026

Riley, pay attention. Do you see what you have done? (not done?) You're losing this fan base.

Matheus

@MathEng_CRF

I HATE YOU

I HATE YOU

I FCKIN HATE YOU, 

@MiamiHEAT

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2:42 PM · Feb 5, 2026

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Almost exactly my sentiments during the last loss to Male Cows.

At this time tomorrow if nothing done, Riley needs to hold a press conference to explain himself* (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

(8) Update 2:51 pm

SleeperHoops

@Sleeper_Hoops
Eastern Conference teams to not make a trade at the deadline:

- Miami Heat

There’s 9 minutes left.
2:51 PM · Feb 5, 2026
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(7) Update 12:40 pm
Giannis is staying in Milwaukee per Shams


11:41 am (6) Update

-Lakers trade Gabe Vincent to Hawks for Luke Kennard

8:10 am Feb. 5
(5) Update

-Dubs trade Kuminga, Hield to Hawks for Porzingis

"Heat", nothink. How is Riley going to explain this?


(4) Update 12:35 am Feb. 5:

Crickets. at the Bobby Marks midnight timeline. 


Beyond a reasonable doubt Antetokounmpo will stay in 🍺. And the notion that Riley would get Ja Morant if not Antetokounmpo has had an ice cold 🍺 thrown on it also. Miami offered "nothing of value" to Memphis.

No Whale, no grizzly shark with a gun, NOTHING as the clock strikes 15 hrs to the end of the trade window. By all lights Riley is standing pat once agayne. That is the unkindest cut.

It appears Pat Riley tried with Antetokounmpo. Everyone on the roster except Bam Adebayo was offered for Milwaukee to choose five. There's the rub. Riley wanted Milwaukee's best player without offering his own in a trade that would have been one of similars. Riley would not give up a three-time all-star to get a ten-time all-star; wouldn't give up a player with 0 all-nba selections but as one of his nine; put off limits a player who has five all-defensive team selections for one who also has five; wouldn't trade a player with 0 MVP's for one who has two; wouldn't trade a player with 0 NBA titles for one who has 1. 

One of Riley's adages is "hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance." In this case however Riley does not get an "A" for effort. In coming back to shore with no Whale or even a big fish, Riley has bruised the psyche of his young, 43-win team. As happened last season with the Jimmy Butler drama. That team promptly lost sonething like 10 straight games. Riley and his lap dog Spoelstra will spout the company line of "it's a business, you can't let it effect you", but that is so much pablum. A third of the team was part of Riley's offer, were however close to leaving for the frozen tundra. "Guys, we love you! A momentary infatuation, was all the Giannis business was. And now it's over! Wee! Back to your nose to the grindstones, slaves! You ESPECIALLY, Kel'el!"

Human beings don't function that way. We'll see how they function in the remaining thirty games. Optimism is unwarranted, but in the short term and the long.


10:08 pm:
(3) Update

Bobby Marks, a former NBA GM, said that if Giannis Antetokounmpo is going to be anywhere but Milwaukee, we will know by midnight tonight. It's not midnight, but this is the best I can do:




Why Do They Torture Me?

(2) Update, 7:33 pm:


Fullcourtpass
@Fullcourtpass
The focus of the Milwaukee Bucks trade negotiations for Giannis Antetokounmpo have been with the Miami Heat and Minnesota Timberwolves, per
@ShamsCharania

The focus of sports futures investors is on a Minnesota trade and a Chicago trade over a Miami trade.




(1) Update, 6:03 pm:





4:24 pm:
*Updated. Originally posted 3 pm Feb. 4 

-Clippers Trade Hardin to Cavs for Garland

-76ers deal Jared McCain to Thunder for 4 draft picks

-Bulls send White, Conley to Hornets for Sexton, Dieng

-Clippers' Chris Paul lands with Raptors in 3-team trade


3:00 PM Feb. 4:








 The temperature in Miami Beach is dropping six degrees between now and 2 pm--in one hour.

Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Public Occurrences February 4, 2026

Amnesty UK
@AmnestyUK

Thank you Pep Guardiola for using your platform. 

Governments killing, displacing and dehumanising millions across the world want to make us think it's normal.

But Guardiola is right. 

We can't look away. And we cannot accept it. 

What is being asked of us right now is to fight for justice, for every single human. 

You're not alone. Let's do it together. 🕯️


Mariana Mazzucato
@MazzucatoM
I’m a fanatic @Arsenal supporter. There’s nothing that would make me happier than 
@ManCity losing tonight. [We won 3-1] But THIS coach, Pep Guardiola, is a hero of our time. If only everyone with power spoke with the passion and eloquence and courage as he does. Justice matters. Gaza matters. Ukraine matters. Sudan matters. Thank you Pep! (Go Gunners!!!!)

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3:38 PM · Feb 4, 2026
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6:35 pm:

“Never, ever in the history of humanity have we had the info in front of our eyes
, watching more clearly than now – genocide in Palestine, what happened in Ukraine, what happened in Russia, what happened all around the world, in Sudan, everywhere. What happened in front of us? Do you want to see it? It’s our problems as human beings.

“There is somebody who sees the images from all around the world who is not affected? Today we can see it. Before we could not see it. Today we see. It hurts me.

“If it was the opposite side, it would hurt me. Wanting harm for another country? It hurts me. [To] completely kill thousands of innocent people, it hurts me. It’s no more complicated than that. No more. When you have an idea and you need to defend [it] and you have to kill thousands, thousands of people – I’m sorry, I will stand up. Always I will be there, always.

