Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. On this
Speaker 1: episode of the Heat Check, we're heading to the All
Speaker 1: Star Break, Yes we are. There is a lot popping
Speaker 1: around the league. I'm going to break down the latest
Speaker 1: names on the buy out market, Kevin Love and what
Speaker 1: that might mean we finally get around actually giving Mark
Speaker 1: Danielle some love. People don't even know who that is.
Speaker 1: People who watch it the NBA don't even know who
Speaker 1: Mark Danielle is, maybe even some of his players and
Speaker 1: much more. It's All Star week, Nick, Do me a favor.
Speaker 1: This might be the last episode until we get back.
Speaker 1: Do me a favor and drop that motherfucker beat. So
Speaker 1: the All Star Game is scheduled for Salt Lake City
Speaker 1: this Sunday. The weekend starts today Tomorrow, Tomorrow Friday, Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 1: And I've got to say I'm usually very excited for
Speaker 1: the All Star Break, one for myself and two I
Speaker 1: like the festivities, and it seems this year that it's
Speaker 1: just maybe it's just call me someone who's not a
Speaker 1: huge fan of Utah, but I'm just kind of mah
Speaker 1: on it had the opportunity to go stay for free,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, I'm good. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stay home. The weather in Utah isn't the only thing
Speaker 1: that's keeping me from going, but I think a lot
Speaker 1: of it does have to do with the fact that
Speaker 1: it's being held in Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital
Speaker 1: of the world. I don't even know if I can
Speaker 1: get a chai latte there. Also, it's the week after
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this time, so let's be honest, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of tired, and I think we need a full
Speaker 1: week in between super Bowl and All Star like they
Speaker 1: did it in the good old days. The timing this year,
Speaker 1: to me, is slightly off. It's a little old quick.
Speaker 1: To just jump right in the All Star break as
Speaker 1: soon as the Super Bowl is over is just a
Speaker 1: little too much for me particularly, And I don't want
Speaker 1: to be a downer about it, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to just hate on it because I love the NBA.
Speaker 1: But the final straw for me, this was it because
Speaker 1: I had one thing, and one thing alone I was
Speaker 1: excited for, and that was T Mac Baby T Mac himself,
Speaker 1: Shade and Sharp participating in the dunk contest. And you
Speaker 1: know what, I was juiced. I was singing it from
Speaker 1: the rooftops. Shade in Shade Din, little baby Kobe, little
Speaker 1: baby t Mac gonna go out and rip everybody's throats out.
Speaker 1: And you know what, all of a sudden, he just
Speaker 1: decides for no good reason. He said it had something
Speaker 1: to do with the integrity and like commitments to his team.
Speaker 1: Now that he's getting more minutes because Josh Hart got
Speaker 1: traded or something, he said he's pulling out for team
Speaker 1: commitment reasons. What the fuck does that mean? Everybody's got
Speaker 1: a meant to their team. You're in thirteenth. Wait, let's look,
Speaker 1: let's look really fast NBA standings. I can't even look
Speaker 1: at so gross on a day to day basis. Sir,
Speaker 1: you're in twelve place in the West. You should be
Speaker 1: in the Dunk Contest. Do you remember when Anthony Simon's
Speaker 1: was in the Dunk Contest? And what it was that
Speaker 1: last year? Again, another tanking team. Do you think you
Speaker 1: guys are coming out of the doldrums to some sort
Speaker 1: of semblance of a playing team. Get out of here,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And then that might actually be the nail
Speaker 1: on the coffin for it as a whole, because you
Speaker 1: know who they brought in for Shade and sharp, No
Speaker 1: shade to him. Good kid, mac McClung, Get the fuck,
Speaker 1: get this shit out of here. Man. Mac McClung's like,
Speaker 1: what six', one he's a high. Flyer The philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: Six ers brought him up from THE G league just
Speaker 1: so he could wear a seventy six ers. Jersey what are?
Speaker 1: We what are we? Doing what are we? Doing? Now
Speaker 1: there's like, Chatter we talked about it on my Social
Speaker 1: why don't we just why don't we just stop this?
Speaker 1: Noise why don't we just bring professional dunkers in and
Speaker 1: see what they can? Do these guys. Don't they're not
Speaker 1: committed to the grind of the dunk. Contest, No like
Speaker 1: they're just happen to be good at. It joh just
Speaker 1: happens to be. Good Aunt edwards just happens to be.
Speaker 1: Good shaden just happens to be. Good they're not like
Speaker 1: everybody Loves chris On, TikTok who can do every dunk
Speaker 1: underneath the, sun on every surface underneath the. Sun bring him,
Speaker 1: in bring his homies in. Anyway dunkademics has a whole
Speaker 1: account full of dudes you could just pick. Out give
Speaker 1: a million dollar prize to whoever wins the Dunk contest
Speaker 1: and make it a thing. Anyway three Point, contest, however
Speaker 1: might be lit this. Year look at the Lineup Tyrese,
Speaker 1: Halliburton Tyler, Hero Buddy, Healed Kevin, Herder Dame, Time Laurie,
Speaker 1: Marknen Julius, randall And Jason. Tatum the only thing missing
Speaker 1: is Car Anthony, towns but he's hurt as, usual And Stephen.
Speaker 1: CLAY i have a ton of love For Damian lillard,
Speaker 1: here BUT i think these young guns are gonna want
Speaker 1: to put on a. Show does anybody love to shoot
Speaker 1: at volume more Than Buddy? Healed, NO i don't think anybody.
Speaker 1: Does that's why he has the shortest odds to win
Speaker 1: the whole damn thing at plus four twenty. Five Buddy
Speaker 1: heald is gonna shoot and shoot some. More he is
Speaker 1: a great catch and shoot. Shooter and you Got kings
Speaker 1: Getting Kavon, Herder Red velvet in. There probably the best
Speaker 1: part Of All Star weekend right here is the three
Speaker 1: Point contest and it takes about forty. Minutes as for
Speaker 1: the game, ITSELF i have some. THOUGHTS i think there
Speaker 1: are going to be players who are in very separate.
