Pat Riley jokes about Bam Adebayo “knocking out” Tyler Herro: “Mentioning one guy— and I don’t want to get knocked out— Bam is one of those guys who came in here too.”
Spo loved that
Yeah, he said “Wow” under his breath lmao
Dunno if I’ve seen Spo smile that big ever before lol
Job security
Must be a great feeling to know your boss chose to keep you even when peak LeBron wanted you out
He got at least a semi out of that.
I mean it was the right decision
I’m sure he did when he signed his last contract right after his divorce
Seem like the organization been wanted Herro outta there 😂
At least they traded him before he got punched unlike Poole.
Imagine getting knocked out by your coworker and then having to come to work every day and work with the coworker who knocked you out. And he’s still working without any consequences for what he did.
And your boss is really angry at the random guy who video taped it while everyone online has seen you get knocked out.
HE BROKE THE CODE
And then the guy who knocked you out makes an entire documentary about it while taking zero accountability
Construction work?
Any person on planet earth is free to knock me out if it means I get 140mil.
Imagine being such a dick that all the rest of your coworkers thought you had it coming.
Word is he refused to play unless he was 100% . this caused stress and injuries on everyone else who weren’t pussies.
Always bewildering to me how you can willingly be a shit teammate even at that level. You are getting paid millions to play a team game and it’s still not enough somehow.
I can see both sides. Teams show no loyalty and at the end of the day it is still a job. If you’re playing with nagging injuries you risk your own long term health and success, and for what? Just with recent examples, Harden played injured and people still shit on him. IT lost out on a HUGE bag.
You also aren’t going to get a bag if you appear to be constantly injured unless you’re a possible 1A on a championship team.
I mean that depends. It’s managing risk/reward. If you use Herro as an example he is young and doesn’t have a major injury that puts how he comes back into question so if he’s sitting out trying to get back to 100% on minor injuries I don’t think that affects his value a great deal.
you play injured, you could end up in pain for literally the rest of your life
or you could rest and deal with a bunch of multibillionaire manbabies crying that you aren’t playing through injury
i would take a pain free life every time, no amount of money is going to matter once you’re dependent on opioids
The way behavior is rewarded or punished usually dictates how people act.
In the NBA, scoring a lot of points and doing little else usually results in a big contract.
this caused stress and injuries on everyone else who weren’t pussies.
lol
Alright, it’s past your bed time. You’re gonna love Giannis.
Reports were they got tired of him missing games and that he wouldn’t play unless he was 100% healthy cuz he didn’t want to have a bad game and get blamed.
Versus bam who has played thru a bunch of unreported shit and rarely misses games
They’ve been trying to trade him since like his 2nd year. dude been giving andrew tate vibes since he entered the league.
They’ve been trying to trade him for years.
Not sure Giannis even processed it
He knows he might be next
not with bobby around pecking order is alive and well lol
well i think that answers if the heat fo cares about the incident lmao
Before the altercation but after the leaks, there was Pistons fans who had already sold themselves so hard on Herro that they swore it was only redditors who would care about what was said. I tried telling them, nobody likes getting their pockets watched and getting insulted by a jealous former coworker
from a on court perspective herro would be great on that team but yea id imagine herro’s rep among the players took a hit after those leaks
Yeah man, that’s a locker room cancer waiting to happen. I feel like that’s worse than what KD did with his burners tbh.
It definitely is. KD at least kept it to just hoops. But crying to randoms about your teammate having a bigger check than you is weak af.
I 100% guarantee you every NBA player has a private chat where they vented about how shitty a teammate is. KD was just dumb enough to do it with randos under a burner.
Herro’s shit is completely different. He’s pretending to be Bam’s friends while hating his success behind his back.
Yeah i mean normal people vent about their coworkers being absolute fucking slackers all the time.
And we’re talking about a league of 400 dudes who grew up as the Jordans of their whole entire childhood.
KD’s also not known for not being honest in face-2-face either. Whenever he talks well about teammates in public he usually doesn’t say anything bad in burners (see: Westbrook, Steph, Kyrie).
That’s not face to face tho. It’s common sense not to badmouth coworkers in front of the media, but you might still be honest with them one on one.
