Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check, buttal quick. On this episode
Speaker 1: of the Heat Check, everyone is talking about Jaw Joe.
Speaker 1: This is actually the only time in NBA history we
Speaker 1: can say that joke, which is Joe, and it actually
Speaker 1: makes sense. You're like, think about that. We'll fill you
Speaker 1: in on what's happening with him. But I think probably
Speaker 1: from a different perspective because the media, the media machine
Speaker 1: is in full force and they're like vultures. The columnists
Speaker 1: are like vultures circling around Jaw's cold body. I also
Speaker 1: break down some news from around the league, including New
Speaker 1: York Knicks bing Bong and how the perilous future is
Speaker 1: for the new Brooklyn Nets, especially and particularly Sean Marks.
Speaker 1: A lot happening, Nick, drop that generic ass beat. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about basketball. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: four of the best shot makers on planet Earth going
Speaker 1: toe to toe on a Saturday afternoon. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Luca and Donchetz and Devin Booker going head
Speaker 1: to head, face to face, smile to smile at the
Speaker 1: end of a game. But you know what I have
Speaker 1: to talk about. I have to talk about one of
Speaker 1: the best superstars in the league, one of the most
Speaker 1: electric players in the league bringing a gun and taking
Speaker 1: off his shirt and going to a strip club after
Speaker 1: getting his ass handed to him by Yo Kitchen the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets And how did he get that gun to Denver?
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about this. I bet you
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about this. I bet you don't
Speaker 1: bet there's twenty five think pieces written about it already
Speaker 1: for those who have returned from a darkness retreat and
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about. Jah Morant is I
Speaker 1: don't even know if it's considered suspension because they didn't
Speaker 1: say the words suspended. But Ja Morant is going to
Speaker 1: be away from the Memphis Grizzlies for at least two games. Wow.
Speaker 1: He sorts his shit out, and the Grizzly sort their
Speaker 1: shit out, and certainly the NBA sorts out what they
Speaker 1: want to do with Jah Morant. Why Because in the
Speaker 1: same week that a Washington Post article dropped about Jaw
Speaker 1: flashing a gun, Jaw actually one on his own Instagram live.
Speaker 1: He did himself, people, He went on his own Instagram
Speaker 1: live and showed a gun in his own hand to
Speaker 1: his own face. Why Jaw, Why At like two in
Speaker 1: the morning of course it was at two in the morning.
Speaker 1: What do you think it was at two in the afternoon. No,
Speaker 1: there was alcohol involved, obviously, and he is in trouble.
Speaker 1: This is also on the eels of the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: thing where they accused him and his friends pointing a
Speaker 1: a laser scope gun thing. Adam, I don't even know
Speaker 1: there were right words, because I don't have guns. That's
Speaker 1: how you know. I don't know the terms. What is
Speaker 1: what is going on? Everyone is wayed in. Gilbert Reinas
Speaker 1: is weighed in. Gilbert Arenas is a fucking idiot, by
Speaker 1: the way, Gilberna said, who, by the way, got suspended
Speaker 1: fifty games for bringing a gun into the locker room.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna say he's the beacon of wisdom here.
Speaker 1: Thought maybe thought maybe he would have learned from this.
Speaker 1: Gilbert Arenas's take is the ja moran. We should just
Speaker 1: pretend we didn't see it. This is real take. That's
Speaker 1: his real take. Boogie Cousins, why are all these people
Speaker 1: you see how it's like it's never never, like Dame
Speaker 1: Lillard like weighing in on it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: It's like Boogie Cousins. Gilbert Ornus uh, Paul Piers like,
Speaker 1: people who truthfully shouldn't be weighing in on this are
Speaker 1: weighing in like that's I guess what makes it funny.
Speaker 1: Boogey Cousins says, this is why you need a strong
Speaker 1: veteran presence in your locker room. Someone lobbying for a
Speaker 1: job here. Also, Boogey Cousins, I don't know if that's you, right.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that that type of person matches up
Speaker 1: with you and your reputation. Paul Pierce, of all people,
Speaker 1: also chimed in. God. He says, I don't care what
Speaker 1: y'all say about jaw. I carried a gun after I
Speaker 1: was stabbed. Okay, oh god, Uh, we all don't know
Speaker 1: what he's going through. Everyone got something to say. Until
Speaker 1: you really know what's going on in someone's life, when
Speaker 1: you black and rich, you're a target period.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we should just enact an open carry license
Speaker 2: for every NBA player because they're all rich and they're
Speaker 2: ninety five black.
