WEBVTT - League Roundup! 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.399 On this episode of The Heat Check, we'll cover some 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.280 of the breaking news from around the league. Get right 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.280 to it, William, I gotta get you this document and 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.520 this file for tomorrow morning. So drop that generic gas 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.400 beat that should be rehonnable. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.200 Breaks breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:26.920 So the Heat Check. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.160 The Heat Check was just a crazy it's the best 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.960 podcast covering all the drama around the association. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.519 All right, little pre seasons about half we are about 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:41.840 We are less than one week away from the start 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:43.800 of the NBA season. It is time to catch you 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.720 up on what has been popping. So of course we 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:52.840 have to start out with James Harden. James Harden, he's 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.680 been sucking up the oxygen in the room. As we know, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.840 he's just he's just doing James Harden things. It's making 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.280 we were wondering. Even Brian Windhorse got fool he thought 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.080 that James Harden was gonna show up. Come on, Brian, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:10.400 you me, we all we know what's going on, and 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.840 you think it's gonna be different because why because James 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:19.560 Harden showed up to some some random media availability on 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:26.000 some random practice day. You're outrageous. Okay, he's now deciding 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.040 that he is not going to show up and James Harden. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.240 Someone wants to know, why is he playing in any 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:38.280 preseason games? I don't know, because James Harden has decided 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.039 he's going to make things uncomfortable for the Sixers. As 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.640 it turns out, there is a major sticking point in 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.000 Harden's life right now. Turns out his name is it's 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.800 this personal issue named Terrence Man. Terrence fucking Man might 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.160 as well be Michael Jordan, the second Coming. The way 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.560 the teams are talking about him, everybody wants him. He's 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.160 holding up the whole works of the James Harden trade. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.920 So here's the deal. The Sixers leaked out to the 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:11.320 media that if the Clippers included Terrence Man, an unprotected 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.440 first round pick in a first round swap, matching salary 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.240 and Terrence Man, they could they could be the rightful 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.320 owners of James Harden. They could own James Harden for 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.400 the last last year of his deal. Enter my man, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.839 Lawrence Frank, probably Jerry West. Let's be real, Jerry West 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:36.080 doesn't want James Harden. But anyway, enter Lawrence Frank, GM 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.600 executive of the LA Clippers, and he says, and he's 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:45.239 made it quite clear that Terrence Man is untouchable. Terrence 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:53.000 Man is untouchable. Folks, we haven't seen a player who 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.920 hasn't done anything get this much hype since the Laker 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.440 days of Taylor Horton Tucker. And I like Terrence Man, 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.840 I do. And boy oh boy is holding on to 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:09.720 Terrence Man making somebody mad. And that man that someone 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.000 is Daryl Moury. Daryl Moury is quite frustrated over it. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.720 How do you think that, Daryl Moury responded Sam Amick, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:26.360 not Friend of Show reported, Maury expressed his disbelief and 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:32.919 accuse the Clippers of being unseerious about getting a deal done. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.960 He even quipped that they should just trade Clippers star 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.160 Paul Georges for James Harden if they were so determined 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.240 to keep all their yet lesser assets, a request that 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.680 obviously was immediately denied. You guys are jokes. You guys 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.600 are clown shows. You clearly don't want James Harden. You're 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.360 un serious people, which I feel is the most funny 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.680 way of putting people you think very lowly of. It's 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.680 like you're just very very clear, unseious. Not only that, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:07.320 but apparently Daryl Moury is telling Harden that he should 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.880 actually be pissed at the Clippers for the deal not 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.960 getting done and not him, because listen, the deal would 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.800 already be done if they would just let me have 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.560 Terrence Man. Because the Sixers apparently already have trades lined 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.520 up for Terrence Man. If he comes out east. It's like, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.240 we'll get your first round pick, we'll get your swamp, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:24.760 and we'll get Terrence Man. We'll probably throw in a 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.239 pick of our own. And they've got someone in mind 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.440 that they want. I don't know who it is. Color 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.000 me Tias Jones. I don't think he's worth that much. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.080 So you know what we have on our hands. We 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.640 have a pointing Spider Man meme on our hands, folks, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:46.920 That's what we have. Absolutely just despicable. We have a 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.880 good old fashioned Mexican standoff on our hands here. And why, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.120 I have no idea. I don't think the Clippers actually 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.560 want James Harden. That's the only thing that I can 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:04.520 really think of. And Harden apparently now is going to 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:09.920 do Harden things, including now missing practices without notice and 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:15.360 of course games. Ramona Shelburne writes, this is an escalation 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.400 of tactics by Harden. Actually, I think she might have 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.080 said this on NBA today. She says this is I'm 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.520 not happy, And someone close to him told me that 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:29.200 this is only the beginning of what he plans to 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.120 do here. What else can he do but not show up? 