He’s 100% talked bad about Russ and other teammates on his burners. Pretty sure those were the first tweets shown after his account was uncovered lol
Tbf “triple double cocaine bear” is the greatest description of Russell Westbrook ever put to words. In his prime he was great in most facets of basketball to warrant having insane stats, was lightning fast, had incredible stamina and was strong as fuck. Not to say KD did or didn’t mean it as an insult of course.
KD also sells tickets, and even at 37 is better than Herro. And then Prime KD was a t3 player in the league. Teams (and locker rooms) put up with a lot of bullshit when you’re good
And i 100% guarantee you almost every NBA player has a private chat where they vented about how much money a teammate makes compared to them. No different than any company in the world. People act like this is some cardinal sin but it’s a daily occurrence. You don’t think the entire Wiz are gossiping about Trae Young’s bag? If they aren’t now, they will be soon. Same for players on half the teams in the league.
Bam has great PR but what Herro said isn’t even that off base, objectively– dude is on a max contract scoring 20 ppg on dog shit efficiency. 56% TS is absolutely terrible for a center… Herro’s efficiency is much better as a pure shooter… and Bam’s defense is very good, mostly because he’s really versatile and switchable, but he’s not a dominant impactful defender like Wemby or Gobert, even though his defensive PR is sky high.
Idk if I missed anything, but KD’s burner stuff was mostly about basketball. Big difference and personal line crossed when you start talking about contracts. Huge difference in private vs public too.
Are we forgetting he called Jabari regarded?
Have you seen Jabari play basketball?
He and Bam were close too, talking like that about a guy that trusts you was trash of Herro
The league and FO’s doesn’t care about way more seriously actual crimes like rape and domestic violence why would they give a shit about this?
I really don’t know why people thought they’d care lol. If Herro was a Miami Heat legend then maybe sure, but Pat Riley literally tried to fuck with Lebron.
and did not back down when Shaq got in his face after pushing Zo and UD out of the way to get to Riley
The bottom of these posts where the shut-ins are mad cus nobody’s going to jail over a fight is always funny
Riley is the one who knocks
Riley said knock him out, Bam gonna knock him out
Alexa, play LL Cool J
I want him to know it was me.
I keep a lot of heat
Lmfaoooooo no way he just said that
no way everyone started clapping lmao
That’s the most believable part lmao
The one time where everyone actually clapped
I’m guessing Herro isn’t getting a tribute video on his return
Herros tribute video is just gonna be Bam mean mugging the camera for 90 seconds
ill give him a tribute video alright…
Godfather does what he wants
It sort of doesn’t surprise me, lol, a few years ago, Pat mentioned that Tyler, Duncan, and Struss should give some of their paycheck to Bam for defensive coverage. I’m sure Pat wasn’t going to let Herro slide with b.s. after what he saw on Twitter about Bam’s money.
Just when I thought I was out, they PULL me back in
Is that Pacino or is that Pacino? Spittin’ image!
Great-godfather
Draymond must be fuming.
“Flirtation vs. Harassment” meme playing on repeat in his head as we speak.
Pretty sure Draymond had fo office support too
The difference was that public opinion generally supports or are indifferent to Bam because of Herros comments.
Draymond doesnt have that support from anyone other then Kerr and ownership.
Also years of Bam being a likeable guy and years of Draymond being a fucking dickhead. These things aren’t and don’t have to be evaluated in a vacuum
And years of Herro being a dickhead
Key difference:
Dray’s on camera doing it mid practice and we can’t see a genuime lead up
Bam’s off camera. All we can do is imagine. And everyone can imagine Herro doing something that would make you want to punch him in the face
“And everyone can imagine Herro doing something that would make you want to punch him in the face”
herro’s face is reason enough
Can you give me even two examples off the top of your head of Herro being a dick? Everyone keeps saying this with zero actual examples.
He has never been particularly problematic. People just hear his accent and assume his entire personality.
He is a major shit talker. He is constantly trying to get under people’s skins during games, literally non stop.
You see it as fiery because he is/was your guy, and that’s fine man, it’s a form of competitiveness.
But from the other side he just looks like a shit bird who’s constantly stirring the pot, and I could very much see him doing that with bam at the wrong moment because he thought everything was all good.
I mean did you see that punch Draymond gave? Like even if Jordan Poole was being an asshole, that was a crazy sucker punch, UD described it perfectly as a club punch you’d swing on someone you don’t know, not a teammate.
