Speaker 1: You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick.
Speaker 2: On this episode of the Heat Check, we're heading to
Speaker 2: the All Star Break, Yes we are. There is a
Speaker 2: lot popping around the league. I'm going to break down
Speaker 2: the latest names on the buy out market, Kevin Love
Speaker 2: and what that might mean we finally get around actually
Speaker 2: giving Mark Danielle some love. People don't even know who
Speaker 2: that is. People who watch it the NBA don't even
Speaker 2: know who Mark Danielle is, maybe even some of his players.
Speaker 1: And much more.
Speaker 2: It's All Star week, Nick, Do me a favor. This
Speaker 2: might be the last episode until we get back. Do
Speaker 2: me a favor and drop that motherfucker beat. So the
Speaker 2: All Star Game is scheduled for Salt Lake City this Sunday.
Speaker 2: The weekend starts today Tomorrow, Tomorrow Friday, Saturday Sunday. And
Speaker 2: I've got to say I'm usually very excited for the
Speaker 2: All Star Break, one for myself and two I like
Speaker 2: the festivities, and it seems this year that it's just
Speaker 2: maybe it's just call me someone who's not a huge
Speaker 2: fan of Utah, but I'm just kind of mah on
Speaker 2: it had the opportunity to go stay for free, and
Speaker 2: I said, you know what, I'm good. I'm gonna stay home.
Speaker 2: The weather in Utah isn't the only thing that's keeping
Speaker 2: me from going, but I think a lot of it
Speaker 2: does have to do with the fact that it's being
Speaker 2: held in Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital of the world.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if I can get a chai
Speaker 2: latte there. Also, it's the week after the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: this time, so let's be honest, I'm kind of tired,
Speaker 2: and I think we need a full week in between
Speaker 2: super Bowl and All Star like they did it in
Speaker 2: the good old days. The timing this year, to me.
Speaker 1: Is slightly off. It's a little old quick.
Speaker 2: To just jump right in the All Star break as
Speaker 2: soon as the Super Bowl is over is just a
Speaker 2: little too much for me particularly, And I don't want
Speaker 2: to be a downer about it, and I.
Speaker 1: Don't want to just hate on it because I love
Speaker 1: the NBA.
Speaker 2: But the final straw for me, this was it because
Speaker 2: I had one thing, and one thing alone I was
Speaker 2: excited for, and that was T Mac Baby T Mac himself,
Speaker 2: Shade and Sharp participating in the dunk contest. And you
Speaker 2: know what, I was juiced. I was singing it from
Speaker 2: the rooftops.
Speaker 1: Shade in Shade Din.
Speaker 2: Little baby Kobe, little baby t Mac gonna go out
Speaker 2: and rip everybody's throats out. And you know what, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, he just decides for no good reason.
Speaker 2: He said it had something to do with the integrity
Speaker 2: and like commitments to his team. Now that he's getting
Speaker 2: more minutes because Josh Hart got traded or something, he
Speaker 2: said he's pulling out for team commitment reasons. What the
Speaker 2: fuck does that mean? Everybody's got a meant to their team.
Speaker 1: You're in thirteenth.
Speaker 2: Wait, let's look, let's look really fast NBA standings. I
Speaker 2: can't even look at so gross on a day to
Speaker 2: day basis. Sir, you're in twelve place in the West.
Speaker 2: You should be in the Dunk Contest. Do you remember
Speaker 2: when Anthony Simon's was.
Speaker 1: In the Dunk Contest?
Speaker 2: And what it was that last year?
Speaker 1: Again, another tanking team.
Speaker 2: Do you think you guys are coming out of the
Speaker 2: doldrums to some sort of semblance of a playing team.
Speaker 1: Get out of here, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: And then that might actually be the nail on the
Speaker 2: coffin for it as a whole, because you know who
Speaker 2: they brought in for Shade and sharp, No shade to him.
Speaker 2: Good kid, mac McClung, Get the fuck, get this shit
Speaker 2: out of here. Man. Mac McClung's like, what six', one
Speaker 2: he's a high. Flyer The philadelphia seventy Six ers brought
Speaker 2: him up from THE G league just so he could
Speaker 2: wear a seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: Jersey what are?
Speaker 2: We what are we? Doing what are we?
Speaker 1: Doing?
Speaker 2: Now there's like, Chatter we talked about it on my
Speaker 2: Social why don't we just why don't.
