Speaker 1: On this episode of The Heat Check, we got big
Speaker 1: drama and the hoops world.
Speaker 2: Following the epic.
Speaker 1: Collapse a TUSA at the Feeble World Cup, Adam Silver
Speaker 1: has passed some draconian rules designed to stop tanking and
Speaker 1: load management. Draymond starts the season better than he started
Speaker 1: the last one, and the Hornets backup center is beefing
Speaker 1: with the guy who took his job. We're almost back
Speaker 1: to normal in the NBA world, So James, go ahead
Speaker 1: and drop that generic ass.
Speaker 3: You's breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. So the
Speaker 3: Heat Check, the Heat Check, it's just a crazy, the
Speaker 3: best podcast covering all the drama around the association.
Speaker 1: So the dead season is about to end, even though
Speaker 1: it really hasn't yet.
Speaker 2: And I know that there have been people in my
Speaker 2: dms wanting me to weigh in on Kevin Porter Jr.
Speaker 2: And I just am not going through. I don't have
Speaker 2: the energy for this. It is so.
Speaker 1: Incredibly sad, it's angering, it's I don't want to give opinion.
Speaker 1: This is a basketball comedy podcast, and for the life
Speaker 1: of me, I can't find anything funny with domestic violence.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to go elsewhere to learn about
Speaker 1: the details. All you need to know is it's not good.
Speaker 1: Not much to say except for that this fucking sucks.
Speaker 2: So together. Instead, we'll start with some.
Speaker 1: Old news and some new news, all kind of wrapped together.
Speaker 1: So as you know by now it's Thursday, the US
Speaker 1: did not medal. They shit the bed at the Feeble
Speaker 1: World Cup, not once, but twice. You know from the
Speaker 1: emergency pod which dropped on Friday. The Team USA got
Speaker 1: absolutely schnitzled in a heartbreaker to Germany aka the Fighting
Speaker 1: Who the fuck is Dennis Shooter Think he is Dennis
Speaker 1: Shooters in the semifinals, which then set up a shocking
Speaker 1: third place matchup with Canada, which we thought would be
Speaker 1: the gold medal game, who ended up getting upset by
Speaker 1: Serbia and was that bronze medal?
Speaker 2: A wild one woke up at.
Speaker 1: Five something in the morning to watch Shay Gilgess Alexander
Speaker 1: give US straight buckets. Canada had full command of the
Speaker 1: lead pretty much the entire game. They had a four
Speaker 1: point lead with just a couple seconds left to go.
Speaker 1: And if it wasn't for Mikal Bridges being just one
Speaker 1: of the more forethought athletes during the feb Cup, he
Speaker 1: gets fouled, makes one free throw, misses the other one
Speaker 1: on purpose, gets his own rebound, no one blocks him out,
Speaker 1: him out, and turns around, hits a three with point
Speaker 1: two seconds left in the game to tie at one
Speaker 1: to eleven. One eleven, and that, folks right, there was
Speaker 1: pretty much the highlight for Team USA in the World Cup.
Speaker 1: Ot You might have thought it could have been competitive,
Speaker 1: but it was not. Canada blew the doors off the Americans.
Speaker 1: They won one twenty seven, one pint eighteen. I believe
Speaker 1: every single game in the Feeble World Cup, Team USA
Speaker 1: gave up over one hundred.
Speaker 2: And ten points.
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks in this one had the game of his life.
Speaker 1: He had thirty nine points, seven for eight from three.
Speaker 1: I thought Dennis, I thought Dylan Brooks couldn't shoot.
Speaker 2: What happened to that?
Speaker 1: What happened to him not being able to shoot from three?
Speaker 1: All of a sudden he is a sniper, plays lockdown defense.
Speaker 1: Terrible end for Team USA. Everybody was down on them
Speaker 1: pretty much the entire tournament, including a lot of NBA players, as.
Speaker 2: We will find out.
Speaker 1: Quick mention though, of the gold medal game because Germany
Speaker 1: ended Serbia's dream run to win the gold with an
Speaker 1: incredible performance from yes, Dennis Schruder and Franz and Mo Wagner.
Speaker 2: As I said, nobody balls out internationally more than Dennis Shruder.
