Speaker 1: This speaker works.
Speaker 2: Let's go on this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 3: It's unfortunate and it's sad because I love the drama.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately, Kevin Duran has changed his mind. He's going
Speaker 3: back to Brooklyn. He is committed to winning a franchise
Speaker 3: championship with this franchise.
Speaker 1: At least for now. Do I think it's the end?
Speaker 1: Come on, stop it. So we break down this news.
Speaker 3: We look into Golden State's latest diamond in the rough,
Speaker 3: Patrick Baldimore Junior. We break down Lebron James's new contract
Speaker 3: what that means for his future, look at the impact
Speaker 3: of chet Holmgren's injuries that might have on pro ams,
Speaker 3: and of course, discuss the shady shady moves that the
Speaker 3: Chicago Bulls just made.
Speaker 1: So do me a favor and Brock drop that beat.
Speaker 3: Hm. I don't know about you, but I'm disappointed. I'm
Speaker 3: disappointed in what could have been. It's like when you
Speaker 3: see that smoke show at the bar and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: your friends tell you they seem great, you meet them,
Speaker 3: and then you're just like, hmm, it's just not it's
Speaker 3: just not gonna this is not gonna work. All that excitement,
Speaker 3: all that anticipation just to lead to a god damn
Speaker 3: zero just nothing, just nothingness.
Speaker 1: You've wasted our summer KD. God damn it.
Speaker 3: I've been waiting and hoping and wishing for a trade
Speaker 3: to go down, and now you're running it back with
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons at the Five Nets. Have somehow convinced Kevin
Speaker 3: Durant to stick around in Brooklyn after he was ten
Speaker 3: toes down on this trade request. No Jo sigh, I
Speaker 3: won out, no idea what was said, no idea what
Speaker 3: kind of bargain was struck.
Speaker 1: But they were. He was as swashed, for sure, he
Speaker 1: was as swashed.
Speaker 3: The one thing that we know, the trade request has
Speaker 3: at this point been rescinded, and he is and they
Speaker 3: are quote willing to move forward with their partnership with
Speaker 3: one goal in mind to bring a championship to Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: If you're saying to yourself, yawn, if you're bored by this,
Speaker 3: if you think it was better when we had all
Speaker 3: all of his KD trade rumors with every single team
Speaker 3: under the land, I've got news for you.
Speaker 1: You think this is over, no shot.
Speaker 3: If you think that it's just all rainbows and roses
Speaker 3: and carrots and peas. No, no, come on, We've got
Speaker 3: some of the most problematic, chaotic players on one roster
Speaker 3: under one roof, playing for one of the least experienced
Speaker 3: coaches in all of basketball. You think this is gonna
Speaker 3: just calm down, stop it. This is what happened. Okay,
Speaker 3: this is the analogy that I have. So it's like
Speaker 3: when a guy and a girl have been living together
Speaker 3: and they're supposed to be doing this for the long term.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, the guy says, hey, I don't
Speaker 3: want to be with you anymore. I don't want to
Speaker 3: be in a relationship period anymore. I know that we've
Speaker 3: had no problems, I know we have one hiccup, And
Speaker 3: the girl's.
Speaker 1: Like, no, no, it's not fair to the relationship and
Speaker 1: what we've built. You have to try to make this work.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's stick to it. Just give me, like
Speaker 1: one more year.
Speaker 3: Our lease is up, our leases up next summer. Let's
Speaker 3: have this conversation.
Speaker 1: Maybe in May, and they begrudgingly agree.
Speaker 3: Do you think that he really still wants to be
Speaker 3: with you after you've basically forced him into staying together
Speaker 3: for respecting what you guys have built.
Speaker 1: No, it's just one hiccup. I promise, he told the nets.
Speaker 3: Listen, the only way I'm gonna stop, the only way
Speaker 3: I'll stay with you is if you stop hanging out
Speaker 3: with all your friends and you disavow your entire family.