Speaker 1: We just stop this?
Speaker 2: Noise why don't we just bring professional dunkers in and
Speaker 2: see what they can?
Speaker 1: Do these guys.
Speaker 2: Don't they're not committed to the grind of the dunk. Contest,
Speaker 2: No like they're just happen to be good at. It
Speaker 2: joh just happens to be. Good Aunt edwards just happens
Speaker 2: to be. Good shaden just happens to be. Good they're
Speaker 2: not like everybody Loves chris On, TikTok who can do
Speaker 2: every dunk underneath the, sun on every surface underneath the.
Speaker 2: Sun bring him, in bring his homies in. Anyway dunkademics
Speaker 2: has a whole account full of dudes you could just pick.
Speaker 2: Out give a million dollar prize to whoever wins the
Speaker 2: Dunk contest and make it a thing. Anyway three Point, contest,
Speaker 2: however might be lit this. Year look at the Lineup Tyrese,
Speaker 2: Halliburton Tyler, Hero Buddy, Healed Kevin, Herder Dame, Time Laurie,
Speaker 2: Marknen Julius, randall And Jason.
Speaker 1: Tatum the only.
Speaker 2: Thing missing is Car Anthony, towns but he's hurt as,
Speaker 2: usual And Stephen. CLAY i have a ton of love
Speaker 2: For Damian lillard, here BUT i think these young guns
Speaker 2: are gonna want to put on a. Show does anybody
Speaker 2: love to shoot at volume more Than Buddy? Healed, NO
Speaker 2: i don't think anybody. Does that's why he has the
Speaker 2: shortest odds to win the whole damn thing at plus
Speaker 2: four twenty. Five Buddy heald is gonna shoot and shoot some.
Speaker 2: More he is a great catch and shoot. Shooter and
Speaker 2: you Got kings Getting Kavon, Herder Red velvet in. There
Speaker 2: probably the best part Of All Star weekend right here
Speaker 2: is the three Point contest and it takes about forty.
Speaker 2: Minutes as for the game, ITSELF i have some. THOUGHTS
Speaker 2: i think there are going to be players who are
Speaker 2: in very separate. Camps you've got one, camp which IS
Speaker 2: i am here at The All star break and it
Speaker 2: is an incredible, Accolade BUT i have no interest in
Speaker 2: actually putting any effort thus fourth into the game. ITSELF
Speaker 2: i am here to party and bullshit and party and.
Speaker 2: Bullshit there's a lot of, those. Right and then there
Speaker 2: are guys who, SAY i do not. CARE i want
Speaker 2: to win Anything i'm. At i'm going to put my
Speaker 2: full effort. In i'm going to play like this a playoff.
Speaker 2: GAME I am not trying to get embarrassed out. Here
Speaker 2: so who are the players most likely to mail it
Speaker 2: in during The All Star? Game, well number one culprit
Speaker 2: on this, list very very specifically big culprit like hasn't
Speaker 2: even hit it in any. Way Nikola Jokic nikolai okicch
Speaker 2: wants nothing to do with The All Star.
Speaker 1: Game he plays almost no.
Speaker 2: Minutes he's averaging six point eight points per game and
Speaker 2: his Four All star. APPEARANCES i if you can get
Speaker 2: player props On Nikola, JOKICIC i would hammer the Under
Speaker 2: he is not doing a goddamn. Thing he's eating and
Speaker 2: he's drinking and he's kicking. It he's already said, that
Speaker 2: AND i don't have any business doing. Anything plus he's
Speaker 2: a Big we're gonna get a lot of players who
Speaker 2: are guards trying to get their. Shine number, two.
Speaker 1: Let's be.
Speaker 2: HONEST i hate to say, IT i really do BECAUSE
Speaker 2: i love, him But John moran is coming to. Party
Speaker 2: he's not coming to do anything else but to enjoy
Speaker 2: the festivities of the. Event and now he's got his teammate,
Speaker 2: There Jaron jackson in his very First All star. Appearance
Speaker 2: did you See? Jaws video From Instagram live last? Year
Speaker 2: it was just tequila shot after tequila shot after tequila.
Speaker 2: SHOT i would be more inclined to bet That Jah
Speaker 2: moran will get into a fight At All Star game
Speaker 2: than he will be THE mvp of The All Star.
Speaker 2: GAME i know that one is much more likely than the.