Speaker 1: Camps you've got one, camp which IS i am here
Speaker 1: at The All star break and it is an incredible,
Speaker 1: Accolade BUT i have no interest in actually putting any
Speaker 1: effort thus fourth into the game. ITSELF i am here
Speaker 1: to party and bullshit and party and. Bullshit there's a
Speaker 1: lot of, those. Right and then there are guys who,
Speaker 1: SAY i do not. CARE i want to win Anything i'm.
Speaker 1: At i'm going to put my full effort. In i'm
Speaker 1: going to play like this a playoff. GAME I am
Speaker 1: not trying to get embarrassed out. Here so who are
Speaker 1: the players most likely to mail it in during The
Speaker 1: All Star? Game, well number one culprit on this, list
Speaker 1: very very specifically big culprit like hasn't even hit it
Speaker 1: in any. Way Nikola Jokic nikolai okicch wants nothing to
Speaker 1: do with The All Star. Game he plays almost no.
Speaker 1: Minutes he's averaging six point eight points per game and
Speaker 1: his Four All star. APPEARANCES i if you can get
Speaker 1: player props On Nikola, JOKICIC i would hammer the Under
Speaker 1: he is not doing a goddamn. Thing he's eating and
Speaker 1: he's drinking and he's kicking. It he's already said, that
Speaker 1: AND i don't have any business doing. Anything plus he's
Speaker 1: a Big we're gonna get a lot of players who
Speaker 1: are guards trying to get their. Shine number, two let's be.
Speaker 1: HONEST i hate to say, IT i really do BECAUSE
Speaker 1: i love, him But John moran is coming to. Party
Speaker 1: he's not coming to do anything else but to enjoy
Speaker 1: the festivities of the. Event and now he's got his teammate,
Speaker 1: There Jaron jackson in his very First All star. Appearance
Speaker 1: did you See? Jaws video From Instagram live last? Year
Speaker 1: it was just tequila shot after tequila shot after tequila.
Speaker 1: SHOT i would be more inclined to bet That Jah
Speaker 1: moran will get into a fight At All Star game
Speaker 1: than he will be THE mvp of The All Star.
Speaker 1: GAME i know that one is much more likely than the.
Speaker 1: Other he had six points in eighteen minutes last. Year so,
Speaker 1: Yeah number Three. Luca luca's doing. Nothing. Luca we already
Speaker 1: know What luca wants to do when it's not time
Speaker 1: to play, significant serious. Basketball he, Chills he. Chills he's
Speaker 1: gonna tell whoever his coach, Is hey put me in
Speaker 1: for four or five, minutes And i'm just gonna. CHILL
Speaker 1: i got an ankle. Injury our team's not doing that.
Speaker 1: Great i'm trying to participate With. Kyrie me And kyrie
Speaker 1: might have like a little two man, game But i'm
Speaker 1: out let him have the. Shine he's there for the,
Speaker 1: spectacle not to put in. Buckets number. Four most player
Speaker 1: most likely to mail it in And i'm fine with
Speaker 1: it Is Joel. EMBIID i don't even Think joel And
Speaker 1: BID's gonna. Play why he, SAID i haven't been healthy
Speaker 1: for three. Weeks i've just been trying to get to
Speaker 1: The All star break and figure it. Out he said
Speaker 1: he should have rested two weeks. Ago he averages twenty
Speaker 1: two to ten and two when he's not banged. Up
Speaker 1: he is very banged up right. Now on the flip
Speaker 1: side of the, coin there are going to be players
Speaker 1: who are, tryhards absolutely try their very hardest to get a,
Speaker 1: dub to show, out to jack up, threes to dunk
Speaker 1: all these. Things number, one here's my top five players
Speaker 1: most likely to try their very hardest and to ball
Speaker 1: out in The All Star. Game number One. Yannis yannis
Speaker 1: loves The All Star. Game you Bring giannis's brothers, there
Speaker 1: you would think that would make him more likely to
Speaker 1: party in. Bullshit, no it is him more likely to
Speaker 1: show out for his family because that is Who yannis.
Speaker 1: Is he wants the ball in his hands at all.
Speaker 1: Times he's going to shoot a million. Threes he is
Speaker 1: going to, dunk he is going to block. Shots he's
Speaker 1: going to be. Everywhere he averages twenty nine nine to
Speaker 1: four in The All Star. Game that is. Ridiculous he
Speaker 1: is YOUR mvp front runner for, sure number, two and
Speaker 1: this is all predicated on who's getting. Minutes If Aunt
Speaker 1: edwards gets, minutes he's dunking on people's faces all day.
Speaker 1: Long he is going to do whatever he can to show.
Speaker 1: Out he is going to try to block, shots steal
Speaker 1: get out into try. Transition he didn't think he was
Speaker 1: playing well enough to make The All star, team so
Speaker 1: he is going to show the voters why they made
Speaker 1: the right decision to let him in as an injury.
Speaker 1: Replacement number Three Dame. Lillard number three Is Dame. Lillard
Speaker 1: he is another front runner For All STAR. Mvp no
Speaker 1: steph to stop him from shooting from thirty every single.
Speaker 1: Time if he plays on the same team As. Lebron
Speaker 1: lebron's going to pass The dame all day every day
Speaker 1: because you know what time it. Is he had thirty
Speaker 1: two that last time that he played in twenty. One
Speaker 1: shay another likely candidate to ball. Out this is a
Speaker 1: guy who does not get enough. Shine if he gets the,
Speaker 1: minutes he is going to want to show. OUT i
Speaker 1: don't think he's got any other gear than to ball
Speaker 1: the fuck. OUT i just. Don't he drives like thirty
Speaker 1: times a. Game you think he's gonna stop doing that
Speaker 1: in The All Star. GAME i do. Not number five
Speaker 1: most likely to ball out and to try hard in
Speaker 1: The All Star game Dearon. Fox he operates at mock
Speaker 1: ten at all. Times he is A Sacramento. King he
Speaker 1: is doing this for The beam. Team how long is
Speaker 1: the fan base gone without seeing A sacramental king in
Speaker 1: The All Star. Game he's, young he's fresh off of
Speaker 1: having a. Baby that fatherhood juice is running through his.
