Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check. Oh boy, lots
Speaker 1: of drama coming out of Sacramento, and I'm here to
Speaker 1: help you understand it. I explore who I think has
Speaker 1: a better chance of making the finals, the Celtics or
Speaker 1: the OKC thunder Both are leading the clubhouse right now
Speaker 1: in terms of favorites to win the NBA title, which
Speaker 1: I think is fascinating. And then we dropped some news
Speaker 1: from around the league. All right, Anthony, drop that motherfucking
Speaker 1: beat that should be Rihanna. This is the bomb. This
Speaker 1: is the Sham's bomb. This is the sound of the
Speaker 1: Sham's bomb, Shawn's bomb. Damn it. Anyway, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. Big news. We've got the trade
Speaker 1: deadline coming. People thought maybe this was gonna be kind
Speaker 1: of a weak trade deadline. We had rumors earlier on
Speaker 1: The deeron Fox maybe just maybe wasn't ever gonna sign
Speaker 1: his extension in Sacramento, And so there was some bubbling
Speaker 1: intention about a month ago before they fired their head
Speaker 1: coach Mike Brown, and now dearon Fox, probably the best
Speaker 1: guard since Chris Weber, Mike Bibby Jason Williams to play
Speaker 1: for the Sacramento Kings, it appears will be could be
Speaker 1: traded by the February sixth trade deadline. That is a
Speaker 1: fucking headline. Damian Barling, friend of show, said Sacramento Kings
Speaker 1: are considering trading their star point guard ahead of the deadline.
Speaker 1: Sean says the Kings are expected to open up talks
Speaker 1: to potentially deal him by the deadline, and friend of show,
Speaker 1: Evon Townsend, who covers the San Antonio says that there
Speaker 1: were whispers about Fox at San Antonio as early as November.
Speaker 1: Then and then yesterday Jake Fisher, friend of show, came
Speaker 1: out with this reporting that the Sacramento Kings were actually
Speaker 1: the first who approach Dearon Fox's representatives about potentially putting
Speaker 1: him on the trade. But block, excuse me, it's the Kings,
Speaker 1: according the league sources, who first approached Dearon Fox's Clutch
Speaker 1: Sports representation about putting him on the market with immediate effect.
Speaker 1: Sacramento set word to some interested in teams as early
Speaker 1: as last week that it was open to such overtures.
Speaker 1: That's when the switch flipped in Sacked Town. And now
Speaker 1: it appears the Vivek, the owner of the Sacramento Kinks
Speaker 1: is in ok See at this very second trying to
Speaker 1: patch things up with Dearon Fox to get him to stay.
Speaker 1: More So, Demart Rosen, multiple time All Star bucket Getter,
Speaker 1: was on Running Back Today yesterday with Chandler Parsons and
Speaker 1: said that if Dearon Fox gets moved, there's a possibility
Speaker 1: that he will want out as well. Whoa first of all,
Speaker 1: Dearon Fox is represented by agent Rich Paul of Clutch Sports,
Speaker 1: who has indicated and we knew that there was going
Speaker 1: to be a sticking point as soon as Dearon Fox
Speaker 1: was represented by Clutch, as soon as he signed with
Speaker 1: Clutch that he will not sign a long term extension
Speaker 1: with the Kings as of now. So the Kings as
Speaker 1: an organization have tried to find help for Dearon Fox.
Speaker 1: Multiple players that they tried to trade for Mike Brown
Speaker 1: shut down why he called them unethical hoopers, brandon ingram
Speaker 1: John Collins said they are low IQ dudes I do
Speaker 1: not want on my roster. He is now fired. Since then,
Speaker 1: they have not been able to secure any player that
Speaker 1: will help Dearon Fox to his assuagement. So now the
Speaker 1: Kings have to figure out what they're gonna do. They
Speaker 1: have to find a way to trade him before his
Speaker 1: value goes down and down and down with the year
Speaker 1: remaining on his contract, and Fox has let it be known, Hey,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna trade me, I want to go to
Speaker 1: one place, San Antonio play with Victor Remeniama. That happens
Speaker 1: to also be Dearon Fox's wife's hometown and Dearon Fox's
Speaker 1: home state from Houston. And while Dearon Fox is not
Speaker 1: publicly requested to trade, Clutch's stance has made it clear
Speaker 1: that San Antonio is his preferred landing spot. Now. The
Speaker 1: current odds are minus one fifty for Fox to join
Speaker 1: forces with Victor Emenianna. Are there other landing spots? Sure?