Speaker 2: Other he had six points in eighteen minutes last. Year so,
Speaker 2: Yeah number Three. Luca luca's doing.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: Luca we already know What luca wants to do when
Speaker 2: it's not time to play, significant serious. Basketball he, Chills he.
Speaker 2: Chills he's gonna tell whoever his coach, Is hey put
Speaker 2: me in for four or five, minutes And i'm just gonna.
Speaker 2: CHILL i got an ankle. Injury our team's not doing that.
Speaker 2: Great i'm trying to participate With. Kyrie me And kyrie
Speaker 2: might have like a little two man, game But i'm
Speaker 2: out let him have the. Shine he's there for the,
Speaker 2: spectacle not to put in. Buckets number. Four most player
Speaker 2: most likely to mail it in And i'm fine with
Speaker 2: it Is Joel. EMBIID i don't even Think joel.
Speaker 1: And BID's gonna.
Speaker 2: Play why he, SAID i haven't been healthy for three.
Speaker 2: Weeks i've just been trying to get to The All
Speaker 2: star break and figure it. Out he said he should
Speaker 2: have rested two weeks. Ago he averages twenty two to
Speaker 2: ten and two when he's not banged. Up he is
Speaker 2: very banged up right. Now on the flip side of the,
Speaker 2: coin there are going to be players who are, tryhards
Speaker 2: absolutely try their very hardest to get a, dub to show,
Speaker 2: out to jack up, threes to dunk all these. Things number,
Speaker 2: one here's my top five players most likely to try
Speaker 2: their very hardest and to ball out in The All Star.
Speaker 2: Game number One.
Speaker 1: Yannis yannis loves The All Star.
Speaker 2: Game you Bring giannis's brothers, there you would think that
Speaker 2: would make him more likely to party in. Bullshit, no
Speaker 2: it is him more likely to show out for his
Speaker 2: family because that is Who yannis. Is he wants the
Speaker 2: ball in his hands at all. Times he's going to
Speaker 2: shoot a million. Threes he is going to, dunk he
Speaker 2: is going to block. Shots he's going to be. Everywhere
Speaker 2: he averages twenty nine nine to four in.
Speaker 1: The All Star. Game that is.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous he is YOUR mvp front runner for, sure number,
Speaker 2: two and this is all predicated on who's getting. Minutes
Speaker 2: If Aunt edwards gets, minutes he's dunking on people's faces
Speaker 2: all day. Long he is going to do whatever he
Speaker 2: can to show. Out he is going to try to block,
Speaker 2: shots steal get out into try. Transition he didn't think
Speaker 2: he was playing well enough to make The All star,
Speaker 2: team so he is going to show the voters why
Speaker 2: they made the right decision to let him in as
Speaker 2: an injury. Replacement number Three Dame. Lillard number three Is Dame.
Speaker 2: Lillard he is another front runner For All STAR. Mvp
Speaker 2: no steph to stop him from shooting from thirty every single.
Speaker 2: Time if he plays on the same team As. Lebron
Speaker 2: lebron's going to pass The dame all day every day
Speaker 2: because you know what time it. Is he had thirty
Speaker 2: two that last time that he played in twenty. One
Speaker 2: shay another likely candidate to ball. Out this is a
Speaker 2: guy who does not get enough. Shine if he gets the,
Speaker 2: minutes he is going to want to show. OUT i
Speaker 2: don't think he's got any other gear than to ball
Speaker 2: the fuck.
Speaker 1: OUT i just.
Speaker 2: Don't he drives like thirty times a. Game you think
Speaker 2: he's gonna stop doing that in The All Star.
Speaker 1: GAME i do.
Speaker 2: Not number five most likely to ball out and to
Speaker 2: try hard in The All Star game Dearon. Fox he
Speaker 2: operates at mock ten at all. Times he is A Sacramento.
Speaker 2: King he is doing this for The beam. Team how
Speaker 2: long is the fan base gone without seeing A sacramental
Speaker 2: king in The All Star. Game he's, young he's fresh
Speaker 2: off of having a. Baby that fatherhood juice is running
Speaker 2: through his. VEINS i would pick some bonus to ball,
Speaker 2: out but he has a hand, Injury so number one
Speaker 2: on That Sacramento kings. Team he's going to show out
Speaker 2: for him and his. Teammate and like last, year probably
Speaker 2: the most exciting thing About Austro weekend is The Rising Stars.
