Speaker 1: If you're tuned into Heat Check with Trista.
Speaker 2: Quick on this bonus episode of the Heat Check, what
Speaker 2: are the three potential storyline that might have huge impacts
Speaker 2: in the NBA Draft? A lot of fun on this,
Speaker 2: so I thought i'd share it with the Heat Check folks.
Speaker 3: Do me a favorite nick?
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Speaker 1: Trista, What do you think the top three stories are
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 3: They could shake up the NBA here on Draft week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's very simple to me.
Speaker 3: Number one centers around what Portland does? The Beal or
Speaker 3: the Dame saga?
Speaker 2: Right, everyone has their eyes on that. Everyone wants to know. Okay,
Speaker 2: are they going to trade Damian Lillard if they take
Speaker 2: the number three overall pick? Like the Miami Heat were
Speaker 2: reluctant to trade for Bradley Beal because they think that
Speaker 2: they can still get Damian Lillard. And I think Damian
Speaker 2: Lillard is a much better player than Bradley Beal. He's
Speaker 2: a much clutcher, much more clutch player than Bradley Buial.
Speaker 2: Damian Lillard was second team All NBA this year. He's
Speaker 2: been a multiple time All Star. Bradley Buial is kind
Speaker 2: of like an up and down, All Star hasn't been
Speaker 2: playing in many games. Damian Lillard usually plays in eighty
Speaker 2: percent of the games and Bradley Buial does not. Right, So,
Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody really knows what Charlotte's gonna do,
Speaker 2: and I think that that kind of impacts what Portland's
Speaker 2: gonna do, So that to me is very interesting. So
Speaker 2: the Hornet seem torn, and that means that Portland's not
Speaker 2: gonna know really what value that the number three pick
Speaker 2: has until they know what Charlotte's gonna do, because no
Speaker 2: one's gonna trade for that three pick either right until
Speaker 2: draft night.
Speaker 3: So if they go with Miller, and.
Speaker 2: That's about fifty to fifty between mock drafters right now,
Speaker 2: then the Blazers have to make a choice, right They
Speaker 2: need to either move a very valuable number three pick,
Speaker 2: which is a player that would probably go number one
Speaker 2: and every other draft except for this one to bring in,
Speaker 2: or they need to win now with Damian.
Speaker 3: Lillard, as he says that we should. He says that the.
Speaker 2: Portland, hey, I've been loyal to you. You need to
Speaker 2: surround me with talent, and that all depends on what
Speaker 2: they can get for number three right, And I don't
Speaker 2: know that they're gonna get a king's.
Speaker 3: Ransom for number three.
Speaker 2: There's all these teams that say they want to move up,
Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, will they move
Speaker 2: up don't? I don't know. Or the question is does
Speaker 2: Portland bring in Scoop and then have to trade Dame
Speaker 2: as a result. That's a massive storyline Damian Lillard anywhere else,
Speaker 2: but Portland changes the entire NBA landscape because he's only
Speaker 2: gonna want to go to a contender. So does that
Speaker 2: mean that Damian Lillard goes to Miami for a bunch
Speaker 2: of picks and maybe Tyler Hero or maybe not Tyler Hero,
Speaker 2: or maybe they flip Tyler Hero.
Speaker 3: That's insane.
Speaker 2: That would make Miami the very heavy bedding favorite in
Speaker 2: the East at least, right, And that.
Speaker 3: Would make this lineup look like this.
Speaker 2: For the Portland you would have Nurkic, Jeremy Grant, Bible,
Speaker 2: Sharp and Scoot with Anthony Simons, Cam Reddish, Keon Johnson
Speaker 2: off the bench. That's probably the most athletic team in
Speaker 2: the NBA. I think a team that has a really
Speaker 2: bright future. Yeah, a team that's no longer in and out,
Speaker 2: you know, one foot in, one foot out. At that point,
Speaker 2: there are a couple of pieces away, and they probably
Speaker 2: have four first round picks or three first round picks
Speaker 2: from Miami, and maybe they trade Tyler Herro for two more.
Speaker 3: So maybe they're a team that's.
