Speaker 1: If you're tuned into Heat Check with Tristal Quick on
Speaker 1: this episode of The Heat Check. So football season's basically over,
Speaker 1: so it's time to get you caught up on what's
Speaker 1: been going on when you've been sitting there dealing with
Speaker 1: fantasy watching playoffs, and fill you in on all the
Speaker 1: things you might have missed. It's also trade deadline season,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna update you on the best trade rumors.
Speaker 1: I also have to mention this end of the Celtics
Speaker 1: Lakers game where Lebron James do the biggest tantrum I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life, and it was hilarious. Also
Speaker 1: potential bad news for our tubes. Too much happening around
Speaker 1: the league. Next to do me a favor, drop that
Speaker 1: generic ass beat. Alright, so let's get into it. I
Speaker 1: know you've been watching football. I know you haven't been
Speaker 1: watching the NBA. I know it. There's lots of games
Speaker 1: going on on Saturday and Sunday. Did you watch any
Speaker 1: of them? No, I know you didn't. It's fine. I
Speaker 1: didn't either, but I did watch him after the fact.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to start the episode with some fun facts,
Speaker 1: some things that may shock you or surprise you. Or
Speaker 1: delight you. In doing my research and getting ready for
Speaker 1: this episode, not a lot of time to get into
Speaker 1: him deeply, so we're just gonna go through them line
Speaker 1: by line, step by step, day by day. Number one,
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. Currently. You may not know this. A lot
Speaker 1: of people think Kawhi Leonard is washed. Kawi Leonard is
Speaker 1: currently the best player in the third best player in
Speaker 1: the NBA over the last two weeks. Yeah he is.
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty nine points per game on fifty eight
Speaker 1: percent from the field, forty four percent from three, and
Speaker 1: ninety percent from free throw in the last eight games.
Speaker 1: That's what his shooting splits are. He's also averaging one
Speaker 1: and a half steals per game and a half of
Speaker 1: a block during that time period as well. So just
Speaker 1: a fun fact for the Clippers, which is why they're
Speaker 1: searching Aunt. Edwards has become from ant man to superman
Speaker 1: as well. He's averaging thirty a game as well, fifty
Speaker 1: percent from the field, forty four percent from three, eighty
Speaker 1: four percent from the free throw line. He has two
Speaker 1: steals per game, so he's actually currently better than Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard almost a block per game two and then as
Speaker 1: a result. The Minnesota Timberwolves. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know this, but they're actually good again. They're up on
Speaker 1: the standings above the play in version above going to
Speaker 1: the play in tournament. They are seven and three in
Speaker 1: their last ten. They are cooking without Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: and do not look now. They are currently fifth place
Speaker 1: in the West, fifth in the West, and in the
Speaker 1: month of January, if you look at their wins, oh,
Speaker 1: they're probably playing cupcake teams, right, they're probably playing teams
Speaker 1: that want a tank. No. In the month of January,
Speaker 1: they've beaten the Nuggets, the Clippers, the Cavaliers, the Nuggets,
Speaker 1: I said that already, Grizzlies and Kings all top four teams.
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. The Pelicans, we move on. They are horrible
Speaker 1: right now. They currently are not very good. They've gone
Speaker 1: from second in the West to eighth in the West
Speaker 1: in a split second time. They've lost eight in a row.
Speaker 1: Herb Jones has missed sixteen games out of fifty one.
Speaker 1: BI now has missed twenty two games. He's finally back,
Speaker 1: but is he back? Zion has missed twenty two games.
Speaker 1: Don't know what's going on with them? But they probably
Speaker 1: need to make a move at the deadline. Sixers. Sixers
Speaker 1: currently the best team in basketball. Yeah, and Beat has
Speaker 1: gone from fifteen to one to win the MVP to
Speaker 1: now just just shy of three to one. He's currently
Speaker 1: second in MVP power rankings. That is how dominant Embate
Speaker 1: has been, and that's how good the Sixers have been
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. The Wizards, and I mean this,
Speaker 1: I mean this in the best possible way. The Wizards
Speaker 1: are actually something that you can talk about on this show.
Speaker 1: The Wizards. They have won their last five. They've traded
Speaker 1: ruy Ha Chi Muren somehow got better in the five
Speaker 1: game win streak that they have had. The Wizards are
Speaker 1: top ten offensively they are ninth and top ten defensively
Speaker 1: they are seventh. They are shockingly a ninth place right now,
Speaker 1: even though I thought that they might be tanking, and
Speaker 1: they are one team that thinks that they are a
Speaker 1: piece away for making some sort of playoff run. That's
Speaker 1: where we're at. The Pacers, who we love good fun
Speaker 1: story Tyrese Haliburton ballin. They are atrocious. Currently. They are
Speaker 1: one to nine in their last ten, which is the
Speaker 1: worst in the NBA during that timeframe, and that happens
Speaker 1: to coincide exactly with Tyre's Halliburton's injury. Of their nine losses,
Speaker 1: they are losing by an average of thirteen points. So
Speaker 1: if you are a gambling person, a betting person, whatever,
Speaker 1: keep that in mind when you're thinking about playing or fading.
Speaker 1: The Indiana Pacers. Bad stuff pretty much more important to
Speaker 1: his team than almost anybody else. The Bucks, who have
Speaker 1: been terrible all of a sudden, are hot. They are
Speaker 1: currently blowing teams out. Since Chris Middleton got back. Since
Speaker 1: he arrived back from injury, things offensively clicking. They have
Speaker 1: scored over one hundred and thirty five points in three
Speaker 1: of their last four games. They scored one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty against the Pistons, Giannis back to scoring fifty again.
Speaker 1: Their demise greatly exaggerated. The Raptors are in such disarray
Speaker 1: there are now reports that Nick Nurse could be on
Speaker 1: the hot seat. They are talking about trading everyone three
Speaker 1: other five starters, Fred van Fleet, Gary Trent Ojannobi. The
Speaker 1: latest is that oj Annobe might be going to the Suns,
Speaker 1: which would be something which probably means DeAndre Ayton is
Speaker 1: going to the Raptors, and I thought they probably save
Speaker 1: their season for maybe a week or two, and now
Speaker 1: they haven't, and now Nick again on the hot seat.
Speaker 1: Current news from Sean Sharana. There are Jaron Jackson conspiracies
Speaker 1: brewing around the Reddit realm. There are reckless claims about
Speaker 1: his stats being padded at home because I guess scorekeepers
Speaker 1: are being influenced by the Deep State or something. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. There were highlights that were put out on Twitter,
Speaker 1: there were extra scrutiny in that game. And what did
Speaker 1: Jaron Jackson decide to do in that game when those
Speaker 1: extra eyeballs were there at the crib? Have a block party?
Speaker 1: Just defending recklessly currently minus two hundred to win Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. And finally, the part that's much
Speaker 1: more interesting to me than almost any other is that
Speaker 1: the Kings are so good, they are so hot, that
Speaker 1: a fan base that hasn't seen the playoffs in over
Speaker 1: fifteen years expect them to win every game. They want
Speaker 1: to riot in the streets when they lose games that
Speaker 1: they probably should or must or can lose. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: believe that they should win every every single game. Now,
Speaker 1: that's where the fan base is at that's how good
Speaker 1: the Kings are sending atop the West with just one
Speaker 1: football game left on the schedule. We're about to enter
Speaker 1: full NBA season, so that's gonna run from the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl through June and the end of the Final. So
Speaker 1: now that you're all caught up what's happening around the league,
Speaker 1: don't miss another episode because things are gonna get crazy
Speaker 1: very very soon.