Should the Heat and Spurs be tanking?

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Grab all the bananas you can find and through them in your Vitamix, it’s time for a new episode of Fastbreak Breakfast! Should the Heat blow it up, is it possible for the Spurs to tank, is it possible we are actually being too hard on Jim Boylen? These questions plus more are addressed with guest Michael Pina (@michaelvpina) of Vice Sports.

TIME STAMPS:

7:30 Has San Antonio lost their organizational mystique? With a porous defense and lack of shooting what are their hopes of making the playoffs? If they wanted to tank for just a season how could that be accomplished?
14:30 Did the Spurs miscalculate by letting Kyle Anderson leave and including Danny Green in the Kawhi Leonard/DeMar DeRozan trade? How are those players demonstrating their value on their new teams?
17:00 The Heat are struggling and have numerous players on large, unwieldy contracts. Even if they wanted to be “sellers” in the trade market could they find any buyers?
22:45 The Bulls have become a national laughingstock recently with the transition between Fred Hoiberg and Boylen. Is there any chance that he should be granted some leeway to at least try to build a new culture? Or are his tactics antiquated and ineffective?
29:00 What do the front offices in Chicago, Phoenix and Washington have on their ownership that they are allowed to operate without repercussion?

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