Speaker 1: He even stopped Maxi Klaba from joining team Germany because
Speaker 1: he was like, bro, we didn't see it last year,
Speaker 1: so we don't want to see you now. Dennis Schruder,
Speaker 1: the leader of Germany undefeated run. He wins MVP of
Speaker 1: the entire World Cup over Shae over Aunt Edwards, over Bogden,
Speaker 1: over Franz Wagner over Kat You get the picture. Serbia
Speaker 1: finishes second without Nikoliokic, which is fucking scary, or Vasilli Meichik,
Speaker 1: which means they are going to be a force to
Speaker 1: reckon with in the Olympics. All this means together collectively,
Speaker 1: Paris twenty twenty four basketball is going to be insane.
Speaker 1: Jeremy squad is so good that Shruder said it's the
Speaker 1: best team he's ever played on and that he played
Speaker 1: with Braun and Anthony Davis in La Serbia, as I noticed,
Speaker 1: is going to have Joki Chimichick. France is definitely adding
Speaker 1: Victor Wanbiyama, but it might end up adding Joel mb
Speaker 1: two and on top of that they have a home
Speaker 1: court advantage.
Speaker 2: Australia might end up having Ben Simmons back. I don't
Speaker 2: know if that matters. And as Steve Kirk.
Speaker 1: Pointed out, the rest of the world is just caught
Speaker 1: up with Team USA.
Speaker 2: This is in nineteen ninety two anymore.
Speaker 1: And as sprinter Noah Lyles controversially said that the NBA
Speaker 1: should just stop using the term world champion because they
Speaker 1: only won against North American teams and not world teams.
Speaker 2: He got flamed in that one.
Speaker 1: He got flamed for that take, and you know what,
Speaker 1: turns out he was right, not only and Giannis tends.
Speaker 2: To agree with him. This is what he said.
Speaker 1: I don't think in any other sport you're called world champions,
Speaker 1: you know, like in soccer, which is bigger than the NBA,
Speaker 1: more popular than the NBA. When the Champions League, the
Speaker 1: UFA Champions League, you know, champions, they don't say world champion.
Speaker 1: You know, when they win the World Cup, they play
Speaker 1: against the US team, they play against teams around the world,
Speaker 1: you know, countries around the world.
Speaker 2: They say world champs.
Speaker 1: Last five NBA MVPs foreign born players. Two of the
Speaker 1: last finals MVPs foreign born players. Four of the five
Speaker 1: members of the twenty twenty three All NBA First Team
Speaker 1: non Americans, and that team did not include Nicola Jokic.
Speaker 1: Safe to say, Steve Kerr that the world is caught up.
Speaker 1: But what does Team USA.
Speaker 2: Have that nobody else has?
Speaker 1: Lebron James, Yes, Akron Star, Lebron James is here to
Speaker 1: save the day, tweeting photos of himself out at untimely
Speaker 1: moments to say he is going to be out recruiting
Speaker 1: to make him and Anthony Davis and Steph Curry finally
Speaker 1: play in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: That is the headline.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you if this ends up happening,
Speaker 1: that will be mussy TV. Because once Braun said he
Speaker 1: was in the Avalanche Stars chimed in Katie, Steph deeron Fox,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, nobody wants to miss out on the Lebron
Speaker 1: Last Dance because now they know they will be encapsulated
Speaker 1: in history like a mummy, a big thing. Everyone wants in.
Speaker 1: Even Kyle Kuzma says he wants in. He tweeted, anybody
Speaker 1: USA basketball better get some NBA stars that know how
Speaker 1: to play a role. Anybody can be nice with the
Speaker 1: ball in their hands. But can you be cool defending
Speaker 1: and going to the corner for a.
Speaker 2: Few possessions question Mark.
Speaker 1: You know it's funny though, as a quick aside, because
Speaker 1: nobody had to play defense and go to the corner
Speaker 1: more than Kyle KU's when he played with Lebron' so
Speaker 1: he knows all about it, and too, we know Kyle
Speaker 1: Kuzma hates that shit.
Speaker 2: That's why he's a Washington wizard.
Speaker 1: Which, though Devin Booker commented, I'll do that, all stand
Speaker 1: on the corner, all play defense. So when you've got
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, who's probably I would say, the best shooting
Speaker 1: guard in the league right now, saying he's fine with
Speaker 1: being a role player, that is going to add the
Speaker 1: Team USA to a new level. Lebron's last dance I
Speaker 1: think has the potential to be the biggest thing for
Speaker 1: international basketball since the Dream Team. Yeah, everyone on social
Speaker 1: has already gone crazy, sites like coopsyper comparing these stars
Speaker 1: to Marvel characters, for which it's worth I did that
Speaker 1: and did not record it, and they did nail Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis as being grouped, which I think could be an
Speaker 1: entire episode on its own. America's Aging stars are going
Speaker 1: to get together and with Aunt Edwards is probably the
Speaker 1: exception for one last roundup against the world to show
Speaker 1: that they're as good as it gets.
