Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 3: All Star Game is over, folks, Yes, sir, it's time
Speaker 3: for us to move forward. We are gonna break down
Speaker 3: the good, the bad, the ugly. Speaking of ugly, Nate McMillan.
Speaker 2: Gets fired another one bites the dust. Atlanta is now
Speaker 2: looking for a.
Speaker 3: New head coach, and Russ and Kevin Love also changed teams.
Speaker 3: Just over twenty games left in the regular season, Nicks,
Speaker 3: so do me a favor and drop that generic gass beat.
Speaker 3: All right, So this extravaganza in Salt Lake City, Utah
Speaker 3: has come and gone. Everybody's take pretty much from the
Speaker 3: game is that's stunk.
Speaker 2: I also thought it stunk.
Speaker 3: I thought, what are you gonna really ask for when
Speaker 3: there's multiple stars that are out for injuries and the
Speaker 3: injury reserves and all of these things, considering.
Speaker 2: That it is just a game. It is not just
Speaker 2: a game. It's an exhibition game. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3: I listed players who one hundred percent would phone it in,
Speaker 3: and every single one of them did. Nicole Jokich had
Speaker 3: four points, Luca had four points. Do I hate on
Speaker 3: them for not trying?
Speaker 2: No like Luca sometimes needs a break.
Speaker 3: Okay, he wanted to go to Mexico and he went
Speaker 3: to your little event and he played. Okay, he showed
Speaker 3: up better than you can say for Trey Young. It
Speaker 3: is a great opportunity for late nights hanging out with
Speaker 3: other superstars.
Speaker 2: It is like an NBA convention. That's basically what it is.
Speaker 2: It's like a trade show for the NBA and people
Speaker 2: who are around the NBA.
Speaker 3: The fact that there's fans there and that there's a
Speaker 3: TV event that's basically subsidizing this little party. They do
Speaker 3: not care about the person or people responsible for some
Speaker 3: their party.
Speaker 2: They just want to party.
Speaker 3: I do not also buy into the fact that the
Speaker 3: ratings were so bad that they're gonna hurt the league
Speaker 3: in the next round of the media negotiations. That is bullshit.
Speaker 3: That is absolute poppycock. The All Star Game is not
Speaker 3: It is not the corner stone of a season, and
Speaker 3: it took a back seat to the trade deadline, which is,
Speaker 3: if we're being honest, what's even more important than the
Speaker 3: All Star Game.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, the game wasn't fun to watch.
Speaker 3: People had ideas about how to fix it. I also
Speaker 3: have ideas, as usual about how to fix things. One
Speaker 3: of my ideas went viral a few days ago. My
Speaker 3: tweet was this the only way to fix the All
Speaker 3: Star Game. You pit the US versus the rest of
Speaker 3: the world and see them duke it out like hunger games.
Speaker 2: Think about it. Team USA, who's on that team?
Speaker 3: You got Steph Lebron has to start, Kevin Durant, Tatum
Speaker 3: ad That's like pretty standard starting five. And then for
Speaker 3: the bench, you've got jaw Jaylen Brown, Damian Lillard, Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 3: Devin Booker, Kyrie At, Daron Fox, Kawhi, Jared Allen. So
Speaker 3: that's my that's my All Star team for the US.
Speaker 2: And then Team World. Man, this is a squad.
Speaker 3: You got shay Giljes Alexander, you got Luka, Doncic, you
Speaker 3: got Jannis Embiid and Jokic my god. Then on the
Speaker 3: off the bench, you got Demonic Sabonis, Marknen, Ben Mathern,
Speaker 3: Pascal Siakam, Andrew Wiggins, Rudy Gobert, Jamal Murray, og Annon, Nobi,
Speaker 3: Josh Giddy, Franz Wagner, DeAndre Ayton, from the Caribbean, christ
Speaker 3: As Porzingis, Jeremy Sohan, Steven.
Speaker 2: Adams come on, now, come on, now.
Speaker 3: I think at that point you'd have to put it
Speaker 3: in a city where there was nothing else to do
Speaker 3: but whoop. It would be have to be a separate
Speaker 3: week There is zero chants that Luca and Jokic would
Speaker 3: mail it in if it meant they were fighting for
Speaker 3: their country. They were fighting to say that the world
Speaker 3: was better than America. They've got competitive nature running through
Speaker 3: their veins, and you know what they don't want to
Speaker 3: do is to make it seem like America is the
Speaker 3: only thing that matters. They played internationally. This is an
Speaker 3: international fit. Easy fix, Adam easy. I am giving Adam
Speaker 3: Silver a multi billion dollar idea for free.
Speaker 2: So just do it.
Speaker 3: Fifteen American All Stars, fifteen non American All Stars. Winning
Speaker 3: team gets bragging.
Speaker 2: Rights for the year. Make it a whole thing. This
Speaker 2: is the only chance that you have.