Speaker 1: VEINS i would pick some bonus to ball, out but
Speaker 1: he has a hand, Injury so number one on That
Speaker 1: Sacramento kings. Team he's going to show out for him
Speaker 1: and his. Teammate and like last, year probably the most
Speaker 1: exciting thing About Austro weekend is The Rising Stars. Game
Speaker 1: unfortunately everything else is kind Of players are going to
Speaker 1: be all stars soon want to get some. Shine they
Speaker 1: want to show the. World, HEY i am good. Too
Speaker 1: here are the. Teams there are four of. Them there
Speaker 1: Are Team Deron. Williams by the, way these team, COACHES
Speaker 1: i don't even know how THE nba chose. Him we
Speaker 1: Got Deron, Williams we Got Jokim, noah we Got Pow.
Speaker 1: Gasol and you might Say Team jason is that white?
Speaker 1: Chocolate no Is Jason. Terry who chose these? Captains? Who
Speaker 1: why they do? That? ANYWAY i. Digress So Deron williams's
Speaker 1: team Has Jalen, green Aj Griffin Bones. Hyland, wow this
Speaker 1: is a team for the. Chuckers Walker, kessler WHO i,
Speaker 1: Love Trey murphy another, Chucker Olprin shangoon another. Chucker Franz
Speaker 1: wagner another. Chucker Wow Wow. Wow this should be a
Speaker 1: fun team to watch play offense not. Defense Yo Keem
Speaker 1: noah's team we Got Jalen, Duran Josh, Giddy Quinton, Grimes Evan,
Speaker 1: Mobley Jabari, Smith Jeremy, sohan And Jalen. WILLIAMS i Think
Speaker 1: Joe Kiem noah got the best interesting. Team he's Got Josh,
Speaker 1: Giddy he's Got Quentin grimes and the, guards along With
Speaker 1: Jalen duran And Evan mobley in the. Middle this is
Speaker 1: the most, Like, okay this is a real basketball, Team,
Speaker 1: like this is a team you could actually see playing competitive.
Speaker 1: Hoops you add In Jeremy, sohan who's a defender and
Speaker 1: is shooting some better uh with his new one handed.
Speaker 1: Situation you Got Jalen williams with the. E this team
Speaker 1: shit ball. Out Pal gasol his, Team Jose, Alvarado paolo Ben,
Speaker 1: Caro Scottie, Barnes jade And. Ivy did he choose? These Benedict,
Speaker 1: Mathern Keegan murray And Andrew Nemhart probably the most talented
Speaker 1: team out of all four by. Far these guys athletically
Speaker 1: in their own, way. Elite palo obviously a. Monster Scotty
Speaker 1: barnes can do a million. Things Jose alvarado is gonna
Speaker 1: get under your skin and try very hard the entire.
Speaker 1: Time he's gonna go one hundred miles a. Minute jade N,
Speaker 1: ivy we already know what time it. Is With Jaye,
Speaker 1: Nivy he's like just gonna chuck and do these crazy
Speaker 1: jawl like. Things Benedict mathrin' same Deal Keig murray's gonna
Speaker 1: try to calm the team. Down write simmrom, down, guys,
Speaker 1: like we just just play our, defense stay in. Ourselves
Speaker 1: Keig murray is gonna be the dad of the. Group
Speaker 1: and Then Andrew, nemhard who knows why he's. There he's been,
Speaker 1: okay but WHO i honestly don't know why he was
Speaker 1: Chosen No, shade but HONESTLY i don't. Know and Then
Speaker 1: Team Jason, terry which is THE G league. Team, Guys
Speaker 1: i'm not even going to mention all of them because
Speaker 1: you don't know who they. Are the top Names Scoot,
Speaker 1: Henderson mac, McClung Kenny Lofton junior wild, Choice Scottie Pippen Junior,
Speaker 1: okay just a very fascinating team OF G league dudes
Speaker 1: who want to prove to the assembled lottery picks. Josel
Speaker 1: verado not included that they belong. There Scoot henderson specifically
Speaker 1: wants to show he should be the number one overall. Pick,
Speaker 1: yeah this is the high highlight of The All star.
Speaker 1: Weekend it's gonna get, chippy it's gonna get. Fun we'll
Speaker 1: be to recap the weekend's, festivities but the truth of
Speaker 1: the matter. IS i have never been more underwhelmed by
Speaker 1: An All star weekend in my. LIFE i might not
Speaker 1: even watch IF i didn't have to bet it didn't
Speaker 1: have to. Work there's nothing of value there that we can.
Speaker 1: Take it's not, like, oh, hey you missed The All Star.
Speaker 1: Game you're not a REAL nba. Person that's just not.
Speaker 1: True onto the news from around the league on week,
Speaker 1: SO i was so happy For Kevin love and his
Speaker 1: rider died Partner Ricky rubio coming back to The cleveland Count.
Speaker 1: LAIRS i was so excited for that duo to continue
Speaker 1: their reign In. Cleveland and then all of a, Sudden
Speaker 1: Kevin love gets injured and and, now in a very surprising,
Speaker 1: Move kevaliers And Kevin love are negotiating a. Biout WHAT i,
Speaker 1: mean it is not shocking that he would get a,
Speaker 1: Buyout it is just shocking that the buyout comes. Now
Speaker 1: he has been on This calves team SINCE i was
Speaker 1: not even in the. BUSINESS i was selling mutual funds
Speaker 1: When Kevin love got traded to The Cleveland. Cavaliers he
Speaker 1: has seen his playing time drop from twenty minutes a
Speaker 1: game to half that and now twelve straight. DMPs i
Speaker 1: don't know if it's. INJURY i don't know if it's, like,
Speaker 1: hey we're just gonna let you ice your knees for a.
Speaker 1: While BUT i don't think it's acrimonious or bad blood at.
