Speaker 1: So we've got a lot of trade rumors poppin'. They're
Speaker 1: all the rage. It's happening next week when we're having
Speaker 1: our super Bowl week, when I'm gonna be in Phoenix, Arizona,
Speaker 1: the trade deadline will come and it will pass and
Speaker 1: people will be moved. I thought I would fill people
Speaker 1: in before we head on the road to discuss some
Speaker 1: of these rumors. Number one on the trade rumor block
Speaker 1: is Bones Highland. I did not see that one coming.
Speaker 1: Bones Highland of the Denver Nuggets possibly might be on
Speaker 1: the move, And I said to myself, why house Way,
Speaker 1: Denver's a top the standings. Bones Highland is a really
Speaker 1: nice young player. He's only in what his second year.
Speaker 1: He puts up buckets. What is happening. He's a nice
Speaker 1: young player that's playing really well. Right, well, if you
Speaker 1: look at what he's been doing lately, not so much.
Speaker 1: He's averaging just seven points a game in his last
Speaker 1: eight games, from down from seventeen a game in the
Speaker 1: previous eight games. So I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: just a way for the Nuggets to scare him. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm hearing is maybe they want to get him
Speaker 1: back into shape. Maybe they don't think his decision making
Speaker 1: is commensurate on the timeline of a team that's trying
Speaker 1: to win a title now. But our favorite old man
Speaker 1: yells at the Clouds former coach George Carlisle. I don't
Speaker 1: know why he decided he wanted to speak on this,
Speaker 1: but he did. He tweeted Bones's shot selection could kill
Speaker 1: a potential championship team. I am supportive of the Bones
Speaker 1: trade by the Nuggets. I am not sure who asked
Speaker 1: for this insight from George carl I do not give
Speaker 1: a fuck honestly about your opinion on the Bones Highland
Speaker 1: trade rumors. Do you have some sort of reason to
Speaker 1: chime in on this? Do you have a dog in
Speaker 1: this fight? You do not. Why are you speaking? And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know why you had to
Speaker 1: do him like that? Why do you have to make
Speaker 1: him seem like he's not a player who could help
Speaker 1: a championship team he is anyway, Moving on the Bucks,
Speaker 1: the Bucks are gonna be some busy beavers. It appears
Speaker 1: they're going to move Jordan Nora, who, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: isn't getting a lot of playing time for a good reason.
Speaker 1: And the latest news is they got permission from the
Speaker 1: Suns to speak to Jay Crowder. That's been the rage
Speaker 1: for pretty much the entire season, even in the off season.
Speaker 1: Would they get Jake Crowder? Where they get Jake Crowder?
Speaker 1: Where they get Jake Crowder? That would be the PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker type player that they are missing. I think that
Speaker 1: they are a team that's going to make some moves
Speaker 1: Bulls and the Blazers. Blazers getting Jay Crowder would be
Speaker 1: electric factory. I would love that. What trade is Josh
Speaker 1: Heart and would trade in Yusuf Nurkic for Jake Crowder
Speaker 1: and DeAndre Ayden. How's that? I think Jay Crowder is
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of suitors, so we'll have to
Speaker 1: see where he goes. But it looks like the Bucks
Speaker 1: are front runners. The Celtics even though they're front runners,
Speaker 1: even though they have the best record, looks like they
Speaker 1: are looking to upgrade their roster as well, moving possibly
Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard, who also just went on the Point Forward
Speaker 1: podcast which is by Evan Turner and Andrea Guidala, and
Speaker 1: they asked him what his future held and he said, well, obviously,
Speaker 1: after I'm done here, after this year, I'd like to have,
Speaker 1: I don't know, be a part of a bigger role
Speaker 1: a little bit. Note the after this year comment. When
Speaker 1: a team knows that you are dipset after this year,
Speaker 1: they're not going to try to lose you for nothing.
Speaker 1: Peyton Pritchard, how about after the trade deadline, maybe you'll
Speaker 1: have a bigger role moving forward because you're not going
Speaker 1: to be on this Celtics team most likely now that
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brogden is there, he is a six man year
Speaker 1: candidate and that is squeezing you out. We all know.
Speaker 1: Moving on that Trader Danny, he loves to trade. We
Speaker 1: know he loves to make moves at the deadline. They
Speaker 1: are currently the Utah Jazz looking to shop Malik Beasley
Speaker 1: and Jared Vanderbilt. And get this, my man, Trader Danny
Speaker 1: wants a first round pick for both of them, not
Speaker 1: together for each what So okay, let's let me get
Speaker 1: this straight. So the Rudy Gobert trade, if he ends
Speaker 1: up Trader Danny trading Malik Beasley for a first round
Speaker 1: pick and Jared Vanderbilt for a first round pick, that
Speaker 1: would net does some quick math, seven first round picks
Speaker 1: for Rudy Gobert. Do you think that's fair. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I think that's fair. I think that's a fleecing.