Speaker 2: Like the OKC Thunder. Maybe they're a team that's closer
Speaker 2: to being Memphis. You know when Memphis ended up trading
Speaker 2: Mike Conley and Mark Dasol in order to get John
Speaker 2: Morant and a bunch of new pieces. Right, so all
Speaker 2: those guys could be you know, Sharp and Scoot could
Speaker 2: easily be all NBA by twenty four and then Miami
Speaker 2: starting lineup would be Bam, Struce, Butler, Duncan, Robinson, and
Speaker 2: Dame with potentially gave Vincent, Caleb, Martin Oladipo and Haywood
Speaker 2: Higsmith off the bench. That's a team that would be
Speaker 2: a monster. That team could tear up the East very
Speaker 2: very fast. Dame probably gives you that solid fourth quarter
Speaker 2: scoring that they haven't had in Miami for a very
Speaker 2: long time. Yeah, you have Jimmy Butler, but Jimmy Butler
Speaker 2: and Dame at Dame time, Like, I don't know who
Speaker 2: ends up beating them. I think that they win the title,
Speaker 2: then at that.
Speaker 3: Point, right, I bet them immediately.
Speaker 2: I would bet them immediately as well. Yeah, so I
Speaker 2: would say this from a betting perspective. If because I
Speaker 2: don't think Portland's going to trade Dame right away, I've
Speaker 2: talked to people who say that. But if you think
Speaker 2: that they could trade Dame by the deadline as soon
Speaker 2: as they pick number three, if Portland takes that selection, bet.
Speaker 3: The Miami Heat immediately to win the title. That's what
Speaker 3: you should do. Number two. This one's very interesting. Zion.
Speaker 2: The Zion trade is now something that's looming. Yeah, Bill Simmons,
Speaker 2: Ian Begley, others are hinting that Zion hates the New
Speaker 2: Orleans Pelicans, does not want to be in New Orleans generally.
Speaker 2: Simmons says that he would bet his career on the
Speaker 2: fact that Zion will not be a Pelican by Friday.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, he also had Kevin Young to be
Speaker 2: the head coach of the Phoenix, so he's not.
Speaker 3: Batting a thousand.
Speaker 2: But if Bill Simmons is right and Zion is traded,
Speaker 2: that would be a very seismic shift in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was right about the zombie Heat.
Speaker 3: Not Yeah, he was.
Speaker 2: He was right about the Zombie Heat beating the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 2: especially if Zion ends up in New York, which would
Speaker 2: be his preferred destination most likely. Right the rumors are
Speaker 2: that the trade would be as follows. Julius Randall, Obi
Speaker 2: Toppin plus some first rounders and the Knicks obviously have
Speaker 2: a lot of them for Zion, which would make that
Speaker 2: starting lineup Mitchell Robinson, Zion, RJ Barrett, Josh Hart, and
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson with Emmanuel Quickly and Grimes off the bench.
Speaker 2: That would be a squad. You would bet the Knicks
Speaker 2: win total. You would probably bet them to immediately go
Speaker 2: to the playoffs. You would bet them in series prices
Speaker 2: as well once the playoffs come. That has a potential
Speaker 2: to really mess up the East. That has a especially
Speaker 2: if No Dame comes to Miami. There's really no clear
Speaker 2: cut favorite in the East right now, as we saw.
Speaker 3: With Miami doing Miami things. What happens with them.
Speaker 2: So if Zion comes to New York and he's healthy,
Speaker 2: which Tom Thibodeau is the perfect coach for Zion. He's
Speaker 2: a guy who's gonna run him like a thoroughbread, run
Speaker 2: him ragged and get Zion back in shape.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that scare you a little bit though, just because
Speaker 1: Zion Okay, yeah, but he doesn't play enough defense. I
Speaker 1: feel like TIBs may off.
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, and I think that I think that would.
Speaker 2: Really help Zion too. Is that is that Tibbs doesn't
Speaker 2: play no games? True?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it isn't like you have to be like
Speaker 1: a lockdown defender at the four, like Carlos Boozer was
Speaker 1: getting thirty plus minutes, but he wasn't playing at the
Speaker 1: end of those games. You know, That's when you'd see
Speaker 1: a guy like Taj Gibson that'd concerned you have.
Speaker 2: To get somebody else to come in for the Zion,
Speaker 2: you know, off Zion minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's averaging twenty six, eight and four in.