Speaker 1: Vince Goodwill from Yahoo Sports says that it's essentially Houston,
Speaker 1: Miami and San Antonio and that's it. Some other NBA
Speaker 1: media grifters are putting in to the ether the LA
Speaker 1: Lakers as they always do because of the Clutch Sports
Speaker 1: connection and the Brooklyn Nets. Those two destinations don't make
Speaker 1: any damn sense. That's where we stand factually with our situation.
Speaker 1: Here's my take. I put out a clip earlier this
Speaker 1: week about this, but I feel number one. The riding
Speaker 1: was on the wall when Clutch got into the mix.
Speaker 1: If you think about the situation that the Sacramento Kings
Speaker 1: were in years ago and they had two guards that
Speaker 1: were not functioning well together. Darren Fox Tyrese Haliburton, both
Speaker 1: marquee players, both thought they were franchised. Both wanted apparently
Speaker 1: to be the guy instead Sacramento and make that team
Speaker 1: a playoff team. They had aspirations of bringing Sacramento the
Speaker 1: promised land, a marriage of sorts with the franchise Sacramento
Speaker 1: pitched Indiana. I think the reporting is originally dearon Fox Indiana.
Speaker 1: The reporting is now very speculative. At one point said yes,
Speaker 1: that's the recent reporting two years ago when this all
Speaker 1: went down, said no, we would prefer a better contract
Speaker 1: with Tyrese Halliburton. We want him instead. The trade goes down.
Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton is just sick, devastated. Thought he was going
Speaker 1: to be the one that brought Sacramento back to relevancy
Speaker 1: and excitement and was going to be the one that
Speaker 1: we everyone built the franchise around, and he was wrong.
Speaker 1: Now he's in Indiana, he's franchised there, he's a partner
Speaker 1: with the league. He's a partner with the Pacers, probably
Speaker 1: for life. And instead the Sacramento Kings chose Deer in
Speaker 1: Fox that was the one that was the girl in
Speaker 1: the analogy. You've got two girls, you gotta choose one
Speaker 1: who you wiping up, and you chose the girl the
Speaker 1: wrong one, and then she ends up getting out one friend.
Speaker 1: You know the friend, don't you with the friend that's
Speaker 1: always whispering. Oh he's fine. Oh you see that rolex
Speaker 1: on him. Ooh, look like he's driving. He's got a Bentley.
Speaker 1: Your man drives a Honda. Ooh you see that that's
Speaker 1: a Gucci bag. Ooh, he could take me shopping. Ooh,
Speaker 1: this is what you could get from him. Oh do
Speaker 1: you see his house? Oh, your man ain't shit. You
Speaker 1: should go here, you should do this. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, your girl's out there on these streets.
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, your girl's not trying
Speaker 1: to be your wifey. She's outside. And that's what's going
Speaker 1: on with deeron Fox right now in the Sacramento Kings,
Speaker 1: he is looking at Victor woman Yama and the San
Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs as the guy with the Gucci belt and
Speaker 1: the nice ass car and the Louisviton sweater and the
Speaker 1: nice Rolex with the you know whatever pearl whatever the faces.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Anyway, she's he's opportunistically trying
Speaker 1: to get to a better place, as he should if
Speaker 1: he feels like he's not getting what he needs from Sacramento.