Speaker 2: It's going to be fun.
Speaker 1: And unless the US does something to negate the plethora
Speaker 1: of overseas height, they need Anthony Davis and they probably
Speaker 1: need Joel Embiid and that's might not be enough.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: And if we lose against the World with ad Lebron,
Speaker 1: James Joel Embiid, American fans are going to have a
Speaker 1: meltdown because you can only fall back on feeble World
Speaker 1: Cup doesn't matter, or setting our b team for so
Speaker 1: long before the rest of the world says maybe you're
Speaker 1: just not as good as us. We're gonna finally have
Speaker 1: to admit maybe the rest of the world has finally
Speaker 1: caught up completely moving on.
Speaker 2: It has been a long.
Speaker 1: Six weeks of nothing happening except for James Harden and
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard holding their team's hostage trying to jump ship.
Speaker 2: But we finally have about a little bit of actual
Speaker 2: news to discuss. I'm not talking about PJ. Washington returning
Speaker 2: to the Hornets.
Speaker 1: I am not talking about the San Antonio Spurs continuing
Speaker 1: to build up goodwill by giving Grant Campaign an outright
Speaker 1: release so that he can go with a contending team.
Speaker 1: I am talking about structural MBA news that we are
Speaker 1: breaking down.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Adam Silver because our.
Speaker 1: Fearless commissioner has now decided to take on the subject
Speaker 1: of load management and tanking head on.
Speaker 2: Because it's face, it's been terrible.
Speaker 1: It's been kind of killing the league vibe for at
Speaker 1: least in terms of in person paying customers for a decade.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to look forward to watching a February
Speaker 1: Clippers versus Sixers game on TV only to find out
Speaker 1: Kawhi and Embiid are sitting.
Speaker 2: There in street clothes. But it's another thing to check
Speaker 2: the calendar for months.
Speaker 1: Take your kid and promise that kid they are going
Speaker 1: to see Joel Embiid. You get nosebleed seats to see
Speaker 1: your hero, and then you show up to find the
Speaker 1: guy that you see and you paid to see. Take
Speaker 1: the day off until you can't even find out until
Speaker 1: you got your first hot dog in your mouth.
Speaker 2: That's why Kobe is beloved. The dude is going to
Speaker 2: play through anything.
Speaker 1: When he was playing through a broken hand, through broke anything.
Speaker 1: Just to keep the fans happy. But that's not happening anymore,
Speaker 1: so Adam Silver had to step in. By the way,
Speaker 1: quick aside, this happened to me last year when I
Speaker 1: wanted to see Jaw and Desmond Baine play against the
Speaker 1: Washington Wizards. I hate Capitol One Arena. It fucking sucks.
Speaker 1: It's like a best buy in there. But for Jaw
Speaker 1: and for Desmond Bane, I would do it. And you
Speaker 1: know what, I paid for floor seats just to watch
Speaker 1: David fucking Roddy.
Speaker 2: Do you know how bad David Roddy is. Do you
Speaker 2: know how slow David Roddy is.
Speaker 1: This is not a ricochet shot to David Roddy, but
Speaker 1: for a few hundred dollars per seat, I did not
Speaker 1: want to watch David Roddy and Steven Adams in the
Speaker 1: block disgusting, and I didn't. It's like going to Momofuku
Speaker 1: and then you go to the bathroom and you find
Speaker 1: out it's actually a Panda Express.
Speaker 2: So yes, I get that this is a problem. Enter
Speaker 2: Adam Silver, who came up with this.
Speaker 1: According to WOJ, the NBA's Competition Committee recommended to play
Speaker 1: that The league's board of governors is expected to approve Wednesday,
Speaker 1: It would ultimately give the league office authority for greater
Speaker 1: oversight over disciplined for missed games, and an ability to
Speaker 1: find teams over one million dollars for each instance of
Speaker 1: violating resting rules. This has got to be aimed, by
Speaker 1: the way, what the league is calling star players? What
Speaker 1: is a star player? The MPa is defining a star
Speaker 1: player as someone who's made the All Star or All
Speaker 1: NBA teams in three any of the three previous seasons.
