Speaker 1: Break was breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines, So
Speaker 1: the Heat Check. The Heat Check was just crazy, the
Speaker 1: best podcast covering all the drama around the association. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into a few stories getting around the name.
Speaker 1: See what's popping. Number one, James Harden is back in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to James. Let's start in Philadelphia. They are always
Speaker 1: a dumpster fire, as we know, looking pretty good though
Speaker 1: without James they have not come close though, to resolving
Speaker 1: this situation. Turns out, the Sixers are very mad that
Speaker 1: the Clippers told them that Terrence Man was untouchable, only
Speaker 1: to find out that he was able to be touched.
Speaker 1: They offered up Man, uh like an order for Drew Holliday,
Speaker 1: and now Daryl Morey is upset. As for Harden has
Speaker 1: not played one game. He is now back with the
Speaker 1: team kind of. He tried to get on the team
Speaker 1: plane and they turned him away and said, once you
Speaker 1: go back to the facility, work yourself out a little bit.
Speaker 1: Why don't you go work with the training staff. Huh,
Speaker 1: your fat ass needs it. Huh. Don't be getting on
Speaker 1: our plane distracting our players when we're on a road trip.
Speaker 1: This is nuts, right, This is absolutely insane. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the bench soon. I think he might have
Speaker 1: been on the bench for the Portland game in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep a close eye on this. At any moment,
Speaker 1: anything could happen. I don't know, like maybe Harden taking
Speaker 1: all of Tyrese Maxi's minutes just holding the ball. Who knows.
Speaker 1: Moving forward. Next news story, Nikola Jokic tells Chet Holgren
Speaker 1: he needs to get his weight up. We moved to Chet.
Speaker 1: He's at a great start to his rookie season. Got
Speaker 1: hurt Summer league last year, missed the whole first season
Speaker 1: with a hurtfoot monster game against the Cavs sixteen thirteen
Speaker 1: and two ran into the buzzsaw known as Nicola Jokicic
Speaker 1: and even though he had nineteen points, he pulled down
Speaker 1: just four boards, zero blocks, zero steals. After the game,
Speaker 1: Jokic had this to say about Chet. He's a really
Speaker 1: talented guy. But this is his first year. He's still
Speaker 1: learning everything. I think he needs to be a little fatter,
Speaker 1: to be honest, But yes, he has that talent that
Speaker 1: is unique. A little fatter. You didn't need to say fatter, right, Like,
Speaker 1: we don't need to do all that. Dude has been
Speaker 1: trying to gain weight since he was thirteen years old.
Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren has wet dreams about having your Nicola Jokicic's
Speaker 1: metabolic rate, which is slow. This is just an insane story.
Speaker 1: Reminds me of seven to six Sean Bradley back in
Speaker 1: the day he was trying to gain weight in the offseason.
Speaker 1: He was seven six two forty five s I wrote
Speaker 1: this in ninety three. He's eating butter drowned baked potatoes
Speaker 1: and Jurassic sized t bones, fist thick cheeseburgers and ridiculously
Speaker 1: chubby fries, double chocolate cakes, Trippler triple decker dagwoods. Just
Speaker 1: for breakfast. Every day Bradley would get up, try to
Speaker 1: down the pancakes, the eggs, the cereal, the milk, the juice,
Speaker 1: and the calorie dense power milkshake. Then he would go
Speaker 1: home to his four hour workout, throw up in the
Speaker 1: middle of it, come home, throw up again, and get
Speaker 1: more food down before going to sleep. He was a
Speaker 1: puking machine, so fam was taken in ten thousand calories
Speaker 1: a day, and after that torture of an off season,
Speaker 1: when he was done, he was still two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five pounds, did not gain a single pound. Chest's
Speaker 1: not thrown up eight times a day to not gain anyway,
Speaker 1: I tell you that. So if you chat Holmgren's gonna
Speaker 1: have a body type like Nicole Jokic without some sort
Speaker 1: of performance altering like mechanism, you're fucking outrageous. As for Chet,
Speaker 1: he was stoked playing with Jokic. He says, you gotta
Speaker 1: take it to heart, figure out what you can do
Speaker 1: to be better. Yeah, Chet, get your weight up, be fatter,
Speaker 1: drink a gallon of protein shakes, and maybe, just maybe
Speaker 1: you'll be able to compete with Joki. That's insane. We'll
Speaker 1: move forward. Houston in the headlines, Houston, we still have
Speaker 1: a problem. I wanted to really like this Houston team.
Speaker 1: I said they were my league past team of the year,
Speaker 1: And boy, does it look like that is starting out
Speaker 1: a bit shaky. I love you, may Udoka, a lot
Speaker 1: of swag, so many photos throwing up the shaker. But
Speaker 1: turns out you can change your coach and not really
Speaker 1: the roster, and things will still stay the same even
Speaker 1: if you've got the sw I guess defensive minded coach
Speaker 1: in the NBA, you still could be a loser. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: for the Rockets, they got rid of the chuckleheads, but
Speaker 1: they did not get rid of all the chuckers, folks,
Speaker 1: because they are zero in three in very winnable games.
