Speaker 1: You're listening to the Hottest the Hottest India podcast out here.
Speaker 1: I said what I said, it's the heat Chat Chat Check.
Speaker 1: It's just a crick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, there is so
Speaker 2: much popping around the league.
Speaker 3: Guess who's back. Guess who's back back again? Drummer Rant's back.
Speaker 3: Oh this is bad.
Speaker 4: I should just stop right now. Drum rants and pending return.
Speaker 2: We wonder what the fuck is happening with Bradley Beale's ligaments,
Speaker 2: and we get into all the news from around the league.
Speaker 3: Since it's Monday, you also know it's time for.
Speaker 4: The Hmmy Award.
Speaker 2: Plus we have a bonus interview with Clippers insider law Murray.
Speaker 2: Don't have much time to chat, so let's do me
Speaker 2: a favor. Drop that motherfucker beat that should be Rihanna. Okay,
Speaker 2: So the big news in the NBA is that our
Speaker 2: guide Jamorant. And if you say that you just don't
Speaker 2: care about this or that John Morant is no longer
Speaker 2: a top five, top seven point guard in the league
Speaker 2: because you haven't seen him in a while, Like, that's
Speaker 2: just ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I've said this a million times. I'm going to continue
Speaker 3: to say it.
Speaker 2: Jahn Morant on a Tuesday in December is the most
Speaker 2: electrifying player in the NBA, maybe one of the most
Speaker 2: electrifying players we've ever seen in our lives. Like that's
Speaker 2: how I'm not saying he's better than Ann Edwards. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying he's better than Steph Curry. I'm saying, on
Speaker 2: a Tuesday, John Morant will have you call in your
Speaker 2: friends and people.
Speaker 3: Are sleeping, sleeping he will be.
Speaker 2: Back from his twenty five game suspension, which combined with
Speaker 2: missing a ton of time due to suspension last year,
Speaker 2: means that most people haven't seen him in a while.
Speaker 2: And I think, like I said, I think people forgot
Speaker 2: y'all must have forgot.
Speaker 3: The Jahn Morant is that guy? How long does it
Speaker 3: take for you to forget how good.
Speaker 4: This player is?
Speaker 2: Apparently turns out twenty five games, But now that that
Speaker 2: shit's behind him, now that it seems truthfully like he
Speaker 2: has looked inward and made some changes. I, as a
Speaker 2: basketball fan and as a ruter of John Morant, I
Speaker 2: could not be happier, not just because I get to
Speaker 2: see my favorite offensive player in the league back on
Speaker 2: the court where he belongs, but also before because I
Speaker 2: think this break, this situation, this time off, could have been.
Speaker 4: Exactly the thing that he needed to get his head straight.
Speaker 2: Sometimes in the hustle and bustle of your job and
Speaker 2: all the responsibilities that you have, all you can do
Speaker 2: is just hold your head about above water, and you
Speaker 2: start getting into some routines, into some activities that you
Speaker 2: really shouldn't be due to the health concerns or whatever,
Speaker 2: what have you. This is what Jas said when he
Speaker 2: asked about when he was asked about his suspension. In
Speaker 2: the end, I feel like it made me better. I
Speaker 2: feel like I learned some stuff about myself during that process.
Speaker 2: It was very eye opening. It kind of gave me
Speaker 2: a new look on life, how I go about my
Speaker 2: days and how I carry myself. Those are, of course
Speaker 2: the right words, the proper words. But in all fairness,
Speaker 2: Ja Morant did say some right words.
Speaker 4: To Jalen Rose.
Speaker 2: But that's why I'm concentrating on what he said after this.
Speaker 2: I can't, you know, make nobody believe me outside of
Speaker 2: my action, So me answering this question with just words
Speaker 2: probably won't mean nothing to nobody.
Speaker 4: And that's true.
Speaker 3: Nobody is believing Ja Morant right now.
