Speaker 1: On this episode of The Heat Check. Media day has
Speaker 1: come and gone, and let me tell you, a whole
Speaker 1: lot of shit is poppin'. We'll get into the highlights
Speaker 1: from Atlanta to Aya Warriors. We'll hear from everyone from
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, this step Curge, Nick Nurse, and of course
Speaker 1: Michael don't call me Mike Malone. We'll have a special
Speaker 1: guest interview as well with Fox Sports reporter your own
Speaker 1: Whitesman to spill the tea and get into the reporting
Speaker 1: that he just did on Darryl Morian James Harden's relationship
Speaker 1: and why it was always doomed to fail. Really good
Speaker 1: ship from your own. He was awesome. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: get into it. William so drop that Jamericas beat as
Speaker 1: should be.
Speaker 2: Rihonno was breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines.
Speaker 3: Lord chilled in so the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: The Heat Check was just crazy. It's the best podcast
Speaker 2: covering all the drama around the association.
Speaker 1: All right. So media has come and gone, and now
Speaker 1: we're into the first days of camp. In other words,
Speaker 1: a new season Folks is upon us. Where did the
Speaker 1: summer go? Where did it go? I wish we had
Speaker 1: time to dig into every team. I really do, But
Speaker 1: unfortunately that would pretty much take the entire week. I
Speaker 1: would be recording from sun up to sundown. There was
Speaker 1: so much to go over, a lot of meat on
Speaker 1: that bone. So they say, so, we're gonna highlight the
Speaker 1: teams that caught my interest on media Day based on
Speaker 1: either current storylines or just ridiculous things that they said,
Speaker 1: and we will drop some sound and of course react
Speaker 1: so many wild statements so little time. We will begin
Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Hawks, because well they are alphabetically first,
Speaker 1: and let's be honest, they're a fucking mess. So much
Speaker 1: has happened in the East with the big teams. I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot the Atlantaics existed. I mean, didn't you
Speaker 1: that they made any moves that give you any confidence
Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to compete on any
Speaker 1: real level besides being the thirteenth team in the Eastern Conference. No,
Speaker 1: there's not. Of course, though Trey Young continues to be
Speaker 1: wildly confident in himself, wildly overstating his place in the NBA.
Speaker 1: The first clip is none other than from Trey Young.
Speaker 1: He was asked, Hey, Trey Young, what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: about playing for the Feeble World Cup team or getting
Speaker 1: actually left off, And this is what he had to say.
Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't think out disrespect to
Speaker 1: I mean, is he is not he's not telling the truth.
Speaker 2: But I mean it's okay for me.
Speaker 1: I just want to go out there and keep keep
Speaker 1: the main thing.
Speaker 4: The main thing is winning, and I know when I win.
Speaker 1: A championship, all that's gonna take care of itself. So
Speaker 1: I don't really care about anything else.
Speaker 5: I just focus on.
Speaker 2: My team and I'm ready to win.
Speaker 1: So pause, I know when I win a championship, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be all worth it ways. I know when I
Speaker 1: went championship what it's gonna take care of itself. Do
Speaker 1: we think actually Trey Young is the most disrespected player
Speaker 1: in the entire NBA. I mean, I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't like him, but I know that I
Speaker 1: know that one player in particular didn't like him, who
Speaker 1: was John Collins. Hadn't have been just an absolute putting
Speaker 1: nails into your eyeballs kind of play style he has.
Speaker 1: Salty Trey Young is straight salty about being overlooked. H
Speaker 1: Will he get a look for the twenty twenty four Olympics.
Speaker 1: The truth is no. Oh, undersized point guards can't play
Speaker 1: in international games. Magic eight ball says, better look next time, Trey.
Speaker 1: Second SoundBite comes from a guy with so much damn
Speaker 1: talent of the Atlanta Hawks that has largely gone unrealized,
Speaker 1: and his name is DeAndre Hunter, one of the most
Speaker 1: I would say, versatile players that random NBA teams could
Speaker 1: trade for. When asked what he worked on this summer,
Speaker 1: here is what DeAndre Hunter had to say.
Speaker 3: I didn't work on anything. It's ana.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, Jesus Christ. You just didn't pick up a ball.
Speaker 1: You didn't seek to improve. I spent a summer rehabbing
Speaker 1: an entire house, and I don't feel like I worked
Speaker 1: on anything either. Did I get abs? I did not.
Speaker 1: Did I improve my VO two Max No? I did not.
Speaker 1: Did I get on a nutritional regimen? I did not.
