Heat Shit List: Does Floyd Mayweather Have More Haters Than the Miami Heat?

#FuckLarryMerchant

If you're not down with Floyd Mayweather, then you're not a real Miami Heat fan.

If you don't follow the Heat players on Twitter, then you probably don't know they're all fans of the best boxer alive, Floyd "Money" Mayweather. The Philadelphia 76ers' bum ass starting center, Spencer Hawes aka "Breakfast", pointed this out on Twitter after Mayweather's 4th round knockout of WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz on Saturday night.

From: @MIA_Heat_Index
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 11:57a

#HeatShitList RT @spencerhawes00: Weird all the heat are condoning mayweather's bush league shots

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Maybe the Heat players like Mayweather because they identify with an elite athlete. Maybe they identify with an athlete that's hated as much as they are just for being himself. Whatever the reason may be, the Miami Heat are down with the Money Team, as the tweets listed below indicate.

From: @DwyaneWade (Dwyane Wade)
Sent: Sep 17, 2011 1:38a

@floydmayweather all day..

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/114936116766969856


From: @DwyaneWade
Sent: Sep 17, 2011 9:25p

About to watch "laugh at my pain"-Ortiz vs Money Mayweather that is..L2MS to the people that thinks mayweather will lose..

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/115235010830802944


From: @mchalmers15 (Mario Chalmers)
Sent: Sep 17, 2011 10:31p

I see alot of the Kansas fans are going wit the hometown kid. I don't kno if I can do that. I gotta go wit the homie money mayweather

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/mchalmers15/status/115251633243439104

From: @KingJames (LeBron James)
Sent: Sep 17, 2011 11:22p

0-2 so far today for me. Stil got @FloydMayweather left though.

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/KingJames/status/115264374926614528


From: @mchalmers15
Sent: Sep 17, 2011 11:59p

Ok I see Ortiz shorts wit the KU sign on them (pause). Shoutout to all the jayhwak fans out there

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/mchalmers15/status/115273659999977472


From: @PUN45 (Dexter Pittman)
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 12:11a

God damn. That's what his ass get for head butting. Its ovvvverrrrr now.

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/PUN45/status/115276839387271168

From: @PUN45
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 12:14a

#Rookie Mistake keep ya guard up.

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/PUN45/status/115277608194818049


From: @KingJames
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 12:15a

Get him out of here man!! It's a wrap #moneymayweather

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/KingJames/status/115277690759692288


From: @mchalmers15
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 12:17a

That's Wat he get for head butt man. That's all she wrote lol

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/mchalmers15/status/115278216347922434

From: @DwyaneWade
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 12:26a

In the words of the Great Mark Jackson.."Hands down-Man down..MaMa there goes that Man..#Mayweather

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/115280613967269888


From: @KingJames
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 12:32a

RT @DwyaneWade: In the words of the Great Mark Jackson.."Hands down-Man down..MaMa there goes that Man..#Mayweather(No doubt!!)

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/KingJames/status/115281939354746880


From: @DwyaneWade
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 1:13a

Dan rafael- Smart smart man [Reservoirgod note: Rafael scored the fight 4-0 Mayweather]

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/115292382378999808

From: @DwyaneWade
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 1:16a

Ortiz is gonna go to Mayweather after party and apologize all night-like the saying goes-don't bite the hand that feeds you..

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/115293199471357953

From: @DwyaneWade
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 1:20a

I use to think boxing at 34 was ill..this fight alone he made atleast 34 mil..haha

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/115294061262417921

From: @DwyaneWade
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 1:21a

"@BADMANMIKE: Floyd walked in with 50 Cent and left with 50 million"(genius)

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/115294320038387712


From: @PUN45
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 2:02a

Man Money son Ortiz I'm still trippen.

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/PUN45/status/115304597278572544

From: @PUN45
Sent: Sep 18, 2011 8:44p

In Marc Jackson Voice Hand down man down. Ortiz lost fair and square.

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/PUN45/status/115587075788652544

Since the Heat are down with Mayweather, anybody hating on him will be added to the Heat Shit List. If you're a Heat fan and you see someone on the Internet hating on Floyd, then send a tweet with the hashtag #HeatShitList to @MIA_Heat_Index or leave a comment on this blog with a link to the hating.

The first hater added to the Heat Shit List for hating on Mayweather is Larry Merchant. His subtle racist commentary stains every fight he works for HBO. Writer dream hampton did an excellent job explaining the problem with Merchant on Twitter:

"In sports, white paternalism rarely gets called racism. I'm down to end those days."


What is hampton talking about? Rapper Joell Ortiz tweeted this video of Merchant making fun of Floyd's speech when he was only 19 as an example.