Micky Arison, owner of the Miami Heat, spoke of Saturday, where he was one of those selected to be joined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
For a long time talking in Symphony Hall, he thanked Heat Legend Udonis Haslem for being a “Heat Culture manager” while he was in a long game.
“Ud, thank you for being the heat culture manager for 20 years,” said Arison.
Arison probably mentioned 20 years because Haslem spent his entire 20 -year career in the best basketball league with the Heat Organization. Haslem played a lot of different roles with the heat over the years from the constant starting teams to an important player in the class to a benchmark, but his desire to work at the highest level was constantly.
Three Heat title teams from 2006 to 2013 have helped to set up the team as the Marquee election right today and Haslem is one of two players who played for every single championship in the history of the right to vote. Former star Dwyane Wade is the only other player to explore that box and he is probably the best heat player of all time.
Although three championships by name is nothing to sneeze, Haslem was close to winning the fourth lap of his last working season, 2022-23 campaign. In the NBA 2023 playoff games, the Heat made a historic run in the Champions League as no. 8 seeds in the east, but the big man Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets turned out to be too much for Miami. Heat lost the Masters in the gentleman after dividing the first two games in Denver.
Haslem is a heat life to the extent that even though his acting career is firmly in the rear -view mirror, he still works for the organization. He now works as Vice President of the Heat in Basketball Development and hopefully he will help members of young core Miami improve his games in the coming years.
All in all, it was cool for ARISON to give Haslem a shout and Heat fans and players do not intend to forget his contributions to the team and outside the court at any time.