Speaker 1: But the truth is he should be what the team
Speaker 1: is building around. He should be the piece the teams
Speaker 1: feel like attract stars too, but they can't get deals
Speaker 1: done a la Damian Willard and the Portland Trailblazers who
Speaker 1: ended up needing to go as well. Is Fox the
Speaker 1: villain in the situation? I don't know? Are the Sacramento
Speaker 1: Kings the villain in this situation? I don't know. Is
Speaker 1: this the best move for Sacramento long term in order
Speaker 1: to finally get some pieces and draft picks to start
Speaker 1: building up their coffers. I also don't know why, because
Speaker 1: this is not a rebuilding team right now. They have
Speaker 1: de Margaret, he's in the twilight of his career. They've
Speaker 1: got demonis the bonus prime of his career Max player.
Speaker 1: That is not a team that wants to start stockpiling
Speaker 1: a bunch of first round picks and become the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: So they better figure it out fucking fast. They better
Speaker 1: get Steph Cassel, Devin Vassel, multiple first round picks. Those
Speaker 1: first round picks better turn into a current player that
Speaker 1: can be some sort of veteran, multiple veterans on this
Speaker 1: team in order for them to be cohesive and back
Speaker 1: to relevancy. Otherwise, I don't know how the fans are
Speaker 1: gonna be able to stomach this for the long term.
Speaker 1: Boy oh boy, is the next week gonna be very
Speaker 1: very interesting one week until the trade deadline. I'm on
Speaker 1: the edge of my seat. Moving on. I was on
Speaker 1: a show on a network called beck QOL, which is
Speaker 1: the network I used to be on with my friend PJ. Glasser,
Speaker 1: talking about who's the real contender right now? Vegas has
Speaker 1: the odds equal Oka see Thunder defending champs Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: The question came up, who, at this point in time
Speaker 1: do you trust more Boston? Okay, see, I want to
Speaker 1: break this down a little bit further because I think
Speaker 1: it's worth exploring. Number One, You take a look at
Speaker 1: Okace right Chet Holmgren is slated to return rhet on
Speaker 1: the All Star break and the thought of Chet, Isaiah Hartenstein,
Speaker 1: Jalen Williams, Shay Gildis, Alexander Alex Caruso on the same
Speaker 1: floor at the same time is to me, if I'm
Speaker 1: another team terrifying. So much defense, so much length, so
Speaker 1: much physicality, the ability to get buckets on all three
Speaker 1: levels of the court, and I feel like maybe the
Speaker 1: return of Chet Hoolmgren is the biggest move at the
Speaker 1: trade deadline for any team, and he's the only thing
Speaker 1: that they've been missing to stretch the We need three
Speaker 1: point shooting on this team. He provides that. So there's
Speaker 1: a reason that OKAC is in first place. But this
Speaker 1: is a team that's just three and three in their
Speaker 1: last six games. They are gettable. They've got a loss
Speaker 1: to the Lucasas Dallas Mavericks. They've got a loss to
Speaker 1: the toothless Golden State Warriors for some reason. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, but Dallas has their number, and they better
Speaker 1: hope they don't see them in the playoffs because I
Speaker 1: think the same result happens if Luca is still healthy.
Speaker 1: There's another team, though, that the OKC thunder I think
Speaker 1: should be afraid of, and they are the Houston Rockets
Speaker 1: a team that wants to punch you in the mouth.
Speaker 1: They are all in the best possible way, prison hoopers.
Speaker 1: They've got shives, baby, they've got elbows, they've got fists.
Speaker 1: They're putting their body into you. They're getting their sweat
Speaker 1: into your face. And guess what they like it because
Speaker 1: emy Udoka has built them this way. They're no pretty
Speaker 1: boys except for Jalen Green on this team, and they
Speaker 1: are nasty and the best possible way. Ima Udoka called
Speaker 1: this team soft twelve months ago, and they are not
Speaker 1: soft now. Aman Thompson, what is he? He's an alien.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he is. He is so hard
Speaker 1: to defend. He has found his shot. He is one
Speaker 1: of the most efficient shooters at the rim right now
Speaker 1: in all of the league. He is a front runner
Speaker 1: or at least a player in consideration for six Man
Speaker 1: of the Year. If he keeps coming off the bench,
Speaker 1: I think you probably have more of a legit case
Speaker 1: for most improved Player. If Cad Cuttingham wasn't going crazy
Speaker 1: and you saw him the other night put up thirty
Speaker 1: three points, getting clutch time minutes, hitting game winners over
Speaker 1: the defending champs. He's attacking the rim. He is fun
Speaker 1: and a huge spark for this team. You got Jalen
Speaker 1: Green bombing away. We talked about him a few shows back.
