Podcast: The latest on the NBA’s return plan. And the Heat documentaries we want to see
The Miami Heat finally might be on the verge of maybe possibly getting back to practice.
OK, it feels like we have been talking about variations of this idea for a few weeks now, but the NBA, the Heat and Miami-Dade County have pretty much put together a plan for the Heat to return to action Wednesday.
The Heat Check podcast tries to explain just what next week might look like for Miami as David Wilson and Anthony Chiang, the Heat beat writer for the Miami Herald, talk about the latest developments in the NBA’s plan to start back up amid in the COVID-19 pandemic. Miami-Dade County mayor Carlos A. Gimenez even pops in to talk to Chiang about what the Heat will be able to do and the likelihood — or, rather, unlikelihood — of fans returning to arenas and stadiums in 2020.
The meat of the episode is a bit more uplifting, though. With “The Last Dance” captivating the NBA world and Dwyane Wade announcing plan to do a “Redeem Team” documentary about the 2008 United States Olympic team, Wilson and Chiang pitch some of the Heat documentaries they’d like to see.
We tried to steer away from some of the obvious topics like the Big 3 era and another feature about Wade. Instead, we’re interested in stuff like Shaquille O’Neal and Miami’s first championship in 2006, the story of Lebanese center Rony Seikaly, and the tale of power forward Udonis Haslem and how he grew up in South Florida alongside the birth of the Heat.
Ultimately, we decide we want a 50-episode order of the Pat Riley story, chronicling the president’s rise from the days battling Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in high school to his outsized role in some of the most important teams of the last 50 years, including the era-defining Big 3.