Speaker 1: God damn Bradley Beal, you are fucked. Here are Adams five.
Speaker 2: Rules for fixing tanking. Teams must manage their roster to
Speaker 2: ensure that no more than one star player is unavailable
Speaker 2: for the same game. How is that going to work?
Speaker 1: Because Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are injured all the
Speaker 1: time simultaneously.
Speaker 2: Bron and ad more like Kawhi and PG or m Bidenharden.
Speaker 1: Teams must ensure that star players are available for nationally
Speaker 1: televised games and in season tournament games. Adam Silver loves
Speaker 1: that in season tournament Boy, before it even gets started,
Speaker 1: he's making sure guys don't dog it. We saw this,
Speaker 1: everybody thought it was going to be an off day
Speaker 1: for star players, in the same way that Man United
Speaker 1: and Arsenal and Premier League teams send their B teams
Speaker 1: to compete in the FA Cup for English soccer. But
Speaker 1: the difference is between that and the NBA. The NBA
Speaker 1: has much larger rosters that soccer teams control. Next point,
Speaker 1: teams must maintain a balance between the number of one
Speaker 1: game absences for a star player.
Speaker 2: In home games and road games, with the preference for
Speaker 2: those absences to happen in home games.
Speaker 1: So I believe one of the examples of this was
Speaker 1: that Steph Clay and Draymond all played on like a
Speaker 1: Tuesday at Golden.
Speaker 2: State and then one day later they all rested in Denver. YEP.
Speaker 2: Can't do that.
Speaker 1: You got to rest them all in San Francisco. Penalize
Speaker 1: the home fans and not the road h fans.
Speaker 2: I don't hate that.
Speaker 1: Especially if you're living in a suburb and you're driving
Speaker 1: you and your whole family to see your favorite player
Speaker 1: on Golden State and then he doesn't show up.
Speaker 2: That's just bad for business.
Speaker 1: Next point, teams must refrain from any long term shutdown
Speaker 1: or near shutdown when a star player starts participating in
Speaker 1: games or plays in a material materially reduced role in
Speaker 1: circumstances affecting the integrity of the game. This is what
Speaker 1: we call a direct shot at the Portland Trailblazers who
Speaker 1: ended up shutting down Damian Lillard and pretty much every
Speaker 1: player on their team except for consecutive ten day contract
Speaker 1: guys like Drew got ten day God you banks to
Speaker 1: get Shaden Sharp and Scoot Henderson. That's what we call
Speaker 1: the Dame Lillard tank rule. No more shutting down superstar
Speaker 1: to lose games at the end of the season. I
Speaker 1: if I am Portland would be fine with paying ten
Speaker 1: million dollars for the rights of Scoot Anderson or Victor Wambayama.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to change the damn thing.
Speaker 1: Next point from Adam Silver in his league office, teams
Speaker 1: must ensure that healthy players resting for a game are
Speaker 1: present and visible to fans. No more James Harden hooka parties.
Speaker 1: No more if you're not there, you're sitting on the bench.
Speaker 1: No more Kawhi going dark when he's out of a game.
Speaker 1: What is the penalty for violating these tanking slash load
Speaker 1: management rules? First defense one hundred k second offense, two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty k third.
Speaker 2: Offense, one million dollars for each individual violation.
Speaker 1: Interestingly, Adam Silver also instituted what I call the Lebron exception.
Speaker 1: The NBA will allow pre approved designated back to back
Speaker 1: allowances for players who are thirty five five years old
Speaker 1: on opening night or have career workloads of thirty four
Speaker 1: thousand regular season minutes or one thousand regular season playoff
Speaker 1: game minutes combined. That exception impacts Lebron and stuff, but
Speaker 1: not Kawhi or ad Fyi. Here are the only seven
Speaker 1: players who can rest on the back end of a
Speaker 1: back to back with no penalty. Lebron, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul DeMar DeRozan, Mike Conley, and James Harden. That
Speaker 1: is it, and like clockwork, the league approve what it's
Speaker 1: calling the Player Participation Policy on Wednesday. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how teams try to evade this rule,
Speaker 1: because we know that they will. I suspect that we're
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of Kawhi Leonard getting five
Speaker 1: to seven minutes of the play and then sitting out,
Speaker 1: which doesn't technically violate the league's rules, but kind of
Speaker 1: fucking sucks and fucks the vibe up from a betting
Speaker 1: standpoint as well, which might actually help you if you
Speaker 1: know that this is a possibility, and this is the
Speaker 1: big thing considering the league is fully in bed with
Speaker 1: sportsbooks right now, I'm not sure how this is gonna
Speaker 1: play out, but it is going to be fascinating to see. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: one thing that it won't do is make it more
Speaker 1: likely for me to throw a paycheck six weeks out
Speaker 1: in advance to see a player.
