Speaker 1: Break was breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines did
Speaker 1: so the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just a cracker,
Speaker 1: the best podcast covering all the drama around the association.
Speaker 1: Number two pick Brandon Miller. Brandon Miller, Paiging Brandon Miller
Speaker 1: saw his first game in the NBA and it was
Speaker 1: as delicious as I expected. Struggle Bus City. I don't
Speaker 1: want to like, I don't dislike Brandon Miller. I'm just
Speaker 1: glad my team dodged a bullet and didn't get him.
Speaker 1: So it's like a Sam Bouie Michael Jordan's situation, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, only we didn't get fucked. That's
Speaker 1: kind of what I'm thinking. Eight three three in twenty
Speaker 1: two minutes. He was three for nine for shooting. This
Speaker 1: is a guy though, that was supposed to be a
Speaker 1: sniper from three and he was zero for four and
Speaker 1: he had three turnovers. Deer in headlights, paging, Paging, Brandon Miller.
Speaker 1: On the plus side, his MIDI his mid range looked
Speaker 1: pretty good. On the negative side, his spacing was absolutely atrocious,
Speaker 1: which was often an issue in college. The floor is
Speaker 1: supposed to get wider, Brandon, except for that he could
Speaker 1: get away with all that shit in college because he
Speaker 1: was the focal point of the offense and he was
Speaker 1: so athletic and everybody just moved around him. Considering that,
Speaker 1: I just read an article where Scoot Henderson was called
Speaker 1: the steal of the draft, I'm gonna guess that is
Speaker 1: going to be an indictment on the pick of Brandon
Speaker 1: Miller at two. Don't you think will he blossom into
Speaker 1: some all star? I actually hope, so, I just don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be as good as Scoot. A lot
Speaker 1: of what I saw in twenty two minutes was reminiscent
Speaker 1: of what I saw at Summer League. A lot of skill,
Speaker 1: bad hips, big holes in his game, and flashes when
Speaker 1: he actually finds a way to stay locked in. His
Speaker 1: first Summer League game was a mess, though, but by
Speaker 1: the end he was playing really good basketball. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't hit the panic button just yet. But I do
Speaker 1: like making fun of him because he's an easy target
Speaker 1: and I'm cheap. Uh. Maybe all is not lost in Miami,
Speaker 1: after all, there's more folks, more players that they find
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, out of fucking nowhere, like Cole Swider.
Speaker 1: Cole Swider, I think the Lakers fucking released him for nothing,
Speaker 1: so they get him. He balls out, highlighted by two things.
Speaker 1: Jimi Hawkes. He was rumored to be a part of
Speaker 1: the deal for Damian Lillard. They did not want to
Speaker 1: give him to us. The Blazers were interested in himie,
Speaker 1: but they were interested in a lot of picks and
Speaker 1: some other players that can contribute right away, and he
Speaker 1: was not that. But he had thirteen points on five
Speaker 1: for eight shooting, which is definitely something that this team needs.
Speaker 1: I love Haymi hawkez of other great interest to Heat fans.
Speaker 1: I am sure is like I said Cole Swider, He's
Speaker 1: going to be the next Max Strus. I can just
Speaker 1: feel it. Fuck though Guys, an undrafted six' nine forward
Speaker 1: out Of villanova And, syracuse spent the last year on
Speaker 1: The LAKERS G league. Team he got called up to
Speaker 1: the Real lakers team, too BECAUSE i remember seeing. HIM
Speaker 1: i don't know WHY i would know his name otherwise
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i don't really FOLLOW G league players on The.
Speaker 1: Lakers that would just make me. Sick he bawled, out
Speaker 1: though he Made heat fans. Swoon he went five for
Speaker 1: nine from three for seventeen points in thirteen and a half.
Speaker 1: Minutes that feels reminiscent Of Max strus in The Summer.
Speaker 1: League god damn, it his pedigree is. Good the only
Speaker 1: team better at extracting value from undrafted players than The
Speaker 1: lakers is The. Heat so it was a good, Idea,
Speaker 1: Rob it was a good, idea Mister. Buss you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have let him go that. Soon you never can get
Speaker 1: over being dumped by a. Supermodel but, maybe just maybe
Speaker 1: getting Col swider will help you. Heal let's move forward To.
