Damon Jones

And you mentioned Shaq, okay? And yes, they had Dwayne, but they had Dwayne coming off his rookie season, and they had a, basically a first-year starter in Udonis Haslem.

They had Damon Jones pre-issues, who had been on seven different teams, who was starting, and they had Eddie Jones, who nobody trusted to take a big shot.

And that team was first in the East, and probably would've gone to the finals if Dwayne doesn't pull a ribcage muscle in game five, miss game six, they lay an egg in Detroit, and then Stan feeds Dwayne the entire game seven when Shaq's pissed off.

And so I look at that history.

And you ever look at LeBron teams, and sometimes those random guys are the most dangerous.

KCP, like, I mean, the honorable Damon Jones.

[laughs] Like, do, do you, you understand what I'm saying?

Yeah.

It was always close 2-2, 2-1, and they'll find a way to...

Damian Jones hitting crazy shots to go up, but...

We finally got to a point where, I mean, DC was rocking then too, man.

Everybody was, you know, coming to see, you know, Hibachi shoot crazy shots and you got tough juice with the straw in his mouth.

[laughs]

Damon Jones is the three king.

Shaq is a beast.

Will feed in Motown.

They've done this.

This is not, [laughs] not like totally new to them, right? I mean, they got Shaq, they probably would've won the title in the first year with Damon Jones playing the point.

You know, I love the dichotomy of the national media that says Miami's assets are garbage all of the time.

[laughs] Right.

Um, you know, I remember when the, um, laws came do- or when the, uh, first investigations came down for the gambling scheme when all those arrests were made.

Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, uh, Damon Jones, et cetera.

We had, uh, a guest on the show who was a formal federal prosecutor in the, uh, Southern District of New York who prosecuted crimes like this, and she described the parameters of what wire fraud is, and it sounded to me like I could probably be charged with wire fraud for Venmo-ing somebody in Iowa, um, to cover a fantasy football, you know [chuckles] what I'm saying? So like wire fraud can be used, um, you know, pretty, pretty wide-ranging.

They're not bringing con- you know, charges, but the one thing I was talking to a lawyer about this, 'cause I was trying to under, ex- understand like what would the federal government be interested in Steve Ballmer in here? Because he certainly, uh, to me in my view, and certainly Adam Silver's view, was guilty of breaking a whole bunch of NBA laws.