Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, we get into.
Speaker 3: A story that was trending on Twitter all weekend long.
Speaker 2: So just delicious.
Speaker 3: So this league the next chapter in a classic tale
Speaker 3: of a young hot coquettish Instagram ig thought putting her
Speaker 3: claws into an entire NBA playoff rotation, The rise, the Fall,
Speaker 3: and how the Dione Sanders inspired redemption goes of Brittany Renner.
Speaker 3: We also get into a deep dive on why almost everyone,
Speaker 3: I mean actually everyone was wrong about DeMar DeRozan.
Speaker 2: Including myself. So go ahead, brop and drop that mother.
Speaker 2: So Steve Kerr recently said.
Speaker 3: On Oppresser the other day, Steve Kirr, Golden State Warriors
Speaker 3: head coach, that when they go to the playoffs, they
Speaker 3: are going to shorten their rotation to eight men. Eight
Speaker 3: men is the rotation of a playoff roster. That is
Speaker 3: how many men Brittany Renner in the NBA has slept with.
Speaker 3: Brittany Renner has slept with an entire NBA playoff rotation.
Speaker 2: It's impressive.
Speaker 3: If you're not familiar with Britney Renner, let me just
Speaker 3: refresh or give you an update on her this summer.
Speaker 3: Brittany Renner made herself very famous after her and PJ.
Speaker 3: Washington had this very public battle over child support. Brittany Renner,
Speaker 3: if you don't know who she is, she's in IG.
Speaker 2: Let me be honest. She's a thought like she's that
Speaker 2: hole over there. But she's an influencer. John Sally follows
Speaker 2: her funny.
Speaker 3: Enough, like you know he yeah, you know what I'm
Speaker 3: saying about John Sally. So John Sally follows her, likes
Speaker 3: her stuff, loves her content.
Speaker 2: If you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Men love Brittany Renner's content online. It's basically Brittany with
Speaker 3: her little coquettish face and smile with pretty much no
Speaker 3: clothes on, just skin on skin, and her.
Speaker 2: Doing it flirty things. So she is.
Speaker 3: She went to Jackson's State where she played D one soccer,
Speaker 3: got her start as a Zuma instructor, and then she
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, i know, crazy, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: blew up on IG and on YouTube right around twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: Long maybe it's a decade ago, Brittany Renner.
Speaker 3: So then she took all of that notoriety that she
Speaker 3: made doing whatever it is that she did and parlay
Speaker 3: that into a series of relationships that ended in a
Speaker 3: toe all book about her love life, including Trey Songs,
Speaker 3: lo Uzi Vert, Chris Brown, Drake, James Harden, and Tiger.
Speaker 3: Also Colin Kaepernick, also Ben Simmons, who apparently apparently cheated
Speaker 3: on Kendall Jenner with her so as I said when
Speaker 3: the story broke, pleasing James Harden and then Drake to
Speaker 3: be able to go so seamlessly between those two personality types.
Speaker 3: More difficult than transitioning from playing for Doc Rivers to
Speaker 3: Tom Thibodeau.
Speaker 2: Which is basically what Austin Rivers had to do. It
Speaker 2: didn't work out well.
Speaker 3: He had ended up like sitting on his own couch
Speaker 3: before getting pick.
Speaker 2: Up by the Denver Nuggets. Not an easy thing.
Speaker 3: This is more difficult than that than that, Like all
Speaker 3: these guys, all of them have different tastes.
Speaker 2: Oozivert to Chris Brown, who you know what Chris Brown's about.
Speaker 2: Let's get physical physical.
Speaker 3: Then okay, so then she gets on. Ig makes an
Speaker 3: instructional video about how do I put it gently, how
Speaker 3: to trap an athlete, how to get the bag by
Speaker 3: fucking a reckless non condom wearing athlete. Because they're all
Speaker 3: pretty much reckless based on her substantial experience with sleeping
Speaker 3: with famous man aka athletes.
Speaker 2: Let's go into it, so I'll really.
Speaker 4: Wanted to try to come up off a check off
Speaker 4: the man, and you could just fuck an athlete.
Speaker 3: They're really dumb. If you want to come up off
Speaker 3: a check, all you gotta do is just fuck an athlete.
Speaker 2: They're really dumb.
Speaker 3: This video obviously came back to bite her in the
Speaker 3: ass because later she groomed a Kentucky basketball player six
Speaker 3: years younger than her who she started seeing when he
Speaker 3: was eighteen years old, Akap Washington. Then she married him,
Speaker 3: had a kid with him after he was drafted by
Speaker 3: the Hornets in the lottery. So the video comes back
Speaker 3: to bite her in the ass because what does she do.
