Indiana Pacers legend and TNT analyst Reggie Miller joined "The Dan Patrick Show" Tuesday morning for his weekly visit.

Miller, who is on the broadcast team for the Western Conference finals, talked Spurs-Thunder, the draft lottery and, of course, Miller's old team the Pacers.

Patrick asked Miller to finish this sentence: "If the Heat lose tonight…"

"It's a wrap," Miller responded.

"What!?" Patrick asked.

"It's a wrap," Miller repeated.

"The Heat's season is on the line tonight. As much as we've been killing the Indiana Pacers, and I've been one of them, they've only had one thing on their mind all season, 'We want to beat the Miami Heat.' They may not say it, but they overlooked Atlanta going seven in the first round, overlooked Washington going six games. Their main focus has been to beat Miami. They are built to beat Miami."

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Miller said he expects the Heat's best effort tonight in Game 2, and wouldn't be surprised if we see a monster game from LeBron, something similar to his 49-point outburst against the Nets in the previous round.

The conversation then turned to comments former Pacers teammate Jalen Rose made during a Grantland podcast in which he claimed that Miller didn't have Rose's back during their days in Indiana. Miller's response on Tuesday was quite heated:

"Look, I'll always have nothing but love for Jalen, but when I saw the podcast, it looks like there was some beer next to him, either he was drunk or something else was clouding his judgement.
Our time overlapping in Indiana was nothing but great, only thing I had a problem with him saying is disrespecting all the players I played with going all the way back to 1987. If it makes him feel warm and fuzzy to make him feel good, if he wants a pat on the back, 'Jalen, you were the best player I've ever played with.' So be it, you can't disrespect all my old teammates, those guys won a lot of games for us, Jalen. We all won. We were a team.
Larry Brown was a hard ass on everyone on that team, at the end of the day I respected him because he made me a better player, he made us a better team. It has to be more we, Jalen, less me, me, me, less I, I, I. You talk about not making an All-Star game, maybe that's some of the reason why.
Jalen and I and all my teammates, we cried the same tears playing for the blue and gold. We lost in the same playoffs. Can't be an I, it was a we."

Got that? Should make for an interesting 15th year reunion of the 2000 NBA Finals team if the Pacers are so inclined.

A Greek Mythology Lesson

Will the Heat look to a Udonis to help defeat a Pacers' Adonis?

Miami Herald columnist Greg Cote warns Miami about making drastic changes so early in the series, but says the one obvious move is the inclusion of Udonis Haslem in the lineup, primarily to defend pick-and-rolls, which torched the Heat in Game 1.

An additional benefit to playing Haslem: it frees up LeBron James from needing to bang with Indiana's David West all game.

West is one of the few NBA players who might be stronger physically than LeBron.
Asked who else might be on that short list, James smiled, thought a moment, then said, "Probably Shaq and Zeus."
The Heat ask enough of LeBron all over the court, all over the game, to not tack on the added responsible of defending a Greek god.

Said LeBron after Monday's practice:

"I'm a perimeter guy," he said. "I could do a lot of things, but I've made my money being a perimeter guy.
"And obviously, from the circumstances of our team, we're not the biggest team in the world, so I have to play big at times. I have to guard bigger guys, and try to do a number on them, too. So it's challenging. But it's all right. I got to do it. At this point, I'm trying to get a trip to the Finals. Whatever it takes."

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Grantland's Bill Simmons writes his usual 16,000-word opus, but mixed in the tangents and history lessons, he had some great lines, including, "The Pacers are an atrocious 'Everyone Believes in Us!' team and an excellent 'Nobody Believes In Us!' team.

True statement.

Simmons also writes this year's Heat team is more vulnerable than ever and that it's basically all on LeBron:

"We were reminded that, for Miami to advance, it's going to take yet another superhuman effort from LeBron James. Maybe even a super-duperhuman effort. The Heat spent four years riding on LeBron, Wade, defense, Bosh and 3s, in that order … and right now, they can only count on LeBron from game to game. That's pretty sobering.

Mathis Lumped With Infamous Group

No matter whether it's fair or not, a suspension for violating the NFL's performance enhancing drug policy has Robert Mathis' name grouped n the same mention as Ryan Braun, Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds and Ben Johnson.

From the Bleacher Report's Mike Freeman:

I hope it's true. But this is professional sports, where cheats have come up with the greatest excuses in human history. There is a long, eternal list of lies, finger waving and believable denials. You feel for Mathis, yet the long history of PED cheats means we have a right to be suspicious no matter how valid an excuse seems.

Freeman points to a similar explanation given by Major League pitcher Edinson Volquez after he was suspended 50 games for using a fertility drug.

... The NFL is in a brutal spot. Its drug program has been called a joke. Then, when it works the way it should, as in the Mathis case, it's called cruel.
If the NFL failed to allow the Mathis punishment to stand, it would have created a potentially glaring hole. Anyone, after a positive test, could then make up any excuse they want.
And as we've seen, athletes can be creative with their excuses.

Go Deep, But Be Careful

You may want to stay out of the north endzone.

A 40-foot sinkhole swallowed up a portion of Austin Peay's football field.

This, of course, is the second major football-related sinkhole in recent history.

Stanford Is Pretty Pretty Luck-y

The number crunches at have devised a formula to calculate how 'valuable' recent college quarterbacks were for their respective institution.

According to the data, Johnny Manziel is worth $3,021,420 to Texas A&M, which ranks him sixth (one behind FSU's Jameis Winston).

At the top of the list? Colts QB Andrew Luck, who is worth an estimated $3,469,860 to his alma mater, Stanford.

You can read and try to digest the actual math if you're so inclined.