Speaker 3: As for the rest of the All Star weekend, it
Speaker 3: was pretty good. What except for the skills competition. That
Speaker 3: shit's gotta go. We gotta have some sort of substitute
Speaker 3: for what that was. It's confusing, it's on the wrong night.
Speaker 3: There's no drama. I honestly don't know who thought watching
Speaker 3: the Antitukunpo brothers throw bounce passes into a tire would
Speaker 3: make for a great TV. Like, I don't know why
Speaker 3: we wanted to Team Utah other than the fact that
Speaker 3: they were in Utah. There needs to be another replacement
Speaker 3: for this. Also, the Celebrity Basketball Game, I don't know.
Speaker 2: About that either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the only reason I'm even slightly optimistic
Speaker 3: is because I am hoping that someday maybe I can
Speaker 3: play in it. That's the only reason is I can
Speaker 3: get on TV just to play basketball. Other than that,
Speaker 3: I could take it or leave it. The Rising Stars Game,
Speaker 3: that was probably the best thing that we saw, besides
Speaker 3: maybe the dunk contest. Jose Alvarado is being micd up
Speaker 3: the entire time, which was great. He gets the MVP
Speaker 3: after him and Donovan Mitchell go back and forth. He
Speaker 3: makes a bet with Donovan Mitchell that he was going
Speaker 3: to hit a game winner, and that was pretty fun.
Speaker 3: You got to see G leaguers like Scoot come out
Speaker 3: and play some basketball again.
Speaker 2: In the All Star Game. You could have had Victor wam.
Speaker 3: Nyama play right now. Would have been very interesting, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3: And like listen, you got to see the G league
Speaker 3: play and realize why they're not.
Speaker 2: In the league yet.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest, these you gotta while to go. You're
Speaker 3: like fresh chicken out of a pack, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. You're still a little wet behind the ears.
Speaker 3: We gotta put a little seasoning on you. We gotta
Speaker 3: put a little uh just marinate. You gotta marinate in
Speaker 3: the bag a little bit more scoot before you play
Speaker 3: in the NBA.
Speaker 2: The three point Contest was for me a highlight.
Speaker 3: I did predict that Damian Lillard was going to win
Speaker 3: it because he went to Weaver State.
Speaker 2: That's not why I loved it, even though that was
Speaker 2: a nice little piece of vindication.
Speaker 3: But lots of guys were struggling, and I love to
Speaker 3: see pro struggle in any sport. Tyler hero looked not
Speaker 3: like a hero. Kevin Herder looked like he had no
Speaker 3: business being in that contests.
Speaker 2: Randall looked like he snuck in to the tournament. He did.
Speaker 3: It was so painful. His son cried and then boot him.
Speaker 3: It was so bad.
Speaker 2: That's not even a joke that happened.
Speaker 3: Tyrese Halliburton, which his shooting stroke. I understand why scouts
Speaker 3: were like, I'm not sure if this kid can can.
Speaker 2: Do it, but he can. He can really shoot.
Speaker 3: Tyrese Haliburton set a record with thirty one points in
Speaker 3: the first round, and his little hitch was so ugly.
Speaker 3: I don't even know how he makes shots.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't. I don't know how he does it.
Speaker 3: It takes so long to get the ball. It's almost
Speaker 3: like there's a glitch in the system, you know, and
Speaker 3: he's trying to re get the system to work smooth.
Speaker 2: But it was all daytime.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: He came out crushed it.
Speaker 3: He lit through the final rack to win his first
Speaker 3: three point contest.
Speaker 2: Then he rolled off on the Sunday.
Speaker 1: He's done.
Speaker 3: He's never probably doing it again. He wanted one for
Speaker 3: the resume. I'll probably never.
Speaker 2: See him back.
Speaker 3: And then a quick little question I have for people
Speaker 3: who make these little cute T shirts and sweatshirts and stuff.
Speaker 3: How come there weren't any parody shirts made that I
Speaker 3: could have bought that said twenty twenty three NBA All
Speaker 3: Star slut like Salt Lake City Utah slut like that
Speaker 3: should have been an easy thing for the people on
Speaker 3: the internet to do, but they didn't. But they didn't,
Speaker 3: And Finally, the Dunk Contest was awesome. No one on
Speaker 3: earth wanted to watch the Dunk Contest and it ended
Speaker 3: up being an electric factory. It's been so bad for
Speaker 3: so many years outside of the Zach Lavine and Aaron
Speaker 3: Gordon Contest, that we were just making fun of Mac
Speaker 3: McClung before we even saw Mac McClung. And you know what,
Speaker 3: he single handedly saved the Dunk Contest. And now they
Speaker 3: want to know if he'll play in the Dunk Contest
Speaker 3: for his entire life, Like, hey, that's what you do.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: You come out and we know your name, we know
Speaker 3: what you look like, we've seen your face. We're happy
Speaker 3: with you in here now, and now you have to
Speaker 3: come back every year, and so I think he will,
Speaker 3: but the question remains.
