Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check.
Speaker 2: Training Campus Here baby, Yes, your girl is getting psyched
Speaker 2: for the new NBA season in two weeks. Two weeks,
Speaker 2: the NBA season is getting started. Holy moly, this summer
Speaker 2: has come and gone. The fall leaves are starting to brown,
Speaker 2: the golds, the browns, the yellows.
Speaker 1: Hell.
Speaker 2: Yes, I will cover who has impressed so far in camp,
Speaker 2: who is injured? Spoiler alert, Kawhi Leonard, time Lord, Shadan Sharp,
Speaker 2: and we'll do a deep dive on Alex Cruzo and
Speaker 2: what he's gonna mean to the OKAC Thunder, plus some
Speaker 2: other goodies. So Anthony, my man, drop that motherfucking beat
Speaker 2: that should be Rihanna.
Speaker 1: It's here.
Speaker 2: It is here, folks, the long awaited NBA season and
Speaker 2: training camp.
Speaker 1: And that means slow season's over. The news is starting
Speaker 1: to come out.
Speaker 2: We've got Media Day, We've got all of the quotes
Speaker 2: for media day, and it is near time for some
Speaker 2: honest to god real NBA basketball, And boy have I
Speaker 2: missed it?
Speaker 1: We have been.
Speaker 2: It has not been a very good offseason in terms
Speaker 2: of news or drama or tea.
Speaker 1: Really, nothing has been popping so much now.
Speaker 2: Though, is popping around the league. One of the things
Speaker 2: I want to keep an eye on is the rookies.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be doing those rookie reports once again every
Speaker 2: week on the Heat Check. But it's fascinating to see
Speaker 2: who gets the shine early from the draft class, especially
Speaker 2: considering that this is a group that isn't coming in
Speaker 2: with the check, isn't coming in with a victor dominating
Speaker 2: the headlines. Of course, the most coverage goes to the
Speaker 2: number fifty five pick in the draft, Bronnie James. Tell
Speaker 2: me you saw that coming right like oh lebron James
Speaker 2: and his son playing on the same team. This is
Speaker 2: what he said before his debut, just a grateful opportunity.
Speaker 2: I went in there, tried my hardest, worked my butt off.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a special full circuit moment for me
Speaker 2: playing the Suns tomorrow. Bronni then goes out puts up
Speaker 2: two one and one with three blocks and sixteen minutes. Also,
Speaker 2: those three blocks pretty impressive, but from a scouting standpoint,
Speaker 2: defense looked good.
Speaker 1: Had a nice chase down, hustle block.
Speaker 2: Offensive game of course is a work in progress, but
Speaker 2: not surprisingly, his clips dominated NBA Social which is why
Speaker 2: I have to say, you're probably gonna get annoyed, like
Speaker 2: really annoyed by how much coverage Bronnie's gonna get this year.
Speaker 2: It's gonna drive you nuts. It's gonna be on every
Speaker 2: single goal NBA show. But do not come after Lebron
Speaker 2: James's son. Do not come after Bronnie. Why because he
Speaker 2: has done nothing to bring this attention on himself. He
Speaker 2: does not ask for this press, He does not say
Speaker 2: anything wild, but yet the press will cover him. No
Speaker 2: matter what, come, hell or high water, he is going
Speaker 2: to be in the news. Just accept it, ignore it, mute,
Speaker 2: go on Twitter, mute the word Bronny, and move on
Speaker 2: with your life.
Speaker 1: Touch grass.
Speaker 2: No need to come for the man's neck, No need
Speaker 2: to come for Lebron's neck. Is it fair to other
Speaker 2: players that all the mainstream media and social media all
Speaker 2: they want to do is talk about Bronnie's two points
Speaker 2: in his debut and his three blocks.
Speaker 1: No, that's not fair. Does it bring out the haters
Speaker 1: and drugs? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Is it contributing to a toxic NBA landscape? For sure,
Speaker 2: But you do not have to be one of those people.
Speaker 2: He is very raw, in my opinion, probably not ready
Speaker 2: for the NBA full time. But I me am choosing
Speaker 2: to concentrate on how amazing it is that Lebron gets
Speaker 2: to play with his son in an actual NBA game,
Speaker 2: something that Lebron James has thought about largely the entire
Speaker 2: time Bronni has been playing basketball. Hey, how cool would
Speaker 2: it be if I could play with my son? And
Speaker 2: now he does?