Speaker 3: She does exactly that. She grooms this young man PJ. Washington,
Speaker 3: who's an eighteen year old at Kentucky. He's not even
Speaker 3: a good player at Kentucky. He does go in the lottery, though,
Speaker 3: she ends up wiping him up having his baby, and
Speaker 3: then two weeks after she gave birth to their son,
Speaker 3: she secretly filed for divorce, took the kid with her,
Speaker 3: and left.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the night.
Speaker 3: Cold blooded uh, and so actually that is when incorrect, ugly,
Speaker 3: unfounded rumors, just gross ones, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: About PJ.
Speaker 3: Washington's child support, people started coming out with these really
Speaker 3: obscenely inaccurate reports that PJ. Washington was paying two hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars a month to Britney.
Speaker 2: Renner and child support.
Speaker 3: Just slanderous, right, not true, but funny, right, like the
Speaker 3: best cond And of course that old video surfaced about
Speaker 3: Britney Renner trapping an athlete and taking all of his money.
Speaker 3: So then she goes hiding. That's where we're at in
Speaker 3: this saga as we stand. So and after a couple
Speaker 3: of months underground, four months underground, Britney Renner, of course,
Speaker 3: she could not stay silent. She's a cloud chaser, that's
Speaker 3: what she does. She's out in the media doing a thing.
Speaker 3: So she's now trending again because she's on a media tour.
Speaker 3: She's on an apology slash reformation slash clarification tour.
Speaker 2: To set the record straight about.
Speaker 3: Who she is and was, but who she is now
Speaker 3: trying to be her entire character as a whole. She's
Speaker 3: now come out to discuss with Dion Sanders, for one okay,
Speaker 3: because she went to Jackson State.
Speaker 2: Now he's the head coach of Jackson State.
Speaker 3: Yes, but let's unpack the first interview with lad TV
Speaker 3: because it's a doozy, folks, it is.
Speaker 2: It is a lot.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go down down the way on this piece
Speaker 3: by piece because I tell you what, it's a lot.
Speaker 2: It's a lot. I had to watch.
Speaker 3: It probably ten times, had to watch it probably ten times.
Speaker 5: You know, you're figuring out your career. Your Instagram following
Speaker 5: is going up, and you know you start dating and.
Speaker 3: Pause, you're figuring out your career your Instagram following.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's really not a career.
Speaker 5: Keep going. You mentioned you dated eleven athletes to the
Speaker 5: course of your life. That may have been probably more
Speaker 5: than that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean I've said publicly that I've had sex
Speaker 4: with thirty guys. I do have a list of my phone.
Speaker 4: I could look at the list and tell you how
Speaker 4: many athletes, but as of right now, I don't know that.
Speaker 4: I'm on top of my head.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, pause, pause, Did she just say she has
Speaker 3: a list of athletes written in her phone in the
Speaker 3: notes app? A body bag list longer than Aria from
Speaker 3: Game of throws like, did.
Speaker 2: She say that?
Speaker 3: And first of all, why would you write that in
Speaker 3: your phone? What would you what purpose does that serve?
Speaker 3: Is it for yourself? Is it for Vlad? Maybe just
Speaker 3: before we go into this interview, the dude James Harden
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons like, who is this for?
Speaker 2: We go on, we continue.
Speaker 4: I think I said, I said eight NBA players, though I.
Speaker 1: Think this is the number.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, you made a video at one point you're
Speaker 5: in the back of your car.
Speaker 4: Is right?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry?
Speaker 4: Was it the body count video or what's okay?
Speaker 3: I'll pause If you can google this video with lad TV,
Speaker 3: do it, because when he's asking her about this video
Speaker 3: that she later says that she's mortified about making. She's
Speaker 3: laughing and smiling and smirking in the video, she does
Speaker 3: not have any country for this take whatsoever?
Speaker 5: Keep going, I'm not sure which video was, but you
Speaker 5: specifically said, and I quote, athletes don't use condoms. If
Speaker 5: you want to come up off a check off a man,
Speaker 5: you could just fuck an athlete because they're really really dumb.
Speaker 4: Really really dumb.
Speaker 2: Pause.