Speaker 1: ALL i think it's more just the realization That Kevin
Speaker 1: love would like to play somewhere else and what he's
Speaker 1: going to, do which is play on the, perimeter does
Speaker 1: not necessarily fit with the calves are always trying to,
Speaker 1: do especially since they Have Donovan mitchell Now Darius. Garland
Speaker 1: they got some young guys that want to give some
Speaker 1: minutes to And Kevin love doesn't necessarily fit into that.
Speaker 1: Mode BUT i don't think actually means That Kevin love
Speaker 1: can't be. Useful in the first twelve games of the,
Speaker 1: Season Kevin love averaged, twelve eight and two and twenty one.
Speaker 1: Minutes teams are gonna be excited to get him in a.
Speaker 1: Way it's it's kind of. Sad this is the end
Speaker 1: of an, era, Right it's the end of The Lebron james.
Speaker 1: Era he was the only vestige of the strive for
Speaker 1: greatness In cleveland, era and by all, accounts everyone has
Speaker 1: ever always Said Kevin love is a great teammate except
Speaker 1: for that one little like four week span where he
Speaker 1: was like throwing basketballs at his teammates and like not
Speaker 1: playing when they were. Playing do you remember that there
Speaker 1: was a time Where Kevin love was quiet. Quitting outside
Speaker 1: of that, time he's been. Tremendous according To, shams The
Speaker 1: Miami heat are lurking for, him and they probably aren't
Speaker 1: really someone that could actually get. Him this is kind
Speaker 1: of like when you break up and you've got a
Speaker 1: long time friend and they've got a crush on you
Speaker 1: and you have no feelings back for, them and they
Speaker 1: think just because you're, single now they have a. Shot
Speaker 1: The Miami heat do not have a shot With Kevin
Speaker 1: love at, All, like no. Shot they Are Miami. Heat
Speaker 1: you are in the friend. ZONE i am. Sorry sean's
Speaker 1: reported have been told The heat are prioritizing something big
Speaker 1: Over Russell westbrook Or Patrick. Beverley So Kevin love Or
Speaker 1: Serge ibaka appear to be. Priorities, Okay, well you prioritize
Speaker 1: and he'll prioritize and we'll see where that leaves. You
Speaker 1: makes sense though from a basketball, perspective he was shooting
Speaker 1: forty one percent from three in the first fifth of the.
Speaker 1: Season he can pull down. Rebounds we know that's what
Speaker 1: he does really. Well he's a rebound, monster both things
Speaker 1: that The heat need. Desperately they're bad at both of.
Speaker 1: Those outside of Say Jimmy butler and Bam Ada bio,
Speaker 1: REGARDLESS i like that this is a bio where it's.
Speaker 1: Nice this is, nice peaceful On you, know you see
Speaker 1: things get a little ugly down the stretch with, buyouts
Speaker 1: same things that's gonna probably happen with say like A
Speaker 1: Russell westbrook Or john wall In houston that got. Ugly
Speaker 1: the RETURN i thought Of Ricky rubio gave me some.
Speaker 1: Hope but now it is time to take his game
Speaker 1: to another contender and That the latest rumors are that
Speaker 1: The warriors are interested In. Love that makes, sense they've
Speaker 1: never found a replacement For bilica Or Otto. Porter but
Speaker 1: the wild thing is that if he does sign with The,
Speaker 1: heat that might mean A Calves heat first round. Matchup
Speaker 1: and if that does, HAPPEN i Think Kevin love does
Speaker 1: go off for one game against The. Calves especially if
Speaker 1: you're A cavs, FAN i think you have to be
Speaker 1: fearful of that because the universe is always. Undefeated moving,
Speaker 1: ON i guess it was bound to. Happen but our
Speaker 1: Favorite bible, thumper our favorite holy water, whisper our favorite,
Speaker 1: Summersalter Joe missoula was officially named The celtics head coach
Speaker 1: permanently On thursday. Morning even if it's, deserved which Like
Speaker 1: i'm not here to say yay or nay on, that
Speaker 1: but like it's. Weird it's. Weird i'm confused because the
Speaker 1: REASON i had heard that they didn't announce him already
Speaker 1: the permanent head coach is because they would have to
Speaker 1: fire Emy. Udoka you already have a current head. Coach
Speaker 1: he can't have two current head. Coaches you have one
Speaker 1: current head coach who is, suspended so the other ones
Speaker 1: in interim until you figure out what to do with
Speaker 1: the one that's. Suspended but it's really, done, Right so
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Now there's intricacies here THAT i
Speaker 1: am not able to. COMPREHEND i THOUGHT i may at
Speaker 1: this point was still suspended UNLESS i miss. Something are
Speaker 1: they firing him for? Costs is that the next domino to?
Speaker 1: FALL i couldn't find any information that he's on the.
Speaker 1: Website Hemy udoka still on the website right, now like
Speaker 1: this very Second numerous sources reported that The celtics did
Speaker 1: a bunch of due diligence before Suspending udoka to protect
Speaker 1: themselves from a wrongful termination. Lawsuits so what happens? Next
Speaker 1: that's why they didn't fire. Him they did not want
Speaker 1: to get. SUED i imagine that there is going to
Speaker 1: be an announcement happening about udoka status, soon and the
Speaker 1: rumors are that most Likely udoka might go back To San.
Speaker 1: Antonio congratulations To Joe. Miszula god was on your. Side
Speaker 1: he always was willing to move mountains in order for
Speaker 1: you to be in the. Spot your time is. Here.
Speaker 1: Now it is time for you to serve out Your
Speaker 1: lord And savior's, purpose which is to get These, celtics
Speaker 1: WHICH i think is like An Irish catholic, thing a
Speaker 1: championship Ring. Joe i'm sure he is doing somersaults in
Speaker 1: the locker room right now and he will be for
Speaker 1: many many. Years we don't talk enough about THE okac,
Speaker 1: thunder do. We we don't really say. Much they are
Speaker 1: the most fun team that gets under, discussed mostly BECAUSE
Speaker 1: i think we're still waiting for them to. Tank we're
Speaker 1: still waiting for them to do. Nothing and also in,
Speaker 1: particular nobody speaks about their head coach BECAUSE i don't
Speaker 1: think they know what his name. IS i don't think
Speaker 1: they know how to pronounce. IT i don't think they
Speaker 1: know what he looks. Like, honestly if you were to
Speaker 1: say to fifty decently casual to SERIOUS nba fans who
Speaker 1: the head coach of THE Okac thunder, WAS i bet
Speaker 1: you four would say they knew who it, was and
Speaker 1: they and about two would get it. RIGHT i think
Speaker 1: there's no more under the radar coach Than Mark dugnall Dag.