Speaker 1: He's become a sniper overnight. He's averaging twenty six to
Speaker 1: four and three over his last thirteen games, forty three
Speaker 1: percent from three. Dylan Brooks, did you see him hit
Speaker 1: ten threes the other night against the Boston Celtics alprin Shangoon.
Speaker 1: He's on the verge of becoming a star. I love
Speaker 1: the way he plays, super physical in the paint, incredible vision,
Speaker 1: can score as well, defends almost as well this team
Speaker 1: as Okay see, so if they had a score at
Speaker 1: the deadline, I don't know the Aaron Fox will say
Speaker 1: they could be a threat in the West. And I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people say, oh, well, Daron Fox,
Speaker 1: they need shooting and Dearon Fox can't shoot. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: those people haven't been watching stats and percentages recently. That
Speaker 1: used to be true. Shoot forty percent from three now.
Speaker 1: Okay sees two and one against Houston this year, all
Speaker 1: three games won by the home team. Now back to Boston.
Speaker 1: In terms of the comparison, they're just twelve and ten
Speaker 1: in their last twenty two games, just six and five
Speaker 1: at home. The amount of home games that Boston lost
Speaker 1: last year come all together throughout the season. We're almost
Speaker 1: ready to hit that right now. But the truth is,
Speaker 1: I don't really care what Boston does in the regular season.
Speaker 1: This is not a scenario where you're saying, Hey, Trista,
Speaker 1: do you think the Boston Celtics are close to what
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets were last season? Huge regression where no
Speaker 1: one wanted to write them off because they were defending
Speaker 1: champs and they had one of the best players in
Speaker 1: the world. No, why did I not think that? Because
Speaker 1: they didn't lose any of their pieces. Denver, what do
Speaker 1: they lose? They lost Bruce Brown, lost Jeff Green and
Speaker 1: a lot of their depth in general. KCP had to
Speaker 1: play a lot of minutes. You had Jamal Murray with regression,
Speaker 1: with injuries, you had Michael Porter Junior really starting to
Speaker 1: have a decline in his three point shooting, and so
Speaker 1: Denver as a whole had to rely on just Jokic.
Speaker 1: Boston doesn't have that problem. Chris as Porzingis was injured
Speaker 1: to start the season. He is back now. Everybody is
Speaker 1: clicking on all cylinders when they are. They are very
Speaker 1: dangerous now. Dereck White has had some regression. Players in
Speaker 1: terms of the just the role players as a whole
Speaker 1: have had some regression, And like I'm talking about with
Speaker 1: Derek White, he's come down to earth. Drew Holliday, his
Speaker 1: three point shooting is down staggering ten percent down from
Speaker 1: last year. The question is do you believe this is
Speaker 1: gonna continue in the playoffs. I don't think so. The
Speaker 1: issue right now for Joe Mazola probably is keeping those
Speaker 1: guys hungry consistency. They'll bounce from blowing out a team
Speaker 1: by thirty, which they can do on anyone, to losing
Speaker 1: a late lead against a team like Toronto. This is
Speaker 1: the reason that no one thought Boston would win a
Speaker 1: title to begin with, because they had so many damn
Speaker 1: ten or more point leads that they allowed to slip away.
Speaker 1: This is what Boston does. You have to just allow
Speaker 1: yourself to know it's not gonna be pretty with Boston.
Speaker 1: But they're probably going to go through most of the
Speaker 1: East except for maybe Cleveland, like just run through them.
Speaker 1: But they can turn into a superpower anytime they want.