Speaker 3: She again still believes that because she literally just repeated
Speaker 3: really really dumb in general, idiots great with the ball,
Speaker 3: terrible with their decision making, keep going.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I would love to provide some context. When
Speaker 4: I saw this video making its rounds on Twitter, I
Speaker 4: was mortified because I'm like, why in the actual hell
Speaker 4: would I ever say that?
Speaker 2: Pause. Let me just break down why you would say it.
Speaker 3: One, you already have an Instagram account and you're wilin,
Speaker 3: You're in your car, you're tripping. Probably had just gotten
Speaker 3: done fucking an athlete that he came inside you with
Speaker 3: no condom, I would imagine, and cloud views, arrogance, That's
Speaker 3: probably why, just not thinking anything of it, just being
Speaker 3: an ig thought.
Speaker 4: I went to my archived videos, watched the video in
Speaker 4: its entirety, and I was breaking down the different types
Speaker 4: of guys I've had sex with and my whole point
Speaker 4: of saying that, which which is why I never really
Speaker 4: tried to clear it up, because it's such a bold statement.
Speaker 4: It's hard to maneuver.
Speaker 2: Pause.
Speaker 3: It is impossible to maneuver. If you want to come
Speaker 3: off of a check, you should sleep with an athlete.
Speaker 3: They never used condoms. They're really really dumb. There's no
Speaker 3: ambiguity there. That is not anything other than an instructional
Speaker 3: how too said it.
Speaker 4: Because I've been with plenty of guys that didn't use condoms,
Speaker 4: and if I truly wanted a baby for all the
Speaker 4: wrong reasons, I would have several.
Speaker 3: Guy.
Speaker 2: Now that's also not how biology works.
Speaker 4: But keep going, and in that attempt to make a
Speaker 4: group of people look dumb, I made myself look even worse.
Speaker 4: So I have to just stand on what I said,
Speaker 4: and I don't take back what I said. If you
Speaker 4: wanted to have a baby for the wrong reasons, there
Speaker 4: are plenty of careless people in my experience, the athletes primarily,
Speaker 4: and that's just that on that. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I try to make people look back, make myself look worse.
Speaker 3: No, you made yourself look like exactly who you are.
Speaker 2: I would say.
Speaker 3: You exposed yourself in the most real of ways. And
Speaker 3: now you're trying to backpedal like your name is Deon Sanders.
Speaker 3: You are now your brain went there.
Speaker 2: You know your brain went there. You vocalized that.
Speaker 3: You not only vocalize that, you decided to record that. Wow,
Speaker 3: you vocalize that, and then after it was recorded, you
Speaker 3: decided to push publish on that video and never deleted it.
Speaker 3: You are exactly who that video makes you look like
Speaker 3: an opportunistic, fame, money clout hungry jersey chaser that will
Speaker 3: fuck men only if they have status and money for
Speaker 3: said status and money.
Speaker 4: So I have to just stand on what I said,
Speaker 4: and I don't take back what I said. If you
Speaker 4: wanted to have a baby for the wrong reasons, there
Speaker 4: are plenty of careless people in my experience, the athletes primarily,
Speaker 4: and that's just that on that but yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I try to make people look bad, make.
Speaker 1: Myself look worse.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 3: Okay, So then they asked John Sally. He says he's
Speaker 3: a huge fan, YadA YadA.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even say it's athletes.
Speaker 4: I felt like at that time, I'm sure probably an
Speaker 4: athlete left me jaded a little bit, and I went
Speaker 4: in there and was just, you know, said how I
Speaker 4: felt at the time, and that just was my experience.
Speaker 4: I feel like I probably had been with more athletes
Speaker 4: at that time, so that was my truth.
Speaker 2: Pause.
Speaker 3: You're literally going on an entire media blitz to clear
Speaker 3: this little video up. It went viral, viral, like viral
Speaker 3: if you say the name Britney Renner. I made a
Speaker 3: video with Brittany Renner as my green screen two million views.
Speaker 2: Yep, still gets views to this day. Britney Renner moves
Speaker 2: the needle. People. It aged terribly because you she said,
Speaker 2: also keep going. Here we go. It's like I said,
Speaker 2: a lot of it. I'm not gonna lie it. It
Speaker 2: aged horribly.
Speaker 4: You know. It's like I end up having a baby
Speaker 4: with a basketball player and it makes it look like, wow,
Speaker 4: look at you. You know your your premonition came true,
Speaker 4: Like this was your goal all along.