Speaker 1: No it's hard to say. Too you just kind of, say, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah That mark. Guy all he, does, though is to have.
Speaker 1: Okase he prepared to cover every single, game if not win.
Speaker 1: Outright they've been the toughest team to kill the past two.
Speaker 1: Years how do we know? It they have been Destroying.
Speaker 1: Vegas this team has been killing against the spread at
Speaker 1: a higher rate than any other team in THE. Nba
Speaker 1: these passes two, seasons including The Memphis, grizzlies which were
Speaker 1: the runaway against the spread leader last. Year vegas doesn't
Speaker 1: know Who Mark dagnel is, Either vegas does not. Care
Speaker 1: vegas is underestimating The thunder and so MUCH i think
Speaker 1: has to do of that With Sam, presty who we've
Speaker 1: given love to on the pod, before And Mark, dagnel
Speaker 1: who we need to give love to. More so that's
Speaker 1: what this is. About that's what we're gonna. Do this
Speaker 1: year has been, spectacular considering that it started with The
Speaker 1: thunder losing out on chet holmgrun for the. Year he
Speaker 1: hurt Himself Liz frank. INJURY i think he stepped on
Speaker 1: a wet floor and all of a sudden boomboom before
Speaker 1: it camp even, started he was done for the year shut.
Speaker 1: Down they're currently twenty eight and twenty, nine tenth, place
Speaker 1: which if you're A blazer fan you realize that's two
Speaker 1: spots better than. You a team that actually wants to
Speaker 1: WIN sga taking the next. Step Josh giddy is a.
Speaker 1: Monster he's elevated his. Game he's an elite point guard as.
Speaker 1: Well the rookies have been really. Great JALEN. W, williams
Speaker 1: we love both of. Them the team has twelve players
Speaker 1: under the age of twenty, four so they're very. Good
Speaker 1: they're very, fun they're very. Exciting the oldest player is
Speaker 1: twenty Eight Kenrick, Williams dario sarag she's probably gonna get bought.
Speaker 1: Out their five hundred team with three rookies and six
Speaker 1: second year. Professional that's. Ridiculous a team that's five hundred
Speaker 1: just rocking with the young guns and with the baby.
Speaker 1: Lineup dagneau has been a masterful coach. Right he has
Speaker 1: minutes to everyone so they can continue to. Develop the
Speaker 1: rookies who have benefited from his, Caretaking, jalen J dubb
Speaker 1: And jay will And Uzman, jang who rarely gets talked,
Speaker 1: about have been really. Good if you look At Jalen
Speaker 1: williams with AN, e he's currently averaging twelve four and
Speaker 1: three in around twenty eight minutes this year as a.
Speaker 1: Rookie he's been getting better as the season has. Progressed as.
Speaker 1: Well THE okc thunder did an incredible job of getting
Speaker 1: him out of, value his, length his. Athleticism GM's drool over,
Speaker 1: that and one of the major reasons that he leads
Speaker 1: the rookies and steals is. That so in a recent,
Speaker 1: interview this is where we're, Going this is where the
Speaker 1: whole point of this piece is is all About Jalen
Speaker 1: williams and what he thought when he was drafted BY
Speaker 1: okce he, said, yeah it was cool to be called
Speaker 1: With chet And Uzman, jang and then they Picked Jalen
Speaker 1: williams with the. Why it was a really cool and surreal.
Speaker 1: MOMENT i think it was full circle, too BECAUSE i
Speaker 1: had a really good workout In. Oklahoma it was a
Speaker 1: cool vibe going into, it and WHEN i was out,
Speaker 1: THERE i thought this wouldn't be a bad place to.
Speaker 1: BE i really enjoyed my. VISIT i talked To Sam,
Speaker 1: Presty so nothing's out of the ordinary here, Right everything
Speaker 1: seems to be just pretty. NORMAL okac is noted for
Speaker 1: being very, professional extremely well respected by their peers and
Speaker 1: other teams for how they run their. Ship but then
Speaker 1: then it gets really. Interesting Jalen williams said this it
Speaker 1: was the only place where the, Coach Mark, dagnell ran
Speaker 1: the entire. Workout i'm going through the workout, saying this
Speaker 1: guy's pretty. GOOD i had no idea he was the
Speaker 1: head coach until, afterwards he. Laughs we had a cool.
Speaker 1: Interaction mark was talking to me the whole. TIME i
Speaker 1: had no idea who he. WAS i was thinking he
Speaker 1: was a trainer or. Somebody the head coach ran the
Speaker 1: pre draft workout alone And jalen would didn't Tell Jalen
Speaker 1: williams Say i'm also the head, coach and think about.
Speaker 1: This Jalen williams probably watched THE, nba had no idea
Speaker 1: Who mark dagniol. Was if this WAS i don't, Know mark,
Speaker 1: D'Antoni mike, D'Antoni if it Was Doc, rivers if it
Speaker 1: was any of the other twenty nine coaches in THE,
Speaker 1: nba he would know who they. Were. Right if it WAS,
Speaker 1: tyleru he's not gonna be, like, oh, YEAH i Thought
Speaker 1: tyler was a. Trainer, No Mark, dagno he thought was
Speaker 1: some rando, assistant that it was just so hands on
Speaker 1: and so diligent that he wanted to run it and
Speaker 1: prove to the powers that be that he could run
Speaker 1: a workout this. Important, no this Was mark, dagniel the
Speaker 1: head coach of THE Okc thunder in a. Nutshell this
Speaker 1: is why he's, awesome blue collar, coach not afraid to
Speaker 1: get his hands, dirty uninterested in any. Shine could not
Speaker 1: ask for a better fit FOR okc and the kind
Speaker 1: of guy That Sam presty wants in charge of a
Speaker 1: team full of young. Guys players want to respect who
Speaker 1: they're playing. For Mark dagniel is no, frills no, bullshit
Speaker 1: and is getting the respect of his. Players, immediately you
Speaker 1: have all those, guys and then you Have chet and
Speaker 1: a Healthy poku maybe Probably victor Or scoot and or
Speaker 1: The thompson. Twins and then you bring in a free.
