Gianni tones his outraged persona down for this episode. Hooray! Brass, Leif, Alex Toledo and Brian Goins join to discuss everything from puppet media questions, the Heat Beat perception of being homers, and who the most likely Heat member to search on the deep web is? We also debut “That’s So Riley?” where we take your hard-hitting journalism questions that the media wouldn’t dare ask The Godfather.
Kelly Olynyk gets signed by the Miami HEAT minutes before the show. What happens next is unhinged Giancarlo Navas blasting his bile and poison at tradable contracts. Harrison Cytryn, Clay Ferraro of WPLG, Crab, and Brian Goins try to calm him to no success.
Draft day is among us!!! We watch the draft live and react to everything as it happened. Gianni has no idea about who any of these people are. Nekias and Alex try to provide analysis. We also watch Monk drop and are on “Monk Watch” for much of the show. Also, who the hell is Adebayo?
The Finals are over! The guys break down the NBA Finals as everyone slanders a different person. We talk how delusional HEAT fans think they’re getting everyone, and how McBobs is gonna save the HEAT? Gianni also tells his drunken story at a Chicago wedding. The guys react.
We welcomed Josh Baumgard of Slice Miami, who joined Giancarlo Navas, Brian Goins and Alex Toledo as they talked 2017 NBA Finals. Brian’s old bad takes were exposed and the guys compared Golden State to the Big 3 Miami HEAT.
The Clusterbleep crew rejoins with special guest Chris Joseph of the Miami New Times. Harrison scorches the Earth with his hot takes on LeBron James, HGH, Michael Jordan and more. Brass Jazz is unhinged. And Christian Hernandez has the best Kevin “Capri Sun” Love stats.
We celebrate four years of The Heat Beat Podcast with Giancarlo Navas, Brian Goins, Leif, Alex Toledo, and a cameo from a very special guest.
Gianni, Brian, Nekias, Harrison and Alf discuss the 2017 NBA Draft Lottery and marvel at Alonzo Mourning’s facial expressions. We talk conference final playoff matchups, how dumb people are for suggesting that players should leave the East because of LeBron, and Brian reads scouting reports on prospects the HEAT may target poorly.
We welcomed Chris Wittyngham of beIN Sports & Univision as our special guest to join Giancarlo Navas and Brian Goins in discussions that involve: Media members and former coaches who are statistically obtuse about advanced metrics, who the greatest NBA journeymen ever is, what if NBA commentators and color analysts rotated and covered new teams every year, and why the HEAT shouldn’t pursue a reunion with Dwyane Wade. We also sprinkled some pop culture and soccer talk since it’s the offseason and you can’t expect much better from us.
Gianni, Jack, Nekias and Brian fight through two hours of audio troubleshooting to bring you an hour of content that somehow talks about the Miami HEAT during a time when there are no games or news. How do we overcome it? Great question, you ask. Well, on this episode we debut a new segment where we give relationship advice using coined Spo-isms dubbed, “Exes and Spos,” a parody of Elle King’s pop hit “Exes and Oh’s.”
If you like bad, inconsistent internet connections, the sizzling sound of burgers being seared and Gianni’s frenzied yelling sprinkled with some basketball talk, this is the pod for you. God bless your heart.
We welcomed Israel Gutierrez of ESPN & Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald to discuss two of the greatest Miami HEAT stories published on the same day: (1) Pay Riley’s Manifesto from ESPN: The Magazine as written by Wright Thompson and (2) Dion Waiters’ Masterpiece written by Dion “Google Me” Waiters himself for the Player’s Tribune. We also break down HEAT free agency with Barry, who dropped some saucy nuggets.
Gianni, Alf, Alex and Brian welcome Allana Tachauer of Hoops Habit to breakdown Pat Riley’s season-ending presser, Bulls-Celtics, Brad “2-10” Stevens, and #AssetsTwitter.
