Episode of My geat Check. It's the Eastern Conference preview time. Baby, we're gonna be looking at the audi of the divisions, the Atlantic. We're gonna be looking at Toronto, which is, let's be honest, the worst of them all, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, New York Knicks, and the Boston Celtis. That's five playoff or playing teams of one division, folks, everybody be eaten in the Atlantic. Let's get a move roam and drop that generic gas beat that should be Rihanna's break was
breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines. So the heat Check. The heat Check was just as the best podcast covering all the drama around the association. All right, so we got to finish our NBA season previews. I realized that a conference previews, they're kind of a but we are going to give our first stop. I know it's a lot in the Atlantic Division where most of the Eastern best teams are located. Let's start with are they though I don't actually know if that's true. I just know
that it's like a pretty loaded division in general. There's no like besides Toronto. There's no bottom feeders here. Let's start with the Philadelphia seventy six Ers that finished fifty four and twenty eight last year, which is good for third place. Key additions, Pat Beverley, that's really a key addition. I don't know, Kelly Oubrace Tsunami Poppy, and of course Nick Nurse Key, we'll call it subtractions, key losses. George Nang he goes to Cleveland. I always think his name
is Georgie Yang because there's another Georgi. Gorgi Jang is too. It's too confusing. And then Doc Rivers, of course, the players coach that nobody actually liked playing for. And ever since he's left, and now Nick Nurse is there, everybody's starting to like spill the tea about how Iso heavy dog Rivers style was like, oh yeah, I'm Joel and Beads being like, oh yeah, I never really wanted to be an ISO player. I never really wanted to just be in the block. I like ball movement. Anyway, we
move on. The Sixers begin the off season by firing that guy, Doc Rivers, and shit has been a little haywire since then. I don't know if anyone has had a worse off season in the NBA than the Sixers. Probably the Toronto Raptors because they're getting sued by another team in their own division. The next maybe the Miami Heat who lost out on Dave. There's a few down bad teams, let's be honest. But short of those, the Sixers are in rough shape at the start of the season.
Once again, of course, it's about disgruntled former All Star James Harden, who would rather sink his own damn career and play in China than never be seen in the Sixers uniform. Again, very stubborn man, James Harden, extremely stubborn man. Of course, this has been the story that's been looming the entire summer. He hijacked my entire offseason, wondering is it gonna happen, When is it gonna happen, what's he gonna say next? But the long story short is he
ain't coming home. He ain't coming home. There's no there's no way to cajole or finesse or tell him, Hey, if you play eight games like he did for the Rockets, you're gonna get traded soon, it'll happily promise. No, he knows he's dealing with Daryl Morey and Daryl Moorey is gonna do whatever he can to extract the greatest set of assets for him as he can, and that's just
not gonna be working for James. James is not going to play for anyone else but the Clippers, and the Clippers apparently don't want to get rid of now new starting I don't even know what position Terrence Man plays for the Clippers because they don't fucking know, But anyway, he's in the starting lineup now. Finally, Terrence Man. As I mentioned last week, Terrence Man apparently is the second coming of Michael Jordan as it relates to the LA Clippers,
and he's holding up the entire trade. Lawrence Frank believes Terrence Man is untouchable. Let's be real, though, the lackluster years for Terrence Man, I think that the Clippers fault. Honestly, they played him twenty three minutes a game. They moved him in and out of the rotation. You're here, you're there. Is he getting minutes? Is he not getting minutes? Where's he at in the playoffs? So it's been a little
like touch and go with Terrence Man's development. He averaged nine points last season, but remember he had this incredible game in the playoffs where he put up almost forty. It's just very weird. The whole thing is very weird. Back to the Sixers, here's what they gained. Patrick Beverly, who's an absolute past great culture guy, gonna fit on this team absolutely. Tsunami Poppy, who is reckless, plays with a level of I don't give a fuck that only a man beloved and lusted at if they're by other
men that claim to be heterosexual could have. Right Like when you know you can turn I hate to say this, when you're a guy who knows that you can turn any anyone in your favor despite their proclivities, I guess that's confidence right there. That's the type of confidence that Kelly Ubre plays with. I will shoot this ball whenever I want, despite whether I'm open or not, and that's
the way it goes. So Kelly Uber. He's in addition, he's going to be the three point shooting that they lost from Nang, which I think he's probably a little better than George Nang. You have Nick Nurse with a new system from Toronto. He's going to implement this new system with this without a point guard. I think that's going to be Tyresse MAXI that will be very interesting
to see how it works. But the truth of the matter is that the Sixers are going to, like always trust the process, fail or succeed this season based on Joel Embiid's health. The team with the healthy Embiid is a problem, especially when you have PJ. Tucker, Tobias Harris, Tyrese Maxey, Kelly Oubray, and yes, even Pat Beverley. And by the way, if you haven't seen Joel Embiid at media Day or during his press availability, he looks fucking ripped. This is the most in shape I think I've ever
seen Joel Embiid. So we can say things are looking up.
They always have Daniel House the Anthony Mountain. I think the upside for the Sixers is actually pretty good, but they haven't really solved their biggest issue yet, which is a roster that is constructed not to win in the playoffs, constructed this way where teams can throw high quality defenders at Joel Embiid, who may or may not be healthy at that point because his uses radued through the roof and he's been injured every playoffs for the last four years.
So the Sixers are in flux. And the funny thing is, no matter if James Harden's playing for this team or not. And also Terrence Man, if he plays on this team or not, not gonna save him.