Speaker 1: So I guess that's what we'll do there. For Paul
Speaker 1: Pierce to feel comfortable, I can say this with complete confidence.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone is checking for these men's opinions
Speaker 1: on this subject. I don't think anyone's like, hey, Adam,
Speaker 1: when are you gonna make it a decision about what's
Speaker 1: going on with Jaw. Well, I need to hear all
Speaker 1: the stakeholders' opinions. I need to hear what Paul Pierce
Speaker 1: and Gilbert's Arenas and Boogie Cousins have to say. First,
Speaker 1: the guys who I can really rely on to give
Speaker 1: me a cogent understanding of all the facts on the
Speaker 1: ground here. Ah, everyone wants to lecture, Everyone wants to
Speaker 1: point out what Jaw's doing wrong. People want to pile
Speaker 1: on fucking columnists. They are vultures, aren't they. They come
Speaker 1: out of the woodwork. I don't even know what they do,
Speaker 1: what they would do without this type of stuff. Like
Speaker 1: I'm sure Nancy I haven't read one column because why
Speaker 1: would I. But I am certain that Nancy Armor has
Speaker 1: a column. I'm certain Christine Brennan has a column. I'm
Speaker 1: certain Sally Jenkins has a column. That Dan Wolkan, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, I love I know these people like personally,
Speaker 1: so it's no shame to them. But Dan Wolkin covers
Speaker 1: college football. Okay, what does Dan Wolkin need to say
Speaker 1: about Jahn Morant. Not a damn thing. It's kind of gross,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Like when you think about it, they all
Speaker 1: have some POV about how Jaw is going the wrong
Speaker 1: direction and how without proper guidance and leadership, and there's
Speaker 1: always some socioeconomic thing that these yts have to say
Speaker 1: about it. Right, it's wild. It's when you think about
Speaker 1: it from that, it's absolutely Bonker's land what we're living in.
Speaker 1: They just sit around and they wait in a corner
Speaker 1: somewhere until somebody, some athlete does something bad and then
Speaker 1: they have a think piece ready to go. They have
Speaker 1: no connection to Ja Morant, They have no connection to
Speaker 1: these streets. They have no connection to being someone who's
Speaker 1: that young with that much money that quick. And I
Speaker 1: already said I think Jaw's being an idiot, so that's obvious.
Speaker 1: But these think piecers they got to get the fuck
Speaker 1: out of here with that. Also, the person that I
Speaker 1: did like when he had to say the only person
Speaker 1: that I think had anything to say good was Jalen Rose.
Speaker 1: Let's listen, I am Jahn Morant.
Speaker 3: Like you guys have got a chance to see me
Speaker 3: grow up. For public consumption since nineteen ninety one, and
Speaker 3: I've been involved in drug raids, I've survived assassination attempts.
Speaker 3: I've been that undisciplined young person that was trying to
Speaker 3: figure out how to be famous, how to be successful,
Speaker 3: and how to change the dynamics of my family. The
Speaker 3: one thing that young people have to understand, and in
Speaker 3: John Moran's case, when you first get drafted, you go
Speaker 3: from being a member of the family, a member of
Speaker 3: the crew, to being the leader, to being the bread
Speaker 3: winner and first and foremost. I hear a lot of
Speaker 3: people talking about like his family and his crew. When
Speaker 3: you're the leader, it's on you because you end up
Speaker 3: searching that lifestyle. You end up wanting to be down.
Speaker 3: And what I had to learn is that people come
Speaker 3: into your life for four reasons. To add, subtract, multiply,
Speaker 3: or divide. You have to choose wisely. He has way
Speaker 3: too much to lose. Trust me. I've been that young
Speaker 3: player carrying a gun and Will Bond alluded to this.
Speaker 3: When you start waving it, that could get you killed.
Speaker 3: That that ain't that's that's all. That's an entirely different
Speaker 3: thing than we're talking about. A superstar athlete should be
Speaker 3: putting themselves in position. And as Stephen they mentioned, that's
Speaker 3: him on the video on his ig live. Ain't nobody
Speaker 3: coaxing him, Ain't nobody got a uh, Ain't nobody egging
Speaker 3: him on to do that. That's a personal choice.