We never saw the altercation between Bam and Herro but Herro didn’t seem to have any visible marks on him so I’m assuming it was more of a typical “smush” half push/half hearted punch type of deal.
Herro and Bam are also peers while Draymond was the experienced vet vs newcomer Poole. The dynamics are pretty different.
“front office office” bro I’m crine
Broke the code.
Feels like punching a coworker when you’re both at work is somewhat different than punching a former coworker on your own time
It depends on who is doing it. When it is a guy that has a reputation for being calm, kind, and chill, versus a boisterous, loudmouth dude, you tend to get the benefit of the doubt.
What. Draymond got Poole traded. Tyler Herro was knocked out after the fact.
Funny how public opinion works eh. Not fact based. Draymond’sv reputation leads to hatred
Kicked Tyler on the way out lmao
They been dangling him as a trade asset forever and now they joking about him getting knocked out
Harsh.
Pat Riley still one cold ass dude.
Yea doubt Herro gets a tribute video anytime soon when he eventually returns to Miami 😆
Given they weren’t loyal to Dwyane Wade, don’t know how anyone thinks they’ll have anything from Miami after they leave.
They shun their all timers, and unless you are like 5 times better and 10 times more popular than MJ and LeBron combined, you ain’t shit to them.
Now, if that person exists that can score 120 PPG, 30 stocks and 50 RPG, and be more well known than the POTUS and have more influence on global politics, maybe they wouldn’t burn that bridge. But that guy is probably president of Earth as his side hustle to being the GOAT.
Alonzo Mourning and Udonis Haslem 5 times better and 10 times more popular than MJ and LeBron combined, confirmed.
You don’t get dangled like that if your coworkers love being around you and you put your team first. Or at least it’s much less likely.
I don’t think it’s that deep. No one really knows what happened
I don’t think it’s not that deep.
???
Also a room full of people know exactly what happened. They were there.
Yeah Herro you ain’t coming back
No one cares about him lol
He barely plays and he’s mid. Good enough to pay him if you don’t really have someone better, not good enough to move the needle.
That first Miami/Bucks game will be a fun watch.
Probably not, since we’ll be terrible lol
It’ll still be good for individual performances probably
that has never stopped teams from destroying the Heat in the regular season. Miami traditionally loses to the worst teams. by a lot.
Sounds fun to me
So will the Heat.
Eh, Miami has no shooters.
Well, the Bucks have 1 1⁄2 NBA players
Rollins and JJJ are both NBA players. That’s at least 2
I like all 4 of the guys we got from you(I mean i don’t like Herro but he’s talented)
Kuzma is -1.5
Yall are overblowing this trade as if it was bad for the Bucks.
I’m not gonna lie I forgot the trade happened. I was thinking they still had Ryan Rollins holding down the fort by himself
Bad for the Bucks unless they trade Herro for a 1st. Burries is less talented but has better IQ and not a negative in the locker room like Herro is.
They will 100 percent flip him by the deadline. A team will be in need of his scoring.
Crossed fingers 🤞 hope the Bucks can get some level headed vet to teach the rookies the right way to play. Jenkins should be good for that and Turner helps on the player side.
Thank god there’s other ways to score, other than the 3pt, & thank god defense matters!
Wow, its called spacing and the heat dont have that. Try not to be so dense.
Your initial claim is basically saying, Heat aren’t much better than Bucks, because the lack of 3pt shooting. They’ll literally dominate every other aspect of the game, speaking with some bias/reality, Heat sweep them in a 7 game series, as currently constructed.
And you assume all those guys traded by the Heat to the Bucks won’t have some extra juice when they meet in the regular season. Playoffs got nothing to do with that.
Also, half of the current starting 5 are 40% 3 point shooters. If THJ makes the cut, than 3 of the 5 will be 40% 3 point shooters. That’s literally better than your starting 5 considering you got rid of your best 3 point shooter and replaced him with Brown.
at this point we might have more shooters than u guys
I do wonder if Giannis gets booed. I’m on the fence but leaning towards I hope he does. If it was a more mutual thing where he went to OKC/sas and not to a city he explicitly hated against in the past and knocked us out twice during Giannis tenure, I would be more inclined to wish him luck
Fuck no he’s not getting booed lol, are you insane
I’d like to see. My gut says Miami is going to be the better team by quite a bit. So booing Giannis might be a bad move to motivate him if they do. Miami is one piece away from being a mid pack playoff team next year imo. Bucks miss playoffs. As is Miami might be 7 or 8 seed roster. Just how I see it.