Speaker 1: What did we learn from the Hawks media day? It's
Speaker 1: still a mess. Yeah, it is still a mess. Click
Speaker 1: Capella was busy watching soccer workouts. Patty Mills very excited
Speaker 1: to introduce his Golden Doodle to Piedmont Park. Quinn Snyder,
Speaker 1: head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, stated the obvious, Hey,
Speaker 1: Trey Young can't be a turnstock wow quote. Defense has
Speaker 1: to be a decision. At that point is when you
Speaker 1: can start to get better. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: team will make a decision to play defense, especially as
Speaker 1: long as Trey Young runs this ship. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to the Boston Celtics, shall we. They have had a
Speaker 1: ton of interest in media Day. By the way, Lauren Holiday,
Speaker 1: is that her name. Drew Holiday's wife blew the Milwaukee
Speaker 1: Bucks up on social media. We will talk about that,
Speaker 1: I am sure at some point soon in the future,
Speaker 1: but it might have to do with Drew fucking Holiday,
Speaker 1: who published the sweetest Goodbye You'll ever see to Bucks fans,
Speaker 1: followed by his wife's very very very very very salty
Speaker 1: Instagram post about the trade. Since Drew couldn't be there
Speaker 1: for Media Day, most of the Boston Celtics spent their
Speaker 1: time either saying goodbye it is so hoigh to say
Speaker 1: goodbye to our heart and soul, Marcus Grant, Williams, Rob Williams,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brogden, and Welcoming Holiday. They lost eight ton of pieces,
Speaker 1: didn't they? Mostly Welcoming Holiday. Let's be honest, they're like
Speaker 1: fuck everybody else. We got the best pointed in fact
Speaker 1: and pointed a tech defender in the week and we
Speaker 1: don't have to give the ball to Jalen Brown and
Speaker 1: crunch time, By the way, did you see Jalen Brown
Speaker 1: trying to drouble with his left hand to day? Should
Speaker 1: not have posted that Boston should not have posted it.
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens summed up everyone's thoughts best when he said.
Speaker 5: This, I mean, you know, there's a there's a list
Speaker 5: of guys in the league that you always think you'll
Speaker 5: never have a real chance to get, that you think
Speaker 5: are like perfect fits and that you'd love to be
Speaker 5: a Celtic. And Drew was, you know, one of those guys.
Speaker 5: And the reasons are, I mean, everybody can see what
Speaker 5: he does on the court, and he's a really good player,
Speaker 5: multiple time All Star, the defense has been well documented,
Speaker 5: et cetera. But I think it's the you know, just
Speaker 5: the he's an elite teammate, elite competitive character, you know
Speaker 5: all of those things. So you know, like you said,
Speaker 5: it's not one that you predict will necessarily have a
Speaker 5: chance to get. You knew the price was going to be,
Speaker 5: you know, really high, and but he's a guy that
Speaker 5: we think is a great fit for us, and you know,
Speaker 5: does so many good things on and off the court
Speaker 5: for us.
Speaker 1: God Brad Steves, I'm glad he's not a coach anymore.
Speaker 1: He is so fucking boring anyway. Blah blah blah. We
Speaker 1: love Drew, we love Drew, We love Drew. Can't go
Speaker 1: wrong bringing in Drew Holliday. He's that type of player,
Speaker 1: he really is. He's this type of player that everybody
Speaker 1: wants on their team, not just because of what he
Speaker 1: brings on the court, but because of what he brings
Speaker 1: off the court as well. Jason Tatum agreed, we brought
Speaker 1: in good guys. Good guys, were great people, great teammates.
Speaker 1: I think they've done a really good job of that.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about the team we have. Another interesting SoundBite
Speaker 1: came from Christaps Porzingis. I guess we don't have the
Speaker 1: bite of that. I couldn't find that. But he was
Speaker 1: asked about how comfortable he was that he's been moved
Speaker 1: from the four to the five now that Toime Lord
Speaker 1: has been traded, and he said, oh, I didn't know
Speaker 1: I was going to be doing that, but I do
Speaker 1: think it's a tough job for other fives to guard me.
