ONE MORE THING: NBA Compensates Miami Heat For Terry Rozier Situation--But Was it ENOUGH?

One more thing to get to today, the heat finally received some closure on the Terry Rosier situation.

The question is, was it enough?

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But we've got one more thing to talk about today.

News breaking late on Monday that the heat are getting a 2026 second round pick

from the Charlotte Hornets to resolve a dispute over Taros year.

Being under federal investigation at the time that he was traded to Miami

for a first round pick a couple of years ago.

The 2026 pick for more details on that is the most favorable

between the nuggets and the Warriors pick.

So most likely we'll end up being the Warriors pick,

which projects to be right in the middle of the second round.

I think it would be 44th right now, David.

Now, according to local reports,

this is the last thing that the heat are going to be getting from the Hornets

in regards to the rosier thing.

And the NBA is hoping that this closes the door on the Taros year situation

altogether.

The heat are not going to seek more legal anything on this.

Like this is it for all the local reports indicate this is it.

Close the door on the Taros year situation.

So David, my question to you is, is it enough?

Absolutely not.

There is no way that a second round pick

is enough compensation to Miami.

It's more than I expected to be honest with you,

but I don't think it's ever going to come close

to trying to cover up the fact that the league and the Charlotte Hornets

knew exactly what was going on.

And as Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald has reported and others as well,

that because there's no clause in the CBA mandating that the Charlotte Hornets

had to disclose that information,

that Charlotte feels perfectly fine and saying,

well, we don't really owe you anything.

And so that they're throwing away some second round pick

that they don't particularly care for because most teams don't draft

particularly well the second draft and the second round anyway.

And so they're willing to give it away.

Basically, like you found change between the cushions of your couch

and you're like, well, here's something.

That's not enough.

It's absolutely not enough.

And I think it's the most craven, deplorable act

from the NBA front office.

For a front office that has been, unfortunately,

becomes synonymous with craven deplorable acts

to hide whatever drama comes up that they cut things as soon as possible

in order to avoid looking like they've got blood on their hands.

This is their way of saying, look, we know we screwed up,

but take the pick anyway because we just want this all to go away.

And I hope, I know the heat's not going to do anything

and they should it because that will give them,

that'll make them look petty to say, oh, come on, come on,

come on, let's ask for more, let's ask for more.

Let's do something through the legal system.

There's nothing they can do.

But the fact that the league knows how badly they screwed up

that the Charlotte Hornets are basically saying,

yeah, we know they screwed up and we don't really care.

And still that they're willing to throw away

a second round pick to Miami to kind of say,

please take this so that you don't make a stink about it.

I think it's so cowardly.

And I just speak, it just, it does nothing

but leave a really foul taste in my math

about the whole process because you want accountability

from your front office, you want accountability from the team

that knew that this could possibly backfire,

that knew that there was enough there to make them question

whether or not Terry Resier should have been traded

because he was being investigated,

had been investigated by the league.

And yeah, they didn't find anything.

But as you and I have talked about before,

that investigations amounted basically

to asking the most rudimentary questions possible,

the most superficial questions that go,

did he do this?

No, okay, we believe you.

And as such, we're more than willing to kind of turn

to corner and kind of overlook the fact

that he may or may not have been dirty at that point in time

and allow the trade to happen.

The trade should never have happened.

The league should have had much more accountability,

been much more forthcoming.

And the whole problem with this is the whole

wanting to have your cake and eat it too.

We want to be involved in all of these gambling partners.

We want to have all these sponsors

with different gambling companies, et cetera.

And then at the same time say,

well, we don't want our players involved in that.

Well, you can't have it both ways.

And they can't just make it go away

by throwing a second round pick at Miami

and saying, we know we screwed up

but we're not admitting that we screwed up.

So just take this change that we found

between the Christians of our catch and be done with it.

I hope the situation doesn't go away,

but I know that it will.

And it's unfortunate that the league thinks

that this is enough to kind of cover up the whole situation.

So it does remind me a little bit of a kid,

like your son tugging on your shirt,

begging for a dollar to go play a game in the arcade

or to get a gum ball at the store or something.

All right, fine here.