Speaker 1: Phoenix The suns and The nuggets engaged in a heavy
Speaker 1: white heavyweight, fight even with all of their stars not
Speaker 1: on the. Floor it was super, fun even If Kevin,
Speaker 1: Durant Bradley, beal And Devin booker didn't. Play athletic dropped
Speaker 1: its annual think piece On, katie this time about turning thirty,
Speaker 1: five which is not really like a reason to create
Speaker 1: a feature, article but, hey, WHATEVER i think we're just
Speaker 1: reaching very very much a puff, piece and it obscured
Speaker 1: WHAT i think is far more interesting that emerged About
Speaker 1: Kevin durant around the same. Time according To New York,
Speaker 1: Post durant would have been happy to remain A Brooklyn
Speaker 1: net if Only Ben simmons would have been. Healthy excuse,
Speaker 1: me what what hold? On Kevin durant would have been
Speaker 1: happy to remain A brooklyn net If Ben simmons would
Speaker 1: have been, healthy that is fucking. Wild Ben. Simmons Ben
Speaker 1: simmons was the lynchpin Of. Kevin he was, LIKE i don't, know,
Speaker 1: MAN i don't know if he's ever getting back on the.
Speaker 1: Floor he keeps coming to practice these multi Colored versace
Speaker 1: sweaters AND i just can't stand. It, ben get back
Speaker 1: on the. Floor help, me help. Me he said that
Speaker 1: this was true even if and When Kyrie irving got.
Speaker 1: Traded we never got really too much on What katie
Speaker 1: thought Of ben during the time. Together but that is
Speaker 1: an endorsement no matter how you slice. It, Really Kevin
Speaker 1: durant is all about winning, titles and if he thought
Speaker 1: he could win With ben And ben was driving the,
Speaker 1: ship that is a fascinating. Comment fascinating. Comment all of
Speaker 1: that Makes ben simmons back issues even more of a
Speaker 1: bummer for. Me ben's back really did read derail the,
Speaker 1: season but also the Entire Kevin durant era In. Brooklyn
Speaker 1: that era of those guys was just kind of one
Speaker 1: of those things you would have loved see for. LONGER
Speaker 1: i would have really loved to See, KYRIE kd And
Speaker 1: harden play together for more than what was, it twenty two,
Speaker 1: games because they were taking the league by. Storm they
Speaker 1: were a machete chop on everybody that they. Played and
Speaker 1: then if you would have gotten a Healthy Ben simmons
Speaker 1: When harden got, traded that would have been an interesting
Speaker 1: dynamic as. Well another one of the great what ifs
Speaker 1: in THE, nba just adding another layer of depth to
Speaker 1: its and a puff piece About Kevin durant during thirty,
Speaker 1: five which is fucking. Crazy we've talked a lot about
Speaker 1: the expansion on the heat check the past couple of,
Speaker 1: years and it looks like it might be coming sooner then.
Speaker 1: Later according TO, oaj all Of Adam silver's attention right
Speaker 1: now is on THOSE nba media. Rites, baby give me
Speaker 1: those give me all that, Money give me that money
Speaker 1: for that. Betting give me that seventy five billion. Dollars
Speaker 1: that's what they're. Saying it's worth seventy five. Billion and
Speaker 1: when they get, it what are they gonna. Do they're
Speaker 1: gonna spend. It oh, yeah well they spending it. On
Speaker 1: they're spending on, teams new. Teams adrian War janowski, says
Speaker 1: once the league gets done with these media rights, negotiations
Speaker 1: the league will start to look towards Expansion Las vegas With.
Speaker 1: Seattle thank God seattle is getting a team. BACK i
Speaker 1: love that because they used To, Portland portland And. Seattle
Speaker 1: they used to drive TO uh to play one. Another
Speaker 1: it's not that far at. All so they used to
Speaker 1: get into a little bus LIKE aau players or their
Speaker 1: cars or their fancy little, cars and then they would
Speaker 1: go up To seattle and. Play it was The battle
Speaker 1: OF i. FIVE i remember one, TIME i think it
Speaker 1: Was Damon. Stoudamire If i'm, wrong it Wasn't Damon. Stottamayer
Speaker 1: it was Probably Rashid. Wallace one of them got stopped
Speaker 1: FOR uh for. Weed they ended up getting pulled over
Speaker 1: on the way back from a game on THE i
Speaker 1: five and they FOUND i think they found weed inside
Speaker 1: of like A teni foil. Ball it was just a hilarious.
Speaker 1: Story it's, like why would you travel on a road
Speaker 1: trip with a tinfoil ball of? Weed look up the.
Speaker 1: STORY i. DON'T i, mean this is all off the
Speaker 1: top of my, head so look it. Up it was
Speaker 1: fucking crazy. Anyway league just getting bigger and bigger every.
Speaker 1: YEAR i for, one love. It two teams on the same,
Speaker 1: timeline which is. Great we'll see who ends up getting that,
Speaker 1: team whether That's lebron or whether That's, mayweather or maybe
Speaker 1: they'll do a little. Collabo and then Onto europe in
Speaker 1: the two thousand and, thirties which is where all go
Speaker 1: when our healthcare has been stripped of us and we're
Speaker 1: no longer in, Democracy so look forward to that as.
Speaker 1: WELL a little end of the week treat for the
Speaker 1: real ones out, there