🚨 PERK TAKE ALERT 🚨 It's time for the Heat to trade Jimmy Butler | NBA Today

Luca's been on a heater man and his dominance continued last night Luca and the MAV hosting the magic here in this one over the last five games since returning from an ankle injury donic is averaging a 40 Point triple double Tim absolutely Unstoppable right this is the most Unstoppable dominant offensive force in the game right now because he controls it as a scorer and as as a facilitator and right now is the best this the best stretch of his career oh I like that statement cuz I'm thinking about Joel embi and what he's doing but you're right his ability as a facilitator might separate him and we're seeing some uncharted waters for a guy that's what 25 and under four-point game here Luca donin feeds it to Derek Lively who is amped after that one L like yeah you see my vision you see it there three-point game though it got a little bit dicey here what in the world give it up you walked come on man he got yeah he got held a little bit but he took about six steps on a trap in the back court yeah and the refs called him out out for it poo B Caro goes up strong there he thinks he was foul the magic down one at this point after some M mad Mavs free throw say Mavs magic a whole bunch of times fast okay the my can they hang on the magic have a chance oh perfectly executed dodg finishes with 45 points 15 assists nine rebounds Mavs get the win in a thriller over the magic say that a couple of times Luka has now scored assisted on almost 80 points per game over his last three that's the third most in a three-game span in NBA history behind only overlapping spans from Wilt Chamberlain around what oh yeah around his a 100o game and Jason kid he was on local radio in Dallas 97.1 The Freak and he says we are not appreciating Luca's game enough take a listen you can't take this young man for granted um he's better than Durk uh he's in the in the in the atmosphere of MJ the best to ever do it LeBron uh Kobe um and so just to appreciate what uh this young man's doing at the age of 24 is uh something that Dallas has never seen and uh his ultimate goal is to to to win a championship and he will win multiple uh when it's all said and done that's a pretty bold statement not the Championships the the first part there but does he have a point here perk at first when I first heard these comments I was like J kid tripping but he do have a point and and Luca showed us that when he first went against the Clippers in that series and he dominated the Clippers although Dallas lost the Series but Luca is one of one when it comes down to just individual talent and dominating the game I always said this he's LeBron James minus the athleticism right minus the highflying dunks and all that that's how much he controls the game a game changer and a game manager when need be and Luka what he's doing right now the Run he's on is special I wish a lot of it could come to wins cuz you want to see more of this Luca in the postseason but Jay kid is on to something listen he took it too far let's let's just let's just be honest about it he went too far I didn't even have a problem when he said he's better than Dirk because from a skill set standpoint he is better than Dirk because of his ability to handle the basketball and create for other people and he scores at the same rate Dirk did or better than Dirk did even so I'm okay with that he should have left it there and said he aspires to be one day mentioned with the likes of a LeBron James A K Bry and Michael Jordan that's a perfectly fine statement when you throw him in there now with three guys that won 15 rings collectively and you haven't even been to the finals yet and here's the biggest point for me all three of those guys at stretches in their career were were candidates for Defensive Player of the Year certainly First Team all League type Defenders laid it on the line and affected the game on that end as well so I just think Jay kid went too far and there is no way Jason kid makes that statement if he's not his head coach like if Jason kid just watching Luca he's not saying that about Luca do you agree come on you preaching I'm thinking but but legs but legs I was think I'm thinking that he talking about like when they were around his age and at the beginning stages of their career obious I do think so yeah that's what I that's what I took it ass and it gets exaggerated when it's on local radio and you're right perk and I think the numbers that I was going to bring up is he's 24 averaging 34.6 or something right now that is absurd he's a five-time NBA Allstar already at the age of 24 so his trajectory and what he's able to do his talent wise I see the comps when it comes to scoring controlling leading a team but my goodness the separators here are Championship Tim is absolutely right to me yeah Zach where do you fall on this yeah I just I I think we maybe should just leave the name Michael Jordan and LeBron James kind of off to the side in most player comparisons but look he's on the way there that's what he's doing that's how good he is that's the territory he's going to be in if he keeps playing at this pace and yeah he hasn't WI a ring yet he's 24 years old or whatever he is and the ultimate tribute to him perk nailed it before teams fear him as a playoff opponent they want no part of dealing with this dude for seven games trying every defense in the book against him we got a trap we got a switch and watching him solve it on the first or at the latest second try he is a guy that makes coaches stay up at night and get cold sweats and have nightmares about what in the hell he's going to do to our defensive game plan tomorrow and the next day and the next day teams want nothing to do with him in a playoff series yeah I wouldn't want anything to do with him offensively in a playoff by the end of his rookie year I said this guy's going to be a multiple time champion in a multiple time MVP and I believe that I'll stand by that statement but let's let him let's let him get a little further down the road before we stop dropping those kinds of names that's all I'm saying he took it a little too far that's it's always good to have something to Aspire to right you want to leave something to Aspire Terry Roser he put the moves on KD here but the heat highlights they were few and far between they lost their seventh straight over the last three games the