Just take this, stop bothering me.

That's sort of what it feels like is happening to the heat.

Just take the second round pick,

stop bothering us about it.

And that doesn't,

I have heard nothing by the way

that the heat have been bothering the league office about it.

But this is something that the heat are pissed off about.

This is something that they were genuinely upset about

and for good reason.

That rule that you mentioned,

we've talked about it on the show.

The fact that there is no rule in the CBA saying that,

hey, by the way,

when your player is under federal investigation

for a potential gambling conspiracy,

you ought to let the other teams know.

You want to know why that's not in the CBA

because it's an insane thing to happen

and there's nothing in the CBA that's specific.

Now there is a clause in the CBA that does say,

hey, if there's something going on that could be pertinent

to the player's performance on the court,

that information must be disclosed

before any kind of trade happens.

That typically is associated with information regarding injury, right?

Hey, if this guy is dealing with an ankle thing or whatever,

or you think that he's going to need surgery on his shooting hand,

you got to let us know.

Like that's something that needs to come up before the trade.

And even before you do your own medical work

and you kind of have to do the background on that

before the trade is completed.

And that's why this was always a gray area.

And it's why I thought that he did have a leg to stand on

is like, hey, by the way, if our guy is like imprisoned

because of a federal investigation,

that might impact his ability to perform on the court for us.

Right.

And so I think it's absolutely horse bleep

that this is all the heat got.

I also understand that they couldn't really do more.

I get from the NBA and the hornets

being like, what can't you just give you

the first shot and pick back?

That doesn't make sense.

Rosier did play games for the Miami Heat.

He didn't play well, but that's no,

but that's not Charlotte's fault or the NBA's fault.

Like if Rosier came out and scored 30 a game

and they'd be like, hey, well, you kind of got

a return on your investment there.

Like he did play games with the heat.

So I'm not, I'm not trying to say

that I'm defending the NBA,

but I do understand that the rock

and the hard place that they're in.

That said, it's a rock and a hard place

that they're in from their own making.

And for some reason, the heat

are the team that are getting the bleep end

of this whole thing, the entire time.

Like the heat, the one or the one party here

that did nothing wrong is the one kind of getting

the most penalized here.

Now I do hope that this results

in some sort of favor later.

That may not be directly related to tear Rosier,

but like the next time McIarison has some sort of issue

with the front office or the heat need some help

from the NBA League office or something,

they better say yes with no questions asked.

And who knows what that could be,

but that's gonna impact McIarison more than it will.

The fans who had to deal with this entire tear

Rosier situation in the first place.

I have one other thing, David, why this is,

go ahead, jump in really quick.

A makeup call, like you were you're saying

that the league should have a makeup call,

just like on the floor, like the ref knows

that they screwed up on one end

or you'll make up call on the other.

100% maybe it is a makeup call

in a big playoff situation.

If there's a big review in a fourth quarter

and a playoff game for the heat,

Adam Silver better call that referee

be like, hey, by the way,

while you're called Sikakis, hey, tell Sikakis,

hey, rule this in my Amy's favor

because we kinda screwed up the tear Rosier thing.

I have one more really interesting thing here,

which really shows me why the NBA screwed up

and why this as the only thing that the heater getting

in the end result is almost a waste of time

and absolutely to answer my own question, David,

not enough, we'll talk about that next.

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David, here's what I find very interesting about this.

And why I do think the heat would have

some sort of like to stand on here, if they wanted to push it.

But part of me believes, and this is not reporting,

just reading in between the tea leaves

or reading the tea leaves,

reading in between the lines,

tried to merge two things there.

That wasn't a basket.

That wasn't a basket, classic.

I, my guess here is that the heat agreed to this

to help shut the door on it.

Maybe real reluctantly so, but that they did.

The fact that they got anything from this,

as little compensation as it is.

It's a minor miracle.

It's a minor miracle.

Doesn't it admit wrongdoing in the first place?

You either were wrong, or you didn't.

It's very reminiscent of the Kauai Leonard situation, right?

Where, hey, like we might just penalize the clippers

a little bit for cap circumvention.

Like you can't punish them a little bit

for cap circumvention.

