Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check, But just a quick on
Speaker 1: this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: We've got just so much popping around the league. We've
Speaker 2: got to start taking a tour. We've got our passports ready, Nick.
Speaker 2: We've got Sacramento Kings. We already hit them, gave them
Speaker 2: some shine. We've got some other ones. We've got to
Speaker 2: break down two teams moving in opposite directions. We've got
Speaker 2: the Okay Seat Thunder and we got the Houston Rockets,
Speaker 2: Yes we do. And then we've got to break down
Speaker 2: some news from around the league, including a game I
Speaker 2: was supposed to be at but I decided to go
Speaker 2: to a different worst game instead.
Speaker 1: Joel embiid Historic night, But why does that symbolize trouble?
Speaker 2: Also, let's get into the resurrection of a player, Edmund Sumner,
Speaker 2: a player you probably don't even know.
Speaker 1: You probably don't even know where he went to school.
Speaker 2: You probably don't even know what position he plays, Maybe
Speaker 2: you don't even know what team he's on. But why
Speaker 2: he's impactable. We will get into ad being an absolute
Speaker 2: comedy show drawing inspiration from a very strange ass source,
Speaker 2: and one Laker, one former Laker, being very mad. He's
Speaker 2: not on the top seventy five Lakers list of all time.
Speaker 1: And boy, is that a sketchy, funny comment. A lot
Speaker 1: to get into. Nick, Let's drop that.
Speaker 2: Beat, all right, we gotta talk about two things first up.
Speaker 1: One, I have to say this, and I don't.
Speaker 2: Know if you guys already know this, but if you
Speaker 2: don't live in the DMV, which means DC Maryland, Virginia.
Speaker 1: Has the worst sporting arenas in.
Speaker 2: The entire country, like it's the worst, and we'll discuss that.
Speaker 2: But two, we also need to discuss and talk about
Speaker 2: load management. I think it's time for us people who
Speaker 2: want to see games live to start.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna take it. We need to We need
Speaker 1: to talk about this.
Speaker 2: I hear things about load management, I read things about
Speaker 2: load management, but there is nothing quite like being on
Speaker 2: the wrong side of a game and experiencing load management
Speaker 2: for yourself. Sunday it went what the five fingers say
Speaker 2: to the face? Slap that hit me right in the face.
Speaker 1: I was planning on maybe going to see I don't know, the.
Speaker 2: Utah Jazz, Fun Little Story, Fun Team, Lowry Markenen, Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid don't really want to drive to Philadelphia specifically considering
Speaker 2: that the place I was trying to go to to
Speaker 2: return some clothes only exists in a Bloomingdale's. So I
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna drive up there for no reason, specifically, not
Speaker 2: just for Utah. Was I gonna drive up to see, Okay,
Speaker 2: see versus the Knicks at the Garden Man, that's a
Speaker 2: far drive too.
Speaker 1: And then I was looking at my Ticketmaster. Actually was
Speaker 1: the game time app.
Speaker 2: We're gonna slander game time specifically to you game time.
Speaker 2: And I saw the Wizards play the Memphis Grizzlies at
Speaker 2: the Capitol One Arena.
Speaker 1: What's this? Jaw? What I'm in?
Speaker 2: I am all the way in absolutely Jaw. Never seen
Speaker 2: him live, So he's mussy. He's mussy on TV. He's
Speaker 2: mussy live. Got Desmond Baine he's rocking. You got Bradley Beal,
Speaker 2: he's whatever, right, So you got Jaw and Bain coming
Speaker 2: to Chocolate Sip Day. I'm gonna go watch him dunk
Speaker 2: on everybody's head.
Speaker 1: And I hate Wizards games. They suck.
Speaker 2: They're the worst because well, I mean, the Wizards are
Speaker 2: really not fun at all. They're not a fun team.
Speaker 2: And I knew Bradley Beal has been injured, so it's whatever.
Speaker 2: But like the arena gives gives really like some electronic
Speaker 2: store vibes, do you know what I mean? Like you go,
Speaker 2: you walk in and you're like, holy shit, it's brightened here.
Speaker 1: Oh what is going on?
Speaker 2: And I'm used to like Staples where Staples makes it
Speaker 2: dim in there, it's like everything but the crowd or
Speaker 2: everything but the court is dark. Right, everything but the
Speaker 2: court is dark. Not a capital one. They want you
Speaker 2: to see every pore in your neighbor's face. I swear
Speaker 2: to God, they want you to buy a TV in there.
Speaker 1: I tell you what. It is so bright it gave.
Speaker 2: Me a migraine. It never gets dim except for the pregame.
Speaker 1: Warm up warm up thing right and the vibe.
Speaker 2: Ugh. I swear to you, I put this on my
Speaker 2: mother's life. The loudest it gotten there, promise you, the
Speaker 2: loudest it gotten.
Speaker 1: There was for an infant race.
Speaker 2: Would you say, trista a baby race? There were babies
Speaker 2: crawling on the floor. They had a race, and people
Speaker 2: were louder for that then the basketball game. They paid
Speaker 2: to see.
Speaker 1: What is happening here? But for Jaw, I will withstand
Speaker 1: all of this.
Speaker 2: I will come through for Jaw, because Jaw delivers for
Speaker 2: me every time.
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting at dinner, waiting, excited.
