Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 13th, 2024.

Coming up, we got West Goldberg from Locked-on Heat to talk about the heat.

And, of course, we're going to hit Jimmy Butler's purple hair.

And then we've got Sam Amick going along.

We're going to talk Rockets. We're going toick going along. We're going to talk Rockets.

We're going to talk NBA Cup.

We're going to talk front office rankings.

And we're going to do even more Jimmy Butler talk.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning, Zena.

Ooh, the Miami Heat pick up their fourth win in a row last night.

And the NBA Daily curse did not spread to our new guest, Wes Goldberg.

You might know him from Locked on Heat, locked on NBA.

Wes, welcome to the NBA Daily.

Thanks for having.

What's the curse?

I wasn't aware of this.

Every time we book a guest, it just feels like the team loses. Oh, okay. Something happens to the team. As long as something happens to the team, I don't care. Nothing to the guest. The guest so far. I want to say we're sending people away with good luck. But the teams having bad luck. But good luck here recently for the heat. Look, they're getting healthy again, finding their footing, won four straight.

Tyler Hero is looking like a real basketball player these days.

And they found this guy Drew Smith out of nowhere who's able to contribute.

You know, what's going on with the team right now?

And why are we hearing so much buzz that's off the court when they're playing so well? It's a great question. In terms of the first part, they've finally figured out how they want to play, the rotations that they want to get to. Eric's Fulstra kind of had a pretty audacious plan going into the year, playing Terrosier and Tyler Hero together in that back courtaya Hiro and Tsohn together in that backcourt, playing Nikoliovic at that starting

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