Speaker 1: You're you're listening to the Hottest, The Hottest.
Speaker 2: It be a podcast out here. I said what I said.
Speaker 3: It's the heat Chat Chat Check.
Speaker 2: It's just a trick.
Speaker 3: On this episode of the Heat Check. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: I gotta talk about Zion Williamson again. Are you fucking serious?
Speaker 3: It's been four seasons. Why can't this song that sort
Speaker 3: itself out? We go into something I'm very sketch on,
Speaker 3: what the fuck are the Milwaukee Bucks doing right now?
Speaker 3: And we also get into the hit me of the
Speaker 3: week going out to a Laker, maybe not the one
Speaker 3: you think, somebody who puts the Pacers to sleep. We'll
Speaker 3: get into the n season tournament final thoughts too, but man,
Speaker 3: lots to get going into. Let's get into a william
Speaker 3: drop that motherfucking heer and Eric's pete that should be
Speaker 3: be honest. I said, I'd never talked about this again.
Speaker 3: I said, I was done with the fat shaming. I said,
Speaker 3: I was done talking about Zion's conditioning and his weight.
Speaker 3: But then it pops up into the news again, and
Speaker 3: I have to take a journalistic ethical approach. No, I
Speaker 3: have to take a fucking victory lap. Actually, because I
Speaker 3: told you all Zion's never gonna get in shape, He's
Speaker 3: never gonna get healthy. The man is gonna be a bust.
Speaker 3: I know bad mentality when I see it. I don't
Speaker 3: have to be Shaquille O'Neil. I don't have to be
Speaker 3: Charles Barkley. I don't have to be Stephen A. Smith
Speaker 3: to recognize mediocrity in the mind. When I see it,
Speaker 3: I am sick about it. I have been watching highlights
Speaker 3: of Zion at Duke all evening. I miss him. No
Speaker 3: one was more excited about the potential of the New
Speaker 3: Orleans Pelicans and their resurgence as I was. In a
Speaker 3: lot of ways, they've shown they can be a problem.
Speaker 3: They can be deep, they can be athletic, they can
Speaker 3: get after it, they can get buckets.
Speaker 4: CJ.
Speaker 3: McCollums, there is the voice of reason. But I tell
Speaker 3: you what I'm about, fucking sick of these Pelicans. We
Speaker 3: talked about this last episode. Oh, They're gonna use the
Speaker 3: ist to build on this. It's gonna be a platform
Speaker 3: for them to grow their exposure, to showcase the fact
Speaker 3: that they can be a mature team. They're finally healthy.
Speaker 3: They've had quality wins against contenders, sixers Nuggets Kings. Multiple
Speaker 3: wins against the Kings, actually, and when they're firing on
Speaker 3: all cylinders, they're super fun to watch. Right, So everything's good.
Speaker 3: Everything's good. The Pelicans. We shouldn't be worried. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: things are not good. Okay, things are not good at all.
Speaker 3: And the reason is Zion. I am absolutely incensed by
Speaker 3: the fact that the superstar player who's taking number one
Speaker 3: overall is the biggest problem on the team. I've been
Speaker 3: talking about this for three years now. I've been online
Speaker 3: for three years now. Richard Jefferson publicly scathed into me, gugging.
Speaker 3: You're a hater. You're thinking about this man bringing him down,
Speaker 3: You're preying on his downfall. No, I'm not. I want
Speaker 3: Zion to be as good as he can possibly be.
Speaker 3: I'm in favor of tough love. I don't hate Zion.
Speaker 3: I hate that he can't stop from stuffing food down
Speaker 3: his gullet and sitting on the fucking couch all night.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm sick of. I'm sick of the fact
Speaker 3: that Zion would rather eat fifteen pizzas in a row
Speaker 3: and make himself sick than get on a treadmill. I
Speaker 3: am sick about that. Thankfully, I'm not the only one
Speaker 3: worried about this. I'm not the only one screaming into
Speaker 3: the void being like, hey, doesn't anybody else think this
Speaker 3: is a problem? Hey, hey, I see I see fat
Speaker 3: on Zion's body. Amid the joy that was them making
Speaker 3: it to the vegas Ist semifinals, the disgusting loss to
Speaker 3: the Lakers illuminated and revealed what we kind of thought
Speaker 3: might be a problem. Now we're getting rumors, more rumors
Speaker 3: about Zion's fitness level, and it is not a pretty sight.
Speaker 3: After the Ist loss, my man doing the lord's work.
Speaker 3: Christian Clark of The Times picky you, and by the way,
Speaker 3: shout out to the Times pick you. They do not care.