Speaker 1: They've got Christaps Porzingis who's finding his feet they've got
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, you got Peyton Pritchard as the
Speaker 1: leader in the clubhouse for six Man of the Year.
Speaker 1: I like their chances to come out of the East
Speaker 1: better than I like. Okay, see coming out of the West.
Speaker 1: And if those two teams meet, boy and it's a
Speaker 1: three point shooting contest, send Boston to the parade once again.
Speaker 1: Move it on. It's the NBA news. We've got a
Speaker 1: gambling scandal again rearing its ugly head. What you don't
Speaker 1: say it was a one off? Remember the John T.
Speaker 1: Porter catastrophe last year where the brother of Michael Porter
Speaker 1: Junior purposely through games to hit parlays that he had
Speaker 1: placed by a gambling consortium betting on his own unders.
Speaker 1: He's currently in jail for like a bajillion years too,
Speaker 1: thinking about fuck, why didn't I just ask my brother
Speaker 1: for a loan? Why did I just ask my brother? Hey,
Speaker 1: can you pay my rent? I'm in jail now now. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: scary Terry. It's getting scary for Terry Rosier. He is
Speaker 1: in the news for an alleged incident from back in
Speaker 1: his days as a Charlotte Hornet, which, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: if you were going to scam as an NBA player.
Speaker 1: Charlotte's the place to do it, not a lot of
Speaker 1: people watching your games with great scrutiny. The FEDS were alerted.
Speaker 1: Here's the story in brief. FEDS were alerted to unusual
Speaker 1: betting pattern surrounding Rosier's performance in a March twenty third,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three game between the Hornets and the Pelicans. Again,
Speaker 1: that's the one to do it, Okay. No one is
Speaker 1: paying attention to a random March game post All Star
Speaker 1: break when teams are starting to shut it down between
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Pelicans and the Hornets. Rosier, who remember,
Speaker 1: now he's at the Miami Heat. He was hooping that year.
Speaker 1: By the way, he has not been accused of any
Speaker 1: wrongdoing the probe. It's part of the same case that
Speaker 1: led to the lifetime ban of John tay Porter. The
Speaker 1: NBA said that they looked into it. They found no
Speaker 1: rule violations, but is now cooperating with the US Attorney's
Speaker 1: Office for the Eastern District of New York OOH Chuck
Speaker 1: Rhodes is coming as they further examined the situation. During
Speaker 1: the game in question, Rosier played just under ten minutes
Speaker 1: before exiting with the foot issue, ultimately sitting out the
Speaker 1: last eight games of the season. Betters became very suss
Speaker 1: when sportsbooks removed prop bets on Rosier hours before tip off,
Speaker 1: and some expressed frustration after his early exit, believing something
Speaker 1: was amiss. Twitter was full of broken parlor, with Rosier
Speaker 1: being the killing leg. Not sure if there's any fire here,
Speaker 1: but there is enough smoke to cause the US attorneys
Speaker 1: to kick tires because they believe something was suspect. The
Speaker 1: weird part was that Terry Rozier had a really good
Speaker 1: first quarter. He had five, four and two for a
Speaker 1: guy whose PRAA was around thirty the entire season, and
Speaker 1: then pack it up, folks, take himself out of the game,
Speaker 1: and then the underhits on all of his bets. And
Speaker 1: like I said, he was hooping that year. He had
Speaker 1: been a pretty reliable over before that, having hit thirty number,
Speaker 1: that thirty number in eight of his previous ten games.
Speaker 1: So I don't really know what to do with that information,
Speaker 1: but I find it nearly impossible to believe that someone's
Speaker 1: who making twenty two million dollars a year is like, hey,
Speaker 1: let me join a betting consortium and bet against myself.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I do know that some of
Speaker 1: Terry Rosier's friends are not the most upstanding citizens in
Speaker 1: terms of the professions that they take company they keep.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna throw that out there. No allegations,
Speaker 1: no slander. I'm just saying anything's possible. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's true, though, I really don't. However, here's what I
Speaker 1: learned working in the sports betting space. If the books
Speaker 1: think there is something suspicious going on, there is something
Speaker 1: suspicious going on. Who was involved remains to be seen.
