Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check, the Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors are unraveling in real time. I will update everyone
Speaker 1: on the funeral march that is our duves. Lots happening
Speaker 1: around the league. We have tons of updates on everything
Speaker 1: from injuries, to league news to our new segment, Tristan's
Speaker 1: crazy ass killer stat of the Week. It's almost the weekend, folks,
Speaker 1: so let's get right into it. Anthony drop that motherfucker
Speaker 1: beak should be reoffered. Our duve is on a heat
Speaker 1: Check twice in one week. That's how you know baby
Speaker 1: shit has gone sideways. So, as you know, I had
Speaker 1: the extremely sad news to report of the end of
Speaker 1: the Golden State dynasty. I am the first on the scene.
Speaker 1: I watched the body go cold. I saw the man
Speaker 1: put them into the body bag and into the ambulance.
Speaker 1: It has happened. Folks aren't ready to admit it. They
Speaker 1: think it's weekend at Bernie's out here, like Bernie's is alive.
Speaker 1: You know, they're taking Bernie's. They're taking Bernie's to the movies,
Speaker 1: They're taking Bernie's to the grocery store, and it's like
Speaker 1: that man's dead. You want us to believe this man's
Speaker 1: still alive. Hey, he's not. They came at me at
Speaker 1: social they said, the Warriors just need to get healthy
Speaker 1: Draymond's back. They always have a chance with Steph. That's
Speaker 1: the weekend at Bernie shit, Fam. Bernie is not alive.
Speaker 1: He just still has clothes on and they're pretending. Have
Speaker 1: you guys been paying attention to what you're seeing since
Speaker 1: that episode of the Heat check came out announcing that
Speaker 1: Bernie was dead? The Dynasty, our Dubs have played twice.
Speaker 1: What have they done? They lost to the Raptors one thirteen,
Speaker 1: win eighteen, and then they got their doors blown off
Speaker 1: by the Pelicans. Checks notes score one forty one, one
Speaker 1: oh five at home at the Crib in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: after barely surviving a home game against the three win
Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons. That is, if that's not evidence this shit
Speaker 1: has gone off the rails in Golden State. I don't
Speaker 1: know what is. Nobody is exempt, not even Steph Curry.
Speaker 1: Look at Steph's numbers, Steph versus the Raptors, my Man's
Speaker 1: Superman nine points, one, rebound, six assists, two for fourteen
Speaker 1: from the field, oh for nine from three. My man
Speaker 1: Scottie barn Locking, Steph curry Down, Steph versus the Pelicans
Speaker 1: fifteen points, one rebound, six assists, four from thirteen from
Speaker 1: the field, three for eight from three my man Herb Jones,
Speaker 1: Lock and Steph curry Down. I never thought it was possible,
Speaker 1: never thought anyone could do it, and now he got
Speaker 1: two people on fledgling teams doing it quite well. It's
Speaker 1: it's so bad right now that Steve Kerr himself thinks
Speaker 1: this team has lost its spirit, has lost its confidence,
Speaker 1: has lost its belief. Say it ain't so old, yeller,
Speaker 1: Say it ain't so. Also, nearly every game they're playing two,
Speaker 1: just one l after the other row, they have hit
Speaker 1: the panic button in the bay. They're trying their best
Speaker 1: to revive this dead man. They're trying their best to
Speaker 1: find trade scenarios to figure out a way to get
Speaker 1: back to those championship winning winning ways. There are folks,
Speaker 1: exactly zero vibes in the locker room for the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Clay has been getting booed by the way by his
Speaker 1: own fan base. And this is what he had to
Speaker 1: say postgame about it. Two home games obviously here and
Speaker 1: I'm used to that. How do you handle that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to sleep over it, Clay, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: don't care. What am I supposed to sleep over it?
Speaker 1: I don't care. Okay, you are fully into the bitch
Speaker 1: zone right now. I love I love Clay. I have
Speaker 1: to say this as a lifelong Dubs fan. Clay is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite players. But the end of Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson's career has not been gentle to his legacy whatsoever.
Speaker 1: One thing that we have discovered is that Klay Thompson
Speaker 1: is a very sore loser. If you compare his reaction
Speaker 1: to steps, we need to see it. This is the
Speaker 1: second straight game that you guys were booed here. How
Speaker 1: does that make you feel when you hear that.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say about her, because
Speaker 2: I don't want to be prisoners of the moment and understand,
Speaker 2: you know, we're we're obviously struggling. There's nothing to really
Speaker 2: cheer about, so opposite the cheering is booing might as well.