Speaker 1: Agent oh my, god this is a contender in like five.
Speaker 1: Years as, uh someone who's been on The kings before
Speaker 1: the start of the, SEASON i think it's been gratifying
Speaker 1: to see The kings getting a lot of national love
Speaker 1: FROM espn to The Athletic everyone is starting to see
Speaker 1: The kings as the, incredible fun and exciting team that
Speaker 1: they are right AND i think that the real game
Speaker 1: changer for The, kings AND i think we can all
Speaker 1: agree is It's Sabonis demona Sa bonus is the engine
Speaker 1: that makes The kings. GO i remember when people were
Speaker 1: slamming that trade a year. Ago today almost today like,
Speaker 1: yeah they're, like, oh this is. Malpractice they shouldn't Let
Speaker 1: Tyrese haliburton. Go, No, no that was the right, move
Speaker 1: and now he is An All star again as he should.
Speaker 1: Be WHAT i do want to focus on, though is
Speaker 1: That sabonis And deer And fox are now getting shine
Speaker 1: they have multiple features written about. Him they recently were
Speaker 1: on the cover Of slam magazine breaking down the pick and,
Speaker 1: roll And Kyrie irving just admitted in a postgame presser
Speaker 1: after a win against them that he read the article
Speaker 1: carefully looking for ways to defend, it and he, said
Speaker 1: that's pretty. Cool it shows a level of. Respect sabonis,
Speaker 1: Said so the meat of this New athletic article that
Speaker 1: came out was About sibonis's relationship With Mike, brown which
Speaker 1: is kind of funny BECAUSE i remember the start of
Speaker 1: the season being, Like sabonis looks fucking. Awful turns, out
Speaker 1: the relationship With Mike brown and Demandic sabona started out
Speaker 1: a little, rocky he, said before we came to a better.
Speaker 1: Understanding it was pick and, roll roll out the, way
Speaker 1: seal your, defender. Dunker it was obviously things THAT i can,
Speaker 1: do but my strengths are in different areas than other
Speaker 1: bigs don't, have like playmaking in the, post in the
Speaker 1: little areas WHERE i. Thrive sounds Like Mike brown was
Speaker 1: trying to get him to Be Kavon looney and he was, Like, yo,
Speaker 1: No i'm Not Kevon, Looney, Okay LIKE i am much
Speaker 1: better Than. Kavonloney should not shock anyone that it took
Speaker 1: a little time for the two to get on the same, page.
Speaker 1: RIGHT i Saw, sabonis LIKE i, said second third game
Speaker 1: of the, year And i'm like. It he does not
Speaker 1: look good out. There he looks, confused he looks, slow
Speaker 1: he does not look like he knows where he needs to.
Speaker 1: Be so apparently it took a little time For Mike
Speaker 1: brown and him to figure things out to get demonis
Speaker 1: where he needed to. Be and, Remember Mike brown came
Speaker 1: From Golden state Where Draymond green was the center of the,
Speaker 1: defense And Jordy, fernandez who of The, king who's The
Speaker 1: king's lead, assistant came From denver where the entire offense
Speaker 1: revolves Around, yokic so they want a passing big man
Speaker 1: in the. Center sabona said this about the early. Days
Speaker 1: as the year went, on we definitely learned from each.
Speaker 1: Other and it's like you, SAID i feel LIKE i
Speaker 1: had to show him in, person and it was easier
Speaker 1: for him to trust me to do WHAT i. Do
Speaker 1: it's been great now for most of the, season it's been,
Speaker 1: great but that beginning was a bit tough for me
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i was trying to figure out the offense and
Speaker 1: how to be myself at the same time trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what coach wants me to. Do that's Something
Speaker 1: i've experienced probably with every coaching. Staff you, know at the,
Speaker 1: beginning it's always, okay how DO i figure out what
Speaker 1: they want and at the same time be. MYSELF i
Speaker 1: know WHAT i can do AND i have confidence in. Myself,
Speaker 1: man did it work? Out they figured it out pretty fast.
Speaker 1: Too sabonas is now An All. Star he is. Deserving
Speaker 1: The kings are in third place in The west for
Speaker 1: the last month, now showing no signs of that going.
Speaker 1: Away and then you add In Darren, fox who is
Speaker 1: a bona Fide All star finally getting some shine as.
Speaker 1: WELL i love the supporting cast around. HIM i Love Kevin,
Speaker 1: Herder Malik, Monk Keegan murray's a nice little rookie. Piece
Speaker 1: Harrison barnes is doing. Things they got not a lot of,
Speaker 1: depth but a ton of. Talent but in terms of
Speaker 1: where The kings go goes as far as where the
Speaker 1: bonus takes, him and, unfortunately as we, know he's been
Speaker 1: dealing with a hand, injury a thumb injury probably should
Speaker 1: have given him surgery for, it and he doesn't want
Speaker 1: that because he wants to take this team to the.
Speaker 1: Playoffs he, said obviously it's in, pain and knowing the
Speaker 1: timeline of surgery was six to eight weeks to, miss
Speaker 1: that's like twenty five, games and he didn't want to
Speaker 1: let his teammates, down so he opted to just play
Speaker 1: through the. PAIN i guess it's not getting any, Worse
Speaker 1: so he's playing through, pain getting just these absurd stats
Speaker 1: for the rest of the. Season he hasn't really slowed
Speaker 1: down at. All he's averaging, eighteen twelve and a half
Speaker 1: and seven for a guy with no. Thumb that's pretty damn.