Speaker 1: The funniest moment was when Jalen Brown discussed going to
Speaker 1: the Colorado football game with Derek White. They hit the
Speaker 1: tailgate early and according to Jalen Brown, d White was
Speaker 1: drunk at ten am. Campus legend, Buffalo legend. Safe to say, though,
Speaker 1: that we got all kinds of stuff going on with
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics, where the vibes are as high as
Speaker 1: they've been in forever despite losing four of their top
Speaker 1: seven players. I wonder, though, does Peyton Pitcher still want
Speaker 1: to be traded because because I feel like he's losing
Speaker 1: even more spots down the rotation. We moved down to
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets. Very quiet offseason hillacious past few years,
Speaker 1: the James Harden trade, the Kevin Durant trade, the Guyrie
Speaker 1: Irving trade, lots of trades, Jared Allen trade, the Steve
Speaker 1: Nash experiment. Things have been bleak, but they are looking
Speaker 1: on the up and up. We begin with Nick Claxton,
Speaker 1: who had some fascinating thoughts many many months later after
Speaker 1: not winning Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: So I went from being top three in the Defensive
Speaker 2: Player of the Year voting to at the end of
Speaker 2: the season nothing at all. When Katie and Curry when
Speaker 2: they left. It's like my name just fell off the map.
Speaker 1: It makes my blood boy sad again.
Speaker 2: It makes my boy I was robbed of the defensive team.
Speaker 2: My numbers, my numbers were amazing. I passed every ad sense.
Speaker 1: He said, it's like my name fell off the map. No, sir,
Speaker 1: it wasn't just your name, Nick, it was the entire
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets name as a whole. He does have a point. Lalla,
Speaker 1: eyeballs turned off when it wasn't Kevin Durant Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: in Nets uniforms. After the trade deadline, of course, Nick Claxton,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite players in the league, continued to
Speaker 1: ball out. But more interesting to me was the standard
Speaker 1: yearly Ben Simmons's back. It's scary hours ready to play
Speaker 1: his natural position, which is what it was a little
Speaker 1: up and.
Speaker 2: Down option from the dark. I mean, it's hard for
Speaker 2: a coach to really trust him believe in you when
Speaker 2: he's not seeing it right and I'm not if he's
Speaker 2: been doing you can't see it, and you know the coach,
Speaker 2: I'll do this anything. Well, I'm not going to play you,
Speaker 2: you know, not even to compete and do the things
Speaker 2: you know, I know you can do right, So I
Speaker 2: think just this time, I've taken the time to get healthy.
Speaker 2: Obviously he's come. He came down the mind of many
Speaker 2: few times and saw me. I think that's what was
Speaker 2: that was, That's what it was. You know, he's able
Speaker 2: to see me get healthy, put the work into the
Speaker 2: time and and focus on myself and and shown that
Speaker 2: I want to, you know, play this level and be
Speaker 2: be the point guard and do these things.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait wait, he said to I want
Speaker 1: to be the point guard. I thought that experiment ended.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, no, Ben, please, It's worked so well
Speaker 1: before in Philly, didn't it. Jacques Vaughn had some skeptical
Speaker 1: quotes about Ben Simmons, especially as a point guard, a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, so I am dubious of this. In
Speaker 1: some other Nets news, Cam Johnson is hurt says he
Speaker 1: expects to play sometime this year, which is that is
Speaker 1: a big yikes. Michel Bridges thinks Ben is going to
Speaker 1: have a huge year. Because Michel Bridges is your resident
Speaker 1: optimist on the team, and Cam Thomas still has no
Speaker 1: idea how the Nets are going to use him, but
Speaker 1: he is ready to chuck whenever he gets the ball.
Speaker 1: So not much has changed in the Cam Thomas universe
Speaker 1: since the last time we saw him putting up forty
Speaker 1: shots in a game. Brooklyn's not going to be good,
Speaker 1: but they they've got some spunk about him, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I kind of like their confidence, even though they're
Speaker 1: going nowhere. Might take a few years for them to
Speaker 1: get where they want to go. Nothing from Dorian Finney Smith,
Speaker 1: that's weird. Maybe it's like he's on the trade block.
Speaker 1: No one had as much to unveil during media day, though, though,
Speaker 1: as the Milwaukee Bucks can barely even say their name,
Speaker 1: I'm so mad that they have my guy, Dame Lillard.
Speaker 1: After all, they of course pulled off the biggest trade
Speaker 1: of the season. More off, moreover, they did it in silence,
Speaker 1: like Lasagna real geez movings on. Everyone wants to know though,
Speaker 1: how Yiannis is dealing with the trade, and of course
Speaker 1: that was the first thing that Jannis talked about on
Speaker 1: media day.