Speaker 1: Maybe he had a foot issue and we in the
Speaker 1: team knew about it, and somebody told somebody, and then
Speaker 1: somebody told it better, and then they told all their friends,
Speaker 1: and now the sports books pack it up. Moving on,
Speaker 1: We'll have a full trade deadline episode on Monday. But
Speaker 1: here's a list of some of the players who may
Speaker 1: be on the move not named Aaron Fox and Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: Caleb Martin, Clint Capella, DeAndre Hunter. We're just trading all
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks, bog Don, Bogdanovich, Keldon Johnson, gershawn Yabisele Nikola, Lusovich,
Speaker 1: Miles Turner, which is just a joke, absolute bananas. John
Speaker 1: Collins which is another one. Remember it used to be
Speaker 1: just John Collins and Miles Turner all the time, over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. Colin Sexton again another one,
Speaker 1: always in the news. Mitchell Robinson which why would anyone
Speaker 1: want his broken body right now? Use of Nurkic? Why
Speaker 1: would anyone want his broken basketball game right now? And
Speaker 1: Yaka pertl Gonna be a busy week, folks. And finally,
Speaker 1: your weekly roundup of NBA injuries. Two major stars are out. First,
Speaker 1: emerging Hawks superstar Jalen Johnson is out for the season
Speaker 1: with a torn labram in his left shoulder. Huge law
Speaker 1: for the Hawks this He's become an insane companion for
Speaker 1: Chrey Young this season. He's averaged nineteen ten and five.
Speaker 1: His injury, of course, throws a massive wet blanket on
Speaker 1: the Hawk season. But also they probably like it given
Speaker 1: the fact that they owe their first round pick that's
Speaker 1: protected I believe top ten to San Antonio. Pack it up, baby,
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep our pick. In a loaded draft. It's
Speaker 1: a lot more likely that they move guys out of
Speaker 1: the deadline than bring them back. Sad for Jalen He'll
Speaker 1: be back next year and hopefully maybe remember Atlanta somehow
Speaker 1: locked into the number one fucking pick of the draft
Speaker 1: this last year when they did not deserve it. Another
Speaker 1: injury of note, LaMelo Ball stepped on a foot while
Speaker 1: backpedaling admiring his long three, which is so LaMelo Ball.
Speaker 1: Ball's ankles have caused him so many damn problems over
Speaker 1: the years that a lot of executives in the NBA
Speaker 1: now view him as a risk, both in the trademarket
Speaker 1: and the free agent market. He's gonna be reevaluated next week.
Speaker 1: He's probably gonna missfight to seven games. This coming on
Speaker 1: the back of the news that he will not make
Speaker 1: the All Star Game. Sad times for LaMelo Ball. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the All Star Game, the reserves were announced, it's
Speaker 1: more interesting talking about who did not make the team
Speaker 1: than who did. Here are your snubs for this year,
Speaker 1: East Trey Young, Lamello Ball, Tyrese Maxey, Franz Wagner. I
Speaker 1: don't think Franz is really a snub because he was injured.
Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton, which really probably isn't a snub E there
Speaker 1: because he's been playing hurt in the Westmonasabonis biggest snub
Speaker 1: every year. I don't understand dearon Fox Kyrie Irving, Norm Powell,
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. To me, there are two names that stand
Speaker 1: out in the East. Tyree Maxey, who's averaging twenty five
Speaker 1: and six. I know he's having a bit of a
Speaker 1: down year in the Sixer Stink, but he's kind of
Speaker 1: single handily propping up the entire franchise, the entire hope
Speaker 1: of this team. Demonasabonis, I think you got royally host.
Speaker 1: If you don't know by now that he is an
Speaker 1: All Star, insane, shame on you. Twenty one, fifteen and seven,
Speaker 1: just an egregious oversight. We will talk more about the
Speaker 1: All Star game soon. That's all the time that we
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