Speaker 2: Stephen A.
Speaker 3: Smith talked about this, which is wild. People are asking
Speaker 3: why the Dunk Contest doesn't have major stars in it anymore.
Speaker 3: Stephen A thinks Lebron killed it because Lebron didn't do it.
Speaker 3: Now all the other stars are following suit, so he
Speaker 3: ruined it himself. His one decision set the dominoes off.
Speaker 3: But people are now asking everyone, hey, Dunk Contest is
Speaker 3: kind of fun Are you going to enter it next year?
Speaker 3: They asked Jaw. They asked Aunt Edwards. You can scratch
Speaker 3: Aunt Edward's off of your thoughts about him being in
Speaker 3: the dunk contest? Why well listen to what he had to.
Speaker 1: Say now, Reggie Miller, are a lot of guys want
Speaker 1: to know, could you plausibly get in the dunk contest
Speaker 1: one of these?
Speaker 3: Nope?
Speaker 1: No, come on and stop playing. Nope.
Speaker 2: I just like dunking ok people.
Speaker 4: Man, whoa you heard that?
Speaker 1: Reggie like dunk old?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that sounds about right. I just like
Speaker 3: dunking on people. Ditto for Ja Morant. These guys want
Speaker 3: to be dunking in game. They want to fly down
Speaker 3: the lane. They want to stuff the basketball down your throat.
Speaker 3: They want to embarrass who's ever standing there. They want
Speaker 3: to posterize you. They want to demolished your ego, put
Speaker 3: it into a little package, wrap it up in a bow,
Speaker 3: and take your ego home with them and put it
Speaker 3: on another night stand.
Speaker 2: That's what they want to do.
Speaker 3: If there's nobody standing underneath the rim, what fun is
Speaker 3: it really to dunk? If you're someone like Ja Morant
Speaker 3: and Edwards? I actually kind of get that everything else
Speaker 3: is kind of like a fake dunk. A real dunk
Speaker 3: is what you do in a game when you murder somebody.
Speaker 3: The rest is kind of pageantry. Frankly, far more interested
Speaker 3: in seeing that than I am watching the dunk contest.
Speaker 2: But those McClung dunks were.
Speaker 3: Sick, and he's probably gonna end up our little poster
Speaker 3: child for the dunk contest for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 1: So good for him.
Speaker 3: The big news this week in the league.
Speaker 2: We got some tea. Now, we got some things happening.
Speaker 3: We got some butts that are hot, and the butts
Speaker 3: that are hot finally, now get the boot. Nate McMillan
Speaker 3: fired in Atlanta. So I have a history with Nate.
Speaker 3: He coached the Blazers for a really long time. I
Speaker 3: had to watch those ugly offenses for I don't even
Speaker 3: know how many years.
Speaker 2: It was too many.
Speaker 3: They walked the ball up the court like you had
Speaker 3: to walk it to half court. That was his mandate,
Speaker 3: and that was just what they did. Had one of
Speaker 3: the slowest paces in the NBA. But what happened to Atlanta,
Speaker 3: Let's talk about that, because that's what's important, and it's
Speaker 3: not in my opinion, Nate's fault. In fact, I think
Speaker 3: he has adapted much better than new NBA that I
Speaker 3: thought he would ever would.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the problem is you got stuck with Trey Young.
Speaker 1: That's what it is.
Speaker 2: He got stuck in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: He had a really incredible run based around some luck
Speaker 3: and some help and some skill, and they went to
Speaker 3: the Eastern Conference finals, which they never were ever going
Speaker 3: to do again.
Speaker 2: And then they hired him.
Speaker 3: They hired an interim head coach that maybe was gonna
Speaker 3: work with Trey Young, maybe not.
Speaker 2: And we talked about this before Atlanta fired.
Speaker 3: One of the most respected NBA executives in the league
Speaker 3: in Travis Slank, and they brought in the owner's twenty
Speaker 3: year old son. That's a little, as my mom would say,
Speaker 3: little nepatis at work. And so what you thought, what
Speaker 3: you thought they weren't gonna fire Nate McMillan. Come on, now,
Speaker 3: this firing is no shock. But what I did think
Speaker 3: was surprising is that they have been trying to push
Speaker 3: Nate McMillan out the door, encouraging him to resign on
Speaker 3: his own for weeks now, and Nate was like, nah, dog,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to You're gonna have to put me
Speaker 3: into the guillotine and show the world that you asked
Speaker 3: me yourself. I am not about to do you the
Speaker 3: pleasure where it's like a mutual parting of ways. I
Speaker 3: am exposing the dysfunction in this franchise. Go ahead, fire
Speaker 3: me after you just fired Lloyd Pierce two years ago.
