(My) Projected "Heat" Starters 2026/27

Davion Mitchell
Norman Powell
Andrew Wiggins
Bam Adebayo
Giannis Antetokounmpo

Rotation players:

Bobby Portis
Pelle Larsson
Keshad Johnson
Simone Fontecchio
Myron Gardner

Miami's championship odds immediately plummeted from 30-1 to 18-1.

MIAMI GETS GIANNIS!

OFFICIAL: GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO 

TRADED TO MIAMI!!!!!

Shams Charania

@ShamsCharania

Heat president Pat Riley now makes his long-anticipated new landmark acquisition, with Antetokounmpo joining elite Miami pickups such as LeBron James, Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Bosh, Alonzo Mourning and Jimmy Butler over the past 30-plus years. Riley will pair the two-time NBA MVP and 2021 Finals MVP with Bam Adebayo to lead contention in the Eastern Conference. 

After informing teams that they were open for business at the NBA draft combine in May, Bucks general manager Jon Horst landed a haul with the Heat’s offer that brings high-level starting/rotation players and young talent, as well as significant draft capital.

bleacherreport

 

40m

BREAKING: Giannis has been traded to the Heat per @shams🚨😱

OMG. 🤯🤯🤯

SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED

Giannis Next Team Odds

Kalshi 11:52 PM:

Miami 99%

Stays with Milwaukee or retires 1%

Polymarket 11:53 PM:

Miami 98%

Minnesota <1%

Boston <1%

Milwaukee <1%

Among the many individuals who I would like to strangle are Beer's front office. They have a rotating NBA governor, this year it's Jimmy Haslam, last year it was Whit-somebody. But the governor's rotating out are still on the decision-making board. It's a collective, a committee, and you know what they say about horses designed by committees. 

So in that vein there are now reports that there is a "split" on the committee (who'd a thunk it?). Some want to get a star back, that would be Jaylen Brown; some want the greater "quality" of Miami's future draft picks. You think beautiful women make a man go cross-eyed? Well, when you're a billionaire sports team owner, the beautiful women are those nameless, faceless, grade-schoolers, middle-schoolers and high-schoolers who make up future  draft classes. Billionaire owners see swans swimming in the future, there are no ugly ducklings. They see that Jaylen Brown is a knockout, but compared to what the imagination can see, he's a beauty for sure, but one who is getting a little long in the tooth and has a mole here and there.

That's the holdup right now (reportedly). That's why I want to strangle Beer's committee. The cognos now say the trade will be announced right prior to the draft, tomorrow at 8 pm. 

Yes

 

Ira Winderman
@IraHeatBeat

This never was going to be easy. If there is a Heat deal, it likely will be completed later, due to cap/calendar rules. If there is not, then it would seem the time for Pat Riley to talk.

Yes, and his talk should be short, "I resign."

If he misses on another "whale" it will be because of the same reason that he missed on others: he overvalues his roster. He can't make reasonable judgments anymore.

 Jake Fischer

@JakeLFischer

A split faction of Milwaukee’s decision makers, sources say, is deciding between Boston’s package for Giannis Antetokounmpo built around Jaylen Brown — where the Bucks also hold particular Hugo Gonzales interest, as @TheSteinLine reported last night — plus limited draft capital, compared to Miami’s offer of younger pieces — featuring Tyler Herro, Kel’el Ware, Jaime Jaquez —  and multiple first-round picks. 

The established MVP candidate versus greater overall value is what this whole saga has boiled down to one day before the NBA Draft.

CelticsUnite

@CelticsUnite18

Giannis is willing to extend with 2 teams.

1 is offering Jaime Jaquez and Tyler Herro

The other is offering Jaylen Brown

How is this even a conversation?

8:26 PM · Jun 16, 2026

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👆Bound to be beat: that is how I have always seen the "Heat's" offer.

As your lifespan shortens, you, or at least I, have a corresponding decrease in tolerance for people and events that waste my time. I could strangle someone right now but there are so many contestants and anyway, it would make my arm muscles hurt.

Anticlimactic Antetokounmpo

In 71 years of sports following I have never seen horseshit like this.

Public Occurrences June 22, 2026

Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister, Labour Party Leader, Resigns After Inept Tenure

I Like Ike lol

 DERSHOWITZ: The other day there was a fund-raiser event on the Vineyard sponsored by Democratic Jews. The Jewish Democrats is the name of the organization, the Jewish Democrats. Now, if you ask a hundred people to name the five most well-known Jewish Democrats on Martha’s Vineyard . . .

CHOTINER: You want me to do that now, or are you saying hypothetically?

DERSHOWITZ: No, hypothetically.

