Former Miami Heat Star Addressed Paul Pierce’s Comments About the Jimmy Butler Saga: 'You’ve Been Smoking Too Much'

“Let’s talk about Paul Pierce,” Hardaway said. He said he’s better than Dwyane Wade. I’m going to stop right there. You out your mind. You’ve been smoking too much, to tell you the truth. You’re not better than Dwyane Wade, you’ve been hating on the Miami Heat since Ray Allen left Boston to go to Miami.

“That’s why he not on Pat Riley’s side or the Miami Heat’s side. He’s been hating on the Heat and Riley since day 1. Since they’ve been getting beat by the Heat. He got [a] personal vendetta against them. He’s not really speaking realistically.”

The Heat are an old rival to Pierce’s Celtics. During his time with the team in the early 2010s, Miami formed a Big 3 with Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh to go against what Boston had.

Together, they ruled the Eastern Conference for four years, which led to the eventual departure and disbandment of the Celtics’ star trio.

Paul Pierce said the Miami Heat executive temporarily cares for the team’s stars

Pierce might have some issues with Riley as he suggested that the team president only cares for his stars temporarily. On Friday’s episode of “TICKET & THE TRUTH,” the former Celtics star commented about the Miami Heat’s stalemate with Butler.

“If I’m Jimmy, why I wanna be here if you don’t even respect me?” Pierce asked, speaking from Butler’s perspective. “You don’t respect me nor what I’ve done, and I’ve seen this with your other superstars, like, how D-Wade don’t retire a Heat? He do retire a Heat, and he got a statue and all, but how did he get to Chicago and have to come back? That should have never happened. That was all Riley, though, you know what I’m saying? You ran LeBron because you wouldn’t let him — alright, if his guys wanna come on the plane or whatever — that’s LeBron, bro.”

Pierce suggested that once Riley has gotten what he wants from the stars, he’s ready to move on to the next.