Speaker 2: Do it again.
Speaker 3: Show the rest of the world what's going on. Show
Speaker 3: the quinn Snyders of the world what kind of organization
Speaker 3: you are. And you kind of get a sense of
Speaker 3: what happened from John Collins because John Collins said, uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: Nate would have been a good coach, a great coach
Speaker 3: for a quote more mature team. And so people want
Speaker 3: to read that as older, and I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: think that means older. I think that means more mature.
Speaker 3: You know, like how there's old souls and youngs.
Speaker 2: Like I believe Trey Young is a young soul.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to be thirty five doing this bullshit.
Speaker 3: I think we can pretty definitively say now that Trey
Speaker 3: Young is a coach killer. He could be considered a
Speaker 3: certified coach killer. He has a shift in his back
Speaker 3: pocket at all times, and you know what, he's killed
Speaker 3: more coaches at this stage is in the NBA than
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame coach killers have so far. He is
Speaker 3: now working on his third head coach interim and then
Speaker 3: a new one. And he's going to be a coach
Speaker 3: killer from now and to the end of his career
Speaker 3: unless unless something drastic happens.
Speaker 2: I don't know. So look at his track record.
Speaker 3: He's now had two coaches fired in three years, both
Speaker 3: that he had personal conflict with. Right his team has
Speaker 3: gotten progressively worse since the surprise run to the Eastern
Speaker 3: Conference Finals. He had beef with Nate this year, and
Speaker 3: everybody knew that. Anonymous sources within the Hawks claim that
Speaker 3: the majority of players actually sided with Nate in their
Speaker 3: season long dispute, and so you usually don't see players
Speaker 3: side with management over a teammate.
Speaker 2: So now what does that mean.
Speaker 3: That means that uh Trey Young is unpopular with coaches
Speaker 3: and unpopular with teammates.
Speaker 2: Not a great combo.
Speaker 3: So the question is who is the new regime that
Speaker 3: twenty seven year old Nick Wrestler and his best friend
Speaker 3: Landry Fields are tasked with trying to keep this shit
Speaker 3: from sinking? And who are these people. Let's look at
Speaker 3: the crop of candidates. We've got some that we need
Speaker 3: to discuss.
Speaker 2: Quinn Snyder.
Speaker 3: Quinn Snyder there are working on having discussions as we speak.
Speaker 3: And Quinn Snyder, as you know, former coach of the
Speaker 3: Utah Jazz, and so at first glance, this might seem
Speaker 3: like a perfect fit. Trey Young is his new Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 3: Cappella and John Collins can play like Rudy Gobert except
Speaker 3: for less lobbs in Utah obviously, because Donovan Mitchell wasn't
Speaker 3: giving any of Rudy Gobert. But where Mike Conley was.
Speaker 3: That team was first in the West. That team had
Speaker 3: a historically good offense. I think they were the number
Speaker 3: one overall offense in the league. They had shooters surrounding
Speaker 3: their guards.
Speaker 2: But let's be clear number one, that Utah team was
Speaker 2: not a success.
Speaker 3: That team style does not benefit in the modern NBA.
Speaker 3: This is a wing driven league, not a guard driven
Speaker 3: league anymore.
Speaker 2: And this is not going.
Speaker 3: To work in one of the most dysfunctional places in
Speaker 3: the NBA, which is Atlanta. I do not think that
Speaker 3: Quinn Snyder will want to build a team around Trey
Speaker 3: Young and his bullshit. And I do not think he
Speaker 3: will build a team that cohesively works with Trey Young.
Speaker 3: Not because he's a bad coach. He's a good coach.
Speaker 3: Not because he can't make the roster work and the
Speaker 3: skill sets on the team work. But this guy, Quinn
Speaker 3: Snyder rumored And you may say, oh.
Speaker 2: This is not important, this is not an important fact.
Speaker 2: I think it is.
Speaker 3: Quinn Snyder is rumored to be the type of coach
Speaker 3: that has seating charts on his bus, has a very
Speaker 3: strict style of leadership, close to what Lloyd Pierce and
Speaker 3: Nate McMillan had. Do you believe that Trey Young will
Speaker 3: like someone who has seating charts on the bus.
Speaker 2: I do not think he will respond well to that.
Speaker 3: This has rebuild written all over it, And if Quinn
Speaker 3: Snyder is smart, he will stay all the way away.
Speaker 3: Moving on to Charles Lee. Charles Lee well respected Buck's assistant.
Speaker 3: He's gonna get a job soon. This could be it,
Speaker 3: This might be it. It's known as the player's coach.