Speaker 2: There's probably a fifty to fifty chance that we will see.
Speaker 2: Gonna be fun. Gonna be fun to see how this
Speaker 2: plays out.
Speaker 1: Moving on, it's been a couple of months since we've
Speaker 1: thought about Draymond Green, and he's grabbed the headlines, so
Speaker 1: you knew that it was time. It was time for
Speaker 1: Draymond popping his head out of the woodwork, and here
Speaker 1: it is. It is now Ome Young Music's time to
Speaker 1: produce a Ramona showburn like Deep Dive, and there's lots
Speaker 1: of tea spilling. Last season, as we know, could not
Speaker 1: have started worse for Draymont Punches. Jordan Poole gets the
Speaker 1: whole TNT sort of comeback story, and then the entire
Speaker 1: seasons off the rails. Golden State gets bounced by the Lakers,
Speaker 1: lots of speculation about his future, and yet, like we know,
Speaker 1: because he's Stepf's guy and he's important to the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors, he ends up signing one hundred million dollar
Speaker 1: extension and now those questions are quote unquote put to bed.
Speaker 1: But then the Warriors went out and they did the unthinkable.
Speaker 1: They got Chris Paul. As we know, Draymond Green has
Speaker 1: been on record about how much he hates Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: and now Draymond is determined to wipe the slate clean,
Speaker 1: to do and say the right things. He said, I
Speaker 1: can look at this year as one of the most
Speaker 1: important years of my career, and it's not to redeem
Speaker 1: anything about Draymond, Okay. My goal is that we can
Speaker 1: help Chris Paul get his first championship, the guy that
Speaker 1: you hated. Now it is your life's mission to help
Speaker 1: out his career and his reputation.
Speaker 2: That is a lie. New GM Mike gun Levy met
Speaker 2: with both of these guys.
Speaker 1: Before signing off on the deal because he knew, like
Speaker 1: what we knew is that the two guys can't hate
Speaker 1: stand each other. They hate each other, and that's funny
Speaker 1: because the Holy really can't stand them up right. But
Speaker 1: apparently they've now come to Jesus. They have had a
Speaker 1: somewhat of a peace agreement like the US and Russia
Speaker 1: and the Cold War, and according to om Young Music,
Speaker 1: after the trade in late June, Green said that he
Speaker 1: and Chris Paul touched base briefly before giving each other
Speaker 1: space and time to digest everything, but they have since
Speaker 1: had a face to face and phone conversations. Listening to
Speaker 1: Green talk about all the things that used to drive
Speaker 1: him wild about Chris Paul is almost like carrying an opponent.
Speaker 1: Describe what it's like to battle Green in the playoff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like seeing.
Speaker 2: A smaller, older, more wily veteran be just like you.
Speaker 1: They are a match in heaven, two world class pests
Speaker 1: with a history of animosity.
Speaker 2: Now best piece, Hm, We're gonna see about that especially.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that's the most interesting and the
Speaker 1: most we'll call it up in the air, is that
Speaker 1: the offense normally runs through Draymond, and with Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: the offense normally runs through him, who is going to
Speaker 1: capitulate and defer to whom. He said, after getting over
Speaker 1: the hump of being in the same room without killing
Speaker 1: each other, there's gonna be another hump of actually playing together.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna take some getting used to. Yes, both
Speaker 1: focal points of the offense. To me, that feels like
Speaker 1: maybe Draymond comes off the bench Chris Paul. Now the
Speaker 1: rumors are that he's going to be starting. Who is
Speaker 1: going to be out of the starting spot. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna be Wiggins, probably not gonna be Looney, Definitely not.
Speaker 2: Gonna be Stephand Clay.