Oh my fucking God, 'Witz, first of all 'Witz, you are "disgusting" as Larry David said, but the larger point is, you were killed during that interview, you died, you're DEAD. You're dead now! I don't know who your wife or family, or friends, but you don't have any, so your wife or family, I don't know who they got to impersonate you these last four years but that's not you, you're dead and buried under an olive tree in Israel, or you were cremated and your ashes buried under an olive tree in Israel as fertilizer but you, your ashes or your disgusting corpse, poisoned the olive tree and killed it.

The markets are aligning, the intel is aligning, Greg Cote is aligned...

Every sign without exception, and combined, is that Giannis Antetokounmpo is headed to the Miami "Heat".

The "Heat" and "Bucks" are putting the "finishing touches", in the wording of NBA reporter Evan Sidery, on the trade. It is going to be a complex three-team or four-team round robin to get Beer what it needs. That has been the reason for the holdup. Detroit is the most-mentioned other team. The heaters most often mentioned as going are Tyler Herro, Kel'el Ware, and Jaime Jaquez, Jr. (plus draft picks).

Ukraine is Winning the War with Russia🌻

Ukrainian attacks prompt Russian-held Crimea to halt civilian gasoline sales

AP

Canada, France, Germany, the UK.: "We, the Germans, the British, and the French – all share the view that the situation in this war has fundamentally changed. It’s only a matter of time, but Putin will lose this war."– Mark Carney. CNN

CBS

U.S. Generals

 

To my Jewish friends

We have reached a state of mutual embarrassment in our relations that necessitates a pause. The issues between us: Israel's conduct of its wars, American Jewry's support for Israel and its wars, and most recently a strain of savage thought that Israel is unburdened by international law, mores and even millennia of Jewish ethical philosophy because Hamas was unburdened by them in the horrors perpetrated on Oct. 7. I summarize this ugly new thought as it was articulated by a Jewish friend and lawyer in text messages:

June 18, friend:

You have a right to retaliate but you have to do so thoughtfully--

June 20, me:

where did you get this? "you have a right to retaliate" there is no "right to retaliate" in domestic criminal law nor international law.

(It was clear to me that this was not his, my friend's, thought but that of someone else and I repeatedly asked him the source(s). I attached screenshots of the most general principles that distinguish retaliation and self-defense and which makes the former universally illegal and the latter legal, distinctions that he, like I, are intimately familiar with.)

June 20: My friend refused to "answer any more questions" regarding the source of this non-existent "right to retaliation" and concluded,

Self defense if that’s the only thing you can do I wipe my ass with international law

It means zero at that point to be (sic "me")

Great Blimp Disasters

 

Like shadows

Somebody just woke up

Blimp Spotted Near Paris

 Unidentified Hindu statesman and Human Dirigible.

Public Occurrences June 20, 2026

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz and accuses US and Israel of violating ceasefire deal

The Christian Protectorate only killed 16 and only two children in strikes Saturday; on Friday the kill total was better in "heavy fighting", 47 Lebanese and four Israeli gunmen; Yair Netanyahoo, the Protectorate Governor's son, who is monitoring the action from his Hallandale Beach, Florida, Toilet Nation bunker, was not among them.

BBC

The Face of Israel, Yair Netanyahoo

Good, very early, Saturday morning Elle and Gee Publoccians! The coddled, draft-dodging, dilettante, Israeli, slob, coward, below is guess who!...the son of Governor Benjamin Netanyahoo, of the Christian Protectorate of Israel! 

This disgusting human large bowel drainage tube is living, guess where! YES! In the toilet bowl of the Toilet Nation at the end of the long fecal log called Florida, specifically in a luxury high-rise on Hallandale Beach, amongst other human solid waste and not far from his dad's Christian Master, the Florida Criminal Trump.

 

                                                             Google AI

Since April 2023. Aficionados of trivia recall that the horrific, completely unjustified sneak attack on Israeli civilians perpetrated with unsurpassed barbarity by Hamas, occurred on October 7, 2023. Yair, the 32-year old, draft-eligible, draft-dodging, cowardly issue of the unnatural anal union of Trump and his Bibi did not return for the existential fight of the vassal state, nor for the immediately following attempt by his father and said vassal state at genocidal extermination of the existence of Palestinians, of war crimes against civilians in Lebanon, of Arabs on the Vassal-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, and of Christians and their cultural symbols in Lebanon and Gaza. 

The comments on the Facebook post above are exquisite:

Mistake on the Lake

A hideous monument to a monumental man: The Obama Center opened today in Chicago.

Public Occurrences Juneteenth, 2026

The JCPOA took 17 months to negotiate and bound by signature seven countries and the EU. The first part of the Florida Criminal's deal was negotiated in, two weeks?, was signed by tyoo countries--but seeks to bind I don't know how many, including Israel and the Toilet Nation's Arab "regional partners" without their involvement or signatures. So, a day after the Toilet Nation and Iran signed, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Israel restarted their shoot-'em-ups endangering the whole thing. Surprise!