Speaker 3: He's worked really well with superstars, which is very important
Speaker 3: on this Atlanta Hawks team. He's an ego manager, Yannis Drew,
Speaker 3: Chris Middleton, so he knows how to do that. And
Speaker 3: let's be real, like, this is probably the best fit
Speaker 3: for a very thankless job. Is going to be fired
Speaker 3: in two years at best, He's gonna be on the
Speaker 3: payroll at the same time as Nate and Lloyd are
Speaker 3: and probably whoever follows him as a successor.
Speaker 2: So why not Charles Lee?
Speaker 3: Why not the guest start somewhere? Next up is Jordi Fernandez.
Speaker 3: Jordy Fernandez shows you how far the Kings have come.
Speaker 3: Assistant for the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 2: Finally getting some love.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've seen a team try to poach
Speaker 3: and assist it off the Kings in my lifetime, So
Speaker 3: that just shows you how good nobody's like, Hey, how
Speaker 3: do I get a little of that juice that the
Speaker 3: Sacramento Kings have?
Speaker 2: How do I steal a little piece of what the
Speaker 2: Kings are doing? Now? That is the case.
Speaker 3: That is just another sign the Kings are on the rise.
Speaker 3: Other franchises trying to take a little bit of your
Speaker 3: pixie dust and try to reconfigure that magic on their team.
Speaker 3: He is a really great coach. All that you need
Speaker 3: to know about him is that when he filled in
Speaker 3: for Mike Brown. The entire team rallied around him. They
Speaker 3: celebrated him.
Speaker 2: Like it was Game seven of the Finals.
Speaker 3: They had champagne, they had goggles, they were spraying them
Speaker 3: like it was the Gatorade. I mean, the whole thing
Speaker 3: screams respect. Speaking of respect, Next up on this list
Speaker 3: of candidates as Kenny Ankinson. We know him from his
Speaker 3: brief time as the Nets head coach before Kevin Durant
Speaker 3: and Kyrie Irving killed him. Currently a Warriors assistant, he
Speaker 3: took the job for the Charlotte Hornets for like, I
Speaker 3: think eleven minutes, maybe twelve.
Speaker 2: He woke up out of.
Speaker 3: A panic and said, oh no, baby, I can't take
Speaker 3: this shop. Oh no, oh no, no, no.
Speaker 2: I got to go.
Speaker 3: I'm going back to the bay. My mom, my family,
Speaker 3: whoever he said was there. Oh, it's a business family decision,
Speaker 3: and we love Santa Cruz whatever. He is too smart
Speaker 3: to hitch his wagon to being on the verge of
Speaker 3: a glue factory. Kenny Atkinson knows what it's like to
Speaker 3: be on a team where you could be cut and
Speaker 3: discarded at any given time.
Speaker 2: Do you think he wants to do that?
Speaker 3: No, I would be shocked if Kenny Atkinson even agrees
Speaker 3: to interview for this dick ass job. This situation could
Speaker 3: be worse than the Hornet's job. At least the Hornets job,
Speaker 3: you know, is a rebuild. They think they're better than
Speaker 3: a rebuild. That's the crazy thing.
Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of other jobs that
Speaker 2: Kenny Atkinson would be suited for.
Speaker 3: Mitch Johnson, Miles Simon just a couple of randoms that
Speaker 3: you gotta throw in there. Johnson is one of Papovitch's
Speaker 3: assistants to San Antonio, and I think it's like mandated
Speaker 3: anytime you have a new opening, you just have to
Speaker 3: interview a San Antonio Spurs assistant because I don't know why,
Speaker 3: that's just how it goes. And then Miles Simons, who
Speaker 3: coaches the South Bay Lakers G League. I'm not even
Speaker 3: sure why his name is bringing up like the regular Lakers.
Speaker 3: I don't even think you would want to interview for
Speaker 3: the job in terms of those coaches, so I don't
Speaker 3: think he has any shot. And then we've got a
Speaker 3: dark horse people e may you Dooka, come on down,
Speaker 3: come on down.
Speaker 2: E may Udoka, dark horse.
Speaker 3: I would love nothing more than emy Udoka to get
Speaker 3: this job. There's not even any joke in that. I
Speaker 3: think he would be the best person for this job.
Speaker 3: I think he is the only coach who could fix
Speaker 3: this team defensively. I think it would be phenomenal. He
Speaker 3: would destroy Trey Young in the media. He would tell
Speaker 3: you everything that was going on, Like, can you imagine
Speaker 3: when Trey Young didn't show up to the game, what
Speaker 3: e may udoka?
Speaker 2: What is said about him to the.
Speaker 3: Media, And Trey Young'd be like, Oh, it's my personal business.
Speaker 3: I keep my private business to myself. No, no, baby,
Speaker 3: not what he may u Doka. He knows what it's
Speaker 3: like to have his business down on the street, and
Speaker 3: this is all about the game right now. He would
Speaker 3: see two practices of Trey Young not playing defense, doing
Speaker 3: his bullshit, not getting John Collins involved, just icing out teammates,
Speaker 3: and you know what he.