Speaker 1: That's a personal choice. Jalen Row is the only person
Speaker 1: I'm listening to listening to on this that is straight
Speaker 1: up facts. Because as much as uh, everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: John needs to pick better friends, Oh, he's too loyal
Speaker 1: to people who I saw his uncle on my Instagram
Speaker 1: and his uncle posted that Jalen Rose video and said, facts,
Speaker 1: that's his uncle. Okay, so I've I think everybody's kind
Speaker 1: of in agreement. Jaw's being a little bit of an
Speaker 1: asshole right now. He's doing things the wrong way on
Speaker 1: his own. It was Jaw who decided allegedly to beat
Speaker 1: that seventeen year old kid down when the kid threw
Speaker 1: the basketball at him. It was Jaw flashing the gun
Speaker 1: on his own Instagram on social media, which is just crazy,
Speaker 1: Like that decision is just baffling to me, as someone
Speaker 1: who's made my own share of Instagram live decisions wild.
Speaker 1: This is wild, and as I say, I say this
Speaker 1: that Jaw could be the problem, Like Jaw is his
Speaker 1: own worst enemy. That is an issue that needs to
Speaker 1: be addressed. Who he decides to have with them is
Speaker 1: only augmenting what's going on. I think Jaw is the
Speaker 1: most exciting player in all of sports, period. End of story.
Speaker 1: I love Damian Lillard. I think John Moran is the
Speaker 1: only player I would go to the Capitol One Center
Speaker 1: to see. It's true, Capitol One is trash. The lighting
Speaker 1: is horrible, the vibe is awful, parking awful, Chinatown, all
Speaker 1: of it, all of it. But I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and see Jaw at the Capitol One.
Speaker 1: Did I see John? No? I did not. That's a
Speaker 1: totally different story, a different day. It's a low management discussion.
Speaker 1: But I was like, you know what, I'm still gonna go.
Speaker 1: Why just so I can get a glimpse of Jaw
Speaker 1: in street close. That's how cool and how exciting and
Speaker 1: how electric Jaw is. You want to know what his
Speaker 1: vibe is at any given moment, but Jaw clearly has not.
Speaker 1: Is just the problem, has a problem, and he alludes
Speaker 1: to it on his statement the pr statement that like
Speaker 1: his Olivia Popes put out. He said, I take full
Speaker 1: responsibility for my actions last night. I'm sorry to my family, teammates, coaches, fans, partners,
Speaker 1: City of Memphis, and the entire Grizzlies organization for letting
Speaker 1: you down. But this is the key piece. I'm going
Speaker 1: to take some time away to get help and work
Speaker 1: on learning better methods of dealing with stress and my
Speaker 1: overall well being. Straight out of the Josh Primo pr handbook.
Speaker 1: I think that's like basically what he said. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take some time away and find some better methods to
Speaker 1: coping with stress. The keywords get help, learning better methods.
Speaker 1: It is very clear that Ja Moran has had I
Speaker 1: don't know if problems is the right statement, but definitely
Speaker 1: things surrounding alcohol, and it's clearly something that's being used
Speaker 1: in a way that could be construed as destructive and toxic.
Speaker 1: It's certainly not new. I remember thinking ooh when I
Speaker 1: watched Jaws again. Another Instagram wive, this man wants to
Speaker 1: broadcast all of his business out on the streets for
Speaker 1: no reason, clearly being like Ooh, I get drunk, I'm
Speaker 1: so cool. So he posted on a private plane on
Speaker 1: the way to Cleveland last year to the All Star Game,
Speaker 1: his first All Star appearance. I'm watching him not shirtless,
Speaker 1: but just guzzling a bottle of tequila on the plane
Speaker 1: with his friends, loud dancing. Fine, but it was like,
Speaker 1: you're already fucked up, you are already trashed, and you're
Speaker 1: taking another bottle of alcohol to the head. Not good.