Gianni, Leif, Alf, Brass Jazz and Brian get together for the first offseason podcast of the Miami HEAT season by discussing exit interview comments from James Johnson and Dion Waiters, Carmelo Anthony rumors, and an anime bet that didn’t go as planned.
Gianni, Harrison and Alex welcome Kelly Cohen of the Washington Examiner and SB Nation as they reflect on the 2016-17 season. We make fun of the Atlanta Hawks for being losers, slander more media members and discuss Hassan Whiteside as a potential dating suitor.
We welcomed Rohan Nadkarni of Sports Illustrated as our special guest to discuss why Udonis Haslem is a liar—at least to Gianni. We obsess about HEAT Culture and how players are making it seem like it’s a cult. We revisit our takes from the beginning of the season. And Rohan tells us Heat Twitter is too savage for him.
Anthony Chiang—the puppet!—returns from his 6-8 week ban for his fourth appearance on The Heat Beat Podcast to discuss last night’s HEAT win over the Charlotte Hornets (all the threes) with Gianni, Harrison, Leif and Brian. We bring back the most strident and cocksure Hot Take Harry ever. We play the game that’s sweeping the nation, “HEAT lifer or not a HEAT lifer?” And we debate whether or not Dion Waiters is worth a payday and why the Milwaukee Bucks are a bunch of losers.
Gianni, Alf, Harrison, Nekias, Brian and special guest Cat Fuentes (560 WQAM) spend most of the show derailing away from HEAT topics, using the power of laughter to make us feel better about Miami inching closer away from playoff contention. We bring back #MHBMailbag, Grinding Windermans II, and Nekias drops another golden one-liner during his “Small Sample Size Theater.”
Gianni, Alf, Harrison and Brian discuss the HEAT’s playoff push, the hilarity of the Knicks, what HEAT Culture is perceived around the league, Gordan Hayward rumors, and we debut a new segment properly dubbed: “Heat Lifer or Not A Heat Lifer?”
Alf, Jack, Gianni and Brian get obsessed discussing which HEAT broadcaster would win in a fight. We start a beef with Anthony Chiang and debate the playoff race/Justise Winslow’s prospects.
Our enemy Jorge Sedano of ESPN joins us. He namedrops a bunch of famous athletes while hijacking our show, Gianni doesn’t have the guts to say the HEAT will make the playoffs, and Leif and Sedano get into it about Culture vs. Process.
Giancarlo Navas, Brian Goins and Nekias Duncan welcomed Chris Axmann of the Almighty Baller Podcast Network. We make the case for Spoach of the Year, Gianni acts like a nerd…again, and Dion Waiters did what to our mothers? All of this—including the glorious tirade of Dion Waiters and child bearers—will be aired on Dash Radio under the “Almighty Baller Radio” channel. Stay tuned for more details.
We did the show we would’ve done on Tuesday had Evan Cohen not hijacked our show and made it better.
Giancarlo, Alf and Nekias sit back and let Evan Cohen of ESPN West Palm Beach and Sirius XM do a better podcast than they are capable of.
Brendan Tobin of 790 the Ticket joins us as we slander Tank SZN, Michael Rapaport, “The Process,” Allen Iverson and Magic Johnson movie theaters?
On the NBA Trade Deadline, the staff celebrates the #traders of the world.
The staff talk potential trades around the league as we near the NBA Trade Deadline. Gianni flip-flops on his opinions. Alex steals takes from Harrison, and so much more!
Will Manso is better at this than us. We talk James Johnson, Erik Spoelstra, Dion Waiters and more. Alf joins midway and nukes the show.
The guys welcome Casey Walloch to the show to talk about James Johnson’s future, how Alf would fight Patty Mills, and we steal Anthony Chiang’s mailbag again.
The HEAT are on an 11-game winning streak. Gianni, Nekias, Brian and Alf discuss which uniform Miami will wear in Game 1 of the 2017 NBA Finals.