Speaker 2: Would say it, Trey Young needs.
Speaker 3: To pass the ball more, he needs to play some defense.
Speaker 3: His demeanor is perfect for a young team. He won't
Speaker 3: get the job because politics, I guess, but it would
Speaker 3: be highly entertaining if he did. And also from the
Speaker 3: Hawk's perspective, And maybe they're not even thinking about this
Speaker 3: because I don't think they're particularly smart.
Speaker 2: What do I know?
Speaker 1: Do we really trust you? May?
Speaker 3: You don could just be in a city like Atlanta
Speaker 3: all the time, where there's like more strip clubs prey
Speaker 3: capita than anywhere else.
Speaker 2: It's like it's popping in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Opportunities for mischief are high. The big question, though, is
Speaker 3: who Tray Young prefer. I guess that's the only question
Speaker 3: worth asking at this point, because Atlanta seems committed to
Speaker 3: keep Trey Young happy for God knows why reasons.
Speaker 2: You will never guess, though, who Trey Young wants. Just guess,
Speaker 2: just guess.
Speaker 3: It's really funny if you had to guess the most
Speaker 3: funny place, the most funny coach that Trey Young would
Speaker 3: be clamoring for in the most subtweet thirteen year old
Speaker 3: boy kind of way. Who would it be? Think about it?
Speaker 3: Think about it. Coach who has no idea what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Think about that. A coach who gives no accountability to
Speaker 2: his players. A coach that does not run practices at all.
Speaker 3: A coach that wants you to throw up thirty footers
Speaker 3: with ten seconds into a shot clock max.
Speaker 2: No not, d'antni. I know that's where you were going.
Speaker 3: How about d'antni's next iteration, his next little robot Steve
Speaker 3: Nash people, no joke.
Speaker 2: No joke.
Speaker 3: Tray Young on the wake of how did he even
Speaker 3: get this jersey? By the way, in the wake of
Speaker 3: Nate McMillan's firing, he posts a photo to his fucking
Speaker 3: Instagram with the Steve Nash jersey on an old school
Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns Steve Nash jersey, and I don't even know
Speaker 3: what to say. First of all, the fact that he
Speaker 3: had that waiting to take that photo like an angsty
Speaker 3: girl right outside of Claire's is crazy. It's crazy, but
Speaker 3: it's also funny. I think there's no more perfect combination
Speaker 3: than those two. It's kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: he's on strike right now, Trey Young for personal reasons,
Speaker 3: not coming to practices or games. But like he's perfect,
Speaker 3: He's perfect. Trey Young needs this kind of coach. Where
Speaker 3: wants this kind of coach. Steve not Nash is the
Speaker 3: substitute teacher of coaches, That's what he is. He's like
Speaker 3: shows up and he's like, so I'm reading this roll call?
Speaker 3: Is is John Collins here? Anybody's seen John Collins? Does
Speaker 3: John Collins still go to the school. Yeah, we don't
Speaker 3: know either. We don't know either.
Speaker 2: What about client client Kapila.
Speaker 3: It's client Kapila here, that's Steve Nash right before practice.
Speaker 3: He doesn't know who's who, where anybody's at. Remember when
Speaker 3: all that Harden shit was going down, He's like, I
Speaker 3: haven't even talked.
Speaker 2: To James Harden. Remember well the Kyrie thing went down.
Speaker 2: He's like, I haven't even spoke to Kyrie. People were like,
Speaker 2: do you not have their number? Or do they not
Speaker 2: call you back? Do they not answer? What is your deal?
Speaker 2: Steve Nash?
Speaker 3: And now you got a twenty seven year old sign
Speaker 3: in checks down in Atlanta. I honestly see this happening.
Speaker 3: I think it happens. I think it happens. If it
Speaker 3: does better, believe I'm getting Hawk season tickets.
Speaker 2: I might move to Atlanta. I might be a new
Speaker 2: Atlanta Hawks beat reporter.
Speaker 4: I need it.
Speaker 2: I need it.
Speaker 4: Those two together, peas and carrots.
Speaker 3: So I guess we gotta talk about Russ right, he's
Speaker 3: taken the buyout from the Utah Jazz. He signed with
Speaker 3: Los Angeles again. Yeah, shocking works out great for him
Speaker 3: from a personal standpoint, because we know that he did
Speaker 3: not want to live anywhere else. He brought his family
Speaker 3: out there, He's got his friends out there. That's the
Speaker 3: only reason he went to the Lakers to begin with.
