Friday, January 03, 2025
"HEAT" SUSPEND BUTLER SEVEN GAMES
I cannot believe this. I mean I see it, I can read, I'm just gobsmacked.
MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Heat suspended Jimmy Butler for seven games on Friday and said they will seek to trade him.
The Heat said the suspension was for “conduct detrimental to the team over the course of the season and particularly the last several weeks.”
“Through his actions and statements, he has shown he no longer wants to be part of this team,” the Heat said in a statement, one day after Butler said in a postgame press conference that he does not believe he can be happy playing in Miami going forward.
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“Jimmy Butler and his representative have indicated that they wish to be traded, therefore, we will listen to offers,” the Heat said.
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The suspension will cost Butler $532,737 for each game missed, or a total of $3.7 million, according to ESPN's Bobby Marks. He has the right to file a grievance within the next 30 days, and if he chooses to, the fine money would be held in escrow until a resolution is reached, a process that could take up to a year.
Beer lost AGAIN to Rust (13-21) last night
Also lost to them Dec. 26--both in BEER. Some teams just have others numbers. Like Pigeons have Eerie's number.
My thoughts (pretty) exactly
Centrist Madness
@CentristMadnessPat Riley is a bad GM who happens to run a team in a place LeBron wanted to play
@ZeBallKnowerThe last 4 [i'd say 10] years this team has been ran [sic] HORRIBLY. What have they done well? They haven’t capitalized on players registering interest in the team and Pat Riley has now ran ANOTHER star out of town.
11:40 AM · Jan 3, 2025·
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Vonnheimer
@TBH_Elvn11Man Pat Riley bout to me me no longer a Heat fan. Fool me once (Lebron) shame on me. Fool me twice (Wade) I’m the idiot. Fool me 3 times (Currently with Jimmy) wtf am I doing?
11:13 AM · Jan 3, 2025·
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"Butler...is open to playing anywhere other than Miami..."--Shams and Windy
Jimmy Butler indicates to Heat he wants trade
Six-time All-Star Jimmy Butler has indicated to the Miami Heat he wants the team to trade him, league sources told ESPN.
Butler does not plan to furnish the Heat with a list of favored destinations, sources told ESPN. He is open to playing anywhere other than Miami and believes he can make any team a contender -- no matter where he is moved. He does plan to take part in all team activities and do whatever the Heat ask of him during this process, sources said.
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Butler scored just nine points in the Heat's 128-115 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night and then said after the game that he had lost his joy playing in Miami.
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An issue that led to Butler's decision, according to sources, was an implication from team officials Thursday that he hadn't played his hardest in the Heat's victory Wednesday over the New Orleans Pelicans.
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"If you're not on the court playing, you should keep your mouth shut," Riley said in response at his end-of-season media session.
Riley and Butler's relationship has yet to recover, sources said.
Gotta real talent for pissing off players, this duo of Arison/Riley do. LeBron, D-Wade, now Jimmy.
I've had enough of this Carnival sideshow bullshit. 10 yrs enough. Here's an idea if you don't want to trade Jimmy:
SELL THE TEAM!
Thursday, January 02, 2025
FT Cold 44's (17-15=.531-->44-38) 115 Racers (17-18) 128
A disgraceful performance by a Carnival Clown team that never showed for this home game, leading to calls to,
SELL THE TEAM!
Miami's largest lead--at home now, against a team they were favored to beat who had a losing record!--was tyoo. The "Heat" turned the ball over twice as much as Indiana, leading to 23 "Pacers" points to just 9 points off turnovers for Miami.
The aged, ailing star who they won't trade had 9 points in 27'. Two of Spo's other starters, D-Ro and Hi-Ho, were tied for seventh in minutes played behind three subs. Is Erik Spoelstra no longer able to motivate this team? Or is it just so stale and talent-deficient after six years of standing Pat that not even a top-15 all-time coach can? The latter. To me it all points one way, to the 75 year-old majority owner and the 75 year-old minority owner, and basketball president to,
SELL THE TEAM!
38-49, 7:41 2Q
I'd like to hear some Sell the Team! chants. That's whose fault these 10+ years of mediocrity have been: Micky Arison and Pat Riley.
27-40
I bet they're booing in the Bus. I hope they're booing. There have to be consequences for the interminable mediocrity of the last ten one-half seasons. This game is at home and the opposition has a 16-18 record.
FULL-TIME NOTRE DAME (7) -1 23 GEORGIA (2) 10
Two (in my opinion) unworthy teams, ND and PSU, will meet in a CFP semi-final game Jan. 9.