Speaker 2: I don't take it any certain type of way. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I'm booing myself, booing o our you know, team in
Speaker 2: my head because the way we're playing, so you know,
Speaker 2: it is what it is fans are going to react
Speaker 2: the way that they want. It's our job to, you know,
Speaker 2: give them something this year about we have not done that.
Speaker 1: Ooh, all right, spicy comments from Steph Curry. I am
Speaker 1: booing ourselves. I am booing our team in my own head.
Speaker 1: I think that's the most honest Steph Curry has been
Speaker 1: about how frustrating it must be to play with kids
Speaker 1: who are wet behind the ears with no experience in
Speaker 1: a championship format, players who he used to trust and
Speaker 1: no longer can, and a coach who has clearly lost
Speaker 1: his way in a new NBA era and he's the
Speaker 1: only one that still is superman. Damn right, Fans have
Speaker 1: a right to boo. Are you fucking kidding me? You
Speaker 1: guys just got blown out to the New Orleans Pelicans
Speaker 1: and Zion only had nineteen points. Zion their star nineteen points.
Speaker 1: I think CJ. McCollum at less than ten, who was
Speaker 1: scoring on this team to give him one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty one points? You got, Jordan Hawkins, give you a thirteen.
Speaker 1: I need to know, I need to know. I need
Speaker 1: to look right fucking now. Highest scorer Yonas valanchotniss Are
Speaker 1: we fucking serious. Yonas Valentotnis had twenty one. Nause Marshall
Speaker 1: the backup center had twelve. Cody Zeller had six. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's eighteen carries the five does the math thirty
Speaker 1: nine points to the center position. It's bad right now
Speaker 1: in the paint because teams are going at you. They're
Speaker 1: going at you hard, and you have nothing but the
Speaker 1: wet paper for them to just run right dude, And
Speaker 1: Steph says this, We're not used to this vibe around
Speaker 1: our team. What do you mean, the stench of losing,
Speaker 1: the stench of mediocrity. No shit, you've been in Dynasty.
Speaker 1: It must. I have to say I didn't write this
Speaker 1: down on my notes, but I have to say I'm
Speaker 1: delighted to watch arrogance. There's nothing I like more than
Speaker 1: to crush arrogance. It's the worst trait I think on
Speaker 1: the planet. And I get why they've had it, all
Speaker 1: that winning, all that success, all that dominance, the embarrassing
Speaker 1: nature in which they crush their opponents, and now that
Speaker 1: same embarrassment is being thrown onto them. I have to
Speaker 1: say the humbling outside of Steph Curry, of course, because
Speaker 1: he doesn't need to be humbled. He's awesome. The humbling.
Speaker 1: I love to see it. I love to see it.
Speaker 1: And now the latest rumors are that Mike Dunleavy and
Speaker 1: the Warriors have all of a sudden become quite active
Speaker 1: on the trade market. Who might be moved? According to Champs,
Speaker 1: the mindset and golden state right now is everyone. Steph
Speaker 1: Curry is on the table. Rot Row, Clay rot Row wigs,
Speaker 1: rot Row Draymond day day. Sorry, it's not your day day.
Speaker 1: It's time to say goodbye bye everyone. Clay drey lun
Speaker 1: coming up Moody Wiggins, as Steph said, because they said, hey,
Speaker 1: do you feel like you have to prove to the
Speaker 1: front office that you guys should keep the core together?
Speaker 1: And he said basically no. In fact, I'm rooting for
Speaker 1: the opposite. He said, it's pretty evident that if things
Speaker 1: stay the same, isn't that the definition of insanity doing
Speaker 1: the same thing and expecting a different result. Steph wants
Speaker 1: them all fucking out of here, start again, start fresh,
Speaker 1: bring me some vets, figure it out. I still want
Speaker 1: to win rings. I'm thinking about my legacy. Ain't no
Speaker 1: friends on POWA days, That's what they say. Snowboarders always say,
Speaker 1: when the powder comes, we have no friends. Ain't no friends.
Speaker 1: Running and trying to get a ring, even if it
Speaker 1: means you're running mates that you've built a dynasty with
Speaker 1: have to go. He's like, yeah, I'm good with that.