Speaker 2: Bitch. That wasn't a premonition. That was an action plan,
Speaker 2: that was a to do list, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Premonitions are something when you look up to the stars
Speaker 3: and the celestial beings and you see, uh, this is
Speaker 3: not that. This is not fucking miss cleo. This is
Speaker 3: sperm and eggs and making babies. Like, there is no
Speaker 3: premonition to be had.
Speaker 2: Keep going.
Speaker 4: The reality is my dating pool is different than yours.
Speaker 3: Oh this is the part. This right here is the part. Okay,
Speaker 3: first of all, let's put air quotes in dating pool
Speaker 3: because this is not dating. I promise you you're you
Speaker 3: say you dated James Harden, But does James Harden say
Speaker 3: he dated you? Or like just because you had sex
Speaker 3: and also ate food together, doesn't mean that was a date.
Speaker 2: Like, that's not a date.
Speaker 3: You just both needed sustenance post or pre fuck like.
Speaker 3: That's it, That's what happened. Brittany Renner doesn't even know
Speaker 3: who she is. She thinks she's in a dating pool. Bitch,
Speaker 3: you are in. You're the video ho that gets basically
Speaker 3: passed around, and you are aggressively becoming targeting yourself to
Speaker 3: them as a video ho. You are just getting passed
Speaker 3: from one athlete to another. They know that James Harden
Speaker 3: fucked you, Ben Simmons fucked you, Oozy fucked you like
Speaker 3: they all no like when you've only fucked those guys
Speaker 3: and they all know each other and they all know
Speaker 3: that they are Eskimo brothers with you. Do they Do
Speaker 3: you think that they respect you? Do you think you're
Speaker 3: gonna come up off of anything except for giving away
Speaker 3: your self respect? And listen, I don't fuck who you want.
Speaker 3: I have no shame in that. But I tell you what,
Speaker 3: Fucking athletes does not make you special. That does not
Speaker 3: make you special.
Speaker 4: Keep going so I'm gonna pull in heavy hitters. I'm
Speaker 4: a heavy hitter, so I can't.
Speaker 2: Pause no, you're not.
Speaker 3: You're getting hit by heavy hitters. Proximity to heavy hitters
Speaker 3: does not make you a heavy hitter. It makes you
Speaker 3: a tool.
Speaker 2: Keep going.
Speaker 4: Why would I not have a baby with someone that
Speaker 4: I care about, whatever their profession, just because of something
Speaker 4: I said in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: Like, bitch, you just said that's the don't act like, oh,
Speaker 3: it didn't matter to me. The PJ Washington wasn't It
Speaker 3: was an NBA pun. What does it matter what his profession?
Speaker 3: Chi Literally the last sentence with my dating pool is
Speaker 3: different than yours because I only target famous people.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter what his profession is. And I
Speaker 2: had a baby. Get the keep going just.
Speaker 4: Because of something I said in twenty eighteen, Like, like
Speaker 4: I said, I'm gonna just have to stand on what
Speaker 4: I said and accept what comes behind it. I'm not
Speaker 4: asking people to understand. I don't give a fuck what
Speaker 4: you think.
Speaker 3: Pause.
Speaker 2: This is where it closes.
Speaker 3: This is where my last thought about this is, like,
Speaker 3: did you just say you don't care what we think?
Speaker 2: Am I insane? Am I going? And said?
Speaker 3: You literally just did an entire interview where he's asking
Speaker 3: you about a video that you said you were mortified
Speaker 3: by who are you? Why are you mortified? If you're
Speaker 3: not worried about what we think and perceive about you?
Speaker 3: Of course you think and care what we think. And now,
Speaker 3: of course Brady Randers has turned this into a profession.
Speaker 3: She has finessed her way like she does, into becoming
Speaker 3: like a comeback story. Her profession is now giving speeches
Speaker 3: all over the world and all over the country to
Speaker 3: share with athletes the tricks of the trade, tips that
Speaker 3: thoughts pull to snatch men up and make them come
Speaker 3: up off this check for the rest of their natural
Speaker 3: life until that baby is eighteen, and giving them the
Speaker 3: tips so that they can avoid said thoughts.
Speaker 2: Like her, she is the guy from uh.
Speaker 3: She's Leonardo DiCaprio from Catch Me if you can like,
Speaker 3: that's her, Like she's been the scammer all this time,
Speaker 3: and now she's scanned so much that she's working for
Speaker 3: the FBI to help them find the scammers.
Speaker 2: You know, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like I've been an ig thought that's come and literally
Speaker 3: fucked with every major NBA player that I can think of.
