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Draftkings Network. I'm not afraid to admit it to you guys. I enjoy when there is genuine tension in these offices. I think creative stuff needs some sparks. The stuff with Tony and Billy is good. And now, Jeremy is bumping up against somebody that I don't think many people here have bumped up against. Mike has accrued a great deal of power over here. Mike vetoed me on four things this week, and I slinked back in here, defeated, because he's got a lot of power in the company. And Jeremy continues to badger Mike.

Well, that you trust him.

Well, that's why he has.

A lot of power in the company. I mean, he protects you from you. He protects me from me.

That's what he does. Yes, that's one of the many things that he does. But also what he does is he rises up like a COBRA, like a COBRA. His back gets real wide.

It's a good, strong snake. I like it.

When the back room, there's challenge any of his-.

It's a garden snake. I would have been pissed.

His takes. And Jeremy is doing something that hasn't happened around here real often, where he's saying, No, Mike, you're wrong about some stuff regarding the Miami Heat, and you're beginning to piss me off with how you go back and forth on the Miami Heat. We saw this last year that you celebrate them when they're doing well, barely. But when they're not doing well, it confirms your belief that they're not any good.

Right. And I'm held accountable and was forced to apologize directly to five members of the Miami Heat last year. And this year, that's a great win over a team like the Indiana Pacers that are also competing for a play in spot.

This guy walks in here after the weekend, after not watching the games and says, Oh, see what happens when you play a real team, not talking about no Bam, no Jimmy, no Tyler, no Duncan against the Nets. I think my frustration stems from being cornered into being a homer, being positioned as a homer. Which you are, of course, you're not. -for offering legitimate analysis on this team, consistently bringing educated analysis to the table, watching the team.

You're making me fair and balanced by comparison. This is great.

Paid by the team. Keep going. Not paid by the team.

Actually in the.

Locker room, doing more reporting. Yes, speaking to players. Paid by the media. More fawning, I'd say.

Shadow puppeted by the team.

Put it on the pole at Levitard show. Is Jeremy covering the team, faunting over the team, or a shadow puppet.

Or all of the above.

No, because that'll win. I want them to answer the question I'm asking.

But the reality here is that when you're walking in and firing off takes, when you're firing off takes weeks and weeks after I've done it, being positioned as the homer, it is infuriating. I'm not afraid to buck up against the reality of the situation. That's what.

This is. Okay, we'll play this video. You claim that you had your home or take before I had my home or take. We'll watch the video together and make a... See, I'm fair and balanced. I can concede.

From the 16th of November.

This is an investigation, okay? This is a, Jeremy Hitchcock.

This is from the 16th of November. Okay, I already have my thoughts. Okay, go for it. Let's just play this video.

No, wait a minute. He went back in the file, and what he found is he's claiming, Jeremy, with the help of a whole bunch of people, what they found, Jeremy claims it's him saying the thing before you.

Said the thing. Okay, let's play the video.

Yeah, well, Jaime Hawkins Jr. Has been fantastic, and offensively, he's really already grown into a guy who he probably won't leave the rotation. Now the Heat are just looking almost at an embarrassment of riches when it comes to their rotation, because now that Kela Martin comes back tonight, this team is really deep.

Yeah, I mean, or really lucky to be playing the Chicago Bulls in two out of the next three. Then after that, the schedule gets really difficult. Yes, it's cool to say that they're third in the East. They're also two games away from being 11. I think they're closer to being 11 now. I'm not really sure where you were right there, but whatever it was, I said it.

Before you. I brought Jaime Hawkins Jr. And his offensive development to the table.

Two weeks ago.

What?

I was all over Haquiz. No, you were not. Yeah, he's my guy.

When was the first time you said it, Mark?

I said you can't trade Hawkins for Lillard. No, no, no, no. You get Tyler Hero. That is.

The furthest.

Thing from what happened. You get Tyler Hero.

It's not true.

You get Tyler Hero and you like it is what I said. That is not true. That's what I said.

I'm not going to go into.

My phone. See, this is great stuff. He said, he said, Jeff. Now you know why I'm a COBRA.

I'm not.

Going to- Deadly, snake.

I'm not going to go into my phone and get the direct quote. But I'm going to paraphrase here on the last conversation I had with Mike. When I'm telling him, Mike, I'm talking to people around the team here, and they keep telling me that they're deeper. And Mike Ryan's only response was, in deeper shit.

Well, that's also right.

Why do you guys think talking to the team has such great value?

They also told you they weren't trying to train Tyler Hero after telling you that it was Tyler.

Hero or take it or leave it. That's my point. You think you're getting the truth from the team?

No. From the players.

Who you're speaking to.

I trust Mike Moore. Okay. This fight makes me uncomfortable. This is a COBRA versus a puppy. This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous. He is a puppy.

Okay, well, we will continue to stoke these fires. Maybe we can figure out a way after many years to make Miami Heat talk interesting. I doubt it. Our audience.

Rejects it. I was right.

It's working. Yeah, no, it's a great segment. You know over.

The last five games, Josh Richardson. Your boys averaging 16 points, four rebounds and shooting 54 % from the field.

Okay, well, let's wait on that one.

We are.

Going- You know what? I won that debate.

He already knows.

I.

Won. After 82, he already knows he won.

When he dribbles that ball off of DJ Khaled's pillow, you're going to be coming back to me.

We are going to open up the club here, Stugat, in just a second. But I wanted to ask you what you imagine... I shouldn't even be asking you this. You're a terrible person.

To ask. Well, thank you.

What do you imagine an embarrassment of riches looks like? Like being embarrassed by- Caleb Martin.

I can't imagine being embarrassed with any riches.

Is this Haywood Hyde Smith over here? Can you guys are going to look so stupid.

I'm just saying to be embarrassed- Oh.

I'm so rich.

What's there to be embarrassed about it?

To be embarrassed by your richness. I'm simply asking what that? I'm not asking in basketball. I'm asking in life, like walking into a room and I'm like, There's a gold chalice. Wow, there's a whole lot of opulence over there. I have someone playing a harp 24 hours a day. Am I embarrassed? No, not yet. How about a flume that just gives me milk, chocolate, and gold? What does an embarrassment of riches.

Look like? I think you've got to find somewhere in the upper middle class because I think the only way that you could be embarrassed by the amount of riches you have is if you were embarrassed enough to not become truly, truly so rich that you have so many riches.

Nicholas cage is doing a movie right now where he plots to seal Orlando Robinson.

What? I don't.

Think- He was pretty good last night.

-that the people who are richest are ever embarrassed. Right. Why would would you be? Well, I don't know where the phrase comes from. Who started that? Who was the initial person to be embarrassed by their richness?

Is that Thomas over here? Is that Thomas Bryan over there? But that's why the Heat are perfect, right? Because all the lottery picks are middle of the first round lottery picks. They have all these undrafted guys. They're not the rich of the Rich who've been drafting at the beginning where it's all these high touted prospects. They can have an actual embarrassment of riches.

Stop talking about the heat. I'm speaking on behalf of the audience here. It's just the sound I heard echoing as if it were in the Grand Canyon being shouted by the millions of people that Spotify isn't.

Giving us credit. Down the middle, Jeremy.

It was John O'Zell, by the way, back in 1726.

Two games out of not being in the play in.

French playwriter.