Speaker 1: What a story. Welcome to the modern world. This is
Speaker 1: how things work. Like nepotism exists absolutely.
Speaker 2: And I think Bronnie's a good kid, like I think
Speaker 2: he's really like has his head on shoulders. I think
Speaker 2: he has his head good head on his shoulders. And
Speaker 2: to be honest, like a lot of people already hate him,
Speaker 2: so that I kind of hope that he balls out now.
Speaker 2: I kind of hope he impresses it. I kind of
Speaker 2: hope that he surpasses the expectation. That would be an
Speaker 2: incredible story. Is that gonna happen?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but.
Speaker 2: I'm going to let Bronnie James roll off of me
Speaker 2: like water on a duck's back. In the meantime, and
Speaker 2: we're not talking about Bronnie James. You do you, my guy,
Speaker 2: enjoy the spotlight, be with your dad, carpool with him.
Speaker 2: Don't carpool with him, have meals with him on the road,
Speaker 2: don't have meals with the Mona road I do. I
Speaker 2: think what was hilarious though, was that Brownie said that
Speaker 2: the vibes are better right now under JJ Reddick than
Speaker 2: with Darvinham. He's like, or so I hear like, we
Speaker 2: don't know where you would have gotten that inside information
Speaker 2: from where Braun is just shit talking Darvingham hilarious anyway,
Speaker 2: I don't care if he averages two to one one
Speaker 2: per game. It's still a great story and I'm still
Speaker 2: gonna be rocking for this to be something that we
Speaker 2: can at least hang our hat on.
Speaker 1: Is a good feel good moving forward.
Speaker 2: Some early standout performances in training camp Worth talking about
Speaker 2: let's start in Minnesota, Boyle Boyd, does Tim Conley make
Speaker 2: people look dumb? Boyle Boyd? Does he know what the
Speaker 2: right moves are to make? The Wolves, of course, are
Speaker 2: still reeling from the Karl Anthony Towns trade. They still
Speaker 2: haven't integrated Dante DiVincenzo and Julius Randall into their new offense.
Speaker 2: But one guy that already seems at home, one guy
Speaker 2: that's already doing the damn thing one guy that's already impressing.
Speaker 2: One of the most controversial picks in the entire draft,
Speaker 2: Rob Dillingham. They pulled up the draft rights. They picked
Speaker 2: up the draft rights on him, and a lot of
Speaker 2: people thought that it was a reach six to one
Speaker 2: guard out of Kentucky. He was either gonna be the
Speaker 2: steel of the draft or an absolute bus because he
Speaker 2: was so small. Turns out, even though he didn't look
Speaker 2: good in the summer League because he was still fighting
Speaker 2: through an injury, he looks.
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty good, like pretty good. Playing against the Lakers.
Speaker 1: He put up twenty one one in four. He was
Speaker 1: three from six and three.
Speaker 2: He was shifty on offense, He's got a little wiggle
Speaker 2: in his step, play decent defense. He's not gonna be
Speaker 2: asked to do a lot. He's not gonna contribute full
Speaker 2: time starter minutes. But from the look of things, once
Speaker 2: Mike Conley retires, he might just step right in.
Speaker 1: Could be a spark off the bench, could be a bucket.
Speaker 1: He's a bucket. He's a bucket.
Speaker 2: Another standout so far pains me to say this as
Speaker 2: a Blazer fan, Dalton Connect of the Lakers. He was
Speaker 2: had sixteen three and two, had a steel had a
Speaker 2: block against the Wolves, seven for thirteen. On a team
Speaker 2: that desperately needs three point shooting, the Lakers will need
Speaker 2: Dalton connect. That's what they will need. They will need
Speaker 2: him to do the damn thing. He can look good
Speaker 2: for stretches. He can finish with contact, which is a
Speaker 2: ste skill really that you cannot learn, gotta be born
Speaker 2: with it. Like Maybelee Lebron loves him, said he's a pro.
Speaker 1: He's ready to go right now. Don't have any reason
Speaker 1: to disagree with him on that.
