3x NBA Champ Udonis Haslem Talks 20yr Career, His Miami Teammates & His Proudest Moment

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Football, Society & Culture, Sports

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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FOLLOW THE PIVOT PODCAST: MERCH | https://pivotpodcast.com YOUTUBE | https://www.youtube.com/thepivotpodcast INSTAGRAM | https://instagram.com/thepivot TWITTER | https://twitter.com/thepivot TIKTOK | https://tiktok.com/@thepivot FACEBOOK | https://www.facebook.com/thepivotpodcast FOLLOW HAPPY DAD: https://www.instagram.com/happydad FIND HAPPY DAD: https://www.happydad.com/find With one of the most unique careers in professional sports, Miami Heat’s Udonis Haslem is set to say farewell to basketball after a 20-year career and is sitting with Ryan, Channing and Fred ahead of his last week of regular season play to talk everything basketball, life and what’s been most important to him. Not holding back in any areas, this conversation journeys a young boy from Liberty City and how he beat the odds and turned his opportunities into a two decade long career embracing his role on the Heat and continuously finding ways to benefit his teammates. Winning three championship titles with the Heat, Udonis has played with some of the game’s best players from Lebron to D Wade to Shaq to Chris Bosh to Ray Allen to many more and attributes his long lasting career to the relationships he sustained over time and his endless work ethic. As the guys dive into his childhood and early playing years, UD reveals the pain he felt losing his mother, who he just recently reunited with, and how the loss of his father led him down a different path and approach of opening up to people and asking for help when he needed it. He stressed the importance of finding balance and how his three rings mean the world to him but he’s most proud of his work giving back in the community. As the OG of the league, UD shares his thoughts on this year’s NBA MVP, which he feels should be Joel Embiid or Giannis, as they are above and beyond on the court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I call you some go down gator, anything is to it ain't like softwoods yeah
0:17.9	You know it's everybody can be a good. Yeah, oh here he go. That's a bad make it. What happened to you? We lined up on that side
0:31.3	Hey, it was funny. You was hitting them. I was DMing them like he was like wait no, wait no, no, I was like we on the clock
0:42.6	No, no, no, no, that's the thing with the four days of 40 and everything for you over there. No, we were like that's it we gotta get down here
0:51.1	Yeah, that's it's cool. No, man, you got us
0:55.4	It's hard though. We're gonna win the middle of a little push right now. I can't focus on the four days of 40 right now
1:01.3	They're a little push right now. It's a tight little squeeze right now. Yeah, I'm saying so
1:06.5	Yeah, the competitor in me. I can't really focus on that. I'm saying
1:10.6	Competitor. Get a competitor. Yeah, I was listening. She'd think I'm here for it. If we don't win and I don't
1:18.6	Ain't it it's built on winning might as it be over there planning no career somewhere right now. We won't win it
1:24.8	You still be playing with you on with it
1:27.4	Go watch the film man
1:29.4	What you want to at your age
1:32.5	Oh, upstairs every dance. This man watch me what I do upstairs
1:37.0	Now
1:39.0	Jimmy win. Yeah, bad motherfucker. Yeah, but going to work with them boys now
1:44.1	We talking about going for a court now. I don't know how many laps I got up and down hill
1:49.0	That's different
1:50.6	But now when we get in we get in the one-on-one we go out spots. Yeah, I get that work
1:55.0	Now I mean sure you've been doing it in the league two decades though 20
1:59.5	You gotta think about that anytime you do something that long at the highest level you different
2:07.0	In it. I father here to win the seat
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