"From my point of view, the justice? You have to talk. Otherwise it will just move on. Look what happened in the United States of America, Renee Good and Alex Pretti have been killed. Tell me how you can defend that?

"There is not a perfect society, nowhere is perfect, I am not perfect, we have to work to be better."

Pep Guardiola, Manchester City manager. 🫶Pep.

6:24 pm:
The Supreme Court lets California use its new, Democratic-friendly congressional map

Trumpstein: FUCK YOU

Washington Post Eliminates Sports Department

Weirdo


 

They are an org. that overvalues its players, both paying them too much and thinking the players are better than does the rest of the Association.

They believe themselves always players for Whales when they are not. They overvalue their attraction to Whales. Their reality testing is impaired: eleven and one-half years of 44-38 and no Whales

This is so hard a time for me as a "Heat" fan. I was at the first game in 1988. The franchise has been humiliated, the fan base disillusioned and disabused of hope, the players told they are not wanted, are not good enough, the future a treadmill of irrelevant mediocrity descending into decrepitude. This once proud, proud franchise.

 

The Miami Heat simply don’t have enough

When the past reminds you of reality
SI

Public Occurrences February 4, 2026

Israelcide Doing Good Work in Ceasefire! 21 More, Mostly Women and Children of Course, Killed in Gaza Air Strikes

Last Call! 🧊 Melting! 🍺 Rising!, 🔥Fading, Give ☮️ a Chance?!

Antokounmpo Statement


Antetokounmpo noted to Owczarski that he’s had “zero” input in the trade discussions surrounding him and believes the Bucks can still put together a competitive roster with him. 

“I always listen and trust. But what I’m trying to say, how many chances do I have left to win a championship? So, you just gotta [be] more careful and more urgent in every decision that you make moving forward.

If you ask me what do I really want, deep down in my heart? I want to be a Milwaukee Buck until I retire and win a championship here. End of sentence. ... If that is not possible to happen, and if then you realize maybe that’s not the case and maybe they’re looking elsewhere and that’s not what they’re trying to do, then automatically you have to be in the plans of what they’re trying to do or weigh the other options. It’s normal.”

Election Over?

12:22 am:


Tuesday, February 03, 2026

It's Getting Colder!




This is like Election Night!

Spoelstra's starters tonight!

Davion Mitchell
Myron Gardner
Pelle Larsson
Simone Fontecchio
Bam Adebayo

OMG!!!!!😆🤣

😂👏"HEAT" FANS!!!!

Shorthanded Heat fall 127-115 to Hawks amid chants of ‘We want Giannis!’

Sun-Sentinel

Now watch, Pat Riley is going to call Barry Jackson who will thereafter write that those reports about Riley offering a third of the roster were all wrong, that Riley really loves this roster, that he sees no reason for drastic change, that it's preposterous that he would offer a third of his players and that in fact he only offered Myron Gardner.

Giannis Antetokounmpo has a wish list...

Atop his list is...Minnesota.



🍺is "underwhelmed" by the offers it has received, including from🧊. So, Giannis can have 🧊 or 🔥or Male🐄 or anyone else he wants atop his list, but Male🦌have to have that other team atop their list also. 🧊 is getting closer in bettors minds but chances are Giannis is staying. Surprisingly, he warmed up tonight (calf) but has not played. 

The Old Man ain't gettin' the Whale. The Old Man's team lost to Pigeons tonight. According to Ira Winderman they were tilted in the second game over the weekend against Male🐄. It was at this exact time last season that the team was torn apart over the Jimmy Butler saga. When your plans to trade literally a third of your roster are so public, you better get it done or you could end up in the lottery. 

Miami "Heat": 27-25, .519-->43-39

Five Cups of Weak Coffee Don't Make a Pot of Strong Coffee

Believed "Heat" Final Offer for Giannis Antetokounmpo:

Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, Terry Rozier, a combination of Jaime Jaquez Jr., Nikola Jovic, or Kasparas Jakucionis, two first-round picks, and two first-round pick swaps...

Let's compare the coffees:

Milwaukee Blend:

1 cup
10 All-Stars
9 All-NBAs
2 MVPs
1 NBA title

Miami Blend:

5 cups
1 All-Star
0 All-NBAs
0 MVPs
0 NBA titles
4 cups of potential

Go ahead, you're Jon Horst: What would you tell Pat Riley to do with his "final" trade offer?

Heat



* (**)

(**) Update


Windhorst: Only the Bucks know the exact landscape. It is possible that general manager Jon Horst and Milwaukee's front office have the basis of an offer they'd pursue and it could get serious. Rival teams, however, believe it makes a lot of sense to wait until summer. The possible big offer from Golden State, a deal that could net Milwaukee up to four first-round picks, will likely still be there in June.

Meanwhile, the Bucks can wait until they know exactly where their pick and every first-rounder will land. Plus numerous possible suitors, such as the Miami Heat, can offer a better package of picks once the league year flips.

Thus "Not Traded" being the thinking of the majority of bettors.

*Update 3:34 pm






3:28 pm:

A package centered around Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, Terry Rozier, a combination of Jaime Jaquez Jr., Nikola Jovic, or Kasparas Jakucionis, two first-round picks, and two first-round pick swaps could be what many believe to be the Miami Heat’s final offer to the Milwaukee Bucks for Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, via allyoucanheat.

That's a lot. A lot of mediocrity. I don't think it's enough. If it is enough, the starting lineup for the rest of this season would be:

Andrew Wiggins
Bam Adebayo
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Norman Powell
Davion Mitchell


That would be a rock-ribbed defensive unit and an explosive offensive one.


We are unlikely to have Andrew and Norman beyond this season. They're both free agents.

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