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.080 That's like about as bad as it gets. I don't 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.320 know how much worse it could be. Besides, like I 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.640 take ball, I don't pass ball, and I throw it 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.400 to the other team. Poor Nick Nurse, Poor Nick Nurse. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:47.800 I knew it was not going to be good for 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.599 him as soon as he got the job. He doesn't 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.320 know what to do. He's having to do like I 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.200 don't know. I like he has to pull a good 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.800 old Steve Nash in the hardened days. Remember when Steve 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.240 Nash had to do the same thing. He's like, I 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.400 have no idea what's happening. I don't know what's going 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.719 on with James. I don't know where he is. He 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.360 doesn't answer my calls. He's now the second coach who 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:10.880 has to be like, I have no idea where my 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:16.320 player is. That's amazing. Harden is out here sharing his 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.640 side of the story, which is this when I got 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.880 traded here. My whole thing is I wanted to retire 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.479 a sixer. I wanted to be here. I wanted to 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.400 retire a sixer, and they did not have that in 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.560 their future plans. AKA, they did not want to pay 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.039 me what I believe I am worth. He's not budgeting 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.320 an inch, folks, he is not. He's this is going 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.400 to be so ugly from his past actions. We know 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.480 it's going to be so. I have no idea how 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.400 much more this can escalate. I am fairly convinced, though, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.120 that James Harden is more stubborn than Darryl Moury. So 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:53.200 what is next? Apparently more Shenanigan's, more Domino's falling. We 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.080 will leave that up to Joel Embiid, who, when asked 0:06:56.080 --> 0:07:01.119 by a reporter on Harden missing practice, he said, maybe 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:07.120 he had something else to do. Maybe I don't know, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.240 like maybe something came up. What else? What could come 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.560 up where they're not going to tell you that they're 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:18.360 gonna miss work. Even my low level ass has to 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.320 call in sick and be like, hey, I'm not coming 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.200 in tomorrow. Hey I've got something happening in New York. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.120 I'm gonna miss Wednesday. That even that is better. James 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.520 was just like, didn't tell anyone, didn't call anyone, didn't 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.920 leave a note, didn't leave a text, didn't leave a voicemail, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.560 didn't have his agent reach out. Just decided I'm going 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.760 back to Houston to hooka party. Baby, little baby, Me 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.360 and some bitches are going to be there. And now 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:47.800 today he's out for personal reasons again, Me, little baby, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:54.880 some voi gras bacon wrapped steak, and some bitches. And 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.320 now apparently also Joe ellenb might want to go to 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.320 New York. There's a lot happening, a lot to catch 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.120 up on with the Sixers. All I have to say 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.920 is they're clearly speaking of unserious, not a serious contender 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.560 in the East. Looks like sarcasm is the gord of 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.160 the day in Philly until this comes to a head 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.960 and either Harden gets suspended or traded, or he goes 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.320 to China or something happens. Maybe they trade him to 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:24.320 the Clippers for a box of basketballs. Moving forward, speaking 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:33.520 of Embiid, his decision to play international basketball for Team 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:41.319 USA has caused some how shall we say it, hard 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:48.760 feelings in France. Sacrabi oh no a of what Embiid 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:56.520 Jean Pierre Sutat, the president of the French basketball Federation. Well, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.920 as you might imagine, pretty upset was almost as so 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.439 as the Italian head coaching basketball when Pawelo Benco decided 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.480 to play for the US instead of them. The French 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.840 federation had planned on him playing in twenty twenty two 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.560 and even got him a French passport, which is like, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.680 very weird that he doesn't already have one. But hey, 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.080 which is why Sue Tatt was pissed and said this. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.760 He ghosted him. Let's be let's just get cut to 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.480 the chase. He ghosted him. We met Joel Embiid together 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.760 with Boris Diao in March of twenty twenty two, but 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.760 we didn't ask for that meeting. He had shown interest 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.360 in playing for France and we helped him get French 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:40.160 citizenship upon his request. Oh Embiid, you sneaky devil, but 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.560 we were never demanding of him. I'm just sorry that 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.680 we spent so much time and energy on a file 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.240 that should have never been opened. A file that never 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.959 should you mean, Joel Embiid is simply a file to you. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.760 I am sure he finds that to be funny. Here's 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.920 my thoughts. Embiide is from Cameroon, which is an African 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:06.359 country dealing with the Civil War, a cultural and economics 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.640 split between English and French speaking territory that dates back 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:15.439 to long, long, bullshit type of days of imperialism and everything, 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:19.800 all of it, all the isms, right, is Embiid turning 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.600 his back on this colonial past by playing for the 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.800 United States where he spent all of his adult life. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.840 What like, why are we mad at him for that? 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.240 Why is this something where you're like, oh, yeah, Embiid 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.600 just played us. His mind probably is also like you 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.400 have the center of the future of France. You don't 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.040 need me. I am playing for the place that I 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.959 grew up. And he's not playing for Cameroon because they're 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.560 not competing on any level. And they also have Rudy Gobert, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.560 They have women Ama, they have Rudy Gobert playing center. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.080 Where does Joelmbid actually fit on this team? Does he fit? No? 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.040 He does not. The bottom line though, is that the 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.559 US needs him more than they need air because Steve 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:04.600 Kerr is going to need some help to compete against 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:10.800 Serbia and Slovenia and France and Germany. They can legitimately 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:15.319 get bounced by any of those teams, and the legacy 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.520 of Steve Kerr will take a massive hit if that 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.920 happens in France. Cannot wait though, for mb to drop 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.640 thirty eight points on Rudy Gobert's head of what Rudy 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.360 oh Sacra blue in Patty, that is, if Joel Embiid 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:37.280 is healthy. Moving on, there's some shit popping in Memphis 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:42.800 where Tim McMahon and Baxter Homes dropped the nuke of 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:47.880 an expose on Ja Morant. In this last eighteen months, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.959 this has been absolutely awful. And as a quick aside, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:58.480 if you see Baxter Homes writing something, if he's the 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.840 byeline on an article about you or your team or 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.120 your favorite team, you are fucked. You are so fucked 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:11.200 you better high tail it to witness protection because he's 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.840 dug up everything. If he has written a story about you, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.960 he's been working on that story for twenty four months. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.200 Because Baxter Holmes. The last time I saw Baxter Holmes 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.760 in print, it was he got Robert Sarver removed as 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.760 owner of the Phoenix Suns. He digs up everybody, every 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:35.240 single piece of DNA, every phone call, everything you said 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.960 to a uber driver in passing in your second home 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.199 town where you spend three months a year. He has 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.120 dug it all up right, Like he has found every 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.080 random side piece that you met on bumble and they 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:56.560 have they have quotes, they have DNA, they have samples 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.440 of this, that and the other. He's all up in 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.720 your business. Yes, you look at his Twitter profile. He 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.839 has his telegram on his profile. He has his cell 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.640 phone number in his bow. Anyone who's like, hey, hit 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.000 me up if you have any information on this that 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.640 shows you he is digging at all times. Well worth 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.160 the read. But the crux is that the driving force 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.120 behind John Morant fucking up is as we might have 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.280 all suspected, because he's been a little too involved since 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:32.480 the beginning, Team Morant, John Rant's dead. The pair reported 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.040 that Team Morant has been spending the entirety of his 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:39.240 time in Memphis acting like he is John Rant, acting 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.439 like he is Usher, he is the star. Apparently, t 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.680 has been hosting VIP events at parties and nightclubs, with 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.120 TV cameras always panning on him. This is a quote. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.120 Tea also confronted former NFL player Shannon Sharp at a 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.280 January twenty twenty twenty three game in Los Angeles, where 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.000 he argued with Pacers players. During a Grizzlies game January 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.959 twenty ninth, He's present at the spade of incidents dismayed 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.240 some of the Grizzlies organization. Team sources said, you fucking 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.480 think the guy is everywhere. They're panning to him like 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.320 he is usher all the time. This is just not 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.280 a great look. One Grizzlies team executive is on record 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.400 saying he has been the major driving force in all 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.680 of this. He never made the NBA, but this was 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.240 his chance to live like he's an NBA superstar. That's 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.920 been the problem for the beginning. Where is the mom 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:39.080 Are they together still? Because I remember seeing Jaw in 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.360 this little picket fans family when he was growing up, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:49.280 and where is the family at The only problem is 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.960 that the only one? No, it is almost certainly not. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.920 Is it the issue? Is it the only issue? I 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.520 don't know. It is absolutely bad. It was a scathing report. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.680 The evidence is pretty damning and due to this article, 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.400 the Grizzlies are already in crisis management. There's been an 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.320 emergency players only meeting. And keep in mind, Jaw's not 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:12.840 even playing basketball with the team yet until Christmas. This 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.520 is absolutely absurd. You should read the article. I'm not 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.920 going to recap every detail, but if half of what 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.360 is said is true, especially the part about how Jaw 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.760 has been largely insubordinate to the Grizzlies organization. We're like, hey, Joe, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.640 you're fucking up and he's like, yeah, fuck you, when 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.840 they're like, uh, what, yeah, I said it. I Am 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.560 going to the strip club with my gun. Memphis has 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.280 a job problem. Memphis, actually, Memphis has a morant problem, 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.080 and it is going to threaten to derail the entire 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.720 season before it even begins. Can you say the Draymond 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.040 punch only way worse? We move on? God, this is 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.040 supposed to be like a ten minute update. Jesus Christ. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:58.440 The La Clippers are having a rough twelve months, especially 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.640 at the end of last season when a lot of 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.480 their alleged front office dirty laundry got aired for everyone 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:09.400 to see. These rumors paint the Clippers front office in 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.720 the C suite rife with dysfunction, full of shenanigans. As 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.880 we know, not good. The latest news out of the 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:22.520 Clippers front office a Clippers employee was responsible for get this, 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:29.080 spreading the rumor that Taylor Swift and Austin Reeves were dating. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.000 What in the name of I don't have anything going 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:36.680 on is this? Because there is no shot in the 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.880 world that Taylor Swift, if you look at her prior boyfriends, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:48.080 would ever date Austin Reeves. No fucking way. There is 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.880 nothing for Taylor Swift's ladder climbing ass. And I mean, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:54.920 she's already at the top of the ladder, but when 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.880 you're a ladder climber, the ladder spans to the top 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.360 of the jack of the jack and the beanstalk type 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.920 of scenario, and what is she getting from that? There's 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:08.520 no way anyone would have ever believed that. I know 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:09.840 you're going to look at this and be like, Oh, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.600 that's funny, who cares? But let me explain something. According 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.720 to Melissa Role in that Fox Sports, Zane Fahimullah, who 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.080 works social media for the Clippers, was in an airport 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.320 when he heard Taylor Swift had broken up with some 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.000 boyfriend like a musician or an actor or something, one 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.199 of them being a dude on the internet. He just 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.720 started jumping in on the dogpile and he tweeted out 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.320 a photo of Taylor Swift and Austin Reeves with the caption. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.119 Following her breakup, Taylor Swift was reportedly seen in an 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.880 Arkansas a bar this weekend with Starlakers basketball player Austin Reeves. Okay, yeah, 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:47.800 that's really believable, just like that, because people are thirsty 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.800 for Taylor Swift news. Why I do not know to 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:56.600 the tune of eleven million likes that, folks, is why 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.800 I'm ready to just hang it up. I'm just ready 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.160 to close my laptop and get into my bed because 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:07.880 you have a Clippers employee spreading rumors about a rival 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:13.679 teams player and that got megatraction. And the worst part 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.679 is that, of course he didn't do it with his 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.920 own account. He did it with a burner so that 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.159 it couldn't get tracked back to them. This is so 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:26.239 la toxic. Can you see why this is an issue? Like? 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.240 What's to keep this organization from say, saying and sabotaging 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:34.720 James Harden's value by organizing an online hit campaign, sending 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:40.480 out false messages about him a little baby, false narrative 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.560 like using the things that we know to be true 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.280 about him a little baby to spread lies about him 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:51.520 as someone who's also been a subject of lies on 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:56.719 the Internet by anonymous trolls, literally sent to destroy my character, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.840 my career, and probably my self esteem. I do not 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.359 find this to be funny. I do not find this 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.240 to be I mean, I find it to be a 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:08.119 little funny for Austin Reeves, but not for Taylor Swift. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.560 Come on, don't I'm not going to Arkansas and fucking 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:17.520 Austin Reeves. No chance you can say, oh yeah, Austin 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.239 Reeves thought it was funny. But the truth is, like, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.120 how do we know, How do we trust this guy 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:25.160 in this entire organization not to do something nefarious? After all, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.880 it does not appear that anything's going to happen to him, 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.719 does not appear that knowingly spreading a lie about arrival 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.720 teams player is in any way blowing back. So yes, 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.080 go ahead, troll do your dirty work. But the matter 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.200 is the thing that bothers me is that Clipperland says 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.360 that they're better than Lakerland, and the truth is they're 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.760 both fucking toxic. We got to do an update on 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.840 Calvin Booth. Oh baby, Oh we knew it. We knew 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.040 it when we said it. Okay, if you didn't listen 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.240 to the last episode where we talked about this, because 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.960 we were talking about the news, not just previews. Otherwise 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.640 how would we even get on this topic. So Calvin 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.800 Booth GM of the Denver Nuggets, I talked about this 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:15.119 