Speaker 3: I could have gotten any of them if I wanted,
Speaker 3: And now I am here for you NBA players to
Speaker 3: show you the types of bitches to avoid, because I
Speaker 3: did it myself.
Speaker 2: This is I don't hate the move. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I don't hate the move. So my solution, though, is no.
Speaker 3: Britney Renners turned Eric Thomas's like, she's like thinks she's
Speaker 3: Eric Thomas. Now she is going on as like Tony
Speaker 3: Robbins of the NBA space, Like, you're not Tony Robbins.
Speaker 2: This is my solution. It's the same solution I've given
Speaker 2: it out once before.
Speaker 3: You make elite athletes at the AAU level freeze their sperm.
Speaker 3: Right then they freeze their sperm. They tell no one
Speaker 3: that it's at the AAU camp. Folks like it's one
Speaker 3: of the little breakout sessions that they have when they're
Speaker 3: learning how to be good men. So they in between
Speaker 3: tournaments and learning how to manage their financial money to come,
Speaker 3: they get vasectomies, they freeze their sperm, and whenever they
Speaker 3: can get visseectamies, they do. They don't tell a soul
Speaker 3: and then these little Brittany Renterers they can't take them
Speaker 3: for all their worth.
Speaker 2: They don't even know. These Brittany Renners think.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I've got them. He's fucking me without
Speaker 3: a condom. He's coming inside of me.
Speaker 2: It's only a matter of time. It's just a matter
Speaker 2: of math. And gotcha, bitch, gotcha, bitch. I'm tied up.
Speaker 2: I'm tied up, and I'll have a baby when I
Speaker 2: want to have a baby, now when you want me
Speaker 2: to have the baby.
Speaker 3: She also recently went on a rant about how she
Speaker 3: actually didn't even come up marrying PJ.
Speaker 2: Washington.
Speaker 3: She's actually broker as a result of marrying this NBA
Speaker 3: player that's said I'm broke now this is she said.
Speaker 3: There isn't a person that could handle what I've been through.
Speaker 3: Imagine moving from a gorgeous condo in Woodland Hills, California
Speaker 3: to Charlotte, not North Carolina.
Speaker 2: And it not work out.
Speaker 3: I just need to say, you may believe because the
Speaker 3: words Woodland Hills, California sounds very posh. Woods Lands and hills.
Speaker 3: That's fucking Burbank, California. That is the valley, the valley
Speaker 3: of LA, the worst, the armpit of LA where only
Speaker 3: aspiring actresses go to become softcore porn stars. Like that's where,
Speaker 3: that's what it is like. You are either old as
Speaker 3: fuck and you want to live away from the LA
Speaker 3: and I get a lot of property and there's it's
Speaker 3: so cheap there She's literally talking about.
Speaker 2: Being in a condo.
Speaker 3: I guarantee it was an apartment complex in the middle
Speaker 3: of the valley. Like her next door roommate was like
Speaker 3: some random softcore pornt star you've never heard of. I
Speaker 3: don't even have the name because they don't exist in
Speaker 3: my mind. I don't even have a name.
Speaker 2: For them, that's how irrelevant they are.
Speaker 3: She also is like, I don't have a car now
Speaker 3: because he was supposed to get me one but broken promises.
Speaker 2: Whatever did you just say?
Speaker 3: Like, especially considering she was like, I've made a lot
Speaker 3: of money, I want to be independent, and then you want.
Speaker 2: To talk about PJ. Washington was supposed to buy you
Speaker 2: a car. This is what she said.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine feeling the need to sacrifice everything, including
Speaker 3: your independence and identity, just to be loved, But you
Speaker 3: wanted him to buy you a car after you left
Speaker 3: him with his baby. She goes, I have no shame
Speaker 3: in my game. I've made a lot of money and
Speaker 3: blown a lot of money. Despite popular belief, I don't
Speaker 3: have it all together. I am not sure Brittany that
Speaker 3: the popular belief is that you have it together to
Speaker 3: be perfectly honest, I actually think this story is very sad.
Speaker 3: It is a cautionary tale for young women who are
Speaker 3: beautiful and think that their beauty is the way to ascend.
Speaker 2: It is not. It is not the way.
Speaker 3: Your wiley wits about you and your looks can be
Speaker 3: used for so much more. You could parlay it into
Speaker 3: all kinds of things besides being a fucking Instagram thought.
Speaker 3: She also says, each day, I do my best each day,
Speaker 3: and my best gets better. Here's two new beginnings, never
Speaker 3: giving up and following your heart.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. That could be a quote on an ig.