9:26 am:

Talks between the US and Iran are called off because of fighting in Lebanon, officials say

JERUSALEM (AP) — Talks between the U.S. and Iran were called off Friday after intense fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, officials said, raising questions about an initial agreement to end the war in Iran.

AP

Oh Trumpie, you poor thing. You are so dumb, you can't help it. Just claim victory and if I may suggest, commit suicide. It's painless they say.

 Elevenish mad that Dr. Ana and I are done studying and I now want part of the bed back.

“I’ve been cancelled, basically, by the Chilmark Library. That has resulted in lots of people in Chilmark calling me and calling the library and saying, ‘We’re being deprived of Alan’s annual speech.'”

😁'witz to Isaac Chotiner 

“Not one single person has contacted me to complain that they haven’t had a chance to hear Alan speak.”--Ebba Hierta, Chilmark Library director.

"The audiences are being deprived of my voice as the result of a deliberate cancellation decision. So it’s not me who’s being cancelled. It’s the audiences who are being cancelled. ...The same thing is true of the Martha’s Vineyard book fair. Every year, I was invited to speak at the Martha’s Vineyard book fair. Suddenly it stopped when I defended the Constitution on behalf of Trump."

“We have who we think are the most important writers.”--Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival to The New Yorker.

The Spirit of '26

June 18, 2026, 12:49 p.m. ETJune 18, 2026

Andy Newman

“For as long as we live, we will remember this feeling of a city together, a city alive, a city overcome by happiness.” 

Mayor Zohran Mamdani

June 18, 2026, 4:15 p.m. ETJune 18, 2026

Maria Cramer

Police said they estimated that two million people lined the parade route and the surrounding streets.

June 18, 2026, 11:04 a.m. ET1 hour ago

Eryn Davis

The sense of camaraderie that defined the Knicks’ playoff run was palpable, as strangers exchanged high-fives, hugged and cheered

Lexi Parra

Some police officers along the route are wearing Knicks jerseys under their uniforms to show their support for the team.

A dialysis technician from Brownsville, Brooklyn, watched the sun rise over Lower Manhattan, basking in the eerie hush before the festivities erupted. A doorman on Wall Street took the overnight shift so he could secure his spot on the parade route, sporting orange and blue socks under his uniform. A dentist from Long Island stood on Broadway at 6 a.m. wearing an orange-and-blue turban wrapped by his wife, who said she’d waited her whole life for this one day. 

New York Times

                                                             The Joy of Knicks, Game 5

 Crying with joy

                                                                    

                                                                  Today

                                                                             

                                                                    Jumping for joy

                                                                 Running for joy

 Eryn Davis

June 18, 2026, 11:54 a.m. ET10 minutes ago

Eryn Davis

Stone Street is awash in blue and orange. Nearly every bar is at capacity, with lines spilling into those of neighboring establishments. Fans gather outside bars like Beckett’s and Stone Street Tavern to watch the parade on televisions mounted in the windows.

Toilet paper hangs from the string lights and pennant flags crisscrossing Stone Street as fans have started throwing rolls overhead.

I am so proud of the people of New York

 Sarah Nir

June 18, 2026, 11:18 a.m. ET7 minutes ago

Sarah Nir

A really fun part of this moment is that it feels like the rules, and the division between city and its inhabitants have been breached. Sanitation workers are hanging off dump trucks filming the parade while kids clamber onto the fenders to get a better look. Two men are standing on a lighted crosswalk pole twenty feet above the ground and the dozens of officers just let them. The N.Y.C. vibes are impeccable here.

Isaac Chotiner for Nobel Prize

PARKER MOLLOY

JUL 21, 2022

∙ PAID

There’s a joke among people who are really plugged into media Twitter: if Isaac Chotiner calls to ask if he can interview you, run.

Ike vs 'witz highlight

DERSHOWITZ: I was the most popular speaker in the Chilmark Library series.

CHOTINER: I can imagine.

DERSHOWITZ Every year, they would have an overflow crowd to hear me speak about whatever book I was writing, or whatever I was doing. But suddenly, after I represented the Constitution on behalf of President Trump, the library found excuses for never having me. Their first excuse was that my crowds were too big. So I said, “Well, why don’t you limit the crowds?” They said, “Oh, we hadn’t thought of that.”

CHOTINER: Can you imagine if Ed Sullivan had done that with the Beatles? It’s a ridiculous excuse.

DERSHOWITZ: Yeah, of course. So I’ve been cancelled, basically, by the Chilmark Library.

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HE COMPARES 'WITZ TO THE BEATLES AND GETS 'WITZ TO AGREE!!!! NOOOO!!!!🤣🤣🤣