GOAT
Spo’s a herro guy too and he started immediately laughing lol
Maybe Riley called the hit
In a parallel universe, Spo is only laughing because he called the hit telling Bam to stand on business.
Round of applause ???😂
Baby make that ass clap 👏👏
lmaoo they probably don’t get that reference on here
This guy will never lose his fast ball man lmao
why Riley answer like he ordered the hit? lol
Pat is from NYC. He doesn’t give a fuck lol
Pat Riley is from Upstate New York, not New York City…two very different places
His brother played for both the Jets and Giants and Pat coached the Knicks.
I mean yeah he was born upstate, but he definitely spent a lot of time in NYC.
Knicks fans don’t claim him though, that’s for sure. Left town like a straight up traitor.
He still sees Allan Houston in his nightmares
You disrespected him a little bit
i love pat riley personally
Wild lol
Shouldn’t that pineapple be upside down?
Tyler Herro must be really annoying lol
Pat don’t give a fuck lmao
Culture
Giannis looked like his rich uncle just made an inappropriate joke
Damn they hated that man
What is up with coaches celebrating their players getting knocked out?
not his player anymore is it?
The difference between this & the Draymond/Poole situation is (1) Herro isn’t on the Heat anymore and (2) footage hasn’t released of the fight so we don’t know who’s to blame
Yeah they definitely didn’t like Hero
Damn, they really didn’t like Herro
They all hated Herro lmao
Seems like Herro wasn’t liked in that organization.
Can’t talk shit about the Jesus of the organization, Mr heat himself, bam adebayo and get away with it
Oh man, they are so happy be rid of that culture vulture
This is amazing 😭😭😭
Riley definitely sent in the hit
Oh so the Heat fucking hated Herro huh?
Giannis didn’t get it
The round of applauds is diabolical.
Herro in shambles
Ooof
Way worse than anything anyone in the Warrior organization ever said about Poole, the difference in response has been very enlightening
Herro doesn’t seem to have been the most popular guy, no.
Bam getting the treatment Draymond got for knocking out Poole…a standing ovation 👏
Seems like the FO did not mess with herro
It’s just Kentucky Wildcat business among Riley, Herro and Bam.
Is Bam the worst franchise cornerstone of all time? Dude is a border line all star and gets treated like he’s Kobe over there
Should the heat have success he will be their OG, you can play him with anyone
i think he embodies what pat riley and spo loves and they’re always talking about his defense and leadership mindset and 90% of defense is just effort so i can see why they like him so much
plus he typically is never in headlines or does anything wild and pat and his wife throw parties and events for players, i wouldnt be surprised if lots of pat’s family really like bam
He’s a winner, intangibles aren’t actually intangible and he has them all. And can give you 83 lol
Individual skill wise yes, but in a team concept where he doesn’t have to be the #1 or #2 scorer he is absolutely a winning player. Like I would definitely rather be saddled with Bam than Beal even though peak Beal is a better player
Yea this is giving Bam already told us no matter the salary in his later years he’s staying. Just like UD. Only difference is his ceiling is higher. Same situation all around I think.
This bucks heat rivalry will be interesting
The rivalry ended the second they fell off, even with Giannis still on their team
Sucker punching someone is weak.
do u know the definition of sucker punch?
Master of stepping
Herro in absolute shambles lmao
lmao!!
I can’t wait to see this team make it out of the play in!
Wack
This is so trashy
Ah yes, making light of violence
Stay classy Heat lol
That old saying : talk shit, get hit.
You see it’s funny guys because one of our executive level employees punch a former employee in front of some kids. God I crack myself up…
At that price point, you can hit.
Heat Culture is in the gutter
It’s awesome when assault is normalized.
yeah man cause assault is so funny
Soft. Wonder if you felt this way about all the “kincks fans” in nyc assaulting every other fan base?
yes, dumbass. and about spurs fans assaulting new yorkers.
Uh huh. Deflecting is hilarious.
TIL answering a question straight up is “deflecting”
His first word fucking answered your question dumbass