De'Aaron Fox Trade Rumors / Better Finals Chances: Boston or OKC?

is the Sham's bomb. This is the sound of the Sham's bomb, Shawn's bomb. Damn it. Anyway, you know what I'm trying to say. Big news. We've got the trade deadline coming. People thought maybe this was gonna be kind

of a weak trade deadline. We had rumors earlier on The deeron Fox maybe just maybe wasn't ever gonna sign his extension in Sacramento, And so there was some bubbling intention about a month ago before they fired their head coach Mike Brown, and now dearon Fox, probably the best guard since Chris Weber, Mike Bibby Jason Williams to play for the Sacramento Kings, it appears will be could be traded by the February sixth trade deadline. That is a

fucking headline. Damian Barling, friend of show, said Sacramento Kings are considering trading their star point guard ahead of the deadline. Sean says the Kings are expected to open up talks to potentially deal him by the deadline, and friend of show, Evon Townsend, who covers the San Antonio says that there were whispers about Fox at San Antonio as early as November.

Then and then yesterday Jake Fisher, friend of show, came out with this reporting that the Sacramento Kings were actually the first who approach Dearon Fox's representatives about potentially putting him on the trade. But block, excuse me, it's the Kings, according the league sources, who first approached Dearon Fox's Clutch Sports representation about putting him on the market with immediate effect.

Sacramento set word to some interested in teams as early as last week that it was open to such overtures. That's when the switch flipped in Sacked Town. And now it appears the Vivek, the owner of the Sacramento Kinks is in ok See at this very second trying to patch things up with Dearon Fox to get him to stay. More So, Demart Rosen, multiple time All Star bucket Getter, was on Running Back Today yesterday with Chandler Parsons and said that if Dearon Fox gets moved, there's a possibility

that he will want out as well. Whoa first of all, Dearon Fox is represented by agent Rich Paul of Clutch Sports, who has indicated and we knew that there was going to be a sticking point as soon as Dearon Fox was represented by Clutch, as soon as he signed with Clutch that he will not sign a long term extension with the Kings as of now. So the Kings as an organization have tried to find help for Dearon Fox.

Multiple players that they tried to trade for Mike Brown shut down why he called them unethical hoopers, brandon ingram John Collins said they are low IQ dudes I do not want on my roster. He is now fired. Since then, they have not been able to secure any player that will help Dearon Fox to his assuagement. So now the

Kings have to figure out what they're gonna do. They have to find a way to trade him before his value goes down and down and down with the year remaining on his contract, and Fox has let it be known, Hey, if you're gonna trade me, I want to go to one place, San Antonio play with Victor Remeniama. That happens to also be Dearon Fox's wife's hometown and Dearon Fox's home state from Houston. And while Dearon Fox is not publicly requested to trade, Clutch's stance has made it clear

that San Antonio is his preferred landing spot. Now. The current odds are minus one fifty for Fox to join forces with Victor Emenianna. Are there other landing spots? Sure? Vince Goodwill from Yahoo Sports says that it's essentially Houston, Miami and San Antonio and that's it. Some other NBA media grifters are putting in to the ether the LA Lakers as they always do because of the Clutch Sports connection and the Brooklyn Nets. Those two destinations don't make

any damn sense. That's where we stand factually with our situation. Here's my take. I put out a clip earlier this week about this, but I feel number one. The riding was on the wall when Clutch got into the mix. If you think about the situation that the Sacramento Kings were in years ago and they had two guards that were not functioning well together. Darren Fox Tyrese Haliburton, both

marquee players, both thought they were franchised. Both wanted apparently to be the guy instead Sacramento and make that team a playoff team. They had aspirations of bringing Sacramento the promised land, a marriage of sorts with the franchise Sacramento pitched Indiana. I think the reporting is originally dearon Fox Indiana. The reporting is now very speculative. At one point said yes, that's the recent reporting two years ago when this all went down, said no, we would prefer a better contract

with Tyrese Halliburton. We want him instead. The trade goes down. Tyrese Haliburton is just sick, devastated. Thought he was going to be the one that brought Sacramento back to relevancy and excitement and was going to be the one that we everyone built the franchise around, and he was wrong. Now he's in Indiana, he's franchised there, he's a partner with the league. He's a partner with the Pacers, probably

for life. And instead the Sacramento Kings chose Deer in Fox that was the one that was the girl in the analogy. You've got two girls, you gotta choose one who you wiping up, and you chose the girl the wrong one, and then she ends up getting out one friend. You know the friend, don't you with the friend that's always whispering. Oh he's fine. Oh you see that rolex on him. Ooh, look like he's driving. He's got a Bentley. Your man drives a Honda. Ooh you see that that's

