Speaker 1: No, no, no, come on, no, come come home, come home.
Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check, It's New Year's Eve, people,
Speaker 1: It's New Year's Eve. So I thought I would do
Speaker 1: something a little fun. It is that time of year again.
Speaker 1: You have made it through Thanksgiving and Christmas. You've slogged
Speaker 1: through airports with your N ninety five mask on, and
Speaker 1: kids screaming and throwing up at dogs, probably peeing and
Speaker 1: pooping in the concourse, diet tribes about COVID from your
Speaker 1: drunk uncle, probably a Maga bro somewhere in there, telling
Speaker 1: you that it's all a hoax. And now you stare
Speaker 1: yourself in the mirror and it's New Year's Day and
Speaker 1: you make a promise to yourself. This is where shit changes.
Speaker 1: Twenty two. I'm going to be a new me. I
Speaker 1: decided to give out New Year's resolutions for all thirty
Speaker 1: teams from Atlanta to Utah. We've got all the motivation
Speaker 1: these teams need to make it through another year in
Speaker 1: a better place, better franchises, with growth, prosperity, and more love.
Speaker 1: This one should be fun. So drop that motherfucking beat
Speaker 1: rock like this right now, starting today, New Year's resolution.
Speaker 1: So today in the spirit of giving, which I am
Speaker 1: so famous for. Ask my friends so thoughtful, they say,
Speaker 1: I am going to bestow upon the entire NBA a
Speaker 1: new Year's resolution in the hopes that every player and
Speaker 1: every team prospers even more except for Philadelphia in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Let's start team by team in athebetic alphabetical order.
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks find a new workout routine. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: this team needs to pick up how yoga or plates.
Speaker 1: They're always hurt. They need to stretch it out, they
Speaker 1: need to get more limber. This thing is like whack
Speaker 1: them all. Every time someone comes out of protocol or
Speaker 1: out of injury, another one goes down. What they really
Speaker 1: need probably is a whole new training staff to find
Speaker 1: a way to stay healthy, somehow, some way get yourself
Speaker 1: in order health wise. Because this is, if not the
Speaker 1: injured most injured team, they're definitely in the top of
Speaker 1: teams that are consistently out. Yeah. I mean, and as
Speaker 1: much as I enjoy seeing Lemon Pepperlou come off the
Speaker 1: bench in for Trey Young in the Eastern Conference Finals,
Speaker 1: no one wants to see that this time around. Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics nurture true friendships. This one's good. I feel the
Speaker 1: Celtics New Year's resolution for twenty twenty two should be
Speaker 1: defined peace and harmony in the locker room because Kemba
Speaker 1: Walker wasn't the problem, folks. And maybe, just maybe the
Speaker 1: problem or problems are still there and has a first
Speaker 1: name that begins with jay. I'm not sure. And so
Speaker 1: how do the Celtics fix their friendship problems? Maybe find
Speaker 1: a nice retreat, you know, weekend at Martha's Vineyards. Do
Speaker 1: some trust tree work, you know, lean back into the
Speaker 1: arms of Dennis Shrewder. Find a nice house on Martha's vineyard.
Speaker 1: I know it's the winter, but play board games, maybe
Speaker 1: some Jega drake cot chocolate, share stories about all of
Speaker 1: the trauma and how you can't get over it and
Speaker 1: why that's why your relationship with your mother is preventing
Speaker 1: you from passing the ball when you're double teamed. And
Speaker 1: maybe if it doesn't work, just trade one of those
Speaker 1: toxic gas players and bringing the vibes down like either what,
Speaker 1: I don't care, Brooklyn Nets find a side hustle. Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving has somehow managed to work his way into this
Speaker 1: lineup halftime. What will he be doing with all his
Speaker 1: extra time, hopefully getting vaccinated plant based vaccine. Maybe try
Speaker 1: a new cooking routine. Maybe reading a few more books
Speaker 1: on immunu virology or geology or geography. The world is
Speaker 1: not flat. Perhaps maybe even finding his way to a
Speaker 1: new religion. I think this is his third in three
Speaker 1: years that he's tr try it out. Maybe sharing some
Speaker 1: lotion with his teammates. Sure, maybe making new lotions, maybe
Speaker 1: new oils and lotions and tinctures for his man KD.
