If the NBA bans the draft, would the Heat benefit?
Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA
Five Reasons Sports Network
4.6 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Adam Silver is searching for ways to eliminate tanking -- something the Miami Heat never do -- and he threw out the radical idea of banning the draft entirely. Seems crazy, right? Ethan Skolnick and Greg Sylvander entertain it briefly, to debate how it would help or hurt the Heat.
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| 1:00.9 | Uh-oh. Yeah. It's mercy. Music by mercy again. |
| 1:10.0 | Heat nation. nation we the culture |
| 1:11.6 | Yo eh I need you a call time out |
| 1:13.6 | Ye ready to set the four pen |
| 1:15.6 | Trapco blanket open for the shop |
| 1:17.6 | Yo Greg set the pick |
| 1:19.6 | Still five on the floor still ride for my dogs |
| 1:21.6 | Zoon battle on the court still survive in the wall |
| 1:24.6 | Keep your eye on the ball |
| 1:25.6 | Or get burn friendly keep this mic off the wall without turning the cheek from night of day no sleeping |
| 1:31.7 | pads or allowed to morning another sleeping us never catches no |
| 1:35.6 | live for Miami report in the heat with five reasons for sports from the court to |
| 1:40.0 | the streets day Wade, Wade County. |
| 1:45.9 | Keep patient. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm so proud of it. |
| 1:52.0 | Welcome to Five on the Floor, a daily insider show on the Miami Heat and the NBA, |
| 1:58.5 | featuring Ethan Skolnick, Greg Silvander, Alex Toledo, Brady |
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| 2:08.2 | Most Heat Anywhere. |
| 2:15.4 | There you go. All right, welcome back to Five on the floor here today's floor plan i'm |
| 2:20.2 | i'm ethan scoling and follow me d'n jay's colman and fiveers in sports i got greg salvander you can |
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