Greg Cody

But if the Panthers, and plenty of teams make the playoffs in hockey too, but if basketball did it the way, if hockey did it the way that basketball does it, you'd have the Panthers right now as two-time champions with a chance to do something in the playoffs.

But do you realize how irrelevant you've made the regular season when that's what it is?

When everyone's load managing to get to the playoffs and all 20 teams that are trying are going to have playoff equivalent games with a play-in.

I've been talking while trying to set my grind straight for several years about how hard it is to be relevant for 30 years the way that the Heat have been as the third winningest franchise in the sport over the last three decades.

It's only the Spurs and the Lakers that have won more games than the Miami Heat have over the last three decades.

So the Nets last night.

Go ahead.

Use your entire history of knowing the Nets to find all the times.

that they've done real winning.

Because the one time they got to the finals, they got swept.

And you guys were telling me that Jimmy Butler against Denver's a failure, that against the Lakers in the bubble, it's a failure.

The Nets got swept in the finals.

It's the best they've ever done.

Like as a franchise throughout their entire history, the Sacramento Kings have gotten close, got cheated by some refs and Shaq and Kobe, but the Sacramento Kings haven't gotten to the finals.

The Wizards haven't gotten to the finals.

The Timberwolves haven't gotten to the finals.

The reason that I'm doing that is over 30 years of being rewarded for losing.

At some point, I believe if I make a chimpanzee the general manager of one of those teams, I'm going to stumble into a deep run somewhere.

Like, you have to be, you're right, I am doing it to trash franchises, but look how many I can do it to.

Where I'm saying, they've never had, the Heat have made the finals twice in the last six years.