Speaker 2: Doing a little one game parlay action for this Memphis
Speaker 2: Grizzlies Wizard's game and all of this. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: what do I see, Like, why isn't the Why isn't
Speaker 2: Jaws prop up on the bedmgm app? Why is a
Speaker 2: Desmond Baines prop on the bedmgm app. I'm about forty
Speaker 2: five minutes from the game time too, Like, we bought
Speaker 2: the tickets. They're expensive because Jaw's coming to town. They're
Speaker 2: behind the bench of the visitors. Oh yeah, we were stunting,
Speaker 2: And I see this a little Fantasy Labs update right
Speaker 2: as I'm starting to put the pieces together, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, starting to really struggle to eat the
Speaker 2: rest of my talk because things are starting to come
Speaker 2: clearer into focus about what's about to take place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jaw, late scratch, he was fine.
Speaker 2: He played the rest of the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves,
Speaker 2: which they did cover for me because of Jaw. Desmond
Speaker 2: Bane sprain Toe totally get that, but Jaw, no fucking Jaw.
Speaker 2: So what I knew I was about to see was
Speaker 2: a G League matchup. You had no Jaren Jackson, no
Speaker 2: Desmond Bane, no Zire Williams, no jaw and no Beal.
Speaker 1: What am I seeing? What is this?
Speaker 2: I won't bore you with the details, but it was
Speaker 2: like watching Pink dry.
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: Over under on Airballs was twelve and a half and
Speaker 2: I think it was the over.
Speaker 1: I saw so many David Roddy airballs. I like David Roddy,
Speaker 1: nice player. Got to see a little Kenny lofton Junior
Speaker 1: in there. What am I seeing? I literally, swear to God,
Speaker 1: swear to God, was yelling.
Speaker 2: I was probably six rows from the court and I'm
Speaker 2: yelling at Steven Adams underneath the basket. Chris dabs Porzingis'
Speaker 2: is food?
Speaker 1: Eat him, eat him, eat him.
Speaker 2: Everybody's so mad at me because obviously I'm the only
Speaker 2: one rooting for the Grizzlies of there, because I've got
Speaker 2: a bet on the Grizzlies, and shit, I want to
Speaker 2: see him win. I hate the Wizards, they are nothing
Speaker 2: but just I soar in the middle of Chinatown messing
Speaker 2: up my traffic. So it got me thinking, you know
Speaker 2: what we need? We need star player insurance.
Speaker 1: That's what we need. We need it. We need load.
Speaker 2: Management insurance for these game time apps. Because I tried
Speaker 2: to get my money back and they were like, ah,
Speaker 2: you're funny.
Speaker 1: No you're not getting your money back. What the fuck
Speaker 1: are you smoking? And I was like, that's fine. I'm
Speaker 1: never going to you again.
Speaker 2: But if you're like a seat geek or a stub
Speaker 2: Hub and you tell me, if you just give me
Speaker 2: a list, just give me a list, jaw Dame, Steph Brawn,
Speaker 2: Jannis Luca, Like, it's probably only fifteen twenty names, right,
Speaker 2: there's not It's not Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler's not on
Speaker 2: the list, right, No shade to Jimmy Butler, but he's
Speaker 2: not on the list. Okay, it's there's a very select
Speaker 2: few of people that I, as a local or someone
Speaker 2: traveling out of town, are coming to watch. Shockingly, Pallow
Speaker 2: is already on that list. And if they are a
Speaker 2: late scratch and they played the game before and they
Speaker 2: get scratched fucking three hours before game time or less,
Speaker 2: I should get my money back, no questions asked.
Speaker 1: And I tell you what, this is a billion dollar idea.
Speaker 2: This is I don't think if you think to yourself,
Speaker 2: if you're going to go see let's just say, Jae,
Speaker 2: you live in Portland, go jaw no, jaw no, Dame,
Speaker 2: what are you thinking? I mean, it's just anthroty Simon,
Speaker 2: and maybe efforty Simon's a scratch too. Maybe it's just
Speaker 2: Shade and sharp on limited minutes and Drew you banks.
Speaker 2: Imagine how pissed you would be spending one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars per ticket. You just saved your little money up,
Speaker 2: your little shekels up, and now you get to watch trash,
Speaker 2: you get to watch Summer League.
Speaker 1: Good job. So I would be as loyal as Dame
Speaker 1: Willard is to the Blazers.
Speaker 2: If I could get that from a secondary market, if
Speaker 2: I could find a ticket broker that would say, listen,
Speaker 2: we got you. We'll get Alliance or some sort of
Speaker 2: under rider to give you insurance, and we will pay
Speaker 2: you out. We won't make you go through all these
Speaker 2: little hoops and whistles, you know, and then just never
Speaker 2: pay you, you know, because that happens too. But like
Speaker 2: it is, without this, I may never do this again.
Speaker 2: Like I'm never gonna go see a game at Capitol
Speaker 2: Win Arena. And also by the way they spent seventy
Speaker 2: I had to look this up in the arena.
Speaker 1: I was like, this place sucks the way that it's constructed.
Speaker 2: And I just got back from Detroit Little Caesars Arena,
Speaker 2: and I won't waste your time with this. We'll move
Speaker 2: on quite shortly. But the way that arena is constructed
Speaker 2: compared to this steep ass, like we need a shallow, nice, little, smooth,
Speaker 2: shallow bull.
Speaker 1: Don't make people sit in the nosebleeds for no reason,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Don't make them be stacked
Speaker 1: on top of each other. Gross.
Speaker 2: They put seventy million dollars into the Capitol winn Arena
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen. That was right before the pandemic. There's a place,
Speaker 1: piece of shit. Arena. There's no stuff, there's no bar,
Speaker 1: there's no vibe, there's no lighting. I'm out, I'm over it.