00:00so norm pal did an interview with fadeaway world with the reporter mike uh mark excuse me mark
00:07medina and he basically was talking about his exit from the heat and he said that the heat
00:15he you know initially thought that you know he would be back with the heat but that the heat
00:21never came to him with an offer and no one about didn't sign for very much money he signed for
00:26like
00:26two years 42 million but only one year is a guaranteed because the other year is a team
00:32option right so he's only getting like i mean 21 million for a guy who was an all-star last
00:37year
00:37right which is crazy so he said uh he was talking about the breakdown of this and people took this
00:45really poorly like it went really badly for him on twitter when this got aggregated i think first
00:51you have to first know who's saying it that and a lot of people don't know norman powell
01:00but we are familiar with him so when we hear these words we take them differently than other people may
01:08take it right yeah i think this is i think that's fair i think that people just you know they
01:15read
01:15the one thing they don't really read the quote or or they don't read the back and forth interview like
01:20it wasn't a story like the guy printed the entire quote but he said on miami he said honestly i
01:27thought
01:27it would be going back to miami throughout the course of the year we knew that they wanted to
01:30get yannis we heard some rumblings that norm bam and yannis sounds really good so i thought that was
01:36the path but when the trade is on the table that was in season i don't know uh the talks
01:41behind it
01:42i don't know what milwaukee stance was but it seemed like they were if you want yannis you have to
01:47take
01:47bobby portis and i think that played a part in it because the cba rules hard cap and sending money
01:52out and receiving money now i'll break you for a second that is true because the heat took back
01:57bobby portis in the trade that's why the heat are capped at a certain level at the first apron even
02:01though you can get those people have second aprons and all that the heat because they did a trade
02:06taking back more money that that's where they're capped at for the season they can't go above that
02:10right um he said that put a tough swing on things in my eyes but i could be totally wrong
02:15they could
02:16have made moves and done things if they wanted to obviously wigs would have had to opt out of his
02:20player option take less than his 30 million and they would have had to move nico but the teams are
02:25going to do what they want they didn't make the next the moves necessary to do so so it's about
02:31being ahead of the game and seeing how things played out my agents were on top of it they gave
02:35me
02:35an outline of how free agency would look and as the news was coming out different guys contracts and
02:39trades they kept me informed on what would be next it wasn't as cut and dry so people were like
02:44they just read that like how he was playing out the he really was breaking it down pretty good
02:50yeah but people took it as wait wait wait wait wait you thought wiggins should have taken less money
02:57you thought they should have dumped nico and then i read and i was like ah he's just saying that
03:02literally is what would have had to happen for me to for him to stay with miami he basically broke
03:08it
03:08down to to figure out all the things once they got yannis and took bobby portis in all the things
03:16that would have had to happen to keep him in miami that's all he was talking about and and it
03:24only
03:24takes a couple of knuckleheads to make comments and then everybody starts responding to it yeah and and
03:31so like he was getting lit up and a guy in norm powell who doesn't tweet at all like he
03:37never i i he's not
03:39like you know an active social media guy is especially on twitter like he's he usually puts a lot of
03:45his
03:45stuff that he you know has his media team edit out and puts that all on on instagram and things
03:50like
03:50that but he's not a tweeter it's not his thing but yesterday he as he was joking he goes i'm
03:55in my kd
03:56mode i have time so he was responding to all these people about the issues like one guy told him
04:02so
04:02admit you'd rather take a bag as opposed to winning another chip can't blame you but at least have the
04:07negotiated part of the mid-level to stay he said for the 1000 time miami never offered anything to
04:13negotiate so what are you talking about you guys have all made up your own idea of how the nba
04:17works
04:19um he said would have loved to stay in miami but at the end of the day i want to
04:23go i have to go
04:25where i'm wanted and appreciated fans saying all this stuff like i said in the interview miami never
04:29offered anything he was never offered a deal right um now the problem was one person saw his name in
04:38this and didn't like it and that person was the wrong person so bobby portis saw this tweet from the
04:50heat realm who put the quote out and he said yo norm then he added him
04:58i always respected your game from a distance we in the same draft shout out to 2015 you have to
05:04shout
05:04out 2015 j fig you have to only about nine of us left but keep my name out your mouth
05:10brother i ain't
05:12no throwing bees from chant to chant respectfully king be blessed brother respectfully king so he that
05:21that's just putting somebody on notice like tread lightly that's basically what they say tread lightly
05:27but the problem the problem is is that sometimes reading a word right reading words don't give it
05:37context and he doesn't realize that he didn't say bobby portis was throwing he just said what happened
05:46right and how they accepted that money that it limited what they could do throughout the roster
05:54and that's the only reason why bobby portis name was mentioned yep that's it he just saw bobby portis
06:04we read some comments probably right well i know this was him back at the intro press conference
06:12um and he i think he's kind of he was sensitive to that whole throwing thing because he had even
06:18said
06:18at the intro press conference he's like i'm not a throwing feels great to me um super gratifying to say