Speaker 3: They do not care that that's the only team that
Speaker 3: they cover and that they're probably gonna get cut off
Speaker 3: from communications. They're doing real journalism there. They are talking
Speaker 3: bad if they need to about everybody. I mean, there's
Speaker 3: no stone left unturned for the Times. Pickyun anyway, they
Speaker 3: dropped this detailed piece that states that the Pelicans' front
Speaker 3: off is about fed up with Zion's bullshit, the fact
Speaker 3: that he's always fat and out of shape. This is
Speaker 3: what Clark wrote at the start of the season, it
Speaker 3: was clear of Williamson was carrying too much weight. I thought, pause,
Speaker 3: I thought. David Griffin told us this was the first
Speaker 3: time in Zion's career he was taking his health wellness
Speaker 3: seriously and his fitness seriously, and he stayed at the
Speaker 3: facility all off season, and he was being a professional.
Speaker 3: And everybody's like showing me probably photoshop photos of Zion
Speaker 3: being like, ooh, in shape, Zion. ShredIt Zion. It's scary hours,
Speaker 3: Get the fuck come on anyway. More distressingly, he has
Speaker 3: not played himself into better shape, even though the regular
Speaker 3: season is more than one quarter of the way over.
Speaker 3: If anything, Christian Clark says, Williamson's condition has regressed. My man,
Speaker 3: My man is twenty three years old, sucking wind, needing
Speaker 3: Chris Paul's secret stuff. After five whole minutes against a
Speaker 3: thirty eight year old Lebron James and the Lakers and
Speaker 3: one of the biggest games of his career, Zion couldn't
Speaker 3: have the conditioning to just go out there and compete.
Speaker 3: They lost by fucking forty Are you serious? There were
Speaker 3: rumors that Bi and Zion were out all night partying
Speaker 3: the night before the game. If you go back to
Speaker 3: YouTube and google Zion brandon ingram in Season Tournament, you
Speaker 3: will be asking yourself many questions, and one of them
Speaker 3: will be are these two guys even sober? I don't
Speaker 3: know what they are? Zion in this clip looked like
Speaker 3: me at sixteen years old when my mom called me
Speaker 3: home early before the lights came on, and I was
Speaker 3: high out of my fucking mind and I had to
Speaker 3: sit there on the couch while she interrogated me, and
Speaker 3: all I could do was giggle. That was Zion giggling
Speaker 3: for no damn reason when they asked him questions about
Speaker 3: the n Season Tournament, and Bi was not any better.
Speaker 3: You do not have to be a rocket scientist. When
Speaker 3: they look and they sound like they hadn't had any sleep.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna play the clip for you because it's
Speaker 3: just a bunch of gibberish, whether they were out all
Speaker 3: night or not. This is what Clark wrote. During the
Speaker 3: first stoppage of play in Thursday's Lost, Zion Williamson plopped
Speaker 3: on the bench, struggling to breathe, looking as though he
Speaker 3: had just completed a half marathon. Williamson, who had just
Speaker 3: jogged back on defense to try to Contestatorian Prince three
Speaker 3: pointer appeared winded, even though the game wasn't even five
Speaker 3: minutes old, folks, we've got woo oo, We've got a problem.
Speaker 3: We've got a serious problem in New Orleans. Remember Mariah Mills,
Speaker 3: God bless her, I miss her. She spilled all the
Speaker 3: tea about Zion's apartment, well, all kinds of things about Zion,
Speaker 3: but in this particular case, for our purposes, she was saying,
Speaker 3: this man's got coke bottle empty coke bottles by the
Speaker 3: hundreds all over his floor. He's got roaches in his
Speaker 3: ash tray, he's got eat half eaten pizzas he was guzzling,
Speaker 3: popped by the gallons. And as hilariously sad as this is,
Speaker 3: it's actually infuriating. The dude could not muster up the
Speaker 3: motivation to just hire somebody to keep him on the
Speaker 3: straight and arrow. I don't know, personal trainer. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: he did. The personal trainer. He fucking fired and that
Speaker 3: guy is taking shots on him online. By the way,
Speaker 3: shrug emoji is all he had to say. Like, dude,
Speaker 3: I try to tell him, but he just fired me.
Speaker 3: Get a nutritionist. You could probably eat Zion two pizzas
Speaker 3: a day and not be two hundred and eighty five
Speaker 3: pounds at sixty seven. The caloric burn that you have
Speaker 3: at the amount of basketball that you could play, I
Speaker 3: don't even want to know what you're eating. I don't
Speaker 3: even want to know. It's gotta be so much for
Speaker 3: you to gain that much weight that fast. Here's what
Speaker 3: Shaq had to say about Zion, and let me tell
Speaker 3: you it's spot on.
Speaker 2: I have a question for Shot because you said this early.
Speaker 2: You said this could be a statement for Zion to
Speaker 2: let him know, hey, I'm coming.
Speaker 4: I want to ask you this question, though.
Speaker 2: Who was the guy when you said I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: to do that too and you couldn't do it?