Speaker 3: He now has the perfect spot for him. He doesn't
Speaker 3: have to move, he doesn't have to do anything. He
Speaker 3: gets to play alongside Kawhi, gets to play by who,
Speaker 3: by the way, kind of screwed him over. He gets
Speaker 3: to play with Paul George, who, let's be real, Paul
Speaker 3: George had some of his best basketball with Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 3: and he was stumping and lobbying for Russ to be
Speaker 3: on this team. So that's good for us, good for us.
Speaker 3: Number one good for us. Number two isn't good for
Speaker 3: anyone else.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: No, I have concerns like why is Russell Westbrook more
Speaker 3: skilled at more things right now in his career than
Speaker 3: John Wall? Are kind of similar, like the John Wall
Speaker 3: minutes with Kawhi Leonard, which we'll get to in a second,
Speaker 3: because I have the facts, weren't good.
Speaker 2: He doesn't shoot as well as Reggie Jackson. What is
Speaker 2: this pairing? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm going to because I love TYLERO suspend judgment until
Speaker 3: I see how it goes. I need to call Jerry
Speaker 3: west and figure out what is happening. I forgot all
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: We need to find out what is happening.
Speaker 3: Tylero, though, is one of the most underrated coaches in
Speaker 3: the league. If anyone on earth could make this work,
Speaker 3: I think it's him.
Speaker 2: First up.
Speaker 3: Zachlow said this on his podcast The Russell Westbrook Tylero
Speaker 3: talked about yesterday, He's gonna have the ball in his hands.
Speaker 3: He's mister t double. Those comments frankly shocked me. And
Speaker 3: if that's their vision for what he's gonna be, this
Speaker 3: qualifies as one of the biggest late season gambles in
Speaker 3: the history of the NBA.
Speaker 2: Zach Wows facts. That is right.
Speaker 3: And then here's another thing that people always say too,
Speaker 3: Russell Westbrook's.
Speaker 2: Come off the ball before.
Speaker 3: If if I hear that another fucking time, they are
Speaker 3: trying to gaslight us. We have seen it year after
Speaker 3: year after year, and yet we keep hearing Russell Westbrook
Speaker 3: can play off ball.
Speaker 2: What is Russell Westbrook gonna do off ball? Besides just
Speaker 2: stand there in the corner. What is he gonna do?
Speaker 3: What is he going to do? Is he gonna move
Speaker 3: without the ball. People tell me that he knows how,
Speaker 3: People tell me that he can. I don't think so,
Speaker 3: but Tyleru has pushed all of his chips into the middle.
Speaker 3: It is to me fascinating. People are banging on the
Speaker 3: Clippers for trading Reggie Jackson and John Wall, but the.
Speaker 2: Stats, really they were a disaster.
Speaker 3: They were Reggie Jackson or Wall when paired with either
Speaker 3: Kawhi or Paul George had the highest net rating of
Speaker 3: any of those combos was plus one and the lowest
Speaker 3: was negative ten. Keep in mind Kawhi and Paul George
Speaker 3: together have a net rating of plus ten, so they
Speaker 3: needed to do something Terrence Man they were already doing.
Speaker 3: They get Eric Gordon, which that helps them a ton,
Speaker 3: I believe. But then you say, well, we're buying Russ.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're getting russ on like nothing, so we
Speaker 3: might as well see if he's classic triple double.
Speaker 2: Russ or six Man of the Year Russ.
Speaker 3: It can't be worse than John Wall, right, can't be
Speaker 3: worse than Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 2: What right? And they're right, John Wall was a disaster.
Speaker 3: He's fucking terrible. And Russell Westbrook as six Man of
Speaker 3: the Year was incredible. This year and it shows us.
Speaker 3: Now we're going to see this is where the rubber
Speaker 3: hits the road. The number one thing that this is
Speaker 3: going to do is tell us, Tyler, what you got?
Speaker 2: What are you made of? Are you elite like we
Speaker 2: know you are?
Speaker 3: Or have you been blessed with Kawhi Leonard and Paul
Speaker 3: George and Lebron James and Kyrie Irving and Nick Batoon.
Speaker 2: I'm joking about Nick patob uh. But the Russ.
Speaker 3: Experiment is going to show us everything that we need
Speaker 3: to know. If you can make russwork on this team, TYLERU,
Speaker 3: you are going to be a legend, not just in
Speaker 3: the LA, not just in the NBA, but it also
Speaker 3: will make the Clippers the most dangerous team in the West.
Speaker 2: Yes, I said it. Moving on a little tea for
Speaker 2: the fans. I love the tea. I love Kevin Love tea.
Speaker 3: The whole Kevin Love saga in Cleveland has been many
Speaker 3: years long and it has now come to a close,
Speaker 3: which I think is a little sad because you were
Speaker 3: just wondering when it was gonna bubble and boil over
Speaker 3: like it did a couple of years ago. The biggest
Speaker 3: name on the buyout market next to us. He has
Speaker 3: exited stage South South Beach. He is now a Miami Heat.