Speaker 1: Good so as long as the bonus is relatively, healthy
Speaker 1: The kings are a, dangerous dangerous. Team and whoever came
Speaker 1: out and said negative things about The sabona's, trade go
Speaker 1: leet your fucking. Account SO i want to give The
Speaker 1: Houston rockets the benefit of the, doubts BUT i just.
Speaker 1: CAN'T i just. Cannot they are a dumpster. Fire they
Speaker 1: continue to surprise me in the most awful way humanly.
Speaker 1: Possible last time we checked out on The, Rockets Steven
Speaker 1: silence was throwing his team under the. Bus remember he was, like, oh,
Speaker 1: yeah they're not playing on the defensive. End they don't
Speaker 1: get after. It reme Where Eric gordon was saying things
Speaker 1: about how they're not, improving they're not getting into their,
Speaker 1: man they're fighting over things and not helping each, other
Speaker 1: not doing what they're supposed to. Do pretty much an
Speaker 1: indictment of this entire team not being on the same.
Speaker 1: Page and The rockets are. Awful they're the worst team
Speaker 1: in the. League they're thirteen and forty five and that's
Speaker 1: the worst worst record in THE nba by a. Longshot
Speaker 1: they are one and nine in their last. Ten this
Speaker 1: is not a good, team, right but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of not good. Teams this is like a infested organization,
Speaker 1: Though and the more you look into, it the more
Speaker 1: you say to, yourself what is happening? There how do
Speaker 1: you fix? It because it is really off the. Rails
Speaker 1: so now we've got some new news on some more
Speaker 1: things that apparently are disturbing as it relates to their
Speaker 1: third overall pick from last year's, Draft Jabari Smith. Junior,
Speaker 1: yeah he's an absolute. Mess they've broke. Him i'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it, Again Houston rockets have Broken Jabari. Smith according
Speaker 1: To Mark spear At andscape apparently The, thunder which has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with The, rockets but The thunder Promised
Speaker 1: jabari that they would draft him at number two, overall
Speaker 1: a belief that the extended all the way through draft, night,
Speaker 1: which let's be, honest they probably also said That The
Speaker 1: thunder probably also said that To. Chet they Knew jabari
Speaker 1: or at least assumed That jabari wouldn't be, available so
Speaker 1: they were just trying to kind, of, LIKE i don't,
Speaker 1: know appease. Him his dad then Told Mark spears when
Speaker 1: they called Chet holgren's, name he lost. It leg went to.
Speaker 1: SHAKING i looked at. Him he's in, tears almost in,
Speaker 1: tears AND i forgot that he told, me Okay see
Speaker 1: promised to draft, Him SO i kept my mouth closed about.
Speaker 1: THAT i talked to him And i'm, like, well, hey
Speaker 1: what are you? Doing straight in your? Face? Man you?
Speaker 1: Good you? Good you? Good you know the camera was
Speaker 1: right at our, table. Bro couldn't you blame? Him he
Speaker 1: thought he was going to play For Mark, dagneil who
Speaker 1: probably did not, know And Sam presty And Oka see
Speaker 1: with a bunch of bucket getters that also passed the
Speaker 1: ball around to going To houston Post James Harden houston
Speaker 1: GROSS i would be in tears, too and this year
Speaker 1: has been a. Disaster they have broken. Him he is
Speaker 1: the worst he's maybe ever been in his career right,
Speaker 1: now just off the, Radar the fact that he's in
Speaker 1: The Rising Stars challenge is really sort of a loose
Speaker 1: interpretation of rising. Star right, like right now he is
Speaker 1: a falling, star and eventually he will rise again like
Speaker 1: a phoenix out of the ashes when he gets the
Speaker 1: fuck out Of houston or they sell the team or
Speaker 1: get rid of stylists or. Something but right now he
Speaker 1: is not a rising. Star Jabari smith is a falling.
Speaker 1: Star he is averaging twelve seven and, one which is like,
Speaker 1: fine but he's shooting thirty percent from three thirty nine
Speaker 1: percent from the. Field as a. Whole this is a.
Speaker 1: Guy if you remember that everyone said largely was the
Speaker 1: best peer shooter in the league or best peer shooter
Speaker 1: in the. Draft he has the best jumper in the draft.
Speaker 1: Class so then when amazingly, so they Asked Steven silas
Speaker 1: about all this right for the, article and you would
Speaker 1: assume That Steven silas would say positive things About jabari
Speaker 1: right protect this, guy make him feel good knowing that
Speaker 1: it's going to get. PUBLISHED i don't know, something do
Speaker 1: Something steven like figure it, out know that your player's
Speaker 1: confidence is at an all time, low and maybe figure
Speaker 1: out a way in print for him to boost. It, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no he didn't he said. This jabari is young in
Speaker 1: trying to find his. Way he has grit and toughness
Speaker 1: and tries, defensively and he's not given much at. ALL
Speaker 1: i don't run any plays For Jabari. Smith you don't
Speaker 1: run any place For Jabari, smith your number three overall
Speaker 1: pick the guy that everyone thought was a consensus number
Speaker 1: one overall. Pick you don't run any designed place for. Him.
Speaker 1: None you don't feel like that's maybe something you should.
Speaker 1: RECONSIDER i don't, know like you don't think that's maybe
Speaker 1: something to evaluate about. You no. One jabari is. Upset
Speaker 1: he's probably in tears on a regular. Basis, honestly let's be.
Speaker 1: Honest IF i was stuck In, houston that is a
Speaker 1: jail sentence in THE. Nba all you have to do
Speaker 1: while you're biding your time before a free agency read.
Speaker 1: Books try to figure, out maybe become like a lawyer
Speaker 1: like they do in. Jail you, know they just figure
Speaker 1: out a new, craft a new, hobby a PhD. Program,
Speaker 1: jabari do something with your, time because you're locked up
Speaker 1: Like akon right, now and there's really no point for
Speaker 1: you to focus on your relationship With Houston rockets because
Speaker 1: they clearly don't focus on the relationship with. You jabari
Speaker 1: said this in terms of how his rookie year is.