last episode when I previewed the Pacific last episode, I 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.600 talked about it. So Calvin Booth went on record with 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.639 the Kevin O'Connor from the Ringer and he said some 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.159 shady ass things about his former players and his current players, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.080 one of which was Michael Porter Junior, where he called 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.399 him a me guy and said that he couldn't have 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.840 Bones Island on the team because neither him or Michael 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:37.760 Porter Junior played defense. And to that, I said, Ooh, 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:43.120 I don't know how that's gonna go. I think it's 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.440 gonna go bad. I think you're gonna realize the mic 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.280 was on and the recording was on, and you didn't 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.880 realize that shit's gonna blow back. And that is exactly 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:57.480 what happened. And just like that, folks, we got ourselves 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.840 an apology tour, actually more of a bad act pedaling tour. 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.240 Let's play it, Let's see what happens. So Calvin Booth 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.720 was on UH was on a broadcast, and they asked 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:07.400 him about it. 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:09.400 Dalvin, before I let you go, just want to give 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.360 you an opportunity. Do you want to clarify anythings? 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.600 I know there was an article yesterday that they. 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:18.560 Quoted you talking about the boats Highland trade and the 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.480 quartun being caught after that. Just didn't know if you 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.000 wanted to clarify anything baseless At the close out of 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.879 the yeah, I appreciate the opportunity. 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:32.800 Uh, Pauls. They literally teed him up state sponsored TV. Hey, 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.280 just wanted to give you an opportunity because it said 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:37.080 you said some things about Michael Porter Junior. 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:38.240 Just want to let you. 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.280 Set the record straight. What do you fuck you mean? 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:44.879 Set the record straight? He said it all right, keep going. 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:50.200 Under no circumstances would make or approve of those kinds 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:56.040 of comments. Republican consumption. You know, it's not my character, man, 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:59.639 it's UH as a person or executive, and I think 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:02.400 it's on fair characterization of Michael and Bonalds. I think 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:05.840 Balls is a great kid as a bright future ahead 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.479 of a charismatic player game. And you know, obviously Michael 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.159 is a core piece of program with this character and 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:16.560 offensive defensive prowel. So you know, I think that was, 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.920 you know, unfair for those things to be put out 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:21.480 there and hopefully don't happen to future. 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.680 Now, could you is this if you got to watch it? 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:28.160 Pull it up on Twitter? Awful announcing? Did it? Pull 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:29.760 it up? You look in his eyes and you know 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:34.159 he's lying. Bitch, You are lying. It is so. The 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.440 tone is lying, the pace in which you're speaking is lying. 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:42.720 The intonation lies. You're not even trying to seem outrage 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.639 at all. You've not said that. You didn't say it. 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.800 You just said those comments were not made for personal 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.119 consumption and they do not reflect how I feel about 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:56.399 Michael Porter Junior. What do you mean you said it? 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:00.720 You said it to Kevin O'Connor, and now you're saying 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.960 that you did say it, but it doesn't reflect who 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.879 you are. I don't understand. Dog. I actually am starting 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:09.240 to you know, how you have those things where you 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:11.880 question everything that you think about somebody that you thought 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.560 was smart. This is maybe the dumbest fucking thing I've 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:19.119 ever heard an executive do. Welcome to the NBA. You 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:21.200 one hundred percent said that shit in front of a 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:23.840 reporter who had a recording device out or a notebook 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:27.159 and was taking notes. And now you are forever the 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.320 guy who's like, hmmm, I did not say that. Uh. 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:33.920 And you're the guy who tosses fucking shade at a 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.800 guy who got his money after he helped you get 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:41.160 a ring, and you're like, yo, buyer, beware, that is shady. 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:46.880 And Mike Malone wanted fucking Bruce Brown back. He said, 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:49.680 we're bringing Brucey back. And what did you do? You 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:52.879 fucking said negative things about him when he got his money. 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:57.720 God damn it, Calvin, don't do it, baby. You got 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:00.239 me all upset at midnight for better or words. Now 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.760 the league knows that you're shady too. We're moving on. 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:06.439 We're out of here. We're not doing this, Terry Stotts. 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:09.119 Terry Stotts, We'll just do this really quick. I'm not 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:11.920 going to read this whole thing. Terry Stotts has left 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:15.840 the Milwaukee Bucks organization. Why probably because new head coach 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:19.159 Adrian Griffin has a power problem and he wants to 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:21.840 assert his dominance because he's a puppy and he wants 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:23.920 everyone to know he's a big dog. So now the 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:26.480 coach that's been with Damian Loward for nine years of 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:28.880 his career. Dame was so excited to have him back 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:30.560 in the fold. Now he's gone, he has quit, he 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:32.399