WEBVTT - Top Picks Grabbing Headlines 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.760 You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. On this 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:12.080 episode of the Heat Check, there is a brewing rivalry 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.640 between the Pelicans and the Suns. It's gonna be something 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.720 to watch going forward. Zion is putting himself firmly in 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:25.560 the MVP race. Rich Paul is, let's be honest, caping 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.600 for Anthony Davis again, and GQ, why isn't anyone talking 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.560 about Kate Cunningham because it looks like he might be 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.760 done for the year. Kate Cunningham might be done for 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.159 the year, and no one is saying a damn thing 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:42.400 about it. And I explain why Mark Cuban is now 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.800 mad at the Mavericks and also Luca is mad at 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.960 the Mavericks and all the fans are mad at the 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.720 Mavericks again. A lot to get to Oh yeah, boy 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.960 on Bogdanovich might be on the move to the Lakers, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:01:02.600 so ton to get to Nick drop that beat. It's 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:08.480 getting hot. Sh shit is getting hot between the Phoenix 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.880 Suns and the New Orleans Pelicans. And you know what, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.200 I am absolutely here for this. So Adam Silver, as 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.240 institute of this weird Baseball schedule, We talked about this 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.600 in a couple episodes ago where teams play each other 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.240 two or three times in the same week, sometimes on 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.399 consecutive days. And it's been attacked, right, It's been attacked 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.040 by Greg Popovich, It's been attacked by other media members 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.680 because it's a playoff institute, a playoff atmosphere, and it's 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.520 not really warranted. We're in the regular season, we shouldn't 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.600 have a playoff atmosphere, right, But I like it. I 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:48.680 like it because a playoff atmosphere creates rivalries, and that's 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:53.000 what we need in today's soft ass NBA. More rivalry 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.320 and the birth of a rivalry might just be what 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.400 we got on Friday in the first of a three 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.240 game series between this and the Pelicans, three games in 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:07.280 the span of one week, tensions. If you remember boiled 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.959 over in the first round series between the Pelicans and 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.799 the Suns, Right, things got very, very spicy. As a 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.880 quick aside to just the rivalry that's brewing and what 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.919 happened on Friday night, because it was awesome. Is Chris 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:25.400 Paul is Chris Paul the worst? Now? Like what happened. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.480 I liked Chris Paul for so long. I've been talking 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.880 all kinds of positive things about him. People hate him. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.800 I've been saying, No, he's a phenomenal leader. He's one 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.640 of the best pass first point guards in the league. No, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.120 he's not washed, but man, he is a world class 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.679 cheap shot. He's the worst. I am now out on 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:52.360 Chris Paul. Do you remember when Jose Alvarado essentially ruined 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.960 Chris Paul got under his skin, forced him into a 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.040 backcourt violation, then he picked his pockets in another game, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.000 Chris Paul started chirping him to get back on defense 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.919 and to not pick his pockets again because he was 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:11.000 he was Chris pauling Chris Paul. Also, remember when Chris 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.880 Paul kicked Jose Alverado in the nuts in the middle 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:20.040 of that series. Then after the series calls Jose Alvarado 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:25.200 Alvarada Ho calls him a hoe. Also, by the way, 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.880 Zion wasn't in that series because he had a foot injury, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.720 So that's important to note. Because of what happened on Friday, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.840 Zion wanted to be He wanted to put his imprint 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.360 on this little back and forth that they have going on. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.960 So this is what happened. During the game. Chris Paul 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.720 continued to be as my grandma would have said, a 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:51.119 little shit sneaky elbowing Jose Alvarado in the chin as 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.840 he goes by for no reason. They're not even playing 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.080 basketball is nowhere in sight. And after a really tight game, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.120 the Pelicans pulled away from the Suns late. But I 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.480 really got the son's pissed was that the Pelicans had 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.120 nothing to play for at that point. Game was over, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.720 and instead of just running the clock out, Zion took 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.760 an outlet pass from I forget who maybe Alvarado and 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:22.279 proceeded to do a three sixty windmal dunk at the 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.360 buzzer with like two seconds left on the clock. Then 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:31.080 he flexed for the home crowd. Sons did not like that. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:36.520 They did not appreciate that whatsoever. Uh, they went nuts. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.880 It was a little kerfuffle. You had people fake fighting, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:46.560 pushing each other. Refs got involved, Willie Green got involved, literally, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.520 head coach Willie Green was ready to throw down for 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.839 his team, and was Willy Green's team who initiated it, honestly, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.000 So it was funny and it was a really good 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.800 announcement that Zion his back. Zion's like, I am so 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.719 healthy that in a meaningless two seconds of a game. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.200 I am willing to get my bounce and whim mill 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:12.240 that shit down thirty five points on thirteen for seventeen, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:17.120 shooting unstoppable, going downhill in a way I think only 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.560 in the way that Yannis is capable of doing right 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:25.640 and oh boy, oh boy, perpetual black cloud. Chris Paul 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:31.320 looked like he was gonna fight. Afterwards, Campaign explained exactly 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.960 why he was pissed, exactly what pissed him off so much. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.120 He said, the game was pretty much over and they 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.560 kept playing. Feel like that was a little unsportsmanlike. We 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.000 don't really like that. We do the right thing. We 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.040 feel like they should have done the right thing, and 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.800 then they didn't. We don't take that. Well. Come on, now, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.320 come on, now, let's not act like this isn't the 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.840 same team that saw Jay Crowder cheap shot Anthony Davis 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.919 by stepping on his foot, pushing him in the lower 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.240 back with his left hand, and swiping at his right 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.320 ankle with his right hand. Let's not act like this 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.880 is a team above it, like it's above me. Now, 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.000 we don't do that here, we are the Phoenix Sons, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.200 a perennial Wait, hold on this is a team that's 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.919 been bad for forever since after Charles Barkley left. Chris 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:21.440 Paul is constantly throwing chippy elbows at people, constantly doing 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:26.320 his best Draymond Green impression. Let's call the call off 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.480 the pearl clutching campaign for a second, because I don't 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.240 buy that for one minute? Do you? And my guy 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:38.040 Eddie Johnson, friend of show, he does a color on 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:42.640 the broadcasts for the Suns. He had the absolute gall 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.200 to call and say that the anger aimed at Chris 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.080 Paul because Pelicans fans obviously hate him now for a 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.680 myriad of reasons, one being that Chris Paul left at 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.760 the goal to say that the boos were fake, that 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.880 the booze were just merely echoes from some sound machine 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.760 making the stadium and arena louder than it actually is. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.880 A sound machine to amplify the booze. Get the fuck 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.520 out of here. This is why we'll hold off on. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.040 This is why DeAndre Ayton, of course, might have been 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:25.040 the only son with a reasonable response. Essentially, yeah, it's 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.680 a home court, he's doing it first fans. I don't 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.760 take any of that stuff personal. I love DeAndre Ayton 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:36.480 so much. He is so much better than anyone. He's 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.680 too good for the Suns given who they are, and 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.600 Zion he had this to say, that. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.040 Was at lot of character for me. But you gotta understand, 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.880 I mean, you can understand it or not. They sent 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.160 my teammates home last year. I missed all last year. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.080 I got carried away a little bit. I admit that. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.120 But you know I was in that locker room. My 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.440 brothers were down because you know, the Sun sent us 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.400 home last year. That would that's a tough moment to 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.920 be a part of. So in that moment I got 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.400 carried away. I admit that I was out of character 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.760 for me. So you know, if they was to do 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.000 the same thing, I wouldn't have no problem with it. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.160 If they were to do the same thing, wouldn't have 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.040 a problem with it. Unfortunately, the Sons don't have anyone 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.840 athletic enough to do that. So I don't know about you, 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.400 but if Zion keeps playing this way, there's gonna win MVP. Yes, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.360 they're the number one in the West. He's averaging twenty 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.439 five seven and four with a steal gets blocks all time. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.240 If he has even a modicum, as my mom would say, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.280 a modicum of defense, and they continue to play this way. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.079 Number one in the West, and Zion is doing three 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.840 hundred and sixty degree windmills at the end of games, 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.560 causing a scuffle to the point where it becomes Sports 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.760 Center first take, and you know what time it is. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:04.400 That's how MVP are born. Stay healthy, Zion and listen 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.000 his odds on Thursday night, fifty to one to win 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:12.440 the MVP. His odds today twenty to one to win MVP. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.880 That is what we call diminishing value. You should probably 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.920 jump on Zion tickets right now. And you know what's 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.320 crazy is outside of that fight, the media hasn't set 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.839 a peep, myself included. We are just hoping and praying 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.040 Zion is a bust, don't we. It's like we are 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:32.120 just thinking that maybe he'll tear something or erode or 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.400 break a toe or just get fat again. Who knows. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.640 We're just weighted with baited breath to see if something 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.400 wrong goes on. Because Zion as this version of Zion 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.280 and the team that's the number one in the West. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.000 Oh boy, they are fast, they are deep, they have 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.480 stars everywhere. This team is a killer, and I think 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.000 that they are the most dangerous team to any contending 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.480 team based on this roster alone. And the last question 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.240 that I have because I was thinking about this when 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.199 every Son was bitching and complaining and moaning and saying 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.560 about unsportsmanship and blah blah blah and how unlikable they are. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.520 I have rowed for the Sons. My grandmother loved the 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.240 Phoenix Suns. But are they the most unlike? Are the 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:21.280 Phoenix Sons the most unlikable team in the NBA right now? 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.160 People absolutely hate them. People absolutely hate Chris Paul and 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.120 now that hate is extending to Devin Booker. I don't 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.839 know why that is, but they hate him too, probably 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.160 because they both fucked the Kardashian and you've got Campaign. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.880 They don't like Campaign. He's kind of a little bit 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:46.280 of a unsportsmanlike himself. Jay Crowdery when he was on 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.600 that team, was very much dislike. The only likable player 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:57.559 on the team is DeAndre Ayden, and he wanted out. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:12.600 Rich Paul of Clutch Sports I had to quickly quickly, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.280 we just need to. I had a debate with a 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:20.080 friend today. It's not going well. It's not going well. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:26.240 Uh So my my thought was that Rich Paul was 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:33.240 more famous than Mark Cuban, and I put a Twitter 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:38.400 poll out He's not. He's not. He's not even close. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.520 It's like ninety one percent to nine, and the nine 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.800 feels generous, you know what I mean. I just figured 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:52.360 people weren't watching Shark Tank anymore, you know. So, And 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.480 with Rich Paul dating Adele, I thought Rich Paul was 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.280 a bigger star than this. Needless to say, Rich Paul 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.960 is in GQ right now. Rich Paul, now I have 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.480 to say who he is. I guess super agent to 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.040 every NBA player and certainly every laker under the star. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:13.439 Rich Paul was in Condon, Nast and GQ because he's 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:17.600 writing a memoir, and so they're talking about it. And 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:23.120 in that feature he starts talking about the unfair criticism 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:28.400 that has been levied against his greatest client, Anthony day 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:33.079 to Day Street Clothes Davis. Is that unfair? Is that unfair? 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.240 Is that what he's talking about when we call Anthony 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.319 Davis day to Day Davis? Is that what he's talking about? 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:43.439 I think it might be according to Paul, Rich Paul superagent. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.080 He says, I think the first thing is you've just 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.320 got to understand media and the media has a job. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.559 Some of it is scripted like this right here, and 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.760 some of it is based on analytics, which is true. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.360 Some of it is based on viewership. When you talk 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.360 about these topics day to day, Davis, you see your 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.800 rise in viewership. And so the media, as it pertains 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.800 to any player, but especially Ad, they're gonna kick you 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.160 when you're down. Over the last couple of years, he's 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.320 had some really freak situations. Guy gets pushed into his 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.280 knee and then I think the one before that, or 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.439 the year before that was a hamstring or a grind, 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.200 whatever it is. It's so many injuries he doesn't even remember. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.160 Those are the things that happen when you play the sport. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.559 It's almost like Rich Paul is trying to hide the 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.480 fact that and doesn't want anyone to know that. Day 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.520 to day Davis has I don't know, a degenerative condition, 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.720 which means gets worse over time. It's not just a 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.560 freak fluke thing. This is something that's gonna continue to 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.280 persist and be an issue. And listen, Anthony Davis has 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.560 been amazing this year. But if I had to say 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.560 which one breaks down first, Anthony Davis or the Lebron James. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.360 I'm gonna say Anthony Davis and Lebron James is thirty 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:09.000 eight years old, damn near. And he also addressed the 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:14.160 concerns that Anthony Davis is soft. Is he soft though? 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.480 That's the question. People act like, Oh, he's just hoping 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.520 to go out and get injured, or oh the guy 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.000 doesn't want to play. Its stupidity at times, but that's 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:27.520 what comes with it. He also took an opportunity to 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.520 answer the claims that he has strong armed certain teams 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.200 to take on clutch clients. This is why I thought 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.560 Rich Paul was so famous because he represents pretty much 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:41.280 every big NBA player, and he's with adel and he 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.880 brings his liquor with Adele to the games. So I 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.200 thought he was bigger than he was seemumpy. This is 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.360 what he said. In some cases, that's gonna be playing 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.040 with other clients, whether it's Dejonte Murray and Trey Young 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.600 both clutch clients, or when we had Darius Garland and 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.360 Calling Sexton playing together in Cleveland, or Zach Levine and 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.800 Lonzo Ball in Chicago. But when that type of stuff happens, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.400 I think it's I'm trying to use the right word here. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.040 I don't want to say stupidity. I would say it's 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.360 the lack of education as it pertains to the sport 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.160 and the business of the sport. I don't want to 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.160 I'm trying to find the right word here, but I 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.760 don't want to say it's stupidity. But you have all 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.720 of the LA Lakers are your clients, all of them, 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.120 Like you're just gonna sit there and pretend like we 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.800 don't know that nine Lakers or whatever it is are 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.440 clutch clients and nine of them and we don't mean stars, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.320 we mean like Lonnie Walker. I mean damn near Austin Reeves. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.960 You know, like all your clients are on this team. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.760 This man, Rich Paul is wild safe to say that 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.920 super Agent Rich Paul not a fan of probably my 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:51.840 TikTok account, probably this podcast. And I'm pretty sure that 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.200 clutches a whole not super stoked on me. But they 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.600 are the two biggest areas where he can't control the narrative. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.280 And as for the NBA, he's gonna continue to get 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.680 his choke hold on it, one NBA client at a 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.920 time because it is very clear that he and Lebron 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.040 will try to own a team and they will try 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.920 to create a larger power circle day by day. Is 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.880 Kate Cunningham going to be out for the season? Why 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.600 isn't anyone speaking about this? Well? Why is this not? 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.760 I haven't heard of peep? What is happening with Caid Cunningham, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.280 the number one overall pick in two years ago his 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.120 draft for the Detroit Pistons. If you don't know what's 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.000 happening with Kaid Cunningham, if you don't know that anything 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.320 is actually happening with Kid Cunningham, join the club, Join 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.520 the club. No one seems to know, and the people 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.280 who do know, they are mom They are saying nothing. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.000 The rumors now are that Kid Cunningham might be done 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:54.800 for the season. What No, not Kid Cunningham, not bus 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.040 face Cunningham. No, the rumors are that he might be 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:03.040 done for the season. Some people are saying, though, that 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:07.080 this could be a nightmare scenario for the Pistons. Why 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.359 isn't anyone talking about this? Why? Why isn't this news? 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.119 Why isn't this on the Jump or whatever NBA today 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.359 is called. Now, this is the first overall pick in 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:21.840 last year's draft, and he has now missed sixteen straight games, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.800 and we're not in game forty five. We're in game 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.520 like twenty three, right like twenty five. There is zero 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:33.760 evidence when or if he'll be back anytime soon. What 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.040 is happening. According to multiple reports, he's being sidelined with 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.840 what is being reported as a stress fracture to his shin. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.040 It was reported when he went out that he's going 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.560 to decide quickly whether he wants to have surgery or not. 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.320 That was a month ago, clearly not a quick decision. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.920 Month later, no news, nothing from Detroit's front office. The 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:04.000 question is why. Well, according to Pistons beat writer Aaron Kellerstrass, 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.920 it's pretty much been radio silence from the Pistons, which 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.800 makes him to wonder whether they even know what Kate 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.919 is ultimately going to decide. If you're a team and 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:17.880 you don't even know what your star player is going 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.280 to do, and that let's just be very clear that 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.280 surgery is season ending, and you are the worst team 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:30.240 in the league right now, we've got real issues, folks. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.240 Like that is the nightmare scenario if Kate continues to 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.040 waffle on whether he has surgery, which will one hundred 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:42.320 percent and his season and his rehab will absolutely continue 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.440 into the off season, in putting him in danger also 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.480 of missing part of the next season as well. I 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.440 will be bad. I would say that would be bad. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.880 This is why a shin stress fact fracture is very 0:18:54.960 --> 0:19:01.080 very tough, very very dangerous. Stress fractures Doctor Crick paging, 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.720 Doctor Crick time. Stress fractures small breaks in the bones 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.760 that result from the accumulation of repetitive stresses on that bone. 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:13.560 They're most commonly caused by biomechanical abnormalities such as high 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.680 or low arches, rotation of the hips, or weakness of 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.040 muscle groups that add additional stress to the bones. So 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.000 it's a big deal. Let's just you guys. Want to 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:24.960 know some names people with some stress fractures that have 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.760 bothered them over time. Yao Ming Yao Ming had a 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.840 stress fracture. Joel m Beat had a stress fracture. Blake 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.960 Griffin lost a year to his stress fracture, but more 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:42.560 troubling as a Portland Trailblazer, Fan Zambuie had a stress 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.560 fracture to his tibia. Greg Odin had a stress fracture 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.720 to his tibia. I mean this could be career ending. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.960 I'm not saying that his career is in danger of 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.919 being over. But what I'm saying is, if you're the 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.920 Detroit Pistons, you know those scenarios like the back your hand. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.840 You know that there's a possibility that Kai Cunningham isn't 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:09.199 done growing yet. When this stress fracture is happening, it 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:13.520 may never heal. Ever, the big deal for a team 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.920 like the Pistons that has Jaden Ivy and Kate Cunningham 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.920 the number one and the number what five overall pick? 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.280 They have lost now in an entire season. They are 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.040 not going to be good. They are done. Even if 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.560 Kate was to come back, didn't have surgery, he will 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:32.720 be back at minimum by All Star break, which is February. Now, 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.800 you've got issues with Jalen Duran. He's been on and 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.920 off the floor. Jaden Ivy's trying to get himself, chemistry 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:39.840 with the team, everything that they were trying to do 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:44.000 out the window. Very fun, very exciting team now not 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.480 so fun, not very exciting. And what does that mean? 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.240 What does that mean? Means? Probably everyone is about to go. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.320 Everyone who's not a part of the core. You are expendable. 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:57.720 This is the first team we can now say is 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.920 legitimately tanking. We now have them. They are the Detroit Pistons. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:07.719 It is now a garage sale. A garage sale. No 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.320 one knows when we're gonna see Kate again, So that 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:14.840 means we've got pieces to sell, folks, and that leads 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.320 us to our next segment. I don't know what the 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:23.959 Detroit Pistons are doing to boy On Bogdanovich, but it's uh, 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:28.639 it's very confusing. They trade for him, great trade to 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:30.359 get him. They just had to get Kelly Olnik and 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:35.880 I think a second round pick. But Boyon was extended immediately. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.280 He's on an expiring deal. They extended for two more 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:43.320 years on a young, exciting team, and you wonder to yourself, 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:47.000 why is that Troy locked him down to a two year, 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:50.600 thirty nine point one million dollar extension. He was supposed 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.800 to be some big part of the Piston's future until 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:58.760 two things happened. One, Pistons stink like I just said, 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:03.159 they stink. Seven and twenty two they sit atop the standings. 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:08.560 That is the worst record in the NBA again again. Second, 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:13.200 as we mentioned in the last segment, no one knows 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.560 when Kate Cunningham is coming back. If he's coming back, 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:17.960 he could be done for the season. Five of the 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.600 seven Pistons wins came with Kate in the lineup. That's 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.720 it's time for Victor Wamba yama, folks, and if it's 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.760 time to tank, if it's time to play like shit 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:32.400 for Vic, it's time to go full send mode, which 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.879 means the Pistons are actually considering the guy that they 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:39.320 just extended boy on Bogdanovich, despite the fact that the team, 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:43.200 the fan base, the front office all really really like him. 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:48.920 Guess who covets him. Team needs some three point shooting, 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:53.680 needs someone to be able to playmate, create, get into 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:58.160 the mid range. Yeah, the Los Angeles Lakers, that's who. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:02.240 And it makes sense right six', seven he's a three 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:06.400 point shooting. Sniper he unlocked tons of spacing for. Them 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:08.879 right now this, year he's shooting twenty one to four 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:14.359 and two forty four percent from, three ninety percent nearly 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:16.680 from the free throw. Line and this is on a terrible. 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.240 Team imagine what he could do if he gets some open. 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:25.159 Looks so The lakers, Decided, okay we're gonna put forth and. Offer, 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:28.360 right they put forth and offer to The. Pistons that's 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:31.679 centered around one of their two first, rounders as we 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.440 would have thought that they. Might but because It's Rob 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:40.280 polinka and he's a sline, ball there were protections attached 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:42.960 because The lakers know they're not very, good And Troy 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:45.560 weaver could not have said no fast, enough, Right he's, 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.399 like absolutely fucking not go away. By and that is 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:52.400 because anyone trading with The lakers is betting That polinka 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:54.199 has put this team in such a bad position that 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:57.680 the protections. Matter we can't have no. PROTECTIONS i don't 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:00.879 even want to top one protection from. You, okay like 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:05.879 no protections. Period and of course that's pretty much what 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.520 everyone is reporting. Now Rob polinkett is trying to hold 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:12.040 up a bank with his little baby score. Gun we don't. 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:13.919 Know we know you have no, guns we know you 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:16.840 have no, artillery we know you have no. Leverage so 0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:20.199 we know. It he knows. It he can do nothing 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:22.760 but just offer things in the wind and hope that something. 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:26.760 Manifests and The, pistons the reputation for decision making has 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:31.040 been so bad for so, long and yet they will 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:35.199 not be fleeced by The. Lakers they will. Not the 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:39.080 regime now is not dumb they are not the dumbest 0:24:39.080 --> 0:24:42.600 regime out on the streets. Anymore that belongs to THE La. 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:45.720 Lakers and so of course they're insisting on a fully 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:49.000 unprotected future first and any. Deal so who will blink? 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:53.120 First my, Guess, lakers if you want boy, on give 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:56.560 us your twenty twenty five first round pick. Unprotected he's 0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:58.199 locked up for two more years on top of this 0:24:58.200 --> 0:24:59.800 one for a pretty good, deal twenty million dollars a. 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:03.359 Year you just take. Him he's. Yours we'll. SEE i, 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:06.280