Speaker 2: The forty one games that he's played against Eastern Conference teams,
Speaker 2: and that would there's not a lot of great defenders
Speaker 2: to be able to stop him either.
Speaker 3: So the Pelicans we get better too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon Ingram and Julius Julius Randall have already played together.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say they'd be back together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they played, they played together on two teams. They
Speaker 2: played for the Lakers and the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Just forget about the Pelicans run. I do remember the
Speaker 1: Lakers run because I remember like I was covering the
Speaker 1: Bucks that year and I was so excited. I thought
Speaker 1: I was finally going to get to cover and watch
Speaker 1: Lebron live. And then he sat out and everybody sat out.
Speaker 1: It was like Lonzo on that team.
Speaker 3: Will we played that year?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was fun, And Julius Randall kind of reinvigorated
Speaker 2: his career in New Orleans. He loves playing with Brandon Ingram.
Speaker 2: You add Herb Jones to that, Valentunis to that, CJ.
Speaker 2: McCollum to that, Josey Alfarado. Maybe another step for Dyson Daniels.
Speaker 2: Maybe you want to place a bet now on Trey Murphy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And like Julius Randold's been largely healthy recently, So maybe
Speaker 2: you want to place a bet on the Pelicans to
Speaker 2: go over their win total.
Speaker 3: Maybe you want.
Speaker 1: I think that.
Speaker 2: Changes the league quite a bit as well. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and then thirdly, this one's sneaky. What does Golden State do?
Speaker 2: Zach Lavine to a Golden State would be a massive
Speaker 2: seismic shift.
Speaker 3: To the NBA.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: The rumors are starting already that Golden State wants to
Speaker 2: do something with their new GM Mike Dunley, Vy and
Speaker 2: Kent lakeup. They to make a big splash. The Sons
Speaker 2: have moved on from Chris Paul. The Beal trade's not
Speaker 2: gonna happen. The Nuggets dog walk the West on their
Speaker 2: way to the chip. Draymond's opting out, what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? You've got Steph, Clay dre It doesn't look
Speaker 2: as formidable as it once did, right, so what do
Speaker 2: you do? You're looking at the news and looks like
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls are entertaining offers to try to get
Speaker 2: younger and try to get off of that Albatroz contract.
Speaker 3: That is Zach Levine. He's on the trade block.
Speaker 2: So maybe you know Levine makes thirty seven million dollars
Speaker 2: next year, Jordan Poole makes twenty seven point five. Damn
Speaker 2: you throw in some salary filler, throw in a twenty
Speaker 2: five twenty six first rounder, and now you shake up
Speaker 2: the West by it being Steph Curry, Zach Levine, Clay Thompson.
Speaker 2: Maybe you bring back Draymond and now you've got another
Speaker 2: good decision making scorer better than Jordan Poole, and now
Speaker 2: you've got some real problems in the West. That would
Speaker 2: be a league shaking trade, even if it doesn't do
Speaker 2: a lot because zach Lavine doesn't stay healthy and he's
Speaker 2: got knee issues at least on the front end. That
Speaker 2: moves prices for everything right. It gets the toxicity out
Speaker 2: of Golden State. No more Jordan Pool Draymond drama. The
Speaker 2: team's never gonna move on until that black cloud is gone.
Speaker 2: It gives the Bulls a bunch of youth, it has
Speaker 2: future assets. Pool is a twenty point game scorer, He's
Speaker 2: always healthy as a number two behind Derozen that really
Speaker 2: changes things. I bet he becomes a twenty five point
Speaker 2: a game scorer with DeRozan and him being the second
Speaker 2: scorer on that team. And now Golden State has a
Speaker 2: lineup of Looney, dre Levine, Clay and Steph that's probably
Speaker 2: the most potent scoring starting five in basketball, including against
Speaker 2: the Phoenix Suns. And now the Bulls look like this
Speaker 2: luch Patrick, Williams, Derozen, Pool and Caruso with Ioh, Jerry Jones,
Speaker 2: Dayalen Terry and Jones off the bench. That team is
Speaker 2: not worse than the Levigne look Bulls. I think both
Speaker 2: teams would be a lot better off, and I think
Speaker 2: that changes the NBA significantly. That's all the time that
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