I can’t account for every ESPN analyst, but each talking head I’ve heard out of Bristol is burying the Miami Heat.

Jon Barry blew them up on NBA Countdown last night. While riding in my car, I just listened to Michael Wilbon destroy LeBron James and company on WMVP-AM 1000, the ESPN-owned station in Chicago.

Yet through the chorus of jeers, there’s one person sticking with the underachievers: Skip Bayless.

On First Take this morning, Skip proclaimed: “Miami was the heavy favorite to win it all and I’m not backing off.

Later, he said: “I’m not writing them off. I’m sticking with them in seven games, because they’re still the Miami Heat.”

I’m not even sure Pat Riley agrees with Bayless.

Skip obviously is hoping for the last laugh. If you’re soon-to-be-fired Heat coach Eric Spoelstra, you’re hoping Bayless is right and you’re using the avalanche of negative Heat comments to fire up your dead team.

Of course, you have to go to the 5:40 mark to hear Skip’s comments. The open is a classic rant against the Heat by Stephen A. Smith that goes on for nearly four minutes. I’m not sure I’ll be able to watch Stephen A again without going to Jay Pharoah’s take on him on Saturday Night Live.

Four minutes of my life gone again, but it was worth it.