Speaker 1: They are good friends, Charlotte, hornets work on creating a
Speaker 1: more balanced Listen, Charlotte, we all love seeing you in transition.
Speaker 1: I love seeing Lamello ball diming Kelly Ubray or Miles
Speaker 1: Bridges uber chucking from three. But don't you feel that
Speaker 1: shooting fifty percent and still from three and still being
Speaker 1: down twenty is draining? Like, don't you feel that maybe
Speaker 1: a more balanced attack could help you win some more games.
Speaker 1: I know you have a plumble, but play some fucking defense. Try,
Speaker 1: just try to play defense, so you don't play zone
Speaker 1: all day and night either, Folks Like, why don't you
Speaker 1: figure out how to play defense? Literally? Maybe, just maybe
Speaker 1: you won't need to scramble back down thirty in the
Speaker 1: second half. Every single night it hurts me as a better.
Speaker 1: My heart is always shaken up by this Chicago Bulls
Speaker 1: a tick. Time to appreciate your accomplishments. Nobody, nobody has
Speaker 1: been more surprising this year than the Bulls. Maybe this
Speaker 1: is Cleveland Cavaliers, so their resolution should really be to
Speaker 1: stop and smell the flowers. You're not a real contender,
Speaker 1: but so enjoy a ride, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like you're about to be like the surprise Mac team
Speaker 1: that makes the Sweet sixteen and everyone knows they're about
Speaker 1: to get their doors blown off by Duke, but before
Speaker 1: they do, who knows. It's all possibilities. You know you're
Speaker 1: gonna turn into a pumpkin because you're not for real,
Speaker 1: but you're close and you did this basically overnight. You
Speaker 1: may lose zach Lavine in free agency, but is here
Speaker 1: right now. Appreciate him. Appreciate this moment because just like
Speaker 1: it all came together so fast, it could all just disappeared,
Speaker 1: just like that. Cleveland Cavaliers, get over your ex. Listen,
Speaker 1: Lebron's never coming back. I know you loved him, I
Speaker 1: know he was there for I know you guys went
Speaker 1: through some hardship, and he came back to you, and
Speaker 1: then he left you again. But I do not think
Speaker 1: three times as a charm. It's time to move on
Speaker 1: for your supermodel X who moved to LA and found
Speaker 1: someone so much better. I know you're in a tailspin
Speaker 1: that you involved hitting rock bottom. Rock Bottom is now over.
Speaker 1: It's time for you to forget about your ex. Twenty
Speaker 1: two or less wins and four straight games. You know
Speaker 1: they've been awful, and you've cleaned your act up and
Speaker 1: you're back on the market and you're looking good. So
Speaker 1: keep playing that all seven foot lineup, keep climbing those
Speaker 1: standings in the east. Who cares about what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's struggling right now. He misses you. He won't tell you,
Speaker 1: but he misses you, and that's you. You should relish
Speaker 1: in that as a soft six in the NBA market
Speaker 1: six point two. Maybe the fact that a ten point
Speaker 1: zero is missing you should be all you really need
Speaker 1: to know. Revel in the fact that he is in
Speaker 1: a dilapidated sinking ship in LA. But don't be too
Speaker 1: bitter about it. You're not a lifeboat and his lifeboat
Speaker 1: is nowhere in sight. Sometimes the best revenge is just success,
Speaker 1: just living well. The best revenge is living well. The
Speaker 1: sun is shining again in Cleveland. By the way, any
Speaker 1: update on Rubio, I'm not sure. I think he tours.
Speaker 1: They see all. He's out for the year. Dallas Mavericks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this one's hard. You gotta learn the lessons from your
Speaker 1: failures this year. No team needs to self reflect about
Speaker 1: their past transgression more than the Dallas Mavericks. We're wing.