Speaker 2: But that right there. Listen, I'm a liar. I lied
Speaker 2: once before I did a bunch of bullshit actor. I
Speaker 2: said I wasn't going to and I know that you
Speaker 2: can't believe me. So all I'm going to be able
Speaker 2: to do is just every day show up and do
Speaker 2: the right thing. That is the beginning of growth. That
Speaker 2: is the beginning of self awareness, the realization that actions
Speaker 2: are the only thing that matter, and not your words.
Speaker 2: Nobody gives a fuck what John Morant says that he's
Speaker 2: learned in the last two months.
Speaker 4: Nobody cares. Nobody.
Speaker 2: We don't want to hear about how much you've gone
Speaker 2: to therapy. We don't want to think about how much
Speaker 2: you've watched film, or how good Desmond Bane is right now,
Speaker 2: or how guilty you are that you've set your Grizzlies
Speaker 2: back by not being available for the team. Nobody wants
Speaker 2: to hear that. The reason that I feel like I
Speaker 2: can begin to trust him is because he said, do
Speaker 2: not trust me. That's the kind of thing that people
Speaker 2: say when they want to accept accountability. They in the
Speaker 2: past tried to weasel out of accountability, They've gotten killed
Speaker 2: for it, and then they realize, you know what, it's
Speaker 2: easier to just do the right thing, accept responsibility then
Speaker 2: to run away. Becoming better, becoming stronger, becoming more self
Speaker 2: aware is very hard work. And if people don't believe
Speaker 2: the words that you say when you tell them that
Speaker 2: you've changed, that's okay, And that's okay to say I
Speaker 2: get that I have broken everybody's trust and they shouldn't
Speaker 2: believe the thing that I said that you have to.
Speaker 4: Prove it to them.
Speaker 2: I always like the people who are skeptical about how
Speaker 2: others perceive the words that they say.
Speaker 4: But one thing is for.
Speaker 2: Sure, Grizzlies they need John Morant bad right now. They
Speaker 2: are six and eighteen right now, and they are staring
Speaker 2: down the barrel of six and nineteen because they play
Speaker 2: the OKC Thunder a day before Jaw comes back. They
Speaker 2: have Jaron Jackson right now and Desmond Bane and that's
Speaker 2: about it. And now with Job back, it's now like
Speaker 2: Luca in Dallas, Jaw, we know what time it is.
Speaker 4: With Jaw, he is good enough to make a.
Speaker 2: Bad team a playoff team all by himself, with a
Speaker 2: healthy Desmond Bane, a healthy Jaron Jackson, and soon and
Speaker 2: soon a healthy Marcus Smart who knows what we're gonna
Speaker 2: see from this team is a plan, a possibility. All
Speaker 2: I know is what Kendrick Perkins said the other day
Speaker 2: is correct. It's all about building the culture again. The
Speaker 2: last thing I'll say is this. Jaw was asked what
Speaker 2: he thought of the team's play out on this year.
Speaker 2: He said, it's definitely some guilt at that. Obviously I'm
Speaker 2: not on the floor. Nobody likes losing, so our job
Speaker 2: is to go out there and get a win. I
Speaker 2: take full responsibility to that, obviously, even though.
Speaker 3: I'm not on the floor.
Speaker 2: Decisions I made didn't allow me to be out there,
Speaker 2: to go in battle with my team, taking accountability upon
Speaker 2: every question, even when it's not about him. That's the
Speaker 2: level of leadership that we want from John Morant. And
Speaker 2: if John Morant plays like he plays and is a
Speaker 2: new man off the court, holy shit, watch out the
Speaker 2: rest of the week.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Moving on, what the fuck is going on with Bradley
Speaker 2: Beal's ligaments?
Speaker 3: What the fuck is going.
Speaker 2: On with Bradley Beal's health. It feels to me like
Speaker 2: final destination for Bradley Beal. It doesn't matter what you do,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter where you go, what bus you get on,
Speaker 2: what train you get on, what plane you get on.
Speaker 4: That thing is crash.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter what team you're on, It doesn't matter how
Speaker 2: many minutes you play. Your ankle is busting, your back
Speaker 2: is busting, your knee is busting.
