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Miami Herald
05-05-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Wade, Haslem reunite, this time as partners on Amazon Prime
Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem — Heat legends, close friends and longtime teammates — are reuniting as teammates on Amazon Prime's NBA coverage, which begins next season. Wade is joining Amazon in a hybrid role featuring some work in studio and some work on games. Former NBA star Steve Nash and two-time WNBA MVP Candace Parker were hired by Amazon for similar roles. Haslem will be a part of Amazon's primary studio team, with Blake Griffin, Dirk Nowitzki and host Taylor Rooks. The Haslem news was the one surprise in Amazon's announcement of four hires on Monday, including Wade, Nash and Parker. Haslem had risen up the depth chart in two years at ESPN, but the network had no permanent open seat available for studio coverage of marquee games — an assignment he will get on Amazon. 'This next chapter is about staying true to who I am — bringing energy, authenticity and that same winning mind-set to every show,' Haslem said in a statement issued by Amazon. Haslem also serves as the Heat's vice president of basketball development. Wade worked last summer's Olympic basketball tournament for NBC, but the network opted for Reggie Miller and Jamal Crawford as its co-lead analysts. Wade, who is a minority owner of the Utah Jazz, previously worked in TNT's NBA studio on Tuesdays before leaving that job to focus on other business pursuits. The Amazon gig will give him an opportunity to do games and studio work. Wade and Haslem won three NBA championships together and were teammates for 15 years, the third-longest teammate partnership in NBA history, behind John Stockton and Karl Malone (who played 18 seasons together in Utah) and Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili (16 years in San Antonio). Parker and Tim Duncan also played 15 years together with the Spurs. 'Just being there for each other,' is what Haslem, in a 2019 interview with the Miami Herald, called the biggest takeaway of their friendship. 'Going through divorces, losing my mom and all the tough times, we've always been there for each other. Losing our agent [Henry Thomas, who died after a battle with cancer]. 'There are so many things we've always been there for each other. So when I think about our relationship, it's always great when you're winning championships and when you're having fun and partying. But who can you turn to when you need somebody to talk to or when you need a shoulder to lean on when things aren't going your way? 'Sometimes you just want to vent and you want somebody to listen to you. Those are the moments I remember, when the lights weren't on and nobody was around and we were able to have those conversations.' Amazon and NBC are joining ABC/ESPN as NBA rights-holders for the next 11 years, as Turner Sports exits NBA coverage after the Eastern conference finals later this month. Amazon will carry 66 regular-season games (mostly on Thursdays and Fridays), the in-season tournament, all six play-in games, a package of first- and second-round games and six conference finals in 11 years. TNT and CBS announcer Ian Eagle will be Amazon's lead NBA voice, but his partner hasn't been announced. TNT's Kevin Harlan and Stan Van Gundy also are expected to join Amazon, with Harlan retaining his CBS job for the NFL and college basketball. NBC so far has announced the hirings of Miller and Crawford, Mike Tirico's role as the network's lead NBA voice (as expected) and Carmelo Anthony's hiring as a studio analyst. NBC also has confirmed that it has reached an agreement with John Tesh to use his popular Roundball Rock music that accompanied NBC's NBA coverage in the 1990s and early this century. NBC will carry games on Tuesdays and Peacock will stream games on Monday. Both will have playoffs packages, and NBC will air six conference finals in the 11 years of the deal. ABC maintains rights to the NBA Finals in the new contract.
Miami Herald
07-03-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Haslem knows Adebayo is coming for his Heat record: ‘He has definitely been letting me know'
When Bam Adebayo moves up on a list in the Miami Heat's record book or sets a Heat record, he likes to make sure Udonis Haslem knows about it. So it was not a surprise that Adebayo walked into his postgame news conference Monday while speaking to Haslem on a FaceTime call after breaking Rony Seikaly's record for the most double-double performances in franchise history. 'He's been texting me every spot,' Haslem said. 'Every spot he comes up the chain, he texts me.' Adebayo now has Haslem's record on his radar after recently passing Alonzo Mourning to move into sole possession of second place on the Heat's all-time rebounding list. Adebayo, 27, enters Friday night's matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Kaseya Center with 4,864 rebounds since being drafted by the Heat in 2017. That puts Adebayo just 927 rebounds behind Haslem's franchise record of 5,791 rebounds in a Heat uniform. 'When I was playing, every time I got one rebound, I used to look at him and say: 'That's another record,'' said Haslem, who retired after 20 NBA seasons at the end of the 2022-2023 season. 'So he has definitely been letting me know that he's creeping up, that he's going to catch me. But my response is, 'Not this year.'' Haslem is right. Adebayo won't break Haslem's record this year. At Adebayo's current pace (averaging 10 rebounds per game this season), he needs about 93 regular-season games to pass Haslem and become the Heat's all-time leading rebounder. With just 21 games left to play this regular season (including Friday's matchup against the Timberwolves), that could have Adebayo breaking Haslem's record as soon as late next season. 'Bam has been telling me since Day 1 that he was going to break my rebounding record,' Haslem said. 'So that has been the goal, that has been the expectation. So I'm not surprised. But I'm happy for him, man. He's been the work in, he's made himself a hell of a two-way player — not just a defensive guy, but a guy who can score the ball. He's still growing into his own as a leader.' As the only undrafted player in NBA history to currently be the all-time leading rebounder for a franchise, Haslem won't be happy to lose that title. But the fact that Adebayo is the one on track to take it from him makes it easier. 