Speaker 1: That's why they call him the baby face Assassin. He
Speaker 1: is not playing around. The look on his face on
Speaker 1: and off the court tells you he is tired of
Speaker 1: going over nine from three. He is tired of having
Speaker 1: to come off random sloppy screens with guys who can't
Speaker 1: handle the rock. Has to change his role and his
Speaker 1: behavior because he has no teammates he can trust and
Speaker 1: like clockwork, like I don't know why I said, like
Speaker 1: like that, like clockwork. We've got rumored trades everywhere. A
Speaker 1: lot of them are centered on Pascal Siakam. For what
Speaker 1: it's worth, don't leave you. Massi Eugeria were spotted together
Speaker 1: in the tunnel pregame, probably conspiring. It's been reported that
Speaker 1: the Warriors are unwilling to include Kamingi in the trade.
Speaker 1: That is a lie. Massai Uzeri, you know how he rolls.
Speaker 1: Massai Uzeri collects African NBA players, that's a part of
Speaker 1: his deal. Six seven long wingspan athletic from Africa. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's what you are now, a Toronto raptor Our Dubs,
Speaker 1: And let's be really like, you guys don't really want Kaminga.
Speaker 1: You don't want to develop Kaminga. You just want to
Speaker 1: have him sit on the bench or kind of use
Speaker 1: him at whatever frequency suits you, regardless of how that
Speaker 1: affects his development. You don't really want to build what
Speaker 1: Cominga can be? Let miss how Usuerie do that? Be honest?
Speaker 1: Our Dubs act like Kaminga is the second coming of
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, when he's probably closer to another Talen Horton talker.
Speaker 1: And I like Kaminga. And the truth is, I mean again,
Speaker 1: it's weekend at Bernie's, Like it's there's nothing that you
Speaker 1: can do. You might as well try. I guess you
Speaker 1: have to. That's your job. That's Mike Dunley, a London
Speaker 1: Levy Junior's job. It's gonna take multiple moves to make
Speaker 1: this team a contender again, but I guess it's possible.
Speaker 1: Look at what the Lakers did. They want a championship,
Speaker 1: they moved things before the deadline. They look dead in
Speaker 1: the water. They got rid of Russ, they brought in
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell and some other randoms, ruey Hachi Mura, and
Speaker 1: then that momentum took them to the Western Conference finals.
Speaker 1: A couple of things fell in their way. They played
Speaker 1: the Nuggets in the final round and just like that,
Speaker 1: pretty successful. I guess the question is do our dubs
Speaker 1: have the balls to break up the game? Because if not,
Speaker 1: they're allowing Steph Curry to rot away in the twilight
Speaker 1: of his career in his massive mansion, scrolling through his
Speaker 1: wife's pictures of let's move. If you think the football
Speaker 1: tea is popping with Sabin, Belichick and Pete Carroll all
Speaker 1: retiring or getting fired within twenty four hours, do not
Speaker 1: be sleeping on the NBA t where it never stops,
Speaker 1: it just continues to roll. We've got a lot of
Speaker 1: fun little stories to get into, so let's clear the
Speaker 1: decks on this NBA Friday. So we talked about last
Speaker 1: week how we hadn't heard a peep about Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: They must be listening to the heat check in the
Speaker 1: next organization, because light clockwork. A day after we asked
Speaker 1: the question, the Nets gave a complete update on his injury,
Speaker 1: almost like they had been writing it in their diary
Speaker 1: waiting for someone to say, Hey, we have not heard
Speaker 1: from these motherfuckers. What's up? Nets report is the Ben's
Speaker 1: back injury is not the same injury that he had
Speaker 1: last year that cost him to miss most of the season.
Speaker 1: He had an MRI this week that showed nerve irritation
Speaker 1: issues on the lower left side of his body, which
Speaker 1: is going to cause him to miss some time as
Speaker 1: he rehabs and builds himself back from that unquote, but
Speaker 1: that will not keep him out and definitely they say,
Speaker 1: the NETS say, with the proper kind of rehab, he
Speaker 1: will be able to resume his season in a short
Speaker 1: period of time without any issue. This reminds me of
Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball. Unfortunately. This is what that vibe is. The
Speaker 1: early updates where Lonzo Ball has had a successful cleanup
Speaker 1: of his knee. All he needs to do is rehab.