Speaker 2: Game unfortunately everything else is kind Of players are going
Speaker 2: to be all stars soon want to get some. Shine
Speaker 2: they want to show the. World, HEY i am good.
Speaker 2: Too here are the. Teams there are four of. Them
Speaker 2: there Are Team Deron. Williams by the, way these team,
Speaker 2: COACHES i don't even know how THE nba chose. Him
Speaker 2: we Got Deron, Williams we Got Jokim, noah we Got Pow.
Speaker 2: Gasol and you might Say Team jason is that white?
Speaker 2: Chocolate no Is Jason. Terry who chose these?
Speaker 1: Captains?
Speaker 2: Who why they do? That?
Speaker 1: ANYWAY i.
Speaker 2: Digress So Deron williams's team Has Jalen, green Aj Griffin Bones. Hyland,
Speaker 2: wow this is a team for the. Chuckers Walker, kessler
Speaker 2: WHO i, Love Trey murphy another, Chucker Olprin shangoon another.
Speaker 2: Chucker Franz wagner another. Chucker Wow Wow. Wow this should
Speaker 2: be a fun team to watch play offense not. Defense
Speaker 2: Yo Keem noah's team we Got Jalen, Duran Josh, Giddy Quinton,
Speaker 2: Grimes Evan, Mobley Jabari, Smith Jeremy, sohan And Jalen. WILLIAMS
Speaker 2: i Think Joe Kiem noah got the best interesting. Team
Speaker 2: he's Got Josh, Giddy he's Got Quentin grimes and the,
Speaker 2: guards along With Jalen duran And Evan mobley in the.
Speaker 2: Middle this is the most, Like, okay this is a
Speaker 2: real basketball, Team, like this is a team you could
Speaker 2: actually see playing competitive. Hoops you add In Jeremy, sohan
Speaker 2: who's a defender and is shooting some better uh with
Speaker 2: his new one handed. Situation you Got Jalen williams with the.
Speaker 2: E this team shit ball. Out Pal gasol his, Team Jose,
Speaker 2: Alvarado paolo Ben, Caro Scottie, Barnes jade And. Ivy did
Speaker 2: he choose? These Benedict, Mathern Keegan murray And Andrew Nemhart
Speaker 2: probably the most talented team out of all four by.
Speaker 2: Far these guys athletically in their own, way. Elite palo
Speaker 2: obviously a. Monster Scotty barnes can do a million. Things
Speaker 2: Jose alvarado is gonna get under your skin and try
Speaker 2: very hard the entire. Time he's gonna go one hundred
Speaker 2: miles a. Minute jade N, ivy we already know what
Speaker 2: time it. Is With Jaye, Nivy he's like just gonna
Speaker 2: chuck and do these crazy jawl like. Things Benedict mathrin'
Speaker 2: same Deal Keig murray's gonna try to calm the team.
Speaker 2: Down write simmrom, down, guys, like we just just play our,
Speaker 2: defense stay in.
Speaker 1: Ourselves Keig murray is gonna be the dad of the.
Speaker 1: Group and Then Andrew, nemhard who knows why he's.
Speaker 2: There he's been, okay but WHO i honestly don't know
Speaker 2: why he was Chosen No, shade but HONESTLY i don't.
Speaker 2: Know and Then Team Jason, terry which is THE G league. Team,
Speaker 2: Guys i'm not even going to mention all of them
Speaker 2: because you don't know who they. Are the top Names Scoot,
Speaker 2: Henderson mac, McClung Kenny Lofton junior wild, Choice Scottie Pippen Junior,
Speaker 2: okay just a very fascinating team OF G league dudes
Speaker 2: who want to prove to the assembled lottery picks. Josel
Speaker 2: verado not included that they belong. There Scoot henderson specifically
Speaker 2: wants to show he should be the number one overall. Pick,
Speaker 2: yeah this is the high highlight of The All star.
Speaker 2: Weekend it's gonna get, chippy it's gonna get. Fun we'll
Speaker 2: be to recap the weekend's, festivities but the truth of
Speaker 2: the matter. IS i have never been more underwhelmed by
Speaker 2: An All star weekend in my. LIFE i might not
Speaker 2: even watch IF i didn't have to, bet it didn't
Speaker 2: have to. Work there's nothing of value there that we can.
Speaker 2: Take it's not, like, oh, hey you missed The All Star.
Speaker 2: Game you're not a REAL nba. Person that's just not.
Speaker 2: True