Speaker 3: And she was like, not gonna do that, but I
Speaker 3: still think we should stay together.
Speaker 1: He has not changed his mind.
Speaker 3: Oh baby, come on, think about the guys on this team,
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving, Ben's Simmons just chit chatting in Kevin Durant's ears.
Speaker 3: These are two guys that are steadfast and they're in
Speaker 3: their decisions. Kyrie Irving, he was not getting vaccinated. Oh baby,
Speaker 3: was not happening, no matter what, No matter if James
Speaker 3: Harden forced his way out, Kyrie wasn't changed in his mind.
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons, I'm out. I'm not playing another fucking game
Speaker 3: for these Sixers. K D in this situation is the
Speaker 3: rational one. They're gonna be egging him on.
Speaker 1: Bro, you should you should do what's best for you, bro.
Speaker 3: Like I know you, I know you love basketball, but
Speaker 3: maybe you don't have to come in three hours early
Speaker 3: like usual. The seeds of dissension are here, they are growing,
Speaker 3: they are not squashed. And if you're Joe Sigh and
Speaker 3: you think that it's just all good. Now, listen, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 3: Drama follows Kyrie wherever he goes, from Boston, Cleveland, now
Speaker 3: here in Brooklyn. Like he's a revolutionary in his mind.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna let anything go slide. Ben Simmons, like
Speaker 3: I said, he's firm in his beliefs. Like if you
Speaker 3: think that these three aren't gonna have troubles and perils
Speaker 3: between them, let alone against the organization, they could stage
Speaker 3: a coup. These are Kd's consiglieris, these are his advice givers.
Speaker 3: And I tell you what, they're not nearly as reasonable
Speaker 3: as Kevin. The relationship to me is too fractured. There
Speaker 3: is no coming back.
Speaker 1: Kevin has four years left on his contract.
Speaker 3: You think he's gonna there is no shot he remains
Speaker 3: as a net the duration of this contract. Too many
Speaker 3: things have been done, too many things have been said.
Speaker 3: So how do we get to the point where Kevin
Speaker 3: Durant said, yeah, fuck it, I'll just come back.
Speaker 1: He has no leverage. There's no leverage. Baby, Baby, you
Speaker 1: want to go and every time.
Speaker 3: You tell the world you're steadfast and going it brings
Speaker 3: your price down, our price remains here, and we get
Speaker 3: further and further from moving you. So just help us
Speaker 3: out and stay committed to the franchise at least a
Speaker 3: little bit so that we can move your ass. Please
Speaker 3: let us fleece the rest of the league.
Speaker 1: Right, We've got who is to blame?
Speaker 3: It's a move that was. It shut the whole leak down.
Speaker 3: This move, it stopped the entire NBA in its tracks.
Speaker 3: Trade stopped moving completely to a standstill.
Speaker 1: It was about as.
Speaker 3: It was about as chaotic and as dramatic as the
Speaker 3: first player to get COVID in the NBA. So, of course,
Speaker 3: the person to blame for this blunder yet again is
Speaker 3: Rudy Gobert. It's Rudy Gobert again, like always, if Minnesota
Speaker 3: didn't overpay for Rudy Gobert, five first round picks, a
Speaker 3: bunch of young players. If that deal doesn't get done,
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant is a Phoenix Sun if that deal doesn't
Speaker 3: get done, Kevin Durant is trying poutine out in Toronto.
Speaker 3: If that deal doesn't get done, Kevin Durant is like
Speaker 3: I'm beneath Oah Miami. He is loving life drinking mohedos
Speaker 3: in Little Havanah right now, Like that is what stopped
Speaker 3: this deal. Don't sleep because the rest of the league
Speaker 3: looked at that deal and we're like, oh, well, if
Speaker 3: Rudy Goberrit commends that, then man, Kevin Durant's got it.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what that deal looks like. Ten
Speaker 3: first round picks and an All NBA player or two
Speaker 3: All stars, Like nobody has that King's ransom and so
Speaker 3: of course, after this Katie News dropped, Patrick Beverley, another
Speaker 3: guy who is known for being a shitster sewing dissension,
Speaker 3: decided to take his frustrations out on Twitter on Kevin Durant.
