Miami Heat: First Take Wrongly Takes On Dwyane Wade And Ownership

The Miami Heat were inadvertently, or not, the target of First Take’s raft recently.

Here is what was said in that particular section of the show, in an exchange between Stephen A. Smith and a guest on this particular episode of the show, Spike Lee.

"SAS: I think about D.Wade and all he’s meant to Miami. He had to go to Utah, to get an ownership stake. That stuff did not escape me one bit. SL: Me Either SAS: And when Spike brings that up, it’s because you got a lot of these guys that have done an awful lot for franchises, yet they have to go elsewhere to get an ownership stake in a franchise, because the franchise that they represented, obviously, didn’t want to give them a piece of the action when all was said and done."

Spike Lee would then take over, calling out Dwyane Wade’s name and then “Utah”, as in to say the the association or linkage betwixt those two entities was awkward or awkward-sounding. He’s right, but he then tied a bow around by saying this.

"I mean I don’t know what happened between him and Micky or whatever, but, that don’t sound right. I’m glad he has a piece of the Utah Jazz… Shaq in Sacramento, but…but those aren’t their teams…"

Again, while Spike Lee makes a point about the associations or the awkwardness of them,  the overall point of it all was wrong, from both Spike and SAS. Since Miami Heat owner, Micky Arison, was brought up, it should be noted that he did, indeed, try to bring Father Prime into the fold as a member of the Miami Heat’s ownership group.