Speaker 4: Two of them David Robinson and you're a good friend
Speaker 4: that came Eliza, and you couldn't do it. I couldn't
Speaker 4: do it because you know why, because I realized I
Speaker 4: wasn't working as hard as I thought I was. Ah,
Speaker 4: I want to make some points about Zion. Okay, it's
Speaker 4: not run hard, it's not of this. This's gonna be
Speaker 4: a lesson from one great big man to another guy
Speaker 4: that could be a regular, just not run hard. I
Speaker 4: had the same problem my first time here. I thought
Speaker 4: I was running hard. Chaus Charles talked about.
Speaker 2: This all the time.
Speaker 4: My timely gonna get me twenty. But when I start
Speaker 4: going to twenty thirty and forty, it's because I started
Speaker 4: doing certain things. He doesn't create easy points for us.
Speaker 4: I saw a couple of times we had a couple
Speaker 4: guys at the basket. If he don't seal right, he
Speaker 4: doesn't demand the ball like you got a small guy,
Speaker 4: and we talk about all the barbecue chicken alert. Charles
Speaker 4: talk about all the time, you can't let a little
Speaker 4: guy guard you. And he doesn't have that look like
Speaker 4: I'm not the greatest athlete ever, but I know a
Speaker 4: look when I see it in every sport. I know
Speaker 4: a look. Tiger Woods had that look. Jack Nicholson had
Speaker 4: that look. You know what I'm saying, Like, he just
Speaker 4: doesn't have that look, and he doesn't rebound. He does
Speaker 4: not rebound. I'm sitting there and I'm watching because you know,
Speaker 4: Charles was on him, because you know less Charles's category.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be on that are. But he's
Speaker 4: not just saying this also because he could be the.
Speaker 2: He could be the best player in the league, in
Speaker 2: the league, in the league, yes, and.
Speaker 4: The best player in the league. Again, I was just
Speaker 4: like him, So I don't want to sit up here,
Speaker 4: you know, Like I was just like that. But you know,
Speaker 4: people used to like pull me to the side.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: I had a guy named Brad Seisler who used to
Speaker 4: always say, hey, man, okay, you had twenty four points
Speaker 4: because you're not just working as hard. And I'm like,
Speaker 4: what are you talking about that? So once he decided
Speaker 4: to get that killer and go for it, he's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be and your shack notoriously fat and lazy, Zion
Speaker 3: might be worse. Even Stephen A piled on, calling Zion fat.
Speaker 3: He looks fat. What was it again? He looks fat?
Speaker 3: One more time, he looks fat.
Speaker 1: My brother, you've been in the news for some other stuff.
Speaker 1: Your proclivities and who you want to mess with and
Speaker 1: all that other stuff is your damn business. We ain't
Speaker 1: got to get into all of that, but this is necessary.
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson went to the free throw line the other
Speaker 1: thing and ruke. While Lebron James had dropped thirty in
Speaker 1: three quarters and had completely dominated and looked in pat
Speaker 1: physical condition and looked like an absolute stunt and superstar.
Speaker 2: And mon key.
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson, who's more than fifteen years younger but forty
Speaker 1: pounds heavier, went to the free throw line, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I saw a belly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I've been saying. That's what I've been saying.
Speaker 3: I am so tired of Zion fucking around. This podcast
Speaker 3: is in its fourth season, and we are in its
Speaker 3: fourth season of talking about Zion and his weight in
Speaker 3: his lack of conditioning, and it's actually worse. It's gotten
Speaker 3: worse every year. It is a theme. I don't know
Speaker 3: if Zion's a tradable asset anymore. I don't know who
Speaker 3: wants Zion on their team given all of the things
Speaker 3: that are Zion's big red flags. He makes a lot
Speaker 3: of money, He will not stay in shape. It's gotten worse.
Speaker 3: He apparently will not listen when they tell him, Hey,
Speaker 3: you need to fix this stuff. In New Orleans, He's
Speaker 3: a managed to avoid injury this year, but we're only
Speaker 3: a quarter of the way through the season. Congratulations, Zion,
Speaker 3: you made it longer than you have pretty much every year.
Speaker 3: The Pelicans are fun and by the way, real side note, Also,
Speaker 3: Brandon Ingram and Zion can't be together on this team.
Speaker 3: They are Nazi athletes. If you want to keep Zion,
Speaker 3: that's on you. He was your number one pick. You
Speaker 3: don't want to get him. Rid of him, you don't
Speaker 3: want to let everyone know that maybe he's not who
Speaker 3: you thought he was, Then get rid of Bi. He's
Speaker 3: clearly a bad influence. They are a very fun and
Speaker 3: very dangerous team, but they need more high character guys
Speaker 3: on this team. More Alvarados, more CJ. McCollums, less, Brandon
Speaker 3: Ingram's less Zions. His health. Zion is completely dependent on
Speaker 3: his diet. He's too eighty and sixty seven. He's probably
Speaker 3: actually three hundred. I think that's his goal weight is
Speaker 3: to eighty. He's out here suckond win like he did
Speaker 3: early and late against the Lakers. If he does that,
Speaker 3: then New Orleans is going to miss the playoffs altogether. Hey, Zions,
Speaker 3: get your shit together, my guy