Speaker 3: He said, y'all can sit and don't say nothing, but
Speaker 3: that ain't cool. It's dudes with families out here who
Speaker 3: haven't got a job because of this KD shit and
Speaker 3: to be on and off ain't cool. Blessing gang that
Speaker 3: is unnecessary on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That is really a lot there.
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant, of course quote tweeted it had some fun
Speaker 3: hashtag blame KD.
Speaker 1: Blame KD for everything, Blame KD. I think.
Speaker 3: He also tweeted something today and said shout out to
Speaker 3: the tough guys who always take the tough road.
Speaker 1: It's just like Kevin Durant is like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to leave a bad situation. In terms
Speaker 3: of the aftermath, Brooklyn Nets are currently one of the
Speaker 3: top four favorites to win it All. You got KD,
Speaker 3: got Kyrie, you got Ben Simmons, who might play five?
Speaker 3: Who is quote unquote going to be unlocked? I hope
Speaker 3: his back is unlocked. Patty Mills, Joe Harris, Royce, O'Neill,
Speaker 3: TJ Warren. I hope his foot's okay. He has not
Speaker 3: played a game since the Bubble. I don't know what
Speaker 3: that I mean, Kevin. Basically, Ben Simmons hasn't played a
Speaker 3: game since the Bubble either, and he didn't even play
Speaker 3: in the I'm here to tell you no shot this
Speaker 3: team wins the title.
Speaker 1: None.
Speaker 3: Don't don't spend your money on this measly little plus
Speaker 3: seven hundred bet, no shot, the Hodgepodge, the gumbo pot
Speaker 3: of drama. That this team is no fucking way, no
Speaker 3: fucking way. Ask anyone, if you have access to anyone
Speaker 3: who's ever won a title, ask them.
Speaker 1: Everybody who's ever.
Speaker 3: Won one, says the number one ingredient is not talent.
Speaker 3: It's not a roster of guys who compliment one another.
Speaker 3: It's chemistry, it's camaraderie. Do you think this team has camaraderie?
Speaker 3: Do you think this team has chemistry unless they are
Speaker 3: in a full blown anti establishment coup against the Brooklyn
Speaker 3: Nets where they're winning a title just to say fuck
Speaker 3: you to the Brooklyn Nets. I don't think there's anything
Speaker 3: that coalesces and congeals this team to win a title.
Speaker 3: Imagine when shit gets hard in January, what are they
Speaker 3: about to do? They're gonna turn towards each other.
Speaker 1: Do you think they're gonna turn towards each other?
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant and Ben Simmons are gonna be like,
Speaker 3: let's lock in.
Speaker 1: Bro Let's lock in no shots.
Speaker 3: Too much stuff has happened Kyrie in the vaccinations, Kyrie
Speaker 3: and the Walkabout with Cynthia Nixon, former Sex and the
Speaker 3: City Star on zoom calls to try to get her elected.
Speaker 3: You've got Kyrie going on walk about to his sister's
Speaker 3: birthday party. You got the James Harden trade, you got
Speaker 3: the second James Harden trade. You have the Kevin Durant injury.
Speaker 3: You have the Ben Simmons situation. I'm exhausted by this.
Speaker 3: You've got Kyrie and KD going on podcasts saying that
Speaker 3: they don't have a coach of the team. You've got
Speaker 3: obviously Kevin Durant saying, fuck these two guys, fire them.