Speaker 2: And I think he's a really good pickup for the Lakers. Finally,
Speaker 2: we got to give you an update on Ben Simmons,
Speaker 2: who once again is putting out videos on the internet
Speaker 2: and people say he looks incredible in the offseason workouts
Speaker 2: and he's even shooting threes again for the third fourth
Speaker 2: year in a row. Ben Simmons says that he feels
Speaker 2: physically ready to play at a high level, and he
Speaker 2: got to the point last year where he was good
Speaker 2: enough to get on the court, but wasn't one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, he's here now
Speaker 2: and this is the situation. He feels great. He put
Speaker 2: in a lot of time and a lot of work
Speaker 2: in he was playing with another herniated disc, so that
Speaker 2: was probably a big reason why this is a second
Speaker 2: surgery in a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Blah blah, bah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Same situation, situation, different area in the back. But now
Speaker 2: he's clear to go and feels great. I am going
Speaker 2: to take a different approach with Ben Simmons. I've cooked them,
Speaker 2: He's been barbecued. His barbecue crisp has been barbecued again
Speaker 2: this time.
Speaker 1: I actually hope that Ben Simmons is right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna actually hope that he's healthy. I want to
Speaker 2: know what he looks like healthy. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's any good, but no one does because he hasn't
Speaker 2: had a healthy back and literally since he left Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: and even before that, remember he had that surgery in
Speaker 2: the bubble and had to leave.
Speaker 1: I think the league is.
Speaker 2: More fun when Ben Simmons is playing well. I like
Speaker 2: those box scores, those fun box scores three points thirteen
Speaker 2: to twenty one rebounds are insane. Those are like very funny.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of guy like it's he's a mystery.
Speaker 2: No player in recent memory, I think gives you such
Speaker 2: strong opinions on either side, and I kind of what's
Speaker 2: the controversy of the league. He's an elite defender, He's
Speaker 2: a terrific passer, he's a good rebounder, and I think
Speaker 2: he has the physical abilities to be a good offensive player.
Speaker 1: But mentally, we just don't know.
Speaker 2: It's easy to forget that that wasn't always the case
Speaker 2: that he was offensively broken. There was a time where
Speaker 2: he averaged seventeen points a game. I hope that he
Speaker 2: can fix it. I hope that he can come back
Speaker 2: because I miss debating people about Ben Simmons, and now
Speaker 2: no one has any issues to debate about him. He
Speaker 2: seems to be quite People are quite clear on what
Speaker 2: he is and what he is not. We have a
Speaker 2: lot more to report as camp continues in the new season.
Speaker 1: Barrels down on us. He still has a Brooklyn Net
Speaker 1: for now, all right, Moving on.
Speaker 2: I didn't do a team by team preview for the
Speaker 2: season for the first time this year.
Speaker 1: I just feel like everybody's kind of doing That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that there aren't teams that we should talk about.
Speaker 2: One team that I want to talk about, one team
Speaker 2: that I'm super interested in watching this year is okay see,
Speaker 2: which is I think, you know, bold choice, right, everybody
Speaker 2: wants to talk about okay see, But honestly, the roster
Speaker 2: moves that they've made this offseason make this I think
Speaker 2: a very different team than they were last year and
Speaker 2: they were the one.
Speaker 1: Seed in the West.
Speaker 2: They added the big man, and iHeart they swapped out
Speaker 2: Josh Giddy for Alex Caruso, and to me, that's the
Speaker 2: most important move that this team has made outside of
Speaker 2: the draft since probably.
Speaker 1: Moving Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 2: I personally, I fucking love Alex Crusoe. The Lakers have
Speaker 2: not recovered since they let him go. I will go
Speaker 2: to my grave saying Austin Reeves is not Alex Crusoe,
Speaker 2: not even close. Can't carry his water nothing, And what
Speaker 2: we know he brings to a team is not just
Speaker 2: elite defense. He's like basically an assistant coach on the floor.
Speaker 2: Aaron Wiggins had some comments to one of the reporters
Speaker 2: four days into Okac's camp. I think this proves the point.
Speaker 1: On a acy.
Speaker 2: He said, He's just very smart, A very smart guy
Speaker 2: who knows the game really well, A big communication guy
Speaker 2: on both ends of the court.
Speaker 1: You can see his.