Speaker 1: So you get four first round picks, and you get
Speaker 1: Walker Kessler, who was a first round pick, and then
Speaker 1: you get Leak Beasley and Jared Vanderbilt. They get to
Speaker 1: be first round picks. I mean, that's not even considering
Speaker 1: some of the other guys that you got in that
Speaker 1: trade that you could move. And then you move and
Speaker 1: add in all the picks that could be how many
Speaker 1: first round picks do you think you can get for
Speaker 1: Lori Markinen right now? Probably three? So here we're talking
Speaker 1: about maybe four. Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell may end up
Speaker 1: netting if you were to just turn all the players
Speaker 1: that you get and all the picks and combine them
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen sixteen first round picks. That is a haul.
Speaker 1: That is a haul. Bro Also, the Jazz, I don't
Speaker 1: know why, are interested in Dorian Phinney Smith. I bet
Speaker 1: they get a first round pick to just get Dorian
Speaker 1: Phinney Smith as well. I don't think you're paying anything
Speaker 1: for Dorian Phinney Smith. Let's be honest. The Mavericks have apparently,
Speaker 1: according to Sham's and an incredibly high price threshold for
Speaker 1: teams reaching out about Phinney Smith. That seems like a
Speaker 1: not true statement to me, But keep your on Utah.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're done making moves. Uh. The most
Speaker 1: interesting figure next to Yaka Pearl on the market right
Speaker 1: now in terms of white big men that you didn't
Speaker 1: know that you needed, is Mason Plumley. Yes, Mason Plumley
Speaker 1: actually somehow, some way ballin', averaging thirteen ten and four
Speaker 1: from the field on sixty seven percent shooting. I looked
Speaker 1: at Mason Plumley's game log the other day and I
Speaker 1: was shocked. I was berefed. I could not even I
Speaker 1: was a little overclemped. I had no idea, my man,
Speaker 1: Mason Plumley was putting up twenty on a random night,
Speaker 1: fifteen rebounds on a random night. Also, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people who want Mason Plumley, Kings, Lakers, lots of
Speaker 1: probably the Blazers. Again. The Hornet's also currently shopping Kelly
Speaker 1: or Ubre, which I think he's been out for like
Speaker 1: six weeks with an injury, but someone will want a chucker.
Speaker 1: And I am sure Kelly Oubray when he gets to
Speaker 1: that team would love to be on a heat check Bulls.
Speaker 1: Bulls currently vacillating between whether they're buyers or sellers, which
Speaker 1: is pretty much a testament to who they are right now,
Speaker 1: and not having any sort of team identity, not knowing
Speaker 1: what direction they want to go, kind of in and
Speaker 1: out with the wins. But one thing is clear. A
Speaker 1: lot of teams want Alex Caruso, A lot of teams
Speaker 1: are coveting him, but it doesn't seem like he's going
Speaker 1: to go anywhere because the Bulls asking price is right
Speaker 1: up there with delusion. Because some people think in the
Speaker 1: Bulls organization that the goat is worth multiple first round picks,
Speaker 1: which I am telling you for a guy who I
Speaker 1: think went undrafted from Texas A and m also not true.
Speaker 1: Looked into it, reached out to some of these insiders.
Speaker 1: They told me it was poppycock. They said that first
Speaker 1: two first round picks for Alex Crusoe absolute poppycock. He
Speaker 1: is so, I guess to the Chicago Bulls on top
Speaker 1: will give in the fact that he has such an
Speaker 1: astronomical price, and apparently the Bulls believe he's a core
Speaker 1: part of their culture. Probably the only guy let's be
Speaker 1: honest that you need on this team to build around.
Speaker 1: They should build around Alex Crusoe. Why not friend of
Speaker 1: show uh Jake Fisher. I'm gonna see hopefully this weekend
Speaker 1: reports that the Lakers' resurgence has made them be a
Speaker 1: buyer more likely than a seller. And one player that
Speaker 1: they're interested in, which is fascinating to me, is Gary
Speaker 1: Trent Junior. That would be something. They do need shooters,
Speaker 1: and he can shoot. He can't play a lot of defense.
Speaker 1: His deflections are way down at just ask Nick Nurse,
Speaker 1: who thinks he's basically someone who they don't even need
Speaker 1: on the team, but he would be a nice addition.
Speaker 1: Clippers also they need another guard. Kawhi in particular, has
Speaker 1: gone from being load managed and not thought about or
Speaker 1: talked about or heard from, to being very vocal, shockingly
Speaker 1: about bringing in a point guard. They are interested in
Speaker 1: Gary Trent, but more so former teammate of Kawhi, Fred
Speaker 1: van Fleet, which if you can get a Fred van
Speaker 1: Fleet and a Kawhi Leonard, both former champions onto this
Speaker 1: Clippers roster and Norm Powell, by the way, that would
Speaker 1: be something chaos. Like I said in Toronto, that would
Speaker 1: mean a lot of players on the move Portland. Portland's
Speaker 1: looking to sell as well. Thank god, get rid of them.