Speaker 3: I hate Steve Nash, i hate Sean Marks. I'm not
Speaker 3: staying unless they get fired. You fired my best friend
Speaker 3: and coach who's my trainer. There is no shot. And
Speaker 3: if you're Steve Nash as awkward. This is an awkward
Speaker 3: thing from start to finish. The star player who you
Speaker 3: used to be called Yoda, he used to call you
Speaker 3: his Yoda, wanted you to lose your job. And now
Speaker 3: you have to coach that guy. And you have to
Speaker 3: also expect him to listen. He's already not listening. They
Speaker 3: tune him out already on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be so spicy. This is almost better
Speaker 1: than a trade.
Speaker 3: It's a cold war now, baby, there's nothing better than
Speaker 3: a cold war inside the NBA, where everyone's watching, everyone's dissecting.
Speaker 3: You're listening to every presser when they throw shade at
Speaker 3: Steve Nash, when there's a bad rotation, or they throw
Speaker 3: shade at Sean Marks when they ask, just like they
Speaker 3: asked Lebron last year, do you think this and it's
Speaker 3: gonna happen all the time. Do you think this froster
Speaker 3: is good enough to win an NBA title? Do you
Speaker 3: think you have enough right now to go against the
Speaker 3: likes of Jannisnto de Compo, Chris Middleton.
Speaker 1: And Drew Holliday.
Speaker 3: Do you think you have enough right now to beat
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum and Jylen Brown. Do you think you have
Speaker 3: enough right now to beat Steph and Clay and Draymond
Speaker 3: and the whole.
Speaker 1: Rest of the league. Do you have enough right now?
Speaker 3: And if they say no, that's a direct correlation, a
Speaker 3: direct shot to what Sean Marks has not achieved. You
Speaker 3: gave up Jared Allen, Karris Lavert, Torrian Prince multiple first
Speaker 3: round picks to get Ben Simmons, Seth Curry and Andre Drummond.
Speaker 1: That was the deal. So this year is going to
Speaker 1: be amazing. I cannot wait.
Speaker 3: I and Lebron when he said all that he was
Speaker 3: committed to the Lakers, We'll talk about his contract a
Speaker 3: little bit later.
Speaker 1: You have all of this while you know someone actively.
Speaker 3: Wanted out but had no leverage, so they were like, ah,
Speaker 3: we're in this lease anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't want to move my couch. This is hard
Speaker 1: to move. Like. I kind of like that plant.
Speaker 3: I don't know if my next apartment is going to
Speaker 3: get this much Latin natural light. That fig fiddle leaf
Speaker 3: looks good in that spot. I don't really want to
Speaker 3: fuck with it right now. Maybe until I find just
Speaker 3: the right apartment, I'll stay here.
Speaker 1: We can sleep in separate bedrooms. It's no problem. But
Speaker 1: I'm not watching Love Island with you at night. I'm done.
Speaker 1: This is far from over all. I have to say.
Speaker 3: This is far from over It's only getting worse. It's
Speaker 3: I mean, we're only better for us in the meantime.
Speaker 3: Look for trades that are now gonna be flooding in
Speaker 3: the Patrick Beverly trades of the world. There's no way
Speaker 3: he's a Utah jazz for long, Patrick Beverly.
Speaker 1: Like I said Dennis Shrewder.
Speaker 3: Donovan Mitchell, I'm sure that will happen at some point soon.
Speaker 3: Julius Randall is in the mix, Russell westbrook is in
Speaker 3: the mix Spicy Spicy Spicy, and Brooklyn for the time being,
Speaker 3: is now quote unquote free agent. Destination all over again.
Speaker 3: You've got Mark Keith.
Speaker 1: Morris talking about going to the nuts. You've got Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 3: You can't do that, Carmelo after the New York Knicks
Speaker 3: video that they made for you, or you're going home, like,
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do in another burrow? You're gonna
Speaker 3: have a different song for you coming back to New York.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. That's disrespectful.
Speaker 3: And as much as I'd like to have the biggest
Speaker 3: trade go down in history, another year of as Brooklyn
Speaker 3: turns the soap opera for a third straight year, something
Speaker 3: we can't even predict will happen. I just can't even imagine.
Speaker 3: I can't wait. And I think that's even more satisfying.