Heat have been outscored by 62 points that's their worst Point differential in any three- game span under SP now look at this the seven game losing streak is the team's longest in 16 Seasons under SPO he's one of three head coaches to coach over a thousand games before his first seven game losing streak joining Pat Riley and Phil Jackson so perk the Knicks the heat uh they played this weekend you said uhoh but there the two teams right they're going in completely opposite directions in the standings which one are you more bullish on the Knicks or you more worried about the Miami Heat here I'm worried about the Miami Heat and and here's one for you right here Malika it's time for the Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler to go their separate ways and I believe that the Miami Heat need to do right by Jimmy and trade him to a team that's actually that actually could compete for a title this season and Jimmy need to accept that for the simple fact when you look at their roster right now right you have an A a veteran old Kevin Love Jimmy Butler is 34 years of age everyone else is 30 years and younger bam is 26 uh you know HZ Jr is is what 22 I think Tyler hero is 24 like at the end of the day this Heat team is not going to have a magical run again and so we don't know how much we're going to see how much time we're going to have to see play off Jimmy right and we want to see play off Jimmy he's just not going to be as just not going to be with the heat and so I feel like it's time for them to part waves I want to see playoff Jimmy too but trade Jimmy Butler feels a little far for me Zach what about you well the challenge would be perk said trade him to a contender what is the contender that still has enough assets to send out to Miami and have a contender on the way back with Jimmy Butler it's a it's an interesting thought exercise and stuff but look every team season reaches a maker break point the heat are here now Terry Rosier just got here hame hakz Jr just got back they have their team now Jimmy Butler the last two or three games has finally looked like Jimmy Butler after kind of mandering around for a bit if it's going to happen if this team is going to click into place it's got to happen now or otherwise it will be too late not enough games left on the schedule so the next five six 10 games are going to define whether the heat put themselves in position to at least have a shot to beat some of these teams and take on some of these teams in the playoffs or they fade to Oblivion the good news for them is they have a huge cushion before they fall out of the 78 bracket in the playing tournament but that's not where the heat want to be you don't want to be in a position where you've got to beat the top three teams in the East just to get to the finals come on they need to be better than this and it's got to start now or else the kind of questions that perk is asking aren't going to sound so ridiculous or like such hot takes that is true I just feel some type of way because we're approaching February which means we're approaching the trade deadline which means we're approaching Valentine's Day and we're talking about breakups I feel like perk the last few weeks you've been talking about the Warriors now you're talking about the Heat and the breakups there is some logical reasoning to the struggles that we're seeing are not normal from them because when bam Jimmy and Tyler hero suit up they're like five and 11 which does not make sense but I also remember that last year at this point the heat were 25 and 22 things weren't that hot for the Heat and then they turned it around and made it to the finals I understand that you feel like you've M oh let me I don't want to make that analogy but you squeez the most out of Jimmy Butler in the playoffs and maybe he's better off on a more of a ready-made Contender but not too long ago we were also talking about if Damen Lillard made it to the Miami Heat they would be a contender maybe the idea is not necessarily that he has to go and that you have to rebuild maybe they're just waiting for their best shot to find someone else to bring them back so it's not just on Jimmy Butler going like like this every exactly well but but I feel like a lot of people thought Terry Rosier was that piece right everyone said they needed a point guard they went out and they got that guard they got a scoring guard and now it's sort of like okay well was that their move so I guess we started this by saying you feel better about the Knicks or you feel worse about the heat three say they feel worse about the heat how are you feeling I'm more in this conversation I'm more bullish on the next than the heat because the heat still last I look still do have Eric spoler right okay I have a lot of faith I have a lot of faith in Sp first of all perk cracks me up because I think he in the next life he's going to be an Auctioneer just selling everything sold every player in the league sell them off to the highest B sold I can see perk up there with that gav no but here's the thing let's talk about the Knicks and here's what it comes down to for me when I watch the Knicks play there's a simple rule in basketball when you consistently play harder than your opponent good things happen that's who the Knicks are they come to work every single night it's the mentality of their coach it's the mentality of their personnel and their best player Jaylen Brunson is just one of those guys that's very difficult to get off his game because he's too smart he's too strong his fundamentals are too good and he's he's too highly skilled honestly and he's kind of Built For This Moment to be a leader of a team in this situation so look they've got this stretch coming up without Randall this team goes above 500 during that stretch in large part to what brunson's going to do offensively right it's time if they get through that they get Randle back after the All-Star break the New York Knicks are a team now you're going to have to start taking seriously as a legitimate contender in the Eastern Conference that's what they're starting to impress me with every night because they just come with the hats on every night you can rarely say that about teams in the league anymore 20 and0 perk yeah go ahead against teams under 500 I mean you know they doing that [Music] thing

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Published: Tue Jan 30 2024