Speaker 2: Experience in the way that he plays. I've been able
Speaker 2: to watch him and hear from him. He's always coaching
Speaker 2: guys on the court. He always is a good feel
Speaker 2: for different looks that he has learned and knows how
Speaker 2: to put other guys on the court. So on both
Speaker 2: ends of it. He makes good reads on the offensive end,
Speaker 2: and he's able to see defenses really well. Then when
Speaker 2: he's on defense, he knows how to disguise different looks
Speaker 2: and maybe set up different things. Very smart player on
Speaker 2: both ends of the court. So the interesting thing is
Speaker 2: that you'd think, with this being shake Gilders Alexander's team
Speaker 2: and a team filled with athletic defenders, this kind of
Speaker 2: on court coaching wouldn't really be needed or even maybe
Speaker 2: even welcome. But if you watch the series against the
Speaker 2: MAVs where Okay Soe got run out of the playoffs
Speaker 2: in six games, which they probably should have won game six,
Speaker 2: but that's another story. What they really lacked was someone
Speaker 2: other than Shay to organize the defense. And I think
Speaker 2: that's what Alex Crusoe will do.
Speaker 1: That is his special time.
Speaker 2: Let me explain what he brings to the table, because
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of hard to see in the
Speaker 2: box score, and I'll kind of want to break it down.
Speaker 2: I saw a great thread by a reditor who broke
Speaker 2: this down beautifully. His name is Go su Rus Go
Speaker 2: Sue Russ. Evaluating guard defense is very tough, but basically
Speaker 2: it breaks down into five things. Defensive rebounding, force turnovers,
Speaker 2: on ball defense, rim protection, and off ball defense. None
Speaker 2: of these things are very easy for us to track.
Speaker 2: In every category, though, Alex Crusoe is either the league
Speaker 2: leader or in the top ten percent. So let's look
Speaker 2: at force turnovers, which is steals plus offensive fouls drawn.
Speaker 2: Last year, alex Crusoe averaged three steals and drew one
Speaker 2: and a half offensive fouls per one hundred. That equals
Speaker 2: four and a half percent of the turnovers per one
Speaker 2: hundred possessions, which leads the league in the NBA and
Speaker 2: is well over three times as good as league average.
Speaker 1: So how good is he? Well?
Speaker 2: Two years ago, his encore defensive rating was in the
Speaker 2: ninety seventh percentile, which is better than Yannis on the Bucks,
Speaker 2: who was surrounded by Brook Lopez Andrew Holliday at.
Speaker 1: The time, all defensive players.
Speaker 2: And while I remind you his running mates were Zach
Speaker 2: Lavine and DeMar Derozen. Even NBA two K had him
Speaker 2: ranked as the second best perimeter defender in the world,
Speaker 2: and now he's replacing Josh Giddy, who is a negative
Speaker 2: minut He was a negative eight point two net rating
Speaker 2: in twenty two to twenty three and a negative ten
Speaker 2: point one last year, mostly due to his defensive rating
Speaker 2: in the one twenties. Even a friendly OKC blog grated
Speaker 2: Josh Giddy a D plus. So now into that void
Speaker 2: steps Alex Crusoe, who's a better three point shooter, but
Speaker 2: really any offense you get from him is probably a
Speaker 2: bonus because he's going to lock down your opponent's best
Speaker 2: offensive player. He even said this in an offseason interview. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I kind of wear my heart on my sleeve and
Speaker 2: I go for it every night. That's just kind of
Speaker 2: what I have to do to be impactful in the league,
Speaker 2: and that's something that I'm going to continue to do.
Speaker 1: Play to win, play for the team.
Speaker 2: Those are the things that I've held true to myself
Speaker 2: throughout my whole career, whether I've been in the G
Speaker 2: League or on a two way or on championship teams.
Speaker 2: Those things work for me, and they usually work for
Speaker 2: my team. This is the kind of guy that the
Speaker 2: thunder need to get over the top Shay doored Chet,
Speaker 2: Jalen Williams and Alex Caruso. That is a nightmare to
Speaker 2: try to play offense against. And that's the glue that
Speaker 2: holds it all together. Is the man that they jokingly
Speaker 2: call the janitor in LA all the way up to
Speaker 2: the point where he helped the LA Lakers get a
Speaker 2: freaking ring and Alex Crusoe was a huge, huge part
Speaker 2: of that. Let's move forward a few injuries to report
Speaker 2: from around the league. The first one the Pelicans lost
Speaker 2: Trey Murphy for at least a month due to hamstring injury.