Speaker 4: Injury is coming for you.
Speaker 2: Why Probably because you signed that no trade cause knowing
Speaker 2: that on that super Max deal, knowing you.
Speaker 4: Weren't gonna stay in Washington.
Speaker 3: It happened right pretty much right after he signed that thing.
Speaker 2: In his second return this season from injury, he sprained
Speaker 2: his right ankle in less than five minutes on the court.
Speaker 3: And is now on the injury reservo list again again again.
Speaker 3: No star player has been more snake bitten than Bradley Beal.
Speaker 3: Bill went down because Dante DiVincenzo didn't allow him space
Speaker 3: to land. He also got technicled up for that, and
Speaker 3: although the Sons are happy that there's no major ankle date,
Speaker 3: damage is now a several week Grade two type sprain.
Speaker 3: Six to eight weeks.
Speaker 2: That's what it's gonna take, realistically to see Bradley Beal
Speaker 2: back on the court again. Frank Vogel described this as
Speaker 2: a frustrating injury type of season, but if you're like,
Speaker 2: if we're honest, it's kind of been like a bad
Speaker 2: five years for Bradley Beal. Over the last five seasons,
Speaker 2: including this year, a total three hundred and thirty three games.
Speaker 4: You're gonna shit your pants over this.
Speaker 2: Beal has missed one hundred and twenty of those games,
Speaker 2: which is thirty six percent of available games.
Speaker 3: That is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: To give you perspective, the guy that we call skin
Speaker 2: of paper, glass of bones, Anthony Davis, Anthony Day two
Speaker 2: Day Davis has missed one hundred and sixteen games during
Speaker 2: that stretch, or thirty five.
Speaker 3: Percent of available games. Can we call it?
Speaker 2: Start calling them Bradley can't heal? Bial because I don't
Speaker 2: know what to say. It's hard to bang on them
Speaker 2: because a lot of these injuries were not his fault,
Speaker 2: landing on Deven Changeo's ankle. What are you gonna do
Speaker 2: about that? So much of that is credited to bad luck.
Speaker 2: But this is a trend now in the middle of
Speaker 2: his career. From twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen, he only
Speaker 2: missed five games in three seasons. In his first four years,
Speaker 2: he averaged missing nearly a quarter of the games. Though
Speaker 2: as a whole. So that means eight of eleven of
Speaker 2: Bradley Beal's NBA career have been plagued by long stretches
Speaker 2: on the aisle. When he's on the floor, we know
Speaker 2: what he is.
Speaker 3: He's a bucket. He's a bucket.
Speaker 4: He's a bucky. He's a bucket.
Speaker 2: But the best ability, they say, is availability, and that
Speaker 2: is what is missing in the case of Bradley Beal.
Speaker 3: I bet you Miami is so fucking glad they didn't
Speaker 3: trade for him. Oh my god, pat Riley strikes again.
Speaker 3: This year. Bradley Beal is gonna be lucky to play half.
Speaker 4: Of the Sun's games.
Speaker 2: Who knows, who knows what he's gonna were gonna see
Speaker 2: him probably all Star Break after the season. Beal has
Speaker 2: three years and one hundred and sixty million dollars left
Speaker 2: on his contract, and a guy making fifty three million
Speaker 2: dollars a year, I think, personally, just my opinion, should
Speaker 2: be counted on probably to play more games than two
Speaker 2: thirds of the games in any given season.
Speaker 3: That's just me.
Speaker 2: Though some guys have bad luck. That might be what's
Speaker 2: up with Beal. Certainly he wants to play as bad
Speaker 2: as anyone. No one's blaming him for this. I'm certainly
Speaker 2: not saying that this is his fault, but damn hopefully
Speaker 2: he can get himself right. Hopefully he can get himself
Speaker 2: back healthy, because the one thing that's dead certain almost
Speaker 2: no one gets more healthy in their thirties, no one,
Speaker 2: and Beal just went past that milestone this past year.
Speaker 3: So all that to say, what the fuck is up?
Speaker 4: Well, Bradley Beal's body