Speaker 3: Post that someone made fun of on TikTok.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Or maybe each day you follow the money and you
Speaker 3: follow the jerseys, keeping a body count log on your
Speaker 3: phone in the notes app, like your name is well
Speaker 3: at Chamberlain.
Speaker 2: But you do you, Brittany, Mama don't see.
Speaker 6: Country. They can go bust up by the go go
Speaker 6: go up, catch let me go.
Speaker 2: Up to my conclusions about the bulls.
Speaker 3: I should not have rushed about my conclusions about the bulls,
Speaker 3: but you.
Speaker 2: Know so it was life at Zoe.
Speaker 3: So they say, uh, I've already said that the take
Speaker 3: was bad, so I'm not here to tell you again
Speaker 3: how bad my take was.
Speaker 2: Folks, you can be excited about your bulls team. Here's
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 3: Not only was I skeptical, the whole world was skeptical
Speaker 3: skeptical about this fit. There's a reason that the world
Speaker 3: and all of media was wrong and was very we'll
Speaker 3: call it pessimistic about this bulls team. It was all
Speaker 3: about the fit between Tamart Rosen and Zach Lavine. There
Speaker 3: might be no greater collective wrong opinion as this one.
Speaker 3: Like a dozens of articles coming out about how bad
Speaker 3: this fit would be. Not only how washed Tomarta Rosan was,
Speaker 3: how overpaid he was. I mean, there's just so many
Speaker 3: things I was wondering. Was he gonna be his flour spacer?
Speaker 3: How would he and Zactly Vine function together? When Zach
Speaker 3: needs the ball in his hands like forty percent of
Speaker 3: the time, Like so does Demart Rosen. Like that's only
Speaker 3: that's eighty percent of time. Where's the ball gonna go?
Speaker 3: They both need the ball about the same amount. Most
Speaker 3: people thought tomorrow was going to be like a ten
Speaker 3: minute a night guy.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a wrong take. That was terrible.
Speaker 3: I mean, people were sus very sus about Tomorrow's signing,
Speaker 3: not just because of his contract, which almost everyone thought
Speaker 3: was absurd, but really about how he and Zach would
Speaker 3: be able to be on the floor at the same time,
Speaker 3: Zach and Damar House way. How Here's what John Hollanders
Speaker 3: said at The Athletic right after the trade. DeRozan turns
Speaker 3: thirty two this week. He does his shoot threes, and
Speaker 3: he's a subpar defender. Board Money valued him at sixteen
Speaker 3: point two million for this year, with that figure obviously
Speaker 3: declining in the out years as he gets further into
Speaker 3: his thirties. Even a rosy outlook would have his value
Speaker 3: over a three year deal topping out about forty million.
Speaker 3: There's a chance that this could be one of the
Speaker 3: worst value contracts in the league. It appears Chicago paid
Speaker 3: DeRozan roughly twice his projected value over the next three years.
Speaker 3: The Bulls use their chips.
Speaker 2: And they're all in. Oh.
Speaker 3: By the way, he also said Crusoe's contract would be
Speaker 3: about a break even. Here's what some other people said.
Speaker 3: Derozen thirty two year old, poor fit with his new
Speaker 3: club and in a limited and worrisome ways for someone
Speaker 3: aging past I mean, these are so bad for someone
Speaker 3: aging past his prime. He has never been a great
Speaker 3: or even good defender Shade, and that deficiency will not
Speaker 3: get better with time. His growth as a playmaker will
Speaker 3: not be easily utilized in Chicago as Lavine, Vouch, and
Speaker 3: Lonzo all need significant touches. Moving DeRozan off the ball
Speaker 3: only highlights his limited shooting range and shrinks the floor.
Speaker 3: Here's another one. Those are just the issues of fit.
Speaker 3: The costs are what makes this the worst of the worst.
Speaker 3: We were so wrong. This is just it was so
Speaker 3: bad that DeMar de Rosen had to address these things
Speaker 3: in the media at a press conference like he was pissed.
Speaker 3: He was hurt. I mean, the amount of shade, dozens
Speaker 3: of these articles being like he's trash, he's worth nothing.
Speaker 2: Why would you sign him?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 2: This is what he said. It's basketball. I see a
Speaker 2: lot of people criticizing talking.
