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Gilbert Arenas Once Against Trolls Miami Heat By Calling It A YMCA Team

Former NBA player Gilbert Arenas takes a shot at the talent on the Miami Heat
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Gilbert Arenas Once Against Trolls Miami Heat By Calling It A YMCA Team
Gilbert Arenas Once Against Trolls Miami Heat By Calling It A YMCA Team

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Despite making the NBA Finals twice in the last four seasons, the Miami Heat still have their critics. 

One of the biggest recently has been former NBA player Gilbert Arenas. He took a shot at the Heat during an appearance on the Night Cap Show with NFL Hall of Famers Shannon Sharpe. 

Arenas wasn't kind when describing the makeup of the Heat roster. 

"Have you seen the talent over in Miami, man?” Arenas said. “Hell yeah, they that bad. That’s a YMCA team down there. We all can play for them.”

At 14-11, the Heat are No. 7 in the Eastern Conference standings. They are coming off a loss to the Chicago Bulls Thursday before the teams meet again Saturday at Kaseya Center. 

The Heat have been decimated by injuries, with Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo and Jimmy Butler all missing extended time. The same thing happened last season but they were able to overcome it by making the playoffs. The Heat became just the second No. 8 seed to make the NBA Finals, joining the 1999 New York Knicks. 

With Herro and Adebayo nearing a return from injuries, the Heat hope to get back on the right track against the Bulls. 

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Shandel Richardson covers the Miami Heat for Inside The Heat, a Fan Nation channel for Sports Illustrated. He has covered the NBA since 2010.

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Shandel Richardson
SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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