Speaker 4: Having a guy like Dame on the team, it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Knows how to play the game, plays the game in
Speaker 4: the high level We've built from the same cloth wants
Speaker 4: to win. It's extremely hungry, you know. But you know,
Speaker 4: I've been here for ten years and we've been doing
Speaker 4: things quietly. You know, we kind of be moving under
Speaker 4: the day that now. You know, with this kind of move,
Speaker 4: it brings a lot of you know, attention to the team,
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of hype around the team. And
Speaker 4: obviously I believe and I think people believe that we
Speaker 4: are one of the best teams in the East. But
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, it's not about what
Speaker 4: we believe or what people believe. It's about what we
Speaker 4: what we do, you know, and we'll see.
Speaker 1: If they don't do what Johannest thinks that they should do,
Speaker 1: maybe he won't sign that extension after all. Safe to
Speaker 1: Sayiannis very happy to have a sharpshooter on the floor
Speaker 1: for the first time since the twenty twenty one version
Speaker 1: of Chris Middleton, who, by the way, may or may
Speaker 1: not be healthy right now. Adrian Griffin. Adrian Griffin, you
Speaker 1: gotta see what he had to say, which he absolutely
Speaker 1: is gaslighting folks about where Chris Middleton is, what the
Speaker 1: game plan is to get him back, because he's not
Speaker 1: practicing right now. All he knows is that Chris Middleton
Speaker 1: isn't on track to play at some point whenever that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be. Does he know wheen that's supposed to be. No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't love that guy. We do get to hear
Speaker 1: from Dame himself. What did he have to say about
Speaker 1: the new move?
Speaker 3: I am who I'm gonna be. You know, it's just
Speaker 3: a matter of how well I can take care of myself.
Speaker 3: You know how sharp I can be, and you know,
Speaker 3: just whatever that situation was, just being able to get
Speaker 3: my feet on the ground and then start, you know,
Speaker 3: locking into it and understand what our purpose is, what's
Speaker 3: expected of me, what kind of basketball we play, what
Speaker 3: kind of personnel are we gonna have? And I think
Speaker 3: coming into this situation is very very easy. You know,
Speaker 3: you look at somebody like Giannis, you look at Chris,
Speaker 3: you look at Brooke, you look you know, when I
Speaker 3: looked at the roster, it's very easy for me to
Speaker 3: make sense of you know what my job is gonna be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a perfect fit, Dame. We all know it's
Speaker 1: hand in glove. I don't even know why you need
Speaker 1: to rub it in about how easy it's going to be.
Speaker 1: For you and Janni is to succeed, but maybe you
Speaker 1: should be a little quieter about it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Kind Of lost in the hullabaloo though over
Speaker 1: Dame was the fact that the Bucks made in another
Speaker 1: impactful signing, which was campaign. He averaged ten four and
Speaker 1: three for the Suns. He was a player who when
Speaker 1: Chris Paul got hurt in the finals, was putting up buckets.
Speaker 1: Shoots thirty eight percent from three. You get them on
Speaker 1: a one year deal for three million dollars. That's a steal.
Speaker 1: The funniest thing that everybody was talking about for the
Speaker 1: Bucks actually took place in Miami, where Jimmy Butler was sulking,
Speaker 1: and he looks at Media Day as his Halloween declares
Speaker 1: that he has no ill will towards Dame or Yannis,
Speaker 1: but he hates Adrian Griffin and wants to stomp him
Speaker 1: out in the playoffs. Everyone knows I don't like Adrian
Speaker 1: Griffin at all since my Chicago days. What the fuck
Speaker 1: did anybody know that? Of course Jimmy Butler was trolling again.
Speaker 1: Adrian was an assistant in Chicago Jimmy Butler was with
Speaker 1: the Bulls often picked him up to drive him to practice,
Speaker 1: so they're fun. Jimmy Butler, always being the clown. Dame
Speaker 1: is settling in. It looks like things are going to
Speaker 1: work out in Milwaukee. But there are only two big questions.
Speaker 1: Can the Bucks stay healthy, because for two years they
Speaker 1: have not been healthy. Especially what is giving me great
Speaker 1: pause is that we don't know what's happening with Chris Middleton,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't seem like anyone really wants to tell
Speaker 1: us the truth. Kind of feels like water game over here,
Speaker 1: with just the deletion of tapes, nobody knows. You got
Speaker 1: to read the transcript about what Adrian Griffin said as
Speaker 1: it relates to Chris Middleton, because it's insane. I can't
Speaker 1: even read the whole thing. I'll just get mad. And two,
Speaker 1: whether a rookie coach can handle the Big Three, especially
Speaker 1: when he's obviously a gaslighter. We'll talk about the Bucks
Speaker 1: a lot later this year, I promise you