Speaker 3: I thought Kevin Love and Rubio were tight. I thought
Speaker 3: that was the reason that Rubio came back to the Calves. Actually,
Speaker 3: guess not. Things change fast. It tells you everything you
Speaker 3: need to know about any organization is that, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, four months later, after you make a move
Speaker 3: like shit can go sideways quick on the surface.
Speaker 2: The exit.
Speaker 3: The breakup that they supposedly had was a love affair,
Speaker 3: flowery posts, ig reels, I.
Speaker 2: Love you, I love you. No, I love you more.
Speaker 3: Kiss kiss, kiss.
Speaker 2: You mean so much to me. No, he means more
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 3: Kevin said he'll never forget all the memories he made
Speaker 3: in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: He'll always have love in the heart of the city. YadA, YadA, YadA. Right,
Speaker 2: happy ending, happy ending. No, not so fast.
Speaker 3: Kevin Love and the Calves, apparently, according to new reporting,
Speaker 3: might not be as friendly as they are pretending to be.
Speaker 2: Rumor out of Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Say that the Cavs were like, we gotta get this
Speaker 3: guy out of here. We are motivated to make something
Speaker 3: happen and doing something that they had no interest in
Speaker 3: doing before, which is buying out his enormous contract.
Speaker 2: So why is that?
Speaker 3: Well, according to this reporting, they were worried Kevin Love
Speaker 3: was gonna go ape shit basically like he has done
Speaker 3: in the past. Do you remember Kevin Love at Kevin
Speaker 3: Love's peak of anger with the Cleveland Cavaliers organization. Do
Speaker 3: you remember when he chucked the ball at his teammate
Speaker 3: during an actual game? Do you remember when he was
Speaker 3: in a game and refused to shoot even when wide
Speaker 3: open for an entire regular season game? Do you remember
Speaker 3: that that was really funny? Do you remember you just
Speaker 3: like he would be in the corner, wide open, and
Speaker 3: then he would just pass. Do you remember he he
Speaker 3: passed to no one and like just like literally just
Speaker 3: a laying violation when they were down four points and
Speaker 3: they ended up losing the game. Or what about all
Speaker 3: the times that he went after Colin Sexton? Do you
Speaker 3: remember that? Like that year was bad Sexton here was
Speaker 3: a bad one. So they were afraid of that Kevin
Speaker 3: Love like not kissy Kissy Ricky Rubio LoveFest corner three,
Speaker 3: Kevin Love. No, they were worried about salty end of
Speaker 3: the bench rotation going nowhere Kevin Love, and they informed
Speaker 3: him Hey, we know you sprained your finger thumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not gonna be on the floor for the
Speaker 2: rest of the year.
Speaker 3: Now, we've got some young guns, We've got things too
Speaker 3: good going on to be messing up the vibe to
Speaker 3: be you know, ain't no love in the heart of
Speaker 3: the city kind of thing. Ain't no love in the
Speaker 3: heart of the basketball court. And so there he was like, well,
Speaker 3: you gotta get me the fuck up out of here.
Speaker 3: Then so off he goes to Miami. He is now
Speaker 3: going to be playing probably next game, and the tea
Speaker 3: is like a jaded X after all those flowery posts
Speaker 3: and reels and whatever, when no one was looking in
Speaker 3: the dark of the night, Kevin.
Speaker 2: Love posted Drake lyrics on his Instagram.
Speaker 3: These grown men doing little girl things is like my
Speaker 3: favorite part of the NBA.
Speaker 2: Like this, there's a couple of these in this episode.
Speaker 2: But who posts Drake.
Speaker 3: Lyrics to your Instagram unless you're Lebron James. Honestly, unless
Speaker 3: you're Lebron James, you can't really do that without me
Speaker 3: just burning you up. So he post this tables turn bridges,
Speaker 3: burn you live and learn. Tell you what doesn't sound
Speaker 3: like it was all hearts and flowers. Kevin Love better
Speaker 3: be on his best behavior in Miami. The Heat don't
Speaker 3: play when it comes to Heat culture. You can you
Speaker 3: can fight, you can yell, you can throw a ball,
Speaker 3: but you better not throw a massage gun or you're
Speaker 3: gonna be fucking out in San Antonio on your ass.
Speaker 3: Added to that, Kevin Love said that Miami has breathed
Speaker 3: new life into him. So I want to see the
Speaker 3: Calves play the Heat in the playoffs. I can't wait.
Speaker 2: And as for the Calves, they asked Jared.
Speaker 3: Allen like, hey, did you know Kevin Love had been
Speaker 3: bought out? And he says, I was not aware. I
Speaker 3: was told he was going for milk and cigarettes just
Speaker 3: never came back. Perfect description of the end of the
Speaker 3: Kevin Love era in Cleveland. That's all the time that
Speaker 3: we have for this episode of The Heat Check. Check
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