Speaker 1: He's getting onto the treadmill, he's starting to walk, he's
Speaker 1: starting to run at three miles per hour, he's starting
Speaker 1: to walk at four miles per hour. Lowns and then
Speaker 1: the next update is Lonzo Ball has just completed another
Speaker 1: surgery on his knee, terrible. So there you go, We've
Speaker 1: got transparency. We also have an update to our Injury
Speaker 1: Show yesterday where John Moran had a successful surgery on
Speaker 1: his right shoulder. They're never gonna say that the surgery
Speaker 1: was unsuccessful, I don't think. And although he'll miss the
Speaker 1: rest of the year, he will be back. Good is new,
Speaker 1: they say, back, good is new next season, just a
Speaker 1: brand new shoulder. Can't wait. Joel Embiid, who we mentioned briefly,
Speaker 1: is going to miss more time than expected because of
Speaker 1: the knee injury that he's dealing with. Also, didn't he
Speaker 1: have an ankle sprain, a pretty bad one. He came
Speaker 1: back from that ard his knee tough, expected, but tough.
Speaker 1: Apparently that knee injury that he's dealing with is the
Speaker 1: same one that he had during the playoffs last year
Speaker 1: that derailed their season. Ramona Shelburne, friend of show, reports quote,
Speaker 1: this is the kind of knee injury that is normally
Speaker 1: four to six weeks with it slatest one. He wants
Speaker 1: to play. That sixty five game threshold that all guys
Speaker 1: are very aware of this year is always in the
Speaker 1: back of your mind. So Joel Embiid finally has some
Speaker 1: sort of accountability to keep him really on track playing
Speaker 1: for the pain back to back MVP award. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's a good idea. Honestly, we don't care
Speaker 1: about these MVPs. We care about championships us long time
Speaker 1: Philly fans. We're looking for rings for a player who's
Speaker 1: never once in his entire career had an injury free playoffs,
Speaker 1: forcing himself onto the court in meaningless games that his
Speaker 1: team is probably gonna win no matter what, just to
Speaker 1: get another MVP or at least be in the MVP conversation.
Speaker 1: Probably not a good decision, I would say. Sadly, I've
Speaker 1: got a new injury update. This time, the often snake
Speaker 1: bitten Marcus Smart of the Grizzlies, who was already by
Speaker 1: the way, missed significant time, has suffered a serious injury
Speaker 1: to his right ring finger on his shooting hand and
Speaker 1: will miss at least six weeks. Okay, time to shut
Speaker 1: it up, pack it up, send it away, send everyone off.
Speaker 1: Now you need to really be in full tank mode.
Speaker 1: It's time for you to trade Marcus Smart to a contender.
Speaker 1: Desmond Vane overs all day, every night. And moving on,
Speaker 1: two league related stories that I am following first of
Speaker 1: all woes reported today that the NBA is awaiting a
Speaker 1: final sign off from the MBPA to make the NBA
Speaker 1: Draft a two day affair AKA a way to make
Speaker 1: more money, a way to swindle us into watching what
Speaker 1: we could probably find out on Twitter ourselves before they
Speaker 1: put it on TV. This year, the draft will take
Speaker 1: place in Brooklyn on June twenty sixth and twenty seven,
Speaker 1: Wednesday for first rounders and Thursday for second rounders. I
Speaker 1: don't love it. I don't like it. It's hard enough
Speaker 1: to get excited for guys getting picked twenty eighth in
Speaker 1: the draft like day Ron Sharp, but an entire day
Speaker 1: devoted to guys largely. I probably don't know. I probably
Speaker 1: do know from a college perspective, but let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I know what Adam Silver's trying to do. We all
Speaker 1: know what Adam Silver's trying to do. He wants it
Speaker 1: to make it a multi day event like the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1: Maybe you should move it out of fucking Brooklyn. Then
Speaker 1: it's in Brooklyn every goddamn year. There is nothing fun
Speaker 1: going on on the eve of the NBA Draft. The
Speaker 1: NFL Draft shuts down Broadway Street. In Nashville. It's a thing.