'If I could pick anybody to break my record, it would be him,' said Haslem, who became a mentor for Adebayo and developed a close friendship with Adebayo during their six seasons as Heat teammates. 'That's not easy to say because being an undrafted kid from Miami, I'm very prideful of the things that I've been able to accomplish. But being that it's Bam, for me that's almost like a nephew or a son in some ways breaking my record. So for me, it's going to be a lot of emotions, but all good things. I love to see people's hard work pay off.' So, will watching Adebayo become the Heat's all-time leading rebounder one day be bittersweet for Haslem? 'The bitter part, not really,' Haslem said. 'Like I said, I'm very prideful. But it's Bam. He's somebody I've taken a liking to and I've created a relationship with outside of the game of basketball. I know his mom, I know his family. We spend a lot of time together just talking about life and the kind of man that he wants to be and the kind of man that I think he can be and should be, along with the basketball player that I think he's capable of being. So for me, it would be one thing if it was somebody who I didn't have a relationship with. But it's almost like a nephew or a son or a younger brother. So it will still feel like it's in the family. He's cut from the same cloth as me.' Haslem already has his No. 40 jersey retired by the Heat. Adebayo, who took over as Heat captain when Haslem retired, is also on a path that could result in a Heat jersey retirement ceremony down the road. Adebayo, who is in his eighth NBA season and is under contract with the Heat through the 2028-29 season when he will be 31 years old, is producing at a pace that would make him one of the greatest Heat players ever if he spends all or most of his career with the organization. Along with already establishing himself as the Heat's all-time leader for double-doubles and putting himself in position to soon become the Heat's all-time leading rebounder, Adebayo is also on track to finish among the Heat's all-time career leaders in categories like two-point field goals made, free throws made, assists, steals, points and others. But the next big step for Adebayo to be considered a Heat great is to win his first NBA championship. Adebayo has already helped lead the Heat to three Eastern Conference finals appearances and two NBA Finals appearances during his career, but he has not been able to win an NBA title yet. 'You definitely got to win one and that's what I'm always going to challenge Bam to do is to lead his team to a championship and bring that ring back home,' Haslem said when asked if Adebayo could end up as one of the best Heat players ever. 'But he's right there. He's right on the cusp of being on the Mount Rushmore of Heat players. The only thing he needs to do is cross the championship bridge. I know it keeps him up at night and I know he's working on that. That's the goal. These individual accolades, I'm sure he appreciates it and it's fun for us to go back and forth and have barbershop talk about. But ultimately, he wants to be a champion.' With Adebayo getting closer to becoming the Heat's all-time leading rebounder, Haslem is already pushing rookie Kel'el Ware to go after Adebayo's eventual team rebounding record. 'I'm already priming the pump because I already told Kel'el: 'Now you go break his record,'' Haslem said. 'This is how it goes. So I already told Kel'el and Bam hasn't even broken my record yet. But I told Kel'el: 'You need to break his record.' Because I know Bam is going to break it and now you're the next man up.'
BBC News
05-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Fibrus to pay compensation for Storm Éowyn broadband disruption
Broadband firm Fibrus will pay customers compensation for disruption caused by Storm É customers will receive £5 a day for service interruptions that lasted more than 48 hours, while business customers will receive £10 a Éowyn brought winds of more than 90mph to Northern Ireland on 24 January, damaging electricity and telecoms senior managers have been facing questions from a Stormont committee. The company has said that 40,000 of their customers were without service at the peak of the over 60 customers are still experiencing storm-related service Haslem, chief operating officer at Fibrus, said the company could have triggered a "force majeure" clause meaning they would not have had to pay compensation but it chose not majeure is a legal term that refers to an extraordinary event that makes it impossible for a party to fulfill their contractual obligations. Fibrus managers defended the firm's response to Storm É Kearns, the chief executive, told the committee that because a large part of its network was focused on hard-to-reach rural areas , its infrastructure was predominately overhead said if the network was fully underground it would have been 10 times more expensive to build. 'Unfair' to compare speed Mr Kearns said the ability of Fibrus to restore service in the early stages "relied heavily" on NIE restoring their company also uses infrastructure owned by another firm, Openreach, for 80% of its Kearns said it had been "unfair" to compare the speed at which electricity and broadband had been restored."Fibre networks are more complex in their nature and take longer to repair," he told the assembly acknowledged effective communication was "challenging" in the early stages of storm and it was only after electricity had been restored that they had a full picture of network damage to share with added that updates could have been more frequent and detailed."Many of our customers will not be aware of the dependencies [on NIE and Openreach] and we intend to publicise this more clearly in the future," he 2020, Fibrus received £165m government funding to improve rural internet connectivity in Northern firm started redundancy consultations with some construction staff last year under plans to grow its customer facing areas and reduce the workforce in network construction.