Speaker 1: At least two of three were winnable. But it's not
Speaker 1: just that they're losing, it's how they're losing. That's very strange.
Speaker 1: Uh well, not really strange. They have been doing this
Speaker 1: before Emai Udoka when it was Steven Silence. They're losing
Speaker 1: by an average of fifteen points. They've lost to Orlando,
Speaker 1: who missed the playoffs last year, San Antonio, who was
Speaker 1: in last place and had the number one overall pick.
Speaker 1: They lost to Golden State, which makes sense, and just
Speaker 1: like that, they're in last place again. And the reason
Speaker 1: that they're losing they're shooting thirty percent from three, but
Speaker 1: worse fifty five percent from the free throw line. Fifty five.
Speaker 1: I had to check that twice. Fifty five. I don't
Speaker 1: even know how that's possible. Alprin Shangun is the bright spot.
Speaker 1: He is a nominee, did not even get an honorable mention,
Speaker 1: but he was a nominee for the HEMMI Award. He
Speaker 1: is averaging twenty eleven and six and a half. We
Speaker 1: were wondering if you emy Udoka would love him, and
Speaker 1: he does. Leading scorer, leading rebounder, and unfortunately the leading fowler.
Speaker 1: He is averaging five fouls a game. Chucking folks is
Speaker 1: a disease and it takes a long time to leave
Speaker 1: the bloodstream. Dame time heads to Miami and Tyler Hero
Speaker 1: could give two bucks quick note about Damian Lillard and
Speaker 1: the Buck's taking on the Miami Heat coming up tonight.
Speaker 1: When Tyler Hero, who was at the center of the
Speaker 1: rumors about the Heat trading for Dame, he was asked
Speaker 1: if he had any motivation extra and he said this,
Speaker 1: never spoke to Dame a day in my life, probably
Speaker 1: never will. You never spoken to Dame, really like you
Speaker 1: never spoke to Dame. Lollard the consensus, nice guy. You
Speaker 1: don't think you and Dame would have ever dapped each
Speaker 1: other up as guards. These are lies. I don't know
Speaker 1: what stings worse the fact that you were rumored in
Speaker 1: every Heat trade as the centerpiece of the Dame trade.
Speaker 1: The Blazers absolutely did not want you, or three that
Speaker 1: you're lying about it because Pat Riley lied to the
Speaker 1: world about never putting you in a trade talk. I
Speaker 1: would be salty too. You removed your profile, you remove
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat from your profile, and it turns out
Speaker 1: didn't even need to. Tyler's having a good start to
Speaker 1: the season. He's gonna want to put buckets on Dame.
Speaker 1: He'll probably shoot thirty percent from three, the Heat will
Speaker 1: lose by eight, and Dame will have fifty Heat fans
Speaker 1: enjoy that last segment. Let's talk about the Hemmy Awards.
Speaker 1: Who is him? He's him? That's what the kids always say.
Speaker 1: Kimmy of the Week award goes to the player who
Speaker 1: is him. We had a lot of choices. There were
Speaker 1: some good players this week. We could have gone with
Speaker 1: Dane Lillard. He absolutely crushed the Bucks debut, crushed my
Speaker 1: heart for a big time parlay, helped the NBA get
Speaker 1: the highest ratings in six years for an opening game.
Speaker 1: He personally beat the Sixers down the stretch on the
Speaker 1: way to thirty nine points. I think he scored the
Speaker 1: last fourteen on his own and in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: convinced Giannis to tell him he is him. In Milwaukee
Speaker 1: is now Damian Lillard's team. I wanted it, but no,
Speaker 1: he's not the him. He's not the himmy I really
Speaker 1: wanted to give to Jalen Durhan making a statement for
Speaker 1: most improved player under Monni in Detroit. They're winning games.
Speaker 1: He's averaging eighteen fifteen and three, three blocks in a
Speaker 1: steal in his first three games. Himmy numbers, himmy numbers,
Speaker 1: my friend. But the Hemmi of the week goes too boom.
Speaker 1: Luca fucking don chicch the man who comes into the
Speaker 1: season once again dogged by injuries, got a cashtrain. He
Speaker 1: don't care condition questions, He don't care. Kenyon Martin says
Speaker 1: that all real NBA players know that Luke is the
Speaker 1: second best player on the MAVs. And what did he
Speaker 1: do in Week one? I don't know. Forty one twelve
Speaker 1: and nine in wins against the Spurs and the Nets.
Speaker 1: He had forty nine points in the opener, no turnovers.
Speaker 1: Pretty fucking good numbers for a guy who's like, not
Speaker 1: even the best player on his team. By the way,
Speaker 1: Kyrie is averaging twenty five and six so far, a
Speaker 1: half of the HIMMI, And congratulations to Luca. I have
Speaker 1: dogged the MAVs. But if he puts out forty every night,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be very, very tough to beat. That's all
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