You can't circumvent the cap a little.

You either circumvent the cap,

or you don't circumvent the cap.

And in this instance, you either knew about

the federal investigation in Taro's ear,

or you didn't, if you're the Charlotte Hornets.

And it's not the NBA paying a price for this.

It's the Hornets paying the price.

A minor price, but it is the Hornets second-round pick

that is getting moved in this.

And so isn't this admission of guilt

by the Charlotte Hornets?

And if it is admission of guilt

that they did know about this

and wrongly traded Taro's ear under false pretenses,

isn't that enough of a wrong

that they should be punished more?

Shouldn't they be fined for this at the very least?

Like, I know that doesn't help with the heat,

but something to acknowledge,

you did something messed up.

You hurt a fellow colleague in this instance

in terms of another NBA team under the NBA.

This to me is an admission of guilt.

And the fact that all it cost them

was the 44th pick in the draft

that the heat might just trade away anyway.

Yeah.

That's it.

That to me is the surprising thing to me in this.

It's not surprising.

I think it's 100% proof

that they are admitting that they did something wrong.

Because we also know that the league

is more than happy to step in

if they feel like they have to protect a team

from doing something that they don't feel is justified.

So if the league allowed the trade to have

or allowed the team to convey that second round pick,

that's because the league is admitting

their own guilt as well.

It's like, yeah, we know we screwed up.

Yeah, we know the Charlotte Hornets screwed up.

Absolutely, you should take this pick

and kind of make it all go away.

So the whole thing sticks

because you're basically saying, yeah,

we know that there was some wrongdoing here.

But we don't want to make a stick about this.

We don't want this to go any further.

The next we hear about Terry Resier

is that he'll be cut and that he'll be out of the league

and that basically he'll either be in jail or not.

And it's unfortunate

because Terry didn't really do anything wrong.

Like I don't think there was any major wrongdoing.

Like you can have a moral stance against

his involvement in gambling,

but it's not like he actually hurt anybody physically

or anything like that.

And the league is allowed far, far worse.

And that's the part of that,

the whole duplicitous kind of a contradictory nature

of the league is that they allow one thing

and then they put the smack down on one thing.

Like, you know, what we have plenty of players in the league

that have been involved with domestic violence

at far worse and they've been perfectly fine with that.

But God forbid, you put a hundred bucks or a thousand bucks

or your friends put 10,000 bucks

or whatever much money it was.

I don't care how much sugar cane or whatever the hell

is Terry Resier's friend put down

on these things in the first place.

Like it makes no difference to us or to the league.

Maybe they wanted to, the league is so desperate to look

like the good guys.

Well, they're trying to avoid fixing games.

I'll push back on that.

Like if Resier put $1,000 on the under

and then shoots like crap against the pelicans

then that doesn't get so close to the league.

He'll ask you when he was all in the investigation

in the first place.

Like who knows?

That's the whole thing.

You admitted or you said that, you know,

Terry did play for Miami.

But this has been hanging over him since the trade.

Like he came here, he was refreshing.

Then all of a sudden he was like, he took a jump off

that clip like I've never seen before.

I have never seen a player play one that this affected him.

I think mentally like it's the only logical to your point.

We've never seen somebody fall off that way.

It's the only logical explanation.

I think I'm interested now in what happens, right?

So Terry Resier is an expiring contract.

He'll come off the books.

He will either wave him at the end of the season

and just sign somebody to his roster spot

or just let him come off the, you know,

one of those sort of Myron Gardner type deals

or let him come off or potentially, you know,

somebody maybe for a playoff push here even.

But they'll either do that

or just let him come off the books in the summer

and then that'll be it.

That'll officially be the end of the Terry Resier 10 year,

which we can always find more time to look back on.

I would rather forget it.

But that's really it.

I mean, this is sort of the end of this wild Terry Resier ride.

And so that's it.

That's sort of the only thing that's left

in all of this, David.

Yeah, I mean, and I do feel bad.

Like I understand the idea of fixing games.

So, you know, you could have a moral stance about that.

But Terry was a bad person.

Like he didn't appreciate it in the locker room.

He was well liked.