Speaker 3: About fit this, fit fast. These people probably have never
Speaker 3: played even basketball. Being a basketball player, you go out,
Speaker 3: you play at the park. Some of your best is
Speaker 3: against guys you don't even know that. You go out
Speaker 3: there and compete with.
Speaker 2: But for me.
Speaker 3: If everybody's on the same page mentally and wants to win,
Speaker 3: it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Matter about a fit. Yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 3: The thing that people overload is that Damar DeRozan is unselfish.
Speaker 3: DeMar Derozen lives and breathes this. He wants this to work.
Speaker 3: It didn't work in Toronto from a championship standpoint. He's
Speaker 3: a baller and so is Zach Lavine, and we overlooked
Speaker 3: that if two guys who are willing to be unselfish
Speaker 3: play together, things could be good. And he pushed hard
Speaker 3: for tomorrow to sign in Chicago. So of course now
Speaker 3: we know, though it's what twenty something games in the season,
Speaker 3: and now we know exactly how Zach Levine and Tamar
Speaker 3: Rozen fit. They are like peas and carrots. They are
Speaker 3: like fucking ham and cheese. They're like eggs and toast.
Speaker 3: They have both checked this stat out. This is a
Speaker 3: crazy stat They have both scored twenty five points or
Speaker 3: more in the same game eleven times this year.
Speaker 2: Eleven times already this year.
Speaker 3: The last pair to record eleven at least of these
Speaker 3: games through the first twenty four games of a season,
Speaker 3: Kobe and Shaq in two thousand and one, two thousand
Speaker 3: and two, Kobe and Shaq were the last duo to
Speaker 3: be able to do this, and there's a reason why
Speaker 3: the Bulls just beat the nets, the hornets, and the
Speaker 3: knicks in the last week alone. So maybe maybe we
Speaker 3: were all rushing to conclusions. Maybe we should have asked
Speaker 3: Damar and Zach before even a game was played about
Speaker 3: how this whole thing was going to work, because Damar
Speaker 3: Damar was wondering how it also was going to work
Speaker 3: when he was evaluating his options in terms of who
Speaker 3: he was going to play for. He asked Zach about it,
Speaker 3: and he said it was a commitment that we talked
Speaker 3: about long before we even played on a court. Just
Speaker 3: being having each other's back, on being there for one another.
Speaker 2: That's all I needed to hear.
Speaker 3: That's all he needed to hear from me, as long
Speaker 3: as we could walk. We're going to be out there
Speaker 3: to try to lead this team to be as successful
Speaker 3: as we can. That quote is meaningful. That quote very meaningful.
Speaker 3: But the respect goes the other way as well. Zach
Speaker 3: said this about tomorrow is that he's basically deferring to
Speaker 3: Demart de Rosen in crunch time, but The interesting thing
Speaker 3: is it's not just Damar wondering how he's gonna fit
Speaker 3: and committing to fitting with Zack. Zach also the bucket,
Speaker 3: the late game bucket for the Bulls, basically being the
Speaker 3: go two scorer in all of Bulls games for as
Speaker 3: long as he's been, there is now deferring to yup
Speaker 3: DeMar DeRozan when the game gets close and the moments
Speaker 3: get tight and the pressure builds.
Speaker 2: This is what he said.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Damar has been in these big time games and situations.
Speaker 3: I don't think a lot rattles him at all. That's
Speaker 3: when you let him take over the game. Calm it down,
Speaker 3: get to the free throw line, get to his spots.
Speaker 3: I think it just gives the whole team like a
Speaker 3: deep breath. We're okay. Damar DeRozan, the voice of calm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'd say he's pretty fucking good in crunch time. Let's
Speaker 3: figure out how good he is. He's actually leading the
Speaker 3: NBA and fourth quarter score at one hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: five points. DeMar Derozen, the guy who we all thought
Speaker 3: was going to be in a limited role making maybe
Speaker 3: like ten minutes a game off the bench. Poor fit
Speaker 3: is literally leading the league in crunch time scoring at
Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty five points. And if you think
Speaker 3: that that's reducing Zach Levine to a lesser role in
Speaker 3: crunch time, Zach Levine ranks third with one hundred and
Speaker 3: forty two fourth quarter scores.
Speaker 2: Of his own.
Speaker 3: This is what he goes on to say. It just
Speaker 3: makes everything so much easier. There's not all the pressure
Speaker 3: on you. I have a bailout at any time, and
Speaker 3: I think vice versa. Two ball dominant players who can
Speaker 3: actually function together on the same court because they're unselfish
Speaker 3: and they play in a way that compliments one another.