06:23the least um not near i never really had many people say really just great things about me you feel
06:29me so
06:30it's kind of good to you know have a coach legendary coach like coach bro and obviously pat
06:35um who's a legend as well to you know want me here um there's a thing in this league for
06:40wanting
06:40for wanting to be somewhere for someone wanting you um not just some throw-in piece that people may
06:47think ain't that like from day one they're gonna get a competitor from day one they'll get somebody
06:51that's gonna go hard make or miss shots i play hard i give 110 every game i play every game
06:57i'm
06:57available you guys tend to learn that from me so um it just feels good to be wanted that's the
07:03biggest thing um when you move teams it's always good to be wanted from that team and not just
07:09a guy that's just around so i think that's super gratifying to say the least like i said
07:15and yeah so obviously mentioning there that he's not a throw-in and i don't agree i don't think that
07:20he's a throw-in i think no i think they've always liked bobby portis they've always liked bobby
07:24yeah they like excuse me bobby portis i think they always liked bobby portis and that they wanted
07:28him as part of the team like he fits with the team they need shooting he is adding some size
07:33to the
07:33team he obviously knows janice very well i didn't think of it as and i don't think norm and uh
07:38and
07:39bobby portis doesn't have an awful contract either i think he's got like 15-0 next year
07:45so yeah i don't think of him as a throw-in but obviously he didn't want that it's it feels
07:50like
07:51something that would bother him if he even sees his name associated with being oh i'm just the
07:55piece that i have to take with janice and so uh that's why he got that's why that's tough for
08:01the
08:01psyche of an athlete you spend your whole life and you just played the last year you know just being
08:11somewhere not really being a pivotal part not really you you know the organization doesn't like
08:18nah they're just not committed to you so to to say you're going to a team that says oh and
08:26we want
08:27bobby portis right and and the things that they have to do to make that work i think that feels
08:33good
08:33to him especially when he's going to a team that bobby you look the greatest thing i tell you all
08:39the
08:39time that happened to me was every team i got to except one they said just go out and do
08:46you
08:47just go out there and do you that's what we want that that that feels great you ain't got to
08:53adjust
08:54who you are and i think that's the the comforting thing about what bobby portis brings to the heat
09:00is that he just go out and be bobby portis he doesn't have to he is he culture he ain't
09:05got to change or
09:06adjust how he plays or does things he fits right in fits right in what gets lost is and this
09:12is the
09:12one thing i hate about twitter is
09:19i used to say this to people i can coach men and i can coach women but i can't coach
09:26stupid
09:28right and so many people see words and stuff like that and react to them without even listening or
09:35knowing norm powell and i think and and i gotta tell you it almost seems like bobby portis was kind
09:42of
09:43treading lightly into it the way he said it because he's familiar with he's like why would
09:50he say something like that he says i'm gonna say this but i'm gonna say it in a non-disrespectful
09:55way
09:56just in case i'm reading it wrong well yeah norm powell was super respectful on the way back he
10:02said something like you know hit me back on my direct line 2015 uh draft or something like that
10:07yeah listen he's definitely listen norm uh bobby portis is not one of those guys you definitely want
10:11to cross i mean he did lay out his teammate like his first year in the league right i just
10:17think i just
10:18think like when two people have a conversation or two people go at go at each other over x or
10:30twitter or whatever
10:31it is and then those two people have a conversation it gets squashed right away
10:37right because like i don't think norm meant anything disrespectful and bobby kind of responded like i don't
10:45think he meant anything disrespectful but but if he did huh but if he did right exactly that's kind of
10:53how it went so i think they'll have a conversation and he'll say no dude i was just breaking down
11:01what
11:01happened that's it honestly that was the other guy in the trade that's the only way i mentioned you the
11:08best quote in this entire piece from norman powell and this went viral yesterday on the chicago bulls
11:13he said quote we have the potential to be really good but we also have the potential to be really
11:21bad
11:22welcome to the first five years of my football career buddy
11:28he's right i mean listen maybe caleb wilson is going to be amazing right and and i know that
11:33hobb you know how come with this mantis brucellis jesus you know you'd think that mantis brucellis
11:39would have the kind of career that goron dragich did the way that he talks about mantis brucellis
11:43i mean kind of the same way you talk about jovic yeah but you know what jovic i don't i
11:50don't
11:51yuck anybody's young well you started it he goes out there and he disrespects a legend i don't
11:56disrespect any legends i just fluff up my guy and that's it all right i don't worry about oh does
12:02this
12:02guy suck i don't go out there and say tony kukoc sucked i don't say that hockman
12:09anybody could have been tony kukoc i don't say that no no it's crazy he was the first euro to
12:15be a
12:16big that only shot threes right that was the first wave but uh either way that uh that we have
12:25uh we
12:26have uh we've had a lot of beefs that are that are building up for this upcoming nba season so
12:30we're
12:30gonna just just one i care about like that that one is that when there is two people that'll work
12:37that
12:37out and there'll be nothing but love right no absolutely no remain come on dude no and like
12:45that doesn't nor being in this beef doesn't even sound like norm i know well that's you know what
12:50i'm saying that's crazy but but i can't wait till tyler comes to town and we go up there and
12:59bam slap
12:59them hands on the ground and say i got him because you know that's coming
Comments