Speaker 1: Get rid of them now you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Get rid of Usif Nurkic, he's been god awful. Please
Speaker 1: tell me he's on the trade block. Please tell me
Speaker 1: he's on the trade block. Yes, Josh Hart, Yusef Nurkic
Speaker 1: contract is an anchor. He's making so much money. He's
Speaker 1: a clutch client. Please get rid of him. And remains
Speaker 1: to be seen. Apparently, according to insiders, whether Yusuf Nurkic
Speaker 1: is a negative asset. So that little deal you did,
Speaker 1: that extension you did may not have been a good
Speaker 1: thing except for just having that salary on your books.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't realize this as a quick aside.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you make bad deals so that you can make
Speaker 1: the salaries match, even if you have to attach a pick,
Speaker 1: because if you were to not sign you said Nurkic,
Speaker 1: that money would basically not be available to you anymore
Speaker 1: due to the bird rights that you have for him.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of math involved, which is why
Speaker 1: these bad contracts continue to get done. I've got your
Speaker 1: bird rights, assign it a twenty five million dollar deal.
Speaker 1: Maybe I have to attach a second round or a
Speaker 1: first round pick to get rid of you, But I
Speaker 1: get somebody who's actually worth a twenty five million dollars
Speaker 1: in return. So that's an interesting thing. His ability to
Speaker 1: pass on a good team and shoot. He's been a
Speaker 1: good three point shooter. Maybe a team wants to roll
Speaker 1: the Dices. Wolves have resurrected their season with Karl Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns on the bench, and it looks like they are
Speaker 1: moving on from d LO as a result. I tell
Speaker 1: you what if this team moves on from del and
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns is on the bench and they're winning games.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Carl Anthony Towns is far behind him.
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell and the Wolves are apparently very far apart
Speaker 1: in terms of the contract extension. He has unfollowed them
Speaker 1: from Instagram and all the social media accounts that he
Speaker 1: was supposed to be following he's taken. I think at
Speaker 1: one point he took Minnesota Timberwolves out of his profile.
Speaker 1: These things are lame, but these things are things you
Speaker 1: have to think about when you're looking at the tea leaves.
Speaker 1: Apparently Minnesota wants to move them, get some value back.
Speaker 1: Lakers apparently are interested in having him back. We could
Speaker 1: just reunite all Lakers. Let's buy them back. Let's get
Speaker 1: Thomas Bryant back. Oh yeah, he's there. Let's get Kyle
Speaker 1: Kuzman back. Let's get D'Angelo Russell back. All the guys
Speaker 1: that you had, maybe even uh Julius Randall, bring him back,
Speaker 1: maybe Brandon Ingram. All these players so loaded, maybe you
Speaker 1: could just get them all and reunite them back now
Speaker 1: that they've been developed without Lebron having to do the
Speaker 1: dirty work. The Rockets, let's be honest, they're a hot mess.
Speaker 1: There are players that seem to be on the move there,
Speaker 1: Jay Shawn Tate, Eric Gordon. We've been saying this for years.
Speaker 1: Eric Gordon's been on the move there. It's like Miles Turner,
Speaker 1: John Collins, Eric Gordon. These are the three most talked
Speaker 1: about players in terms of moving them. The problem is
Speaker 1: that they are looking for a first round pick in
Speaker 1: exchange for Eric Gordon, which is what they did last year,
Speaker 1: and which is what they did the year before that
Speaker 1: when PJ. Tucker was on the move. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on. Doesn't make any damn sense. Houston's
Speaker 1: really bad. All the decisions that they make aren't great,
Speaker 1: so it would not surprise me if Eric Gordon just
Speaker 1: became I don't know a firm member of their bench
Speaker 1: as well. I don't think Eric Gordon is going anywhere. Weirdly,
Speaker 1: they are connected as well to John Collins rumors which
Speaker 1: make no sense, which means probably outprin Shanegon wouldn't get
Speaker 1: any all of these things that happen with the Rockets
Speaker 1: Taken with a grain of salt, the one and nine
Speaker 1: Pelicans looks like they are desperate for some help. They
Speaker 1: have made Jackson Hayes available, Nausei Marshall available, Devonte Grahama
Speaker 1: via trade. We don't know that they need wings. They
Speaker 1: do not need any more guards. This is not a
Speaker 1: place that a scorer that cannot play defense is going
Speaker 1: to flourish. Who can they get? I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but I know that they need to figure it out
Speaker 1: because Zion is out and Brandan Ingram is not fully healthy,
Speaker 1: and they're falling like a rock trade deadline right now
Speaker 1: is next week. It is going to dominate pretty much
Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about during that time period.
Speaker 1: Let's try to get some people on. We'll cover all
Speaker 1: of that, hopefully give you some more inside tee. Keep
Speaker 1: you right there, and of course next week everything will
Speaker 1: come to a close and we'll know who went there.
Speaker 1: We had Keith Smith on the show, i think last week,
Speaker 1: and he said he thinks it's going to be a
Speaker 1: very very busy deadline, so keep it locked and we'll
Speaker 1: have to see. That's all the time that we have
Speaker 1: for the Heat Check. Come back on Thursday for an
Speaker 1: all new episode. We will be breaking down more of
Speaker 1: the trades. Of course, have some more tea from around
Speaker 1: the league. Something bananas will probably happen. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be very busy filling you in on the details on that.
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