Heat executive says Jimmy Butler will be back.
Udonis Haslem has made a career out of being a tough basketball player. Undrafted out of Florida, he played 20 years with the Miami Heat and became the embodiment of no-nonsense Heat Culture. For two decades if an opposing player - or teammate - stepped out of line, they had to deal with UD.
Finally retired, Haslem stayed with the Heat as the Vice President of Basketball Development and has branched out into media, most recently becoming a regular contributor to ESPN's. On both shows he projects an air of authority, like he did during his playing days, but on Friday morning he slipped up and made a pop culture reference that suggests he may have actually been a child at some point.
Udonis Haslem on the hiring of JJ Redick: "You've got your coach, but what about the roster? I don't think the Lakers have a championship roster. I mean, JJ could draw up the Annexation of Puerto Rico, it doesn't matter what he puts out there, they do not have a championship…"You've got your coach," said Haslem. "But what about the roster? I don't think the Lakers have a championship roster.
They really should have stopped the show right there to debate Spike vs. Icebox. Instead, they went on to discuss which team in the Eastern Conference would be the biggest threat to the Celtics next season and we got a Heat Culture PR release where he seemed to confirm that Jimmy Butler would be returning next season.
While he listed all the Heat's best players, their recent playoff success and complained that Miami wasn't sexy enough for the media, Molly Qerim pointed out that we"We do know we're going to have our best player," Haslem insisted. "You ain't heard us say he going nowhere. We just hear ya'll saying he going somewhere. Ain't no one else said he's going somewhere.
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