Speaker 1: Breaks, breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines or tilled in.
Speaker 2: So the Heat Check.
Speaker 1: The Heat Check was just a crazy the best podcast
Speaker 1: covering all the drama around the association. Just a quick
Speaker 1: little run around the league to see what's popping. We'll
Speaker 1: start with Indiana, who I said was my league past
Speaker 1: Team of the Year. They are finally looking to move
Speaker 1: on from Buddyheild. It's not a bad blood thing, it's
Speaker 1: just a fit situation. They've got too many guards, too
Speaker 1: many guys trying to get shots up, and let's be honest,
Speaker 1: Buddy Heel wants to chuck up twenty five shots per game,
Speaker 1: and for all of his defensive flaws, there are a
Speaker 1: ton of teams looking.
Speaker 2: For Buddy Hil type caliber players from.
Speaker 1: Three one of the best three point shooters in the league,
Speaker 1: if not the best, and that's why they're talking about
Speaker 1: bringing him, bringing back.
Speaker 2: A first rounder for any trade for Buddy Hil.
Speaker 1: So not gonna just get rid of him for nothing,
Speaker 1: right Dallas wants him, of course, but this guy has
Speaker 1: gonna have some suit. They say that the league is
Speaker 1: moving towards hybrid players who can do everything, but I
Speaker 1: think I think especialist like Buddy Heield is going to
Speaker 1: find a role.
Speaker 2: He shooting forty three from three, Okay, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: He's got six seasons under his belt and he's shooting
Speaker 1: better now than he ever has in his career. We're
Speaker 1: talking about a guy who once nailed a three pointer
Speaker 1: three seconds into a game, right. I remember when healed
Speaker 1: to the Lakers was a real discussion. Laker fans were
Speaker 1: talking about him being a negative asset. Laker fans, I
Speaker 1: might add, are.
Speaker 2: Only slightly less delusional.
Speaker 1: Than Heat fans Orlando San Antonio, Toronto rumor to be
Speaker 1: very interested. Kind of like them, kind of like them
Speaker 1: in Orlando. I'm not gonna lie they need some three
Speaker 1: point shooting. Maybe trade him for Cole Anthony and maybe
Speaker 1: a pick. The latest, uh though, is that there's no
Speaker 1: real urgency to trade them.
Speaker 2: They'll wait until the deadline.
Speaker 1: I think Indiana's going to see how the Dame sweepstakes
Speaker 1: go and they will act accordingly.
Speaker 2: Moving on, speaking of Dame, can't get out of the
Speaker 2: episode without talking about the Dame update. God to give
Speaker 2: you the update on what's happening on the Dame.
Speaker 1: Turns out all the things that we've heard since July
Speaker 1: when Dame asked for trade war lies, which was, hey, Portland,
Speaker 1: do what you need to do to get your affairs
Speaker 1: in order. But Dame's going to Miami because no other
Speaker 1: team wants them, and so you accept whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: we're willing to give you and be happy with it
Speaker 1: because again, no one else wants him.
Speaker 2: That was not true. Turns out that the Toronto Raptors
Speaker 2: are interested. They are now in serious talks with Portland
Speaker 2: as we speak.
Speaker 1: And of course Heat we'll call it the heat circle, right,
Speaker 1: heat media, but we'll call.
Speaker 2: It Miami media, Miami fans.
Speaker 1: They're like a little like a little cult. They are
Speaker 1: shook and it is sad really to see. I've got people,
Speaker 1: like I said, telling me and my mentions that Tyler
Speaker 1: heroes better than Oganna and Obi.
Speaker 2: That is absurd. They're saying, O, g A and Obi
Speaker 2: now can't play with Jeremy.
Speaker 1: Grant, which is absurd because Jeremy Grant plays four oj
Speaker 1: Anobi plays three other Dan fucking Levitard. Real media members
Speaker 1: out here saying that because Toronto wouldn't sign Kyle Lowry
Speaker 1: at thirty five, why would they want Damian Lillard at
Speaker 1: thirty five It's like, well, if you don't want this
Speaker 1: dollar Tree Steak, then why would you want that thirty
Speaker 1: age thirty five years Why would you want this Prime
Speaker 1: Cup flat Mignon that's thirty five years old. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: they're not even in the same universe. Damian Lillard is
Speaker 1: a top three guard in the league. Kyle Lowry, nice player,
Speaker 1: good defender in his time, he was Yes, he was
Speaker 1: an All Star. He was never Damian Lollard. It's getting crazy.
Speaker 2: So what now? The narrative is shifted.
Speaker 1: Miami fans media are saying that Portland is being petty
Speaker 1: because they're not taking into account Dame's wishes.
Speaker 2: I thought it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: Dame was just gonna go to Miami and we had
Speaker 1: to take whatever we got because that was the only
Speaker 1: place that will give us a fair deal, which never
Speaker 1: was a fair deal. You can't demand, you can't demand
Speaker 1: to go one place with three years left on your
Speaker 1: deal and then especially to a place that doesn't really
Speaker 1: have the assets to.
Speaker 2: Get you, and what happens, You get fucked. That's what's
Speaker 2: gonna happen if they do that deal.