Speaker 2: That is horrible news, never good news for a Pelicans
Speaker 2: team that just continues to be reeled with injuries.
Speaker 1: For three straight years.
Speaker 2: Trey Murphy is coming off an insane season. He was
Speaker 2: so good last year offensively, he stepped up his game
Speaker 2: fifteen to five and two with one and a half
Speaker 2: stock stock stocks per game, lockdown defense.
Speaker 1: The Pelicans I think.
Speaker 2: Are a bit of a dark horse this season, as
Speaker 2: Willie Green's gonna be looking to find a way packed
Speaker 2: into a.
Speaker 1: Packed West to take the top seed.
Speaker 2: But with injuries like Trey Murphy, this is not a
Speaker 2: good start this season in la as they get ready
Speaker 2: to open the Intuit Dome, and in Englewood, the Clippers
Speaker 2: are dealing with another season of Kauai injury reports.
Speaker 1: Currently he's rehabbing his right kney. We don't really know
Speaker 1: how bad it is.
Speaker 2: He had another piece of surgery over the offseason, which
Speaker 2: we did not know about, he says. According to Kawhi,
Speaker 2: I feel good. Just been taking my time getting stronger,
Speaker 2: getting ready. We're just taking it slow, just trying to
Speaker 2: get me back on the floor. Once those conversations come,
Speaker 2: we'll see what they're talking about on the best approach
Speaker 2: for back to backs. Could be a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: could be a couple of months. We really can't tell.
Speaker 2: Never can tell. With Kawhi Leonard. This is not good.
Speaker 2: This is now the start of the six year the
Speaker 2: Kauai has struggled to stay on the court. In fact,
Speaker 2: last year, sixty eight games was the far most he's
Speaker 2: ever played in over half of a decade. But of
Speaker 2: course then you add to the playoffs and he was
Speaker 2: injured again, and that has not stopped.
Speaker 1: Him from being Kawhi.
Speaker 2: He told a reporter in an unsolicited manner that he's
Speaker 2: been watching the new guys in camp like Chris Dunn
Speaker 2: and Derrick Jones Junior, and says that nobody has stood
Speaker 2: out to me so far. Kawhi, kawhi, you can't say that,
Speaker 2: my guy, you cannot say that. I really think that
Speaker 2: the Clippers that add a crossroads, they are locked into
Speaker 2: some bad contracts. We've got Norm Powell saying that Paul
Speaker 2: George Leaving is additioned by subtraction in a loader West.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if this is a plan team.
Speaker 1: I really don't.
Speaker 2: Speaking of snake bitten, my Portland Trailblazers continue to struggle
Speaker 2: again from an injury standpoint. First, Robert Williams a player
Speaker 2: that they're definitely trying to get off of, trying to
Speaker 2: get a first round pick for, and he is not
Speaker 2: healthy again. He has a Grade one left hamstring strain,
Speaker 2: which he got in the first couple.
Speaker 1: Of days of training camp this week.
Speaker 2: He's now expected to miss two weeks, which probably means
Speaker 2: he's not gonna be ready for the start of the season.
Speaker 2: Probably gonna be you know, we always see those setbacks.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough. This guy can't catch a break.
Speaker 2: Rob Williams is one of the more talented big men
Speaker 2: in the league, and I just don't know what's up.
Speaker 2: I just cannot understand why he can't get it together.
Speaker 2: From a health standpoint, he needs to probably put together
Speaker 2: a stretch of like fifty healthy games so that they
Speaker 2: can increase his trade value. But right now, with Klinging
Speaker 2: and Ating, there's really not much for him in the rotation.
Speaker 1: But even more concerning than Rob Williams is that is it.
Speaker 2: Shade and Sharp is hurt again, and I'm starting to
Speaker 2: get nervous. It's the same shoulder he had an injury
Speaker 2: on before. This time is a small posterior posterior labral
Speaker 2: tear in his left shoulder, which will sit him four
Speaker 2: to six weeks. He's a player who relies on his athleticism.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard for him to play freely when
Speaker 2: he has injury like this. He's only twenty one. He's
Speaker 2: played in just thirty two games last year. Didn't progress
Speaker 2: as much as they wanted. I am starting to get
Speaker 2: worried about Shadon Sharp. I am starting to not not
Speaker 2: know what to do with Shadon Sharp. He has the
Speaker 2: potential to be generational. Seventh overall, pick one of the
Speaker 2: guys that I think has the most upside in this league.