a Gucci bag. Ooh, he could take me shopping. Ooh, this is what you could get from him. Oh do you see his house? Oh, your man ain't shit. You should go here, you should do this. And then all of a sudden, your girl's out there on these streets. And now all of a sudden, your girl's not trying

to be your wifey. She's outside. And that's what's going on with deeron Fox right now in the Sacramento Kings, he is looking at Victor woman Yama and the San Antonio Spurs as the guy with the Gucci belt and the nice ass car and the Louisviton sweater and the nice Rolex with the you know whatever pearl whatever the faces. You know what I'm saying. Anyway, she's he's opportunistically trying to get to a better place, as he should if he feels like he's not getting what he needs from Sacramento.

But the truth is he should be what the team is building around. He should be the piece the teams feel like attract stars too, but they can't get deals done a la Damian Willard and the Portland Trailblazers who ended up needing to go as well. Is Fox the villain in the situation? I don't know? Are the Sacramento Kings the villain in this situation? I don't know. Is this the best move for Sacramento long term in order to finally get some pieces and draft picks to start

building up their coffers. I also don't know why, because this is not a rebuilding team right now. They have de Margaret, he's in the twilight of his career. They've got demonis the bonus prime of his career Max player. That is not a team that wants to start stockpiling a bunch of first round picks and become the Brooklyn Nets. So they better figure it out fucking fast. They better

get Steph Cassel, Devin Vassel, multiple first round picks. Those first round picks better turn into a current player that can be some sort of veteran, multiple veterans on this team in order for them to be cohesive and back to relevancy. Otherwise, I don't know how the fans are gonna be able to stomach this for the long term. Boy oh boy, is the next week gonna be very very interesting one week until the trade deadline. I'm on

the edge of my seat. Moving on. I was on a show on a network called beck QOL, which is the network I used to be on with my friend PJ. Glasser, talking about who's the real contender right now? Vegas has the odds equal Oka see Thunder defending champs Boston Celtics. The question came up, who, at this point in time do you trust more Boston? Okay, see, I want to break this down a little bit further because I think

it's worth exploring. Number One, You take a look at Okace right Chet Holmgren is slated to return rhet on the All Star break and the thought of Chet, Isaiah Hartenstein, Jalen Williams, Shay Gildis, Alexander Alex Caruso on the same floor at the same time is to me, if I'm

another team terrifying. So much defense, so much length, so much physicality, the ability to get buckets on all three levels of the court, and I feel like maybe the return of Chet Hoolmgren is the biggest move at the trade deadline for any team, and he's the only thing that they've been missing to stretch the We need three point shooting on this team. He provides that. So there's a reason that OKAC is in first place. But this is a team that's just three and three in their

last six games. They are gettable. They've got a loss to the Lucasas Dallas Mavericks. They've got a loss to the toothless Golden State Warriors for some reason. I don't know why, but Dallas has their number, and they better hope they don't see them in the playoffs because I think the same result happens if Luca is still healthy. There's another team, though, that the OKC thunder I think should be afraid of, and they are the Houston Rockets a team that wants to punch you in the mouth.

They are all in the best possible way, prison hoopers. They've got shives, baby, they've got elbows, they've got fists. They're putting their body into you. They're getting their sweat into your face. And guess what they like it because emy Udoka has built them this way. They're no pretty boys except for Jalen Green on this team, and they are nasty and the best possible way. Ima Udoka called this team soft twelve months ago, and they are not soft now. Aman Thompson, what is he? He's an alien.

I don't know what he is. He is so hard to defend. He has found his shot. He is one of the most efficient shooters at the rim right now in all of the league. He is a front runner or at least a player in consideration for six Man of the Year. If he keeps coming off the bench, I think you probably have more of a legit case for most improved Player. If Cad Cuttingham wasn't going crazy and you saw him the other night put up thirty three points, getting clutch time minutes, hitting game winners over

the defending champs. He's attacking the rim. He is fun and a huge spark for this team. You got Jalen Green bombing away. We talked about him a few shows back. He's become a sniper overnight. He's averaging twenty six to four and three over his last thirteen games, forty three percent from three. Dylan Brooks, did you see him hit ten threes the other night against the Boston Celtics alprin Shangoon.