WHAT?! HT ND 13 UGA 3
On the first play after ND's kickoff, Gunner Stockton was sacked and fumbled. Lakers recovered at the Georgia 13. One play, a pass, and ND got the first touch of the game.
Our Ladies 6-3, :37 2Q
I forgot that UGA's QB, Carson Beck, is injured and not playing. Gunner Stockton is in for him.
Before a TV audience of friends and relatives, Notre Dame (7) -1.5 vs Georgia (2) at 4 pm today
If I were to bet (I am not), I would put a nickel on the Dawgs.
Wednesday, January 01, 2025
If the CFP did the reasonable thing and invited only the top four teams to compete for the natty...
Those teams would have been O, Georgia, Texas, and PSU.
1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8. Which demonstrates that the committee can't even count to twelve. Boise, who the committee ranked as the ninth-best team, were included in the top four with a bye as an affirmative action selection as the best shit conference team. Arizona State, twelfth-best in the committee's estimation, was made fourth with a bye also.
O is gone, the other three are alive. With the four best teams O would have played PSU, two B1G teams, O would have won; Georgia would have played Texas for a THIRD time this season, Georgia would have won and we would already have had the natty game, O vs UGA, the winners of the two best conferences in the land, the B1G and the SEC. That game would have been a dumhinger.
The committee's five-through-twelve were not worthy to compete for a national championship and should not have been allowed to compete for it. As if to prove the point, Clemson, Tennessee, SMU, and Indiana promptly went out and got thrashed. The integrity of the system is the real victim; the legitimacy of the eventual national champion, too. We have instead a final four comprising a fifth-ranked team and a sixth-ranked team, the latter having made the semi-finals by wasting the committee's over-all number one. You get, with twelve teams and the committee's lack of facility with arithmetic mismatches and easier paths to the natty. PSU lucked into SMU (10th), who they killed 38-10, and Boise (9th), 31-14.
We have as a result 1) games that, so far, with the exception of Tex.-ASU, have been non-competitive and boring. 2) selections that do violence to the notion of having earned the right to compete for the natty. The sub-four teams are not deserving of competing for a national championship. One of them reasonably may win it.
Carnival Cruise Line's basketball team, also based in Miami and nicknamed the Cold 45's, won the game tonight to improve to 17-14, .548, which is on pace for 45 wins, which--You won't believe this--is exactly how many games they have won (on average) each season for the last TEN seasons. They are a shoe-in to win the Miss Consistency lifetime achievement award for this remarkable feat, believed by me at least, to be unique in the history of professional team sports. Mediocre congratulations to 🎡.
FT Ohio Devours "Ducks" 41-21
Next up: Texas. PSU will play the winner of the Georgia-Notre Dame game, which will be Gerogia, in the other semi-final.
Ohio's first play after the kickoff was a run for 18 yards. They have punted and O has the ball back, 6:07 4Q. Nope. Not enough time.
The Notre Dame-Georgia game in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans tonight has been postponed because of the terrorist attack.
Ohio 31-0 with the ball on the O 20!
THEY BELONG, HARRIS! SEE! YOU'RE FUCKING 4-TEAM PLAYOFF WOULD HAVE EXCLUDED THEM.
Yes, because they were an 8-seed they would be excluded.
Why were they an 8-seed.
'CAUSE THEY LOST TO THIS FUCKING TEAM OUT THERE IN FUCKING...BEIJING!
Yes, they're in the same conference. Who else did Ohio lose to?
M.
In the same conference too.
Fuck YOU!
Who has O lost to?
NOBODY! I DON'T CARE, HARRIS, THE "BUCKEYES" BELONG!
So the regular season doesn't matter. Losing to O in Starbucks doesn't matter. Being in the same conference doesn't matter. WINNING the conference doesn't matter.
FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING... I HATE YOU.
Losing TWO games in the same conference doesn't matter.
NO!
Who will your beloved 11-2 "Buckeyes" play after they get done with this Peking Duck dinner?
I'd have to look that up.
Save you the trouble: Texas.
WE'LL KILL 'EM!
You well might. Has Texas lost any?
I don't fucking no and I don't care. Yeah, I think they have.
Yeah, they have. They didn't win their conference either, lost TWICE to Georgia. It doesn't matter. See?
Well, Well, Well! NO blowout. Tx 24 ASU 24, 1:31 4Q, "Sun Devils" with ball
Tx led 24-8. ASU didn't score their first TD until 6:31 4Q and then scored another at 5'. THIS is a college football playoff game!
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