Speaker 1: This is a business, and the Blazers are not the
Speaker 1: kind of franchise that can afford to quite literally get
Speaker 1: fucked right. Nobody wants to go there. You guys have
Speaker 1: been telling us nobody wants to go there. Nobody wants
Speaker 1: to go there, so this is the only way. The
Speaker 1: precedent this sets is really bad for the league because
Speaker 1: in this is even worse than free agency the way
Speaker 1: that the bird rights have gone and trading for players
Speaker 1: and your individual team that drafted you having a better
Speaker 1: opportunity to sign you for more money. All this is
Speaker 1: leading the players signing in bad faith and then eventually
Speaker 1: asking to get traded to the place they really wanted
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: They didn't really have the money to pay them.
Speaker 1: And now that we can just trade them wherever they
Speaker 1: want to go, then it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: When free agency is every team is now in play,
Speaker 2: and that slaps in the face of what the NBA
Speaker 2: would like to do.
Speaker 1: This breaks the collective bargaining agreement pretty much entirely. This
Speaker 1: is how you end up with the broken down Kyle
Speaker 1: Lowry and his bullshit asks contract on the books. If
Speaker 1: players can demand and get to go wherever they want
Speaker 1: to go, whenever they want to go, which like that's
Speaker 1: just a whole different game. So I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: come out whether that's fair enough. If they can do that,
Speaker 1: I mean nobody, No owner would want that. Every owner
Speaker 1: will freak the fuck out. And what Miami fans and
Speaker 1: media are desperate and very reluctant to admit is that
Speaker 1: they know that this is it. They could say, oh
Speaker 1: if they don't get damn, they will say, oh, well
Speaker 1: we want you honest, that's what our plan was all along.
Speaker 2: Pat Riley's playing chess and everybody's playing checkers.
Speaker 1: But the truth is Miami's not going to be any
Speaker 1: good without day Hit pocketing Kelly Ubray, which didn't occur
Speaker 1: because he went to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Who
Speaker 1: knows why that wasn't a great backup plan. It means
Speaker 1: your franchise is somewhat on life support. Pat Riley, Aaron
Speaker 1: Goodwin played chicken with the Blazers, never giving them their
Speaker 1: best offer. And you know what, guess what, you're the
Speaker 1: one that's gonna be fucked. You're the one that gets
Speaker 1: to stand around holding your dicks.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding sort of. As for the Blazers, they
Speaker 2: have Scoot, they.
Speaker 1: Have Shade, and they have Anferny and it looks like
Speaker 1: it could be Grady Dick and Ogn and Obi, maybe
Speaker 1: flipping Ogn and Obi and NRK for DeAndre Aiden picks.
Speaker 1: Blazers are going to be just fine. And the sooner
Speaker 1: I have to stop hearing from heat fans, the happier
Speaker 1: I'm going to be.
Speaker 2: Moving forward.
Speaker 1: Former number two pick in the draft of Bari Parker
Speaker 1: recently sounded off on Twitter or to some interview about
Speaker 1: why he is now playing with.
Speaker 2: FC Barcelona in the euro League.
Speaker 1: It's not earth shattering news that he went to the
Speaker 1: euro League, but I think what he said was very
Speaker 1: interesting and I wanted to talk about it, he said
Speaker 1: in his recent interview The Fallen Sadly, the NBA is
Speaker 1: a business and there are ten to twelve teams that
Speaker 1: try to win every game and their other half try
Speaker 1: to get a draft pick. Where does that leave good players?
Speaker 1: You either have to be super good or bad to
Speaker 1: lose games. It's no excuse to see DeMarcus Cousins, Dwight Howard,
Speaker 1: joh Wall, guys.
Speaker 2: Who are potentially in the Hall of Fame. To see
Speaker 2: those guys not have a job.
Speaker 1: We're going to see the league getting watered down.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you know, a lot of things are out of
Speaker 2: our control. And you know what, I think he's right.
Speaker 2: I think Jabari Parker is right about this.
Speaker 1: Guys like Kemba Walker and Mike James are guys that
Speaker 1: could definitely play minutes in the NBA and they're not
Speaker 1: going to make a roster because teams they could give
Speaker 1: valuable minutes too.
Speaker 2: Are too worried about trying to land a lottery pick.
Speaker 1: So kind of the evolution of the game, I guess
Speaker 1: does it mean the NBA players' careers will likely be shorter.
Speaker 1: Probably it means that they're not going to give you
Speaker 1: a guaranteed contract if you're a journeyman. The trade off,
Speaker 1: of course, is that the EuroLeague is going to get
Speaker 1: better and players like Jabari Parker and Derek Williams will
Speaker 1: settle into having long, productive European careers.
Speaker 2: And let's be honest, Europe isn't so bad.
Speaker 1: It's nice place to live, and for fans, euro league's
Speaker 1: more accessible than ever On ESPN, they broadcast a ton
Speaker 1: of games and if you like to bet, maybe we
Speaker 1: now know the players that you're going to betting on.
Speaker 2: All of this begs the question how.
Speaker 1: Long until the NBA gets a European franchise. Knowing Adam Silver,
Speaker 1: that'll be sooner than ever. That's all the time that
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