He really idolized Wayne Wade.

And I know the fans turned on him

because his play was so abysmal last year.

And I understand that perspective too,

but it's not like the team

and the league has allowed far worse.

And so to scapegoat Resier in this way,

it feels very unfortunate and unnecessary too.

So I absolutely think that the league knew

that there was something going on

and that they're totally admitting off the record

by never saying anything to confirm that.

That statement because of this.

And that's what kind of that does surprise me a little bit.

Like not even a statement.

You just informed teams and then reporters

that this was happening with no on the record statement

at all.

This is the NBA taking a cowardly way out on all of this.

It's the NBA taking a cowardly way out.

The Charlotte Hornets taking a cowardly way out

and he frankly accepting all of it.

Because I do think that there's a part of the heat

that just also want to turn the page on all of this too.

The fact that they got something like is really surprising.

Because I think that's the whole point to include the second round

pick in the Yannis trade.

Like even if the bucks don't ask for it,

just by the way, we want to include this just to show

that this helped us.

And then can you just say something like it was that second round pick

like the 44th?

That really puts us over the edge over the top.

Yeah, we wouldn't have traded our franchise player

if not for the 44th pick in the track.

Wait, the worst of the warriors and nuggets you said, okay.

All right.

Let's do that one.

Quick no vote.

No vote.

One of the top five players, one of the top players

in the draft has to drop to 44.

You know, this is somehow a lottery pick.

It's like, Adam's still about all 30 teams

and be like, don't draft.

So let him go to my home.

Well, we haven't learned is that there's actually

a lottery odds associated with this second round pick.

So there's a chance that it's up all the way to the number three

in the draft or something.

Yeah.

They haven't they haven't told the top part.

They haven't leave 44th the first.

Wow, never seen this before.

Strange envelope.

This is quick note to end the show here

and something we didn't get to earlier in the week.

Pella Larson made his 41st career start of the season

last weekend, which means that he has met starter criteria

ahead of what could be potential restricted

for agency forum.

So numbers on this, Miami holds a $2.3 million team option

on Pella this summer for next season.

If they decline that option,

that would make them a restricted free agent.

And so Larson's qualifying offer would go up

from $2.6 million to $5.9 million,

which is a little bit, you know, that's twice as much

and could impact their cap.

I did see this information make the rounds.

Bobby Marx was the first one to tweet it.

I made the rounds on social media.

What does this mean?

Do the heat need to keep, how to connect, whatever.

It cut through all that.

It does not impact the heat very much.

Because the key here is that they still have that team option

for Larson on a very, on a bargain price

of $2.3 million next year.

So they're gonna pick up that team option.

And then they'll just negotiate with him as a restricted

for agent in 2027.

So I just wanted to get that out of the way,

because I saw it making the rounds

and I wanted to clarify it, like yes,

the starter criteria hit, the qualifying offer goes up,

but that's only if they decline that team option,

which the heat will not do.

They're gonna pick up the team option,

pay them $2.3 million,

and then deal with his restricted for agency,

sort of in the natural life cycle of it.

The only time this really comes into play

is when a team doesn't really want the player,

and then they decline the team option.

And then that starter criteria will typically shoot up,

and then they'll just renounce that player typically.

That's really the only time that this comes into play,

but here, I don't think it makes a major impact.

In other words, don't worry about it, he fans.

Despite being a second round pick,

do you think teams around the league view him

as the kind of guy that they'd be willing

to pay $6 million a year to you?

Yeah.

I think so.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Look at him and just be like, hey, like he's 5.9 million,

like, well, we'll offer this guy $8 million a year

to be the ninth guy on our team.

That's not a lot of money these days.

Maybe, but it just feels like, you know,

there's also the stink of Miami develops players,

and then they turn out to be that.

And then the problem with restricted for agency

is that you have to go back and forth and you have to wait,

and it ties up that part of your cap for a while.

So yeah, maybe you're right.

Maybe teams will probably just be like,

well, we'll just go find our own fellow, Larson.

Without having to pay him $6 million a year,

we'll just find them on our own with our own second on a pick.

Charlotte won't be doing it with the 44th pick.

Damn right.

We know that.

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