Speaker 3: It's almost like Russell Westbrook and Lebron James should have
Speaker 3: learned this little trick. Even head coach Billy Doman made
Speaker 3: an interesting point about how Damar is influencing the rest
Speaker 3: of this team because of his calm demeanor. He said,
Speaker 3: his passing ability down the stretch, his mindset to make
Speaker 3: the right play, his presence, his seeming inability to be
Speaker 3: rattled is.
Speaker 2: A boon for the Bulls. I tell you what, boy,
Speaker 2: could there.
Speaker 3: Be anything we were more wrong about In terms of
Speaker 3: the offseason. Everyone in the world was like, this is
Speaker 3: trash and actually this is very excellent. If there is
Speaker 3: one little element that you could be concerned about with
Speaker 3: the Bulls is that this team relies on a starting
Speaker 3: fives more than anyone in the NBA, and because of that,
Speaker 3: everybody's usage is way up and they're all getting more
Speaker 3: minutes than they have in the past few years.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: Caruso twenty nine minutes up from twenty one, Derozen thirty
Speaker 3: five minutes a game, up from thirty three, Lonzo Ball
Speaker 3: thirty five minutes up from thirty one. Levine same thirty
Speaker 3: five minutes, Vouch thirty three from thirty two. Not super meaningful,
Speaker 3: but in the beginning Caruso, DeRozan Lonzo, I mean this
Speaker 3: is a very short rotation.
Speaker 2: I mean Britney Renner could run through.
Speaker 3: These guys, these guys and then have them three more
Speaker 3: to spare, you know, two more to spare. Vouch has
Speaker 3: missed seven games so far, Crusoe has been banged up.
Speaker 3: Patrick Williams is banged up. He's out for many weeks.
Speaker 2: Levine. This is the part that's I think the if you're.
Speaker 3: A Bulls fan and you want to be optimistic, Zach
Speaker 3: Lavine has normally missed about twenty percent of the season
Speaker 3: every single year. He's missed none of the season. This year,
Speaker 3: he has missed not one game. He has been sicky,
Speaker 3: sicky with a non COVID related illness, And where as
Speaker 3: he would in the past probably say you know what,
Speaker 3: I think, I'm gonna take my stomach flu ass home,
Speaker 3: he's playing those games because him and DeMar are like
Speaker 3: they said, if I'm still standing, We're going to be
Speaker 3: able to play.
Speaker 2: If I'm still standing.
Speaker 3: As at matter, if I'm throwing up on the sidelines,
Speaker 3: We're going to play. That duo that winning is meaningful.
Speaker 3: Levine said this about that game when he played through
Speaker 3: Monday's victory over the Hornets and downplayed his reach recent
Speaker 3: ditching of the brace. You know, I'm fighting through stuff.
Speaker 3: These games are important and it means a lot to me. Whoo,
Speaker 3: So all of that to be said, One, we were wrong.
Speaker 2: Two this team is really really good when they're healthy.
Speaker 2: Here's a little thing to know, though.
Speaker 3: The NBA is eighty two games a year, and all
Speaker 3: that matters is how they perform in the playoffs. Are
Speaker 3: they going to be healthy or will they be banged up?
Speaker 3: Maybe there'll be a banged up three seed right for
Speaker 3: an upset for a hungry Hornets team that's coming for him.
Speaker 2: That all remains to be seen.
Speaker 3: But what we do know is that, oh boy, were
Speaker 3: we wrong? And this team does have enough playmaking, enough shooting,
Speaker 3: enough defense, and Demarta Rosen is a fucking bucket who
Speaker 3: can come through and clench time. I actually really hope
Speaker 3: that they hope that they stay healthy. Everybody's like, oh, Trista, Trista,
Speaker 3: you hate on the Bulls, like take this through seed,
Speaker 3: and no, I'm happy, I'm wrong. I want the Bulls
Speaker 3: to be good. I will be watching the Bulls a lot.
Speaker 3: I will be betting on the Bulls a lot, with
Speaker 3: a skeptical eye and a hopeful eye to see how
Speaker 3: sustainable this is across an entire eighty two game season
Speaker 3: and potentially a twenty eight game playoff run.
Speaker 2: That's all the time that we have for the heat check.
Speaker 3: Will be back early, squirrely Wednesday morning with a full deconstruction.
Speaker 3: That is the clusterfuck of the Portland Trailblazers and what
Speaker 3: that means for my favorite team going forward.
Speaker 2: Hint, it's not great.
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