Speaker 1: Gone probably you would imagine it's not going well for.
Speaker 1: Him let's check in on, him though he, says, yes
Speaker 1: it's been, tough, honestly BECAUSE i feel Like i've been
Speaker 1: winning all the way up to this. Point so it's
Speaker 1: just knowing it'll get brighter down the road road and
Speaker 1: just trusting the process and staying with. It it will
Speaker 1: not get brighter down the. ROAD i hate to say,
Speaker 1: it until you get out Of. Houston maybe you end
Speaker 1: up going To philadelphia Because James harden wants to end
Speaker 1: up back In. Houston maybe strippers And foi gras infused
Speaker 1: lobster hamburgers That James harden loves so. Much maybe hookah
Speaker 1: is your way. Out maybe, somehow some way you can
Speaker 1: get a. Reprieve but there is no bright days coming
Speaker 1: for you when you are In. HOUSTON i promise you
Speaker 1: that all of this is an example that the spot
Speaker 1: you land is. Everything so much of the draft is
Speaker 1: where you. Go and let's face, facts there is no
Speaker 1: worse spot for a young three point shooting big man
Speaker 1: to go than The Houston. Rockets you Have Jalen, green
Speaker 1: you Have Kevin Porter, junior you Have Josh, christopher you
Speaker 1: Have alpera And shangoon and they all want that ball
Speaker 1: and they don't want you to have. It and that
Speaker 1: is the. Truth even if you're wide, open jumping up
Speaker 1: and down out of the, basket they are not giving
Speaker 1: you the. Ball we can only imagine What jabari would
Speaker 1: be In, okay, see we could only imagine What jabari
Speaker 1: would be In orlando even BUT i promise you this
Speaker 1: is the worst spot for him for his. Confidence and
Speaker 1: he's a nice. Kid he's a little too nice For,
Speaker 1: houston if you know What i'm. Saying he's the kind
Speaker 1: of kid that gets sucked into thinking that if you
Speaker 1: go upstairs to the champagne, room you only have to
Speaker 1: pay for the one. Song you just doesn't know that
Speaker 1: every new song that she plays you have to pay
Speaker 1: more money. For and you come out you're like a,
Speaker 1: oh twenty seven thousand dollars To, cayenne, Right like that's
Speaker 1: Jabbar Rry. Smith one thing is for, Sure jabbari's rookie
Speaker 1: year has gone far worse than any pundit or any
Speaker 1: draft expert could have ever ever. Predicted will he ever
Speaker 1: become a? STAR i don't. Know time will, tell but
Speaker 1: he's gonna need to get out of h town in
Speaker 1: order for us to find. Out so we talked last
Speaker 1: episode about The warriors and how they were upset with
Speaker 1: My Portland trailblazers and for not disclosing the seriousness the
Speaker 1: severity Of Gary payton's. Injury the derailed almost a four
Speaker 1: team trade that sent Out Sadeek, Bay James, Wiseman Kevin,
Speaker 1: knox and about a gajillion and second round. Picks, Right
Speaker 1: so they're upset with The Gary payton Trade Golden state
Speaker 1: ended up taking On Gary. Payton but to say that
Speaker 1: they are pissed is an. Understatement they've already had the
Speaker 1: league look into, it they've already launched a formal. Investigation
Speaker 1: but now there's. More, YEP i just. LOOKED i googled
Speaker 1: it today and, like what's up with The? Warriors are
Speaker 1: they over. It have they calmed things? Down are they? Chill,
Speaker 1: no they are not. Chill according To Chris, haynes The
Speaker 1: warriors are now encouraging the league front office to investigate
Speaker 1: all Of portland's trades over the last few. Years, HEY
Speaker 1: i think they're fucked up in. GENERAL i think you
Speaker 1: guys need to look into some stuff like it kind
Speaker 1: of looks like they're not just selling dimes And, Nichols
Speaker 1: they're pushing major. WEIGHTS i think that they are full fledged.
Speaker 1: Shady why why do they want the front office to
Speaker 1: look into The. Blazers, well they assert that The blazers
Speaker 1: just as a matter of, course keep screwing teams over
Speaker 1: by hiding. Injuries can't you just leave well enough Alone Golden, State,
Speaker 1: no they. Cannot apparently it's not just The peyton. Trade
Speaker 1: As haynes, REPORTED i was told that they've urged the
Speaker 1: league to look Into portland's dealing With New orleans last
Speaker 1: year when it was THE. Cj McCollum Larry nance. Trade
Speaker 1: they've urged the league to look into, that Particularly Larry Nance,
Speaker 1: junior because they believe that a similar incident happened in
Speaker 1: that deal and they feel like The blazers may have
Speaker 1: a pattern of doing something where they're either withholding information
Speaker 1: or presenting misleading, information and so without having all the,
Speaker 1: details WHAT i do know is The warriors have made
Speaker 1: it clear to the league that they need to look
Speaker 1: into that trade from last. Year, snitch, snitch. Snitch what
Speaker 1: are The warriors doing that had nothing to do with?
Speaker 1: Them the optics are not good at the. Moment right
Speaker 1: After nance was traded To New, orleans he had surgery
Speaker 1: on his right knee and missed more than ten. Weeks.
Speaker 1: Whoopsie they didn't see that. Either he was. Healthy he was. Healthy.
Speaker 1: Uh this is HOW i know that The warriors are
Speaker 1: pissed because If Adam silver finds that they've done shit,
Speaker 1: wrong they're gonna lose draft, Picks they're gonna get fined
Speaker 1: and the. Kicker there's pretty much nothing at the stage
Speaker 1: that would actually benefit The warriors beyond just. Snitching they
Speaker 1: get nothing from. THIS i don't. Know maybe that's why
Speaker 1: they couldn't find a buyer FOR nrk at the deadline
Speaker 1: because he had his calf. INJURY i don't know If
Speaker 1: portland is guilty at, all but WHAT i do know
Speaker 1: is The warriors have it out For portland and they
Speaker 1: do have a little bit of. History that's all the
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