Speaker 1: The MAVs had all those sexual harassment claims and apparently
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban didn't do anything about it, and then he
Speaker 1: was under fire, and Luca ran all of his coaches
Speaker 1: in front office away, and then the new coach had
Speaker 1: a book written about him because he didn't let his
Speaker 1: players go home for Christmas and ran one of them
Speaker 1: completely into insanity out of the league forever. Like I
Speaker 1: think all of those things were teachable moments, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, Jason Kidd, if someone wants to
Speaker 1: go home and see their family during the holidays, let them. Luca,
Speaker 1: I know you played hard for Slovenia, but you chilled
Speaker 1: a little bit too much. Too many carbs, not enough. Cardio.
Speaker 1: Next off season, maybe spend some time in la Maybe
Speaker 1: just go a pescatarian diet instead of a plantain ship
Speaker 1: diet cake diet. MAVs are a team we're all waiting
Speaker 1: for to take the next step, and the reason and
Speaker 1: the way that they do that is learning from their
Speaker 1: ghosts of the past. Denver Nuggets need to start a
Speaker 1: dream journal. They do. Remember you guys were in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference finals in the bubble. What time to be alive?
Speaker 1: That was your ceiling. It's time now to keep a
Speaker 1: journal of all the things that you wish for and
Speaker 1: hope for that will never come true. Like you think
Speaker 1: you have an MVP, which you do, but the guy
Speaker 1: on the wing has a back injury and we're not
Speaker 1: sure what's going to happen. Jamal Murray coming off of
Speaker 1: an ACL who knows when he'll be healthy. They're both
Speaker 1: out indefinitely. Y'all get just having a record. You're probably
Speaker 1: the best player efficiency rating in history, in history, So
Speaker 1: fill your dream trouble, fill your dream journal of all
Speaker 1: those times in the bubble of double doubles, and hope
Speaker 1: Yo Kich might somehow someway find a new team to
Speaker 1: prosper on. Oh Detroit Pistons. Your resolution should be to
Speaker 1: practice patients. The harsh truth is that Detroit for the
Speaker 1: second straight year, is going to be the worst team
Speaker 1: in the NBA. And you know what, that's good. That's
Speaker 1: a good thing. Be patient. Adding Chet Holmgren or Palo
Speaker 1: Benkero to Caid Cunningham sit in Sadik Pey. You might
Speaker 1: go from winning fifteen games to winning thirty games. That's
Speaker 1: double your record. Sure, you're gonna be ten point plus
Speaker 1: dogs in so so many games this year, but you're
Speaker 1: probably also going to trade Jeremy Grant for another first rounder.
Speaker 1: So who knows. If you trust the process, in five years,
Speaker 1: maybe you'll be a playing team. Golden State Warriors twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, you should build a better budget. If there's
Speaker 1: one new Year's resolution that will help the Warriors in
Speaker 1: the long run, it's a vow to save more money.
Speaker 1: We all remember Kelly Ubray costs this team seventy million
Speaker 1: dollars last year. Yeah he did that? Was that happened?
Speaker 1: That was absurd. They're projected to spend another one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty million dollars in luxury tax payments alone. That
Speaker 1: is a shitload of money for guys like b Alicha
Speaker 1: and Otto Porter Junior and Iguadala. Come on, folks, figure
Speaker 1: something out, get rid of the dead weight and save
Speaker 1: yourself some money. It's like when I buy a million
Speaker 1: quartatos a day, did I need that fourth one? Like?
Speaker 1: Did you really need a bi Alicha? Did you really
Speaker 1: need an extra guy on the off the bench? No
Speaker 1: you didn't, Houston Rockets, It's time for you to clean
Speaker 1: out your closet. You're a lot of fun, but you
Speaker 1: have a forty one million dollar skeleton just sitting there
Speaker 1: in the closet that needs to be gone. He's not
Speaker 1: even keeping quiet anymore in the back of the corner.
