WEBVTT - A major show announcement... 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.280 On this episode of the Heat Check, it's been forever. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.720 I got a big personal announcement which impacts the Heat 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.160 Check moving forward. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.840 After that, I'll get into the latest offseason. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.960 News from around the league, and folks, that's crickets out there. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.520 I'm telling you, not much happening. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.440 I mean, I think I saw Jokic chase a little 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.040 boy that was related to Goran Dragicic and that made 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:34.680 my weak. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.280 Luca and Paolo are in China. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.559 Apparently Powlo's like the third best want power forward in 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.000 the league right now according to some list. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:44.240 Not much happening. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.200 Bron Aunt, Tatum, Domus Butler are doing the starting five 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:49.320 for Netflix. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.200 Which is like a horrible name. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.880 And I'm just here trying to rebuild my mama's garage 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.280 successfully and unsuccessfully at the same damn time. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.360 So Anthony, you keep being a success. That motherfucker should 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:01.720 be Rehonna. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.000 But Odyssey is too cheap to pay for the rights. Yes, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:22.520 maybe we'll go back to the beat. Hey, everybody, a 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.720 long time vacation. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.319 I've been all over the place. I've been in Portland 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.400 working rehab in my mom's house. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.320 If you're interested in following along, follow along on Instagram 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.000 or Twitter, Trista underscore Crik, you know what time it is. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:39.720 We put it on stories, we put it on threads, 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.360 we put it on I don't know what we call it. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:48.360 We're calling X anymore like their threads for Forrex. Anyway, 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:53.720 I have a big announcement. I am officially off of nights. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.480 I can watch games with a full focus. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.440 No more bet MG the Night, which I really enjoyed 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.920 my time there, my nationally syndicated but betting show. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:05.440 I've been on there for three years. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:09.600 We had awesome guests, We had a ton of fun, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:10.919 great bonding. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.720 I couldn't trade it for the world. It was on 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.760 four hours a night, roughly forty eight weeks a year. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.160 The amount of time I was on the air talking 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:21.560 about betting was crazy. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.560 We've been doing WFAN for two years. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.919 We've been doing The Score for roughly six months in Chicago, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.960 six seventy the Score. Three years of that kind of 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.280 work took its toll, Folks. My body and my mind 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.960 was tired. I don't think I could have taken much 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:46.000 longer of that. I wasn't calling friends or talking to 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.280 anyone else except for people that I worked with on 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:48.720 the show. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:50.840 So I've decided to leave. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.800 I will still be doing shows on the Score in Chicago, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.800 occasionally hits on Odyssey the radio network VQUL stations as well, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.720 but I'm currently on the nightly Grind. I cannot tell 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.160 you what's yet for in store for me yet, but 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.440 I will make that announcement in due time. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:09.760 But I do. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.160 Have some exciting news to drop that I will give 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.800 you at some point soon. But for now, still find 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.240 me on in weekends and some weeknights on the Score 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.560 of six seventy in Chicago, and that means that I will, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.239 when the season starts, have time to expand some things 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.880 that I've always wanted to do with the Heat Check. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.959 I'm very proud of what we've accomplished despite the work schedule, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.040 but I want to do more, I really do. I 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.800 want to be creative with it again. I want to 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.200 make it a part of my priority again. I was 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.280 still able to give three episodes a week, but if 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:51.120 I'm honest, it wasn't the kind of content that I 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:57.880 really wanted to give you. Not every episode we're not 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:03.320 always going Michael Jordan Stad, but dozens and dozens of 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.080 bonus episodes, which I was very proud about as well, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.480 and the connections that we made were amazing. But basketball 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.760 has always been my first love. NBA has always been 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.400 my first love. I've started started the heat Check four 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.880 years ago, in twenty twenty, so that I guess the 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.160 beginning of twenty twenty one season, So what umbrella this 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.400 is going to be under is not quite known yet, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.839 but I am really excited for season five. An idea 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.839 that started during the pandemic moved with me from New 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.720 York to DC and come on, come with me to 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.760 this new journey as well, So I could not be 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.960 more excited for it more thankful to everyone who's followed 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.320 the heat Check from this league to the present. New 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.960 fans from It Is What It Is Cameron and Masa's 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.520 show have been amazing friends I've made in the on 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:55.160 hits in Memphis, Rochester, Buffalo, Miami, Portland, Vegas, Chicago, New 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.240 York City, Sacramento. By the way, shout out to Delo 0:04:58.279 --> 0:04:59.600 and Casey for their thousandth episode. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.480 I appreciate at you, guys, But I think season five 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:03.960 is gonna be a blast. I think we're gonna be 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.160 able to have more interviews. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.320 I think we're gonna be able to have more interesting, hypothetical, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:15.000 creative content versus just transactions and news. Make sure to 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.960 follow me on social updates for what's happening, But for now, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.679 just one episode a week until training camp starts. Unless 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.520 I'm feeling frisky onto the leak. Not much happening around 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.320 the league right now. Brian Windhors, God bless him. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:30.839 He finds ways. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.919 Boy, That's what I'm talking about, Brian Windhors. Snake drafts, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.520 top rankings, going back to former drafts, who who would 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:41.599 have been redrafted? 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.719 Love that boy, Love that man. I don't think Zach 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.000 Low's ever gonna record again, though, like I know, I've 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:52.240 been malfeas since, but I haven't seen Zach Lowe. Ever 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.159 heard of pete from Zach Loow? Not a pete boy. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.599 Everybody's on vacation. But there are a few. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.880 Things going on, some transactions, little tidbits in the NBA 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.520 schedule that you should know about, especially as they relate 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:12.840 to betting. But the wildest thing happened last night. I 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:17.320 saw it and I couldn't believe my eyes. And like, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.520 let me just preface this by saying, like, have you 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.360 ever been in a cafe and you're sitting way too 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.040 close to a couple that's like either just breaking up 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.320 or has already broken up and is now like trying 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:33.719 to find closure. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.440 Right next to you. That is what we got. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:42.120 When Mark Cuban went on Jalen Brunson's podcast, and for that, 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:47.039 I say, why did you decide to do it? You 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.839 knew that was probably gonna be a topic of discussion. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.400 It's it's just insane. It was almost like they both 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.320 thought that they were over it and that they could 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.280 discuss it with clear eyes. They clearly do not have 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.760 the same version of what happened, and clearly are both 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:08.760 kind of salty about how the negotiation went and concluded, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.200 but yet wanted to make sure to say they're happy 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.920 for how it all worked out and happy for one another. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:23.280 It's insane. The interview I think goes an hour. They 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.000 were dancing around it. You knew it was inevitable that 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.320 they were going to discuss it. I could have gone 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.520 my whole life without hearing that at all. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.320 And it is so much worse to watch than to 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.400 listen to. But for those who are listening on the podcast, 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.640 give it a listen and we will dissect work. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.560 I honestly thought it would work out. I really really 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.080 really did. But it didn't. And that's okay. You know, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.520 all's well, that ends. Well, I'm happy for you, the 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.880 King of New York, and I'm. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.760 Happy for us. You know, it is what it is. 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:57.400 That's the NBA. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.600 Yeah, I hold on. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.960 Yeah, he was like, whatever you're saying, I'm not even 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.520 listening to Jalen Brunson. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.280 Let me just tell you how I felt. I'm pissed 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:09.920 about something. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.280 The only thing that I ever never i'd didn't like 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.840 but the whole situation was when Mark said, when the 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.760 parents got involved, that's some things that messy. So that 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.680 is the one thing I was like. I kind of 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.080 was like, damn, that was a little job. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.080 But I didn't really No, I didn't want to go 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:30.600 there here, right, I. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:36.720 Paused, didn't want to go there here. It wasn't a job. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.959 So Mark Cuban is not only standing on ten toes 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:42.720 on that statement. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.200 He's like, I didn't want to dissect or go into 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:46.559 this on. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.760 The podcast because I've got more shit I could say 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.120 about your dad. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.840 It wasn't it wasn't a job at all. I mean, 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.720 there's no reason for us to talk about any of 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:57.240 that stuff. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.720 But it wasn't just a job JB. For real. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.360 I know, I'm just I'm just saying, well, that's when 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.440 I heard that. That's so maybe I felt a little 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.000 a certain way, but I got over it. Obviously, that's 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:08.520 my parents. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:09.720 So I apologize. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.360 I think put you in a certain way. That wasn't 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.120 the intention, but it was. It was hard to deal with, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.960 it was it was unique for it was. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.280 A unique translation. Mark. He was like, your dad was 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:20.559 fucking nuts. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.000 He wanted you in New York and there was nothing 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.360 I could do, no amount of money that I could 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:25.760 give you. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.360 You were going to New York. And that was it. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.040 Negotiation in a lot of different ways. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.520 I was, I would says. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:38.000 Jalen's like, no, it's the exact same thing as Isaiah Hartenstein. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.760 Same negotiation that we just wanted to do with Isaiah. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.200 I would say, it's pretty similar in some respect. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:44.480 Yeah, I'm sure what I mean. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.080 I don't know the details, but yeah it may well be, 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:49.160 you know. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.000 But it's it's over and done with. We're here now 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.679 and that's that and I'm happy. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:56.560 Literally, I'm happy for it. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.400 I mean, like when you got married, like we were 0:09:58.400 --> 0:09:59.959 still keeping guys. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.440 He's still cool, right, Like I text you like I 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.840 see you, I still like root for you, you know, like 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.240 we for everyone who's watching, Like we're not like completely 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:10.920 on the outs. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.199 Gosh, I'm always sending you congrats and this and. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.120 That, so I mean, and Jalen's like, yep, like get 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.920 the fuck out of here. Why did you guys decide 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:26.840 to do this podcast? I don't understand it. That did 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.480 not make things better at all. I think it's worse. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.440 I think it's more awkward now. I think you guys 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.880 feel worse about how that whole thing went down now 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.160 than you did before you decided to push your cord. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.520 Here's another thing that was not discussed or will never 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:46.120 be known. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:51.679 It's like if Mark Cuban signs Jalen Brunson to four 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:56.720 years fifty six million and he goes back to Dallas 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:02.920 and they're losing, that Dallas is losing and Kyrie asked 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:03.520 for trade. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.240 Is Jalen Brunson not the best trade. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:12.280 Piece you could possibly ask for if you're Dallas, like 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.480 you might get you might get picks back and Kyrie 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.760 to have McHale bridges because the McKale bridges thing happened 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:25.839 after But that KD trade happens really fast, michaelis I mean, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.920 come on? So then you get Jalen Brunson and Michel 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.800 Bridges in Brooklyn. Josh Hart came for a late first 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.480 from Portland, which was whatever Devincenzo I think was free 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.280 agency for nothing. So then you have Brooklyn with Jalen Brunson, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.800 Michel Bridges, Dante de Vincenzo and Josh Hart. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:44.319 Uh. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.160 I mean that could have absolutely happened. And if that 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.520 would have happened, would the Brooklyn Nets have been exactly 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.600 what the New York Knicks are or are the Brooklyn 0:11:58.640 --> 0:11:59.959 Nets so dysfunctional? 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:01.400 Wow? 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.120 Are we really like to the point where James Dolan 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:10.360 runs a cleaner, tighter ship than Jose II and Sean Marks, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.560 Because that's I think where we're at right now. That 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.480 is the sliding glass door that I am fascinated by. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:20.040 But all of that to say, the awkwardness now just 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.760 got more awkward. And I promise you the next time 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.840 Cuban goes on a podcast, someone is circling back to 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.760 get more details on exactly what he meant, because clearly 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.359 there is more to the story. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.160 Then we know, and that he is letting on and 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.120 I think he wants to tell and spill the beans. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:40.920 Let's move on. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.439 Kind of the under the radar news coming out of 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:49.840 the Bay to Day. Steph Curry again why, has agreed 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.560 to a one year, sixty two point six million dollar 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:59.960 extension sixty two point six million dollars. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.080 Holy shit, which. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.240 Will keep him as a Warrior through the twenty six 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.920 to twenty seventh season. This according to his agent, Jeff 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.040 Austin of Octagon, which by. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:18.960 The way, recently became my agency. Got that deal done. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.000 Since Steph will be thirty eight when the contract kicks in, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.920 he could only sign a one year extension, which is 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.160 nuts anyway. That makes him the highest paid player in 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.920 the NBA puts the rest any ideas that he may 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.640 be looking to bail at the end of the contract. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.240 He'll be thirty nine when the contract ends, which pretty 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.520 much ensures unless something insane happens, he's gonna be in 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.080 Golden State his entire career. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.720 I hate the move. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.000 I want Steph to play with Lebron James, like, that's 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.520 what I want. I love what we saw in the Olympics. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.680 I like Steph in Golden State. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.520 I love the Shemmy. I love him with Steve Kerr, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.400 like I really want. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.079 To see Steph win some shit, Like I love what 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.720 Steph Curry's when he gave Steph Curry playing meaningful games. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.440 Great Steph Curry as a playing team. Oh, Steph Curry 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.440 having a skit sit by Steve Kerr and played thirty 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.440 seven minutes a game in the middle of January and 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.120 him send shots to Steve Kerr because he really just 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.440 wants to be like in the top six and like 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.440 kaminga fucking up at the end of games, and like 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.960 putting your whole life and career in the hands of 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:41.760 Brandon Pachemski fucking insane moves. Good for Steph, though, take 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.360 your money, take your legacy, enjoy that irrelevancy because that's 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.680 what's happening for the rest of your fucking career. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.640 Good news for the Dubs, our Dubs, bad news for 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:58.160 basketball fans at large. Let's move on. I am I'm 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.200 getting tired, sake it, tired of this Brad Stevens guy. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.160 How does he do it? 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:12.200 He is finding medal in the scrap heap, turning it 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:16.520 in to something that you can sell for a lot 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.400 of money, use for a lot of value. I don't 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.920 understand what he's doing. That That analogy was terrible. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.200 You know what I'm trying to say, it's late. What 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.480 the Celtics are doing is ridiculous. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:32.200 You get Drew Holliday, you get KP and first round 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:38.320 picks to receive KP. You find Ouser, find Luke Cordnett, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:43.080 Derek White was a song, you get the picture. And 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:47.720 now the Celtics just signed Lonnie Walker on an exhibit 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:48.240 ten day. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:53.600 Wow. First of all, Lonnie Walker, Oh, how we have fallen? 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.800 Jesus Christ. He averaged ten points. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.360 A game for the Nets last year, thirty eight percent 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.920 of shooting from deep. But I'm pretty shocked that he 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.440 was still a free agent deep into the summer. Keith 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:05.720 Smith was also shocked. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.720 He was flabbergasted, Like what more does this team need 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.040 in terms of shooting? Like this guy shoots thirty eight 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.560 percent from three? They don't need that. They don't need that. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.600 You know who does need that team? Like the Pistons. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.080 They he's cheap too, Like what do you need to 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.000 Bias Harris for if you have Lonnie Walker? Honestly, like 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.760 they could use him, Like why is Simone for fontechio. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:30.120 Around? 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.200 Like he's twenty eight years old, like Lonnie Walker twenty five. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.400 I know that they're playing different positions, but Lonnie Walker's 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.960 four times the player that simone Fontechio is what are 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.240 we doing other gms? 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:43.600 I like Lonnie Walker. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.000 Remember Lonnie Walker for the Lakers was a bucket. He 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.360 got the Lakers. I think he single handedly won a 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.000 game for the Lakers in the playoffs. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:58.000 As for the Celtics, another addition to the bench insurance 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.800 in case one of the guards go down, and just 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:07.560 another win for Brad Stevens and Boston. And finally, a 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:08.440 quick question. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.639 For the folks out there, like I don't know if 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:15.280 anybody has any answers, but like, what the fuck's going 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:16.280 on in Utah? 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:17.560 What is happening there? 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.399 First, they hijack the off season by dangling Lourie Marking 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.359 like a piece of red meat, like in the middle 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.800 of House of the Dragon, in the middle of the 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.840 red keep, you know what I mean, starving bears. We 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.000 got people hanging from their neck, we got rat catchers 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.800 hanging from their necks, and it's. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.440 Like, hey, we got Lori market in, we got Lori 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:41.840 market anybody hungry? 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.200 And then they just signed him to an extension. Laurie 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.280 won't sign until it's to the period where he cannot 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:54.359 be traded. And now we find out Walker Kessler is 0:17:54.440 --> 0:18:00.000 on the trade block. The team cannot and I cannot 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.800 to emphasize, this is not enough. This team cannot play defense. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.800 For a team that cannot play. 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.199 Defense, this is a pretty big surprise. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.200 Why would they want to move on from him when 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.439 he was damn near an All NBA center like two 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.439 years ago. I know he regressed, but he's like twenty 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:18.880 four years old. 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:20.520 The whole team regressed. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.879 Also, there are rumors that Walker Kesser's like, give me 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:24.720 the fuck up out of here. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:25.920 Why. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.240 Well, the rumors are the Will Hardy wants Kesler to 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.440 work on the fund of Mattals and have him become 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.800 a quote traditional big man lovely, while Kessler wants to 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:38.840 work on the perimeter and become a three in d 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.399 Brook Lopez type of talent. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:46.000 Apparently Dad's in the mix. Apparently Dad's in the mix, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.520 has some things that he has to say to Will 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:50.320 Hardy as well. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.120 Listen, when the dads are getting involved, As we said 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.359 in the earlier segment, is never a good thing, never 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:03.600 a good rumor to me. It's just further proof the 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:08.919 Danny Ainge's master plan must be to poop for Cooper, 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:14.960 poop for Coop, tank city trading Castler makes them worse. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:20.000 Jordan Clarkson can't be far behind. So much regression came 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.600 to due to injuries, Utah was actively tanking. Of course, 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:29.280 who's a good fit for Utah to trade with? I 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.199 would have said Memphis, but they got Zach Edie. Now 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.320 I think probably the New Orleans Pelicans. They really need 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.280 some perimeter defense as well. They need some room protection. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.360 For sure, they need a seven footer. We know that 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.200 they need a seven footer. Okay, like that's step one. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:48.000 But the larger picture is what's going on in Utah 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.440 is about as murky as my mom's windows in her 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.159 garage that have been boarded up for the last thirty 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.919 five years can't see through. I don't know what is 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.520 going on over there, to be. I don't know if 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:02.919 Danny Inge knows what's going. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:03.480 On there either. 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.640 I know the Jazz are probably the most fatable team 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.080 in the league this year, and that is exactly what 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:09.639 Age in. 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:10.680 The front office want. 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.400 But God bless them, you can't be bad for too 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.840 long or people are gonna start bashing you forgetting you 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.399 and taking advantage of you. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:21.520 All right. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:22.520 Uh. 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:26.359 Lastly, one of our traditions on the heat check that 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.080 dates back to this league days is talking about flights. 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:35.959 What teams are getting fucked, What teams do the NBA 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:42.320 actively hate. It's usually an indicator who's gonna struggle on 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.439 the road because nobody loves having a fly cross country 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.399 all season long. This year, Here are the five teams 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:54.080 who have to fly the most miles this season. Number 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:59.040 one San Antonio fifty one thousand and seventy nine miles. 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:06.240 Come on, man, Number two my Portland Trailblazers, cause why 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:11.480 because fuck them? That's why. They're young, they're dumb, they're athletic, 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.639 they're strong. Let them travel. 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:19.720 Number three Minnesota. I'm sure Timberwolf fans are up at arms. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:25.320 They feel like they are constantly being conspired against, and 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.120 to be honest, hard not to see the same thing. 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:33.760 Sacramento right in the same boat. These are teams really 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:38.440 no one's checking for. Really outside of Wemby. San Antonio 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:43.000 is not being checked for Portland Minnesota. Minnesota had the 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.400 two seed and they still weren't being checked for Sacramento 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.720 made the playoffs and people act like they're a basement dweller. 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:54.480 Indiana made the Eastern Conference Finals. They're number five, and 0:21:54.520 --> 0:22:00.679 everybody's like, eh, fluke those teams. The miles that you 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:06.240 fly in the NBA, I believe heavily correlate to how 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:08.399 much the league gives a fuck about you or not 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.159 the least amount of flight miles, which is crazy that 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:18.040 I'm gonna say this because this goes completely against well. 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.080