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Ira Winderman on the harsh reality of this Miami Heat team 😬

“We know this is a middling team stuck in the worst place in all of sports, in the middle and refusing to get out. You have the wonderful optimism of Pat Riley, I’m not saying anybody should go slap him in the face, but at some point when you keep trying to make chicken soup out of chicken feathers or worse, you are what you are. You can’t play defense with Norman Powell and Tyler Herro on the court at the end of games against today’s NBA guards. KPJ [Kevin Porter, Jr.] looked like MJ out there… The Heat are chasing the Sixers for that last playoff spot, when you align these rosters and say to yourself, is Bam better than Embiid? No. Is Norman better than Maxey? No. Right now is Tyler Herro better than VJ Edgecombe? Probably not. So who are you fooling? The reality is the teams you are chasing are better!”

9:20 AM · Feb 26, 2026

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