Speaker 1: He's taking up a lot of space. It's time to
Speaker 1: up here and in your heart and out in the
Speaker 1: world on social media. Time to set John Wall free. People,
Speaker 1: May I suggest donating to another team. You're not going
Speaker 1: to sell this old ass sweater on eBay. No one
Speaker 1: wants to pay for it. Just take the listing down.
Speaker 1: Come on, now, set him free. He set him free.
Speaker 1: The Clippers might want him. There's a few teams willing
Speaker 1: to take a chance on John Wall, but probably not
Speaker 1: for forty one million dollars. So allow yourself to buy
Speaker 1: some new sweaters that you actually will wear and put
Speaker 1: on the court instead of this forty one million dollars
Speaker 1: sweater with mothballs in them, or Nacy al tear too.
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers, I almost forgot to write you down. I
Speaker 1: wrote all thirty other twenty nine teams down and I
Speaker 1: had not Pacers be a team? Is it the Indiana
Speaker 1: mad ass? Update your resume? Uh, you're a team that
Speaker 1: is so forgettable. I didn't even put you on this list.
Speaker 1: No franchise in the NBA wants star players less on
Speaker 1: their team than the Pacers. Rick Carlisle did not sign
Speaker 1: up for this bullshit. He did not sign up to
Speaker 1: take a job to rebuild a new team. They have
Speaker 1: a team full of like middle of the road. You
Speaker 1: call them stars, you can call them like celestial beings.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're stars, but they're in the
Speaker 1: celestial situation. And this team treats them like scrubs. They
Speaker 1: have a team full of guys that they treat like
Speaker 1: g leaguers. They don't want to rebuild, but they want
Speaker 1: to treat every piece. Figure out what you want to do,
Speaker 1: and if you don't get your resume ready, because new
Speaker 1: people will come in and take that fucking job, La Clippers.
Speaker 1: You don't need to buy things you don't need in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, like we know this team isn't the
Speaker 1: same without Kawhi, and now with PG out at least
Speaker 1: a month, panic is now set in. The Clippers need
Speaker 1: to fight the urge to do something dumb like training
Speaker 1: for John Wall, that old ass sweater. Listen, just wait,
Speaker 1: be patient. Houston Rockets might just fucking leave him on
Speaker 1: the street. I got I got a chandelier for free
Speaker 1: in my loading knock. Who knows what you could get
Speaker 1: if you wait along, If you wait long enough, John
Speaker 1: Wall might just be there sitting by the dumpster for you.
Speaker 1: Come on now, folks, they've already made the mistake in
Speaker 1: the PG trade, because let's face it, wouldn't you rather
Speaker 1: have had Shay and all those first rounders to pair
Speaker 1: with Kawhi than Paul George, who's also injury prone, to
Speaker 1: pair with another guy that's injury prone, Like, come on now,
Speaker 1: that would be a top four team in the West
Speaker 1: right now. And instead that's what you ended up getting
Speaker 1: because you spent some money on things that you didn't need.
Speaker 1: So don't do anything to mess this up again, La
Speaker 1: Lakers in twenty twenty two. I think you should consider therapy.
Speaker 1: We all lean on our friends and teammates for support,
Speaker 1: don't we. But sometimes it gets to a point where
Speaker 1: you need professional help. Gets to a point where you
Speaker 1: can't put all those troubles on the outside world and
Speaker 1: all the people who aren't qualified to hear all of
Speaker 1: your problems. Maybe spend some time up in the Bay
Speaker 1: and go into a place where you know you can
Speaker 1: see regular therapy. They can give you all your meals
Speaker 1: COVID's everywhere. You're celebrating a win over the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1: That's how bad it is. You're celebrating a win over
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets like you beat the Bucks in the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals. You clearly need help. It's time. This is
Speaker 1: the year to get it. Time to reshift your lens
Speaker 1: on what the meaning of success is. Go inward because
Speaker 1: the championship can no longer be your goal. It's just
Speaker 1: keeping Lebron James healthy. Memphis Grizzlies, It's time to keep
Speaker 1: a journal. It's time for you to think about keeping
Speaker 1: receipts of all the haters, of people who said that
Speaker 1: this team is nothing with John Morant. Grizzlies are rolling.