Speaker 1: People are coming in droves to watch it out on
Speaker 1: the street. The NBA is not doing what he wants
Speaker 1: them to do. If that's what you're trying to achieve,
Speaker 1: which is some sort of fanfare, I'm very unhappy. I
Speaker 1: guess the green room thing probably gets changed. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to wait until the second day. In other words, though,
Speaker 1: another news excuse me, the NBA and Netflix are going
Speaker 1: to be partnering to create new reality show following five
Speaker 1: NBA stars. The first four make perfect sense. The fifth
Speaker 1: star is probably because Nikola Jokich said, no, let's be real,
Speaker 1: we need five Americans, four American stars and one foreign star. Well,
Speaker 1: actually that's not true. We need two foreign stars and
Speaker 1: three American stars. Of course, it's Lebron James. No way
Speaker 1: that he passes up an opportunity to continue to shape
Speaker 1: the narrative that he is the greatest of all time.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't know if I am
Speaker 1: saying this later because I don't remember, but it's his
Speaker 1: production company that's in charge of the narrative. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of last dance vibes. Two are legit superstars that
Speaker 1: you would probably guess Jason Tatum and Jimmy Butler. One
Speaker 1: is in the twilight of his career. One is only
Speaker 1: nineteen years old and he's been nineteen years old for
Speaker 1: seven years. Jason Tatum no shocker, huge amount of social followers.
Speaker 1: The fourth, a young rising star, one of the more
Speaker 1: charismatic dudes in the league, is gonna be an absolute
Speaker 1: blast to follow. Anthony Edwards. I think that this will
Speaker 1: elevate Anthony Edwards to a place unknown to most casual fans.
Speaker 1: He will become a household name, the very top of
Speaker 1: the list of the NBA celebs. He is going to
Speaker 1: show why NBA fans love him. The final spot, Oh,
Speaker 1: it is one. It is just one. No Yannis, the
Speaker 1: final spot Demonas Sabonis, to which I say, hell fucking yes.
Speaker 1: Stick it to the man, Stick it to those casual
Speaker 1: fans that hate Sacramento. He does not get anywhere enough love.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be an incredible induction to
Speaker 1: the public who don't watch Sacramento Kings games because they're
Speaker 1: never on national TV and probably because they don't love
Speaker 1: Demana Sibonis. But here's the thing, Like, let's be real,
Speaker 1: Jokic said, no, Yana said no. Yanna said no. Jokic
Speaker 1: said no. Probably in that order, Demana Sibonis was not
Speaker 1: the first choice. Lucas said no. Yeah, so Lucas said no,
Speaker 1: Yanna said no, Jokic said no. M Bead said no.
Speaker 1: I am cautiously optimistic about this show, given the fact
Speaker 1: that it is produced by three production companies, which who
Speaker 1: knows what that's gonna be like. One is Barack Obama's company,
Speaker 1: two is Lebron James's production firm, and three is Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning's Omaha Productions. I love things that helped the league.
Speaker 1: I know I'll be watching. I wish that they were
Speaker 1: at vastly different stages in their career, one rookie, one
Speaker 1: rising star, one current star, and one aging and declining star.
Speaker 1: That's how they did it. In the Quarterback Series. We
Speaker 1: will do a deep dive finally on the Utah Jazz
Speaker 1: and how they have resurrected their season very soon. But
Speaker 1: they are now nineteen and twenty after beating the shit
Speaker 1: out of the Nuggets won twenty four to one to eleven,
Speaker 1: they have won twelve of sixteen games. They are screaming
Speaker 1: up the standings. But I wanted to use the Jazz
Speaker 1: today for Trista's crazy ass killer staut of the Week
Speaker 1: The Utah Jazz. Did you know this? The Utah Jazz
Speaker 1: are undefeated. They are nine and zero in games that
Speaker 1: they have told Taylor Horton Tucker to sit your ass
Speaker 1: fucking down. He has been a healthy scratch and they
Speaker 1: are nine and zero. That seems impossible, but it is true.
Speaker 1: Tucker began the year as a starter. I hate him,
Speaker 1: not as a human, but like as a player. He
Speaker 1: is annoying. He has slowly seen his minutes a road
Speaker 1: as Colin Sexton has emerged, who by the way, this
Speaker 1: is a total side road is absolutely ripped, just yoked,
Speaker 1: beyond measure for a point guard. Anyway, he has emerged
Speaker 1: as a legit scoring threat. His streak began December twenty
Speaker 1: first Welcome to the Solstice, and since the eleven games
Speaker 1: after that, he has been healthy, but only has played twice,
Speaker 1: in a seven point loss to the Pelicans and a
Speaker 1: twenty nine point blowout loss to the Celtics. The other
Speaker 1: nine games he has not seen the floor, and Utah
Speaker 1: in those games is nine and zero. No better way
Speaker 1: to ensure you get traded by the deadline especially since
Speaker 1: he's on an eleven million dollar expiring contract. Bye bye
Speaker 1: thht bye bye. That's all the time that we have
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