Speaker 1: But if he can't progress because.
Speaker 2: He's always injured, I don't know if that athleticism is
Speaker 2: going to translate into the league. The best ability is availability.
Speaker 2: I really hope I'm wrong. I really hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Shade Sharp is one of the most fun players in
Speaker 2: the league for me, but if he has another season
Speaker 2: like last year, I will be officially ready to hit
Speaker 2: the panic bucket button. Finally, a bit of fascinating news
Speaker 2: that ties into the biggest story in the past few
Speaker 2: weeks in the basketball world. ESPN reported that they hired
Speaker 2: Michael C. Wright for one reason and one reason only,
Speaker 2: to cover Victor wembin Yama. That is his entire beat. Wow,
Speaker 2: she just goes to show you how popular Victor wembenyams. Like,
Speaker 2: how smart ESPN is to have someone cover him specifically.
Speaker 2: That's like a very non ESPM move. Actually, remember back
Speaker 2: when ESPN hired Brian Windhorst to cover Lebron when he
Speaker 2: went to the Heat, and pretty much every Chicago NBA
Speaker 2: reporter in the nineties was just on the Jordan Beat,
Speaker 2: So this isn't new to the NBA, but it is
Speaker 2: new to the WNBA, which is why I bring this up.
Speaker 2: Longtime reporter Christine Brennan is getting cooked by old WNBA
Speaker 2: media because ninety percent of her articles on the w
Speaker 2: this year are about Kaitlyn Clark, which probably is not
Speaker 2: shocking because she is the reason that women's basketball is
Speaker 2: having a moment, So why should we be shocked when
Speaker 2: she gets so much coverage. There is an unlimited demand
Speaker 2: for Caitlyn Clark videos, articles, interviews, and I know that
Speaker 2: that probably drives people insane, especially old school debut fans,
Speaker 2: especially old school w media, because they see it as unfair,
Speaker 2: and in a way it is unfair, but it is
Speaker 2: also a fact of life and sports. For example, I
Speaker 2: just recently saw Greg odin former Bust for my Portland Trailers.
Speaker 1: There's a former double number one overall pick.
Speaker 2: He said, the year I retired was the year that
Speaker 2: Timothy Mosgoff no disrespect, got fifty million. I wanted to
Speaker 2: kill everybody in the fucking world. I hated life. I
Speaker 2: was so depressed. If they threw him fifty million, I
Speaker 2: was like, all I need to do is beyond the
Speaker 2: team and that's twenty million easy. It hurts my heart
Speaker 2: just talking about it. The point being everyone gets pissed
Speaker 2: when they miss out on the gravy train. It's not
Speaker 2: fair that Cheryl Swoops didn't make generational money during her career.
Speaker 1: She deserved that money she did.
Speaker 2: It's not fair that the w didn't get the attention
Speaker 2: that it deserved before Kaitlyn Clark came into the game.
Speaker 1: And there's more to come. And it's not just Caitlyn
Speaker 1: that's gonna bring more eyeballs.
Speaker 2: But you cannot change the past, and the future is
Speaker 2: now and it is a six to one girl, six
Speaker 2: feet girl from Iowa with a ponytail.
Speaker 1: And if that makes people.
Speaker 2: Mad, you're just gonna have to get over it because
Speaker 2: she's gonna make a lot of people very rich. And
Speaker 2: Christine Brennan being on the Caitlin Clark beat does not
Speaker 2: surprise me. And Tiger Woods got the entire PGA paid
Speaker 2: money that they had never dreamed about before, and then
Speaker 2: the live came around. The money is just flowing in
Speaker 2: golf now. That is the way it goes, So get
Speaker 2: used to it.
Speaker 1: Anyway. We gotta get up out of here.
Speaker 2: I am in New York City to be honored as
Speaker 2: one of the top women in media. I am incredibly
Speaker 2: honored and grateful and shocked actually to be honored.
Speaker 1: But that's why I'm here.
Speaker 2: I'm doing this from a hotel room in the Lower
Speaker 2: East Side, one of my favorite places in the entire world.
Speaker 2: Go check out Hanoi Place if you haven't checked it out.
Speaker 2: Had some fun tonight. That is all the time that
Speaker 2: we have for this episode of The Heat Check. Come
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