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies are rolling and are in danger in the
Speaker 1: playoffs this year. I could see them beating Utah And
Speaker 1: if they do, you need to just make sure to
Speaker 1: look it back at all of your accomplishments, all of
Speaker 1: the adversity that you faced, and look over all you overcame.
Speaker 1: Because those voices right now are loud. People are currently saying,
Speaker 1: at this very moment, you are better without jaw. Imagine
Speaker 1: how sweet it will feel to reread all of those
Speaker 1: quotes when they come so very clearly wrong. Miami Heat,
Speaker 1: it's time to meet new people, time to expand your
Speaker 1: friend group. Miami Heat just canceled the game because couldn't
Speaker 1: field eight players against the Spurs. Yeah, no team needs
Speaker 1: more depth than the Miami Heat. Yep, that just happened today.
Speaker 1: May I suggest a g League mixer or perhaps a
Speaker 1: meet and greet with other gms to add some more
Speaker 1: depth to this piece, because pat Riley needs to add
Speaker 1: link to a bench or we're gonna see you Donnis
Speaker 1: Haslam in crunch time and that means night night sleep
Speaker 1: mask and just Jimmy Butler starting a coffee franchise milakee Bucks.
Speaker 1: Take time to compliment yourself. This is very important. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. You're NBA champions. No one will ever
Speaker 1: take that away from you. Despite the fact that you
Speaker 1: were a shoe print away from not making the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference Finals, or the fact that Trey Young almost bounced
Speaker 1: you out of the Eastern Conference Finals, or how you
Speaker 1: went down two o to the Suns and needed Chris
Speaker 1: Paul to break his wrist in order to win it all.
Speaker 1: None of that is important information. Revel in your success.
Speaker 1: What is important is that Jannis recently said his next
Speaker 1: challenge might not be in Milwaukee. So compliment yourself on
Speaker 1: giving him all of the pieces that he needed in
Speaker 1: order to feel completely content to move on to a
Speaker 1: new chapter that's not here. At any moment, that time
Speaker 1: could come to a close. Minnesota Timberwolves, twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: is the time for you to reinvent yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: and we know that you've been the worst franchise in
Speaker 1: the NBA for maybe even all of sports for a
Speaker 1: while now. But now you've got a real owner, and
Speaker 1: you've got a real coach, and you've got an exciting
Speaker 1: roster instead of a franchise built around a kitty cat.
Speaker 1: You finally got yourself a pit bull in Aunt Edwards.
Speaker 1: So get yourself a new wardrobe. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Time for you to remake everything that we know about you.
Speaker 1: Don't be attached to the dogshit franchise that you used
Speaker 1: to be. Things are different now. Ditch those sweater vests,
Speaker 1: ditch those button ups and those little hobbit shoes that
Speaker 1: you used to wear. It's time for you to change
Speaker 1: your entire wardrobe. Everything that you think is right about
Speaker 1: style is time to go. Move forward. It's a new
Speaker 1: era for the Minnesota Timberwolves. If Aunt Edwards wouldn't wear it,
Speaker 1: then neither should you. New Orleans Pelicans. It's time to stick.
Speaker 1: We know what this one is. Don't we stick to
Speaker 1: healthy habits? Looking I use ion, steak and cake Williamson, Zion,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Smoothie King Arena where we had It's
Speaker 1: six ten, four hundred in twenty five pounds Zion sticking
Speaker 1: cake Williamson. To be clear, in case you didn't hear
Speaker 1: the irony, it's a fat That was a fat joke.
Speaker 1: But I'm not just talking about food. We're talking about
Speaker 1: We're talking about healthy habits inward as well, sticking to
Speaker 1: your word, being the person that you would like to
Speaker 1: be your neighbor, treating you know, love the neighbors, treat yourself,
Speaker 1: treat what does it treat others like you would like
Speaker 1: to treat yourself. I don't know. When you tell JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick that you're gonna send him to a New York
Speaker 1: team and he ends and ends up in Dallas at
Speaker 1: the trade deadline, the only person you're hurting is yourself.