Speaker 1: That means Draymond Green is the odd man out unless
Speaker 1: they allow six starting five players. Green says that it's
Speaker 1: the most important season of his career. He's trying to
Speaker 1: position this now as some kind of redemption. Chris Paul
Speaker 1: also looking for redemption, and there's only one way that
Speaker 1: they can find it, and that's by winning a championship together,
Speaker 1: kissing and making up and giving each other praise about
Speaker 1: how they couldn't accomplish it without the other one. And
Speaker 1: dray now thinks this roster, which is wild, has the
Speaker 1: chance to win two more championships. He wants to match Jordan,
Speaker 1: and he thinks that that's not out of the realm
Speaker 1: of possibilities. Guys, I am dubious, I am skeptical. I
Speaker 1: do not know about that one because I have no
Speaker 1: idea how they beat the Lakers. I have no idea
Speaker 1: how they beat the Grizzlies. Maybe they do, and I
Speaker 1: certainly have no idea how they beat the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 2: But hold onto your hats on this one. If they
Speaker 2: fall short again.
Speaker 1: Shocking to think about a team bounce in the second
Speaker 1: round the playoffs in six, by the way, by a
Speaker 1: team led by someone older.
Speaker 2: Than me, a four year old.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul's reputation for not being able to win the
Speaker 1: big One will be further solidified. And then the belief
Speaker 1: that maybe, just maybe Draymond destroyed both timelines of the dynasty,
Speaker 1: and maybe, just maybe people are starting to worry about
Speaker 1: Steve Kurtu that will be hard to refute. Once again,
Speaker 1: all eyes are on our Dubs and the pressure is on.
Speaker 2: If you're a.
Speaker 1: Lifelong Dubs pan like me, your hopes lay in the
Speaker 1: hands of Chris Paul's fragile hamstring, Clay's ability to return
Speaker 1: to pre surgery, Clay and Draymond keeping his cool when
Speaker 1: he has to come off the bench. I just don't
Speaker 1: know about that. Moving on, There's just one thing I
Speaker 1: like more than an NBA superstar beefing on the internets,
Speaker 1: and that is an obscure NBA player beefing on the internets.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the kai Jones experience. If you are a
Speaker 1: casual fan, you might not know kai Jones other.
Speaker 2: Than the fact that he has Dennis Robin like hair.
Speaker 1: Blue purple changes every week started with the random Ig Live,
Speaker 1: where kai Jones appears to be random how shall we say,
Speaker 1: unable to operate heavy machinery. He repeated how the Hornets
Speaker 1: were not going to trade him. He said this, if
Speaker 1: I get that call on my phone, I will have
Speaker 1: my buye.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon.
Speaker 1: What a strong sense of job security for a guy
Speaker 1: who has played sixty seven games in two seasons and
Speaker 1: he averages eight minutes and three points. What does he
Speaker 1: have on Mitch Cupcheck? What does he have on someone?
Speaker 1: But it was how he was acting that attracted all
Speaker 1: the attention. The profuse sweating, the jerky dancing, the slur.
Speaker 2: Speech, all of it was a little strained.
Speaker 1: Some viewers observed Jones's weird behavior during the live stream,
Speaker 1: including the dancing, sweating, and the unclear speech, but do
Speaker 1: not worry.
Speaker 2: He was not under the influence. How do we know
Speaker 2: that he was not under the influence.
Speaker 1: He told us he was not under the influence, and
Speaker 1: that is what Kai Jones said on Twitter. He says,
Speaker 1: I was not on drugs or intoxicated. I was enjoying
Speaker 1: my night in my crib. Y'all bugging hashtag, goat life
Speaker 1: one hundred emoji heart emoji, a butterfly emoji, goat emoji
Speaker 1: case closed. Kai Jones sweating, jerking around, dancing, sweating, not intoxicated,
Speaker 1: just hot, just probably his air conditioning ran out.
Speaker 2: That was what it was.
Speaker 1: But hey, his actions later are really indicative of a
Speaker 1: guy who has it all together, because less than a
Speaker 1: week later, he randomly came after his own teammate, Mark
Speaker 1: Williams by commenting commenting on social media, Hey, show me
Speaker 1: a video of Mark pulling up, going left.
Speaker 2: And hitting it anywhere man in college?
Speaker 1: Show me where, to which Mark Williams responded with a
Speaker 1: video of fifty cent holding his own chest crying. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Hi Jones, acting crazy on IG Live then coming after
Speaker 1: the guy who took your job. Sounds like the NBA
Speaker 1: is almost fast and we are ready for it. That
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