Speaker 1: And then he was like, oh, yeah it was lit
Speaker 1: at All Star Game. Ooh it was lit. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: The like a lot of this surrounds bad decisions when
Speaker 1: you are not sober and you lose control, things happen
Speaker 1: in your brain. Those sensors that tell you, hey, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't do this, Those sensors go away when you've had
Speaker 1: too much tequila. Hence the whole blame it on, Blame
Speaker 1: it on Henny, Blame it on Patron, Like that's you
Speaker 1: can't you bring a gun to the club. You can't
Speaker 1: blame it on the alcohol. You can't. Sorry, Like it's
Speaker 1: the truth, and you people forget Jaws only twenty three
Speaker 1: years old. He's a baby. Yeah what I was doing
Speaker 1: at twenty three years old? My lord, my lord, It
Speaker 1: doesn't excuse anything. But this is a guy who just
Speaker 1: signed five years two hundred and thirteen million dollars. Nothing
Speaker 1: can prepare you for five years two hundred and thirteen
Speaker 1: million dollars at twenty three years old. And I love
Speaker 1: him because he's defiant. He's defiant, and that is what
Speaker 1: that Instagram life was. Oh, Washington Post, you want to
Speaker 1: post a story about me putting a gun in my waistband,
Speaker 1: let me show you this gun to the face, no
Speaker 1: shirt on. Like, okay, I don't think you get it, sir,
Speaker 1: Like you can go to jail for this. You've now
Speaker 1: moved a gun allegedly. I don't know how the gun
Speaker 1: got there, but the NBA is gonna want to know
Speaker 1: the gun got from Memphis to Denver, across state lines,
Speaker 1: maybe on a team plane. Now you're talking about felony,
Speaker 1: You're talking about Gilbert Arena's suspensions. All kind of things
Speaker 1: are in play, and now this just came in today.
Speaker 1: Colorado police are now investigating the incidents to see if
Speaker 1: job Brokenny laws. It is believed that jaws Ig Live
Speaker 1: was filmed in Glendale, a suburb of Denver known for
Speaker 1: its strip clubs. He since he was only It's the
Speaker 1: only county in Colorado that is not an open carry County.
Speaker 1: Very unfortunate scenario for Jahn Morant. He may be now
Speaker 1: in play for a weapons violation. That is, in addition
Speaker 1: to whether it can be ascertained if it was his
Speaker 1: playing his own gun on the team plane, which would
Speaker 1: break all kinds of NBA locker room type laws. This
Speaker 1: shit could get ugly very fast. Sometimes it's better to
Speaker 1: be a slept on team. The Grizzlies, I think, are
Speaker 1: a team that's better to be slept on them as
Speaker 1: the team that everybody's looking for, they do not know
Speaker 1: how to handle that. You have Dylan Brooks with sixteen
Speaker 1: technicals already at this point in the year. He's getting
Speaker 1: suspended suspensions. You've got John Morant happy. This is probably
Speaker 1: the worst weekend for the Grizzlies in team history because
Speaker 1: they lose Brandon Clark to an achilles injury, which is
Speaker 1: not being discussed. It would have if this jaw thing
Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened. You've had Steven Adams missing a bajillion games,
Speaker 1: knows when he's coming back, and now you've got one
Speaker 1: of the thinnest teams as a two seed and you're
Speaker 1: losing to the LA Clippers. When you had a fifteen
Speaker 1: point lead in third quarter. You're just pew Downstandings, Sacramaro
Speaker 1: Kings breathing down your throat, Clippers breathing down your throat,
Speaker 1: MAVs breathing all down your throat. I want Jaw back,
Speaker 1: but I only want jawback if he's changed as a player,
Speaker 1: if he's changed as a human being, Because if he
Speaker 1: has the same baggage in the Satis decision making tree
Speaker 1: that he had when he decided, Oh yeah, you think
Speaker 1: this is gonna harm me, I'm gonna put the gun
Speaker 1: in the ig life. If that shit is going, this
Speaker 1: is gonna get bad very fast because Jaw, we don't
Speaker 1: deserve it. But really, Jaw doesn't deserve it. Really, Jaw
Speaker 1: needs to sort himself out. He deserves to play with
Speaker 1: new tactics to deal with being him. Outside of just
Speaker 1: bottles of Henny and strip clubs and guns. There's gotta
Speaker 1: be other things. Kyler Murray chooses call of duty. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's call of duty. I don't know what the methods
Speaker 1: of coping are going to be for Jaw, but this
Speaker 1: clearly can't be the method because obviously it's leading to
Speaker 1: being reckless and reckless decisions with a superstar with pajillions
Speaker 1: of money on the line. We're talking about sponsorship, we're
Speaker 1: talking about the league is not going to work. And
Speaker 1: I will wait, and we should all be ready to
Speaker 1: wait for as long as necessary for this new version
Speaker 1: of Ja Moran to come back.