Speaker 1: They share him and Zion share the same agent. How
Speaker 1: big of an asshole? How do you have you have
Speaker 1: to be in order to get the world's nicest guy?
Speaker 1: Alvin Gentry to threatened to be dress. Come on now,
Speaker 1: this man's seventy years old, and he was like, come
Speaker 1: and get this. Come catch these hands. Take a look
Speaker 1: at yourself in the mirror. Be less toxic and choose
Speaker 1: less toxic strategies for your franchise before no one wants
Speaker 1: to be around you. New York Nicks take a trip
Speaker 1: somewhere with no destination in mind. Probably the most perfect
Speaker 1: TIBs resolution of all times. I would say he's been
Speaker 1: taking trips as a heads coach with no destination in
Speaker 1: mind for pretty much his entire career, and this year,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be all about the road trip,
Speaker 1: getting out in the world, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Without itinerary, hit the road, get some snacks, and forget
Speaker 1: about the fact that you are currently in Check's notes
Speaker 1: tenth place in the East when you were in fourth
Speaker 1: place in the East last year. That does not matter.
Speaker 1: It's all about the journey. It's all about the vibes.
Speaker 1: And you've got Campbell, Walker and Evan Fournee for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. Oklahoma City, it's time for you
Speaker 1: to embrace spontaneity. In twenty twenty two. You literally have
Speaker 1: all every draft pick from now until twenty thirty five?
Speaker 1: Can you use one? Can we have you use one?
Speaker 1: There are players to be gotten. There are desperate teams
Speaker 1: out here with no draft capital that will trade their
Speaker 1: star for some young pieces. It's time for you to
Speaker 1: do something new. Don't sell this time around. Bye. It's okay.
Speaker 1: Shay is the face of the franchise. He needs some help.
Speaker 1: It's just you can't have it. Just be him and
Speaker 1: Josh Giddy and forty five draft picks till the end
Speaker 1: of the time. You keep rolling over like you might
Speaker 1: be able to steal cam Reddish, get to two draft picks,
Speaker 1: maybe a piece, get cam Bridish from the Hawks. They'll
Speaker 1: do it. They have a salary cap issue here, folks.
Speaker 1: Teams can transform themselves overnight. We know that tomorrow isn't promised.
Speaker 1: Shay could turn into Paul George at any moment. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be a shame? Go get another piece to pair
Speaker 1: with Sga and Giddy before he decides, Hey, maybe this
Speaker 1: isn't working, Orlando Magic, this one's important. Twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: I think you need Your resolution needs to be to
Speaker 1: defend yourself, to defend yourself, to learn how to defend yourself,
Speaker 1: because aren't you tired of all of the slander? Aren't
Speaker 1: you tired of being twenty point dogs every single night?
Speaker 1: Aren't you tired of me saying your franchise isn't even
Speaker 1: worth watching on television? Or Adam Silver scheduling you only
Speaker 1: twice all year on national TV, both times the same
Speaker 1: week during March madness? Folks, every time I slander and
Speaker 1: or anyone slanders you, all you do you guys say
Speaker 1: back is yeah we are really bad? Fight back. It's time.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two to say something, Say well, Trista,
Speaker 1: how is Portland doing? How's Dame gonna do? Maybe Dame
Speaker 1: wants to leave your dogshit franchise. Look at you talking
Speaker 1: employ some of the tactics that say Philadelphia uses venom, gaslighting, deflection.
Speaker 1: Straw Man arguments, the world next year is your oyster.
Speaker 1: Don't just be a doormat, folks. You can't be the
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings of the East. You're better than that. Seventy
Speaker 1: six ers. It's time to say goodbye in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two to toxic friends. It may feel impossible now, but
Speaker 1: there is a way to break up with a once
Speaker 1: friend turn in front of me without blowing up your franchise.
Speaker 1: Sometimes ghosting is appropriate, but in this case, I think
Speaker 1: a trade makes the most sense. Moosting has been kind
Speaker 1: of what you have been doing. This can get everyone
Speaker 1: the closure that they need. And if you can't move
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons with Darryl Moury, then maybe it's time to
Speaker 1: move on from Darryl Moury. Maybe they're both toxic phoenix suns.
Speaker 1: It's time to let go of grudges. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: I know your owner has been accused of pretty much
Speaker 1: everything under the sun, everyism, racism, sexism, agism, classism, flatchialism.
Speaker 1: I know it's been hanging over you all season. It's
Speaker 1: time to let it go. Only by moving on can
Speaker 1: DeAndre ay and get back to being the monster that
Speaker 1: he was last season. You might regret not taking Luca,
Speaker 1: but the time has come to stop thinking about this.
Speaker 1: You made your decisions. Robert Sarver, You're a wildcat. Aighton's
Speaker 1: a wildcat. That's what you decided to do. Plus, by
Speaker 1: the way, DeAndre Aiden's in a way better shape than Luca. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Luca might eat himself out the league. You were some
Speaker 1: close calls away from winning the Chip last year, and
Speaker 1: Ayton was a big part of that. Promise him the
Speaker 1: max this summer, and let bygones be bygones, Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 1: Maybe my biggest advice for your resolution this year should
Speaker 1: be to take a break from social media. With all
Speaker 1: the problems that this team has, it's tough out there
Speaker 1: on these streets. The new year's resolution should be to
Speaker 1: avoid social media at all costs. Watch a movie, read
Speaker 1: a book, learn a new hobby. Look inward because I
Speaker 1: think maybe you need to find some time away from
Speaker 1: the hustle and bustle of how the world perceives you,
Speaker 1: because I promise you it's not good and it's not real.
Speaker 1: It's an illusion. Social media is an illusion. And also
Speaker 1: on top of that, when you're reading, maybe also find
Speaker 1: out what makes Damian Lillard have and then do that thing.
Speaker 1: Find them another piece. Sacramento Kings. Focus on a passion
Speaker 1: and not the way you look. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like we know how you look? We do. The Kings
Speaker 1: have the worst reputation and the worst look, worst jerseys
Speaker 1: possibly in the NBA. People barely even though they exist.
Speaker 1: You walk into a room, Sacramento Kings and no one
Speaker 1: even sees you there. That's how ugly you are. That's
Speaker 1: how ugly. But don't be concerned about how you look.
Speaker 1: Focus on what you love. Don't allow others perceptions of
Speaker 1: you from keeping you happy. That's what matters. Focus on
Speaker 1: what makes you particularly special. Everyone is unique in their
Speaker 1: own right. We're all like little snowflakes and people. And
Speaker 1: forget that everyone thinks that you are the worst. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? You have an abundance of guards.
Speaker 1: Might I suggest playing them all at the same time.
Speaker 1: That's what makes you interesting, That's what makes you unique.
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs twenty twenty two. Might I suggest going
Speaker 1: someplace you've never been before, like retirement. Looking at you,
Speaker 1: Greg Popovich, It's time hang it up, folks. Becky Hammon
Speaker 1: is about to leave for the WNBA because she doesn't
Speaker 1: think she's ever gonna get a shot to coach this franchise.
Speaker 1: That would be criminal. It's been enough time. You know
Speaker 1: this team is not going anywhere. All you want to
Speaker 1: do is watch film of Estonia anyway, So time to
Speaker 1: take a back seat, folks. It's time for you to
Speaker 1: go another place outside of being the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Sacramento No see almost said Sacramento San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 1: Move up to the front office, perhaps where you can
Speaker 1: watch Becky Hammon succeed from Afar and Estonia footage exact
Speaker 1: eggs exactly, Toronto Raptors. Wouldn't it be nice to start
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two with the clean slate. Maybe it's time
Speaker 1: to let go of your grudges. I know this team
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten over the beef between Pascal Siakam and Nick Nurse.
Speaker 1: When Pascal Siakam basically told Nick Nurse like fuck off,
Speaker 1: and Nick Nurse was like, I wanted to trade your
Speaker 1: ass anyway. Everyone knows it's clear Pascal is no longer
Speaker 1: the shiny new object that is Scottie Barnes. But it's
Speaker 1: time to move on, folks, It's time to get over it.
Speaker 1: He's not going anywhere. Apparently nobody wants to trade for him.
Speaker 1: The Golden State Warriors were supposed to do it, and
Speaker 1: they didn't do it. All six seven the six' nine
Speaker 1: of your, roster that entire six seven to six'. Nine
Speaker 1: squad you guys are all the same, Player anyway so
Speaker 1: what are you so? Mad at it's like looking in the,
Speaker 1: fucking mirror like, spot it you. Got it whatever you're so,
Speaker 1: mad about player next, to you it's probably the thing
Speaker 1: you like least, about yourself like your lack of a fucking.
Speaker 1: Jump Shot, utah jazz it's time in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: to do something that. Scares you facing your fears, ISN'T
Speaker 1: easy i, know it but fear it serves an. Important
Speaker 1: purpose it gets you out of the first round of.
Speaker 1: The playoffs, for Example The utah jazz will never be
Speaker 1: able to win a chip the way that this roster is,
Speaker 1: put TOGETHER and i know. You're good you're a wagon
Speaker 1: in the, regular season but everybody knows that you're not
Speaker 1: going anywhere in. The playoffs like every, single commentator every,
Speaker 1: single team every single player on every single team knows
Speaker 1: that you are a three seed In the west and.
Speaker 1: Nothing more. That's sad you literally gave up a three
Speaker 1: to one lead To The, denver nuggets then you did
Speaker 1: it again TO The. La clippers you need to make,
Speaker 1: a Trade Trade, joe Ingles, trade bojon and then when
Speaker 1: you're acclimated, to that try a, new fear which is
Speaker 1: potentially TO trade i, don't know to, Go There. Washington
Speaker 1: wizards time for you twenty twenty two to talk less and.
Speaker 1: Listen more you've been saying a lot, of things all
Speaker 1: these accomplishments that you've had, this year trading all these
Speaker 1: little pieces In The russell. Westbrook deal you're patting yourself on.
Speaker 1: The Back tommy shepherd's got a, new. Deal. Etc Etc
Speaker 1: But bradley beal has told the world he's not re,
Speaker 1: signing yet he's not committed to. This franchise that is
Speaker 1: a change, of tune a big change of tune to
Speaker 1: one of the most loyal guys IN, The nba and
Speaker 1: if you're listening, real hard that means that you are
Speaker 1: very close on the knife edge of losing him for.
Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing Listen To bradley beal when. He speaks this
Speaker 1: man just. Got vaccinated he cares about the success of
Speaker 1: him and. HIS team i know everyone thinks they're working
Speaker 1: To Make bradley, beal happy but? Are you? Are you
Speaker 1: they don't even have a real point guard To Compliment.
Speaker 1: Bradley beal maybe you need to figure out how to make.
Speaker 1: That happen maybe you need To trade MONTREZ hero i
Speaker 1: know that Hurts And spencer dinwiddie for a fucking real
Speaker 1: point guard that can get his, own shot who can
Speaker 1: play make who can. Play defense because, you're, never ever
Speaker 1: Ever If bradley, beal leaves find another superstar of his
Speaker 1: caliber who wants to STAY. In dc so that's all the,
Speaker 1: Thirty teams and in the spirit of, THE season I
Speaker 1: thought i would give you My Own new year's resolution
Speaker 1: of twenty. Twenty two it is to be. More active
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Speaker 1: more active on the. Heat check that means producing, more
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Speaker 1: twenty two hopefully pissing more, fans off saying things that
Speaker 1: either come true or, mush completely like the FACT that
Speaker 1: i Said the cavs were my favorite team In the
Speaker 1: East And rookie rubio that very NIGHT. Towards acl but,
Speaker 1: be prepared. Be warned i'm gonna be more annoying and
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