He's on the verge of becoming a star. I love the way he plays, super physical in the paint, incredible vision, can score as well, defends almost as well this team as Okay see, so if they had a score at the deadline, I don't know the Aaron Fox will say they could be a threat in the West. And I know a lot of people say, oh, well, Daron Fox, they need shooting and Dearon Fox can't shoot. I'm sorry those people haven't been watching stats and percentages recently. That

used to be true. Shoot forty percent from three now. Okay sees two and one against Houston this year, all three games won by the home team. Now back to Boston. In terms of the comparison, they're just twelve and ten in their last twenty two games, just six and five at home. The amount of home games that Boston lost last year come all together throughout the season. We're almost ready to hit that right now. But the truth is, I don't really care what Boston does in the regular season.

This is not a scenario where you're saying, Hey, Trista, do you think the Boston Celtics are close to what the Denver Nuggets were last season? Huge regression where no one wanted to write them off because they were defending champs and they had one of the best players in the world. No, why did I not think that? Because they didn't lose any of their pieces. Denver, what do they lose? They lost Bruce Brown, lost Jeff Green and a lot of their depth in general. KCP had to

play a lot of minutes. You had Jamal Murray with regression, with injuries, you had Michael Porter Junior really starting to have a decline in his three point shooting, and so Denver as a whole had to rely on just Jokic. Boston doesn't have that problem. Chris as Porzingis was injured to start the season. He is back now. Everybody is clicking on all cylinders when they are. They are very

dangerous now. Dereck White has had some regression. Players in terms of the just the role players as a whole have had some regression, And like I'm talking about with Derek White, he's come down to earth. Drew Holliday, his three point shooting is down staggering ten percent down from last year. The question is do you believe this is gonna continue in the playoffs. I don't think so. The issue right now for Joe Mazola probably is keeping those

guys hungry consistency. They'll bounce from blowing out a team by thirty, which they can do on anyone, to losing a late lead against a team like Toronto. This is the reason that no one thought Boston would win a title to begin with, because they had so many damn ten or more point leads that they allowed to slip away. This is what Boston does. You have to just allow yourself to know it's not gonna be pretty with Boston.

But they're probably going to go through most of the East except for maybe Cleveland, like just run through them. But they can turn into a superpower anytime they want. They've got Christaps Porzingis who's finding his feet they've got Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, you got Peyton Pritchard as the leader in the clubhouse for six Man of the Year. I like their chances to come out of the East better than I like. Okay, see coming out of the West.

And if those two teams meet, boy and it's a three point shooting contest, send Boston to the parade once again. Move it on. It's the NBA news. We've got a gambling scandal again rearing its ugly head. What you don't say it was a one off? Remember the John T. Porter catastrophe last year where the brother of Michael Porter Junior purposely through games to hit parlays that he had placed by a gambling consortium betting on his own unders.

He's currently in jail for like a bajillion years too, thinking about fuck, why didn't I just ask my brother for a loan? Why did I just ask my brother? Hey, can you pay my rent? I'm in jail now now. Unfortunately, scary Terry. It's getting scary for Terry Rosier. He is in the news for an alleged incident from back in his days as a Charlotte Hornet, which, let's be honest, if you were going to scam as an NBA player. Charlotte's the place to do it, not a lot of

people watching your games with great scrutiny. The FEDS were alerted. Here's the story in brief. FEDS were alerted to unusual betting pattern surrounding Rosier's performance in a March twenty third, twenty twenty three game between the Hornets and the Pelicans. Again, that's the one to do it, Okay. No one is paying attention to a random March game post All Star break when teams are starting to shut it down between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Hornets. Rosier, who remember,

now he's at the Miami Heat. He was hooping that year. By the way, he has not been accused of any wrongdoing the probe. It's part of the same case that led to the lifetime ban of John tay Porter. The NBA said that they looked into it. They found no rule violations, but is now cooperating with the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York OOH Chuck

Rhodes is coming as they further examined the situation. During the game in question, Rosier played just under ten minutes before exiting with the foot issue, ultimately sitting out the last eight games of the season. Betters became very suss when sportsbooks removed prop bets on Rosier hours before tip off, and some expressed frustration after his early exit, believing something was amiss. Twitter was full of broken parlor, with Rosier

being the killing leg. Not sure if there's any fire here, but there is enough smoke to cause the US attorneys to kick tires because they believe something was suspect. The weird part was that Terry Rozier had a really good first quarter. He had five, four and two for a guy whose PRAA was around thirty the entire season, and then pack it up, folks, take himself out of the game, and then the underhits on all of his bets. And

like I said, he was hooping that year. He had been a pretty reliable over before that, having hit thirty number, that thirty number in eight of his previous ten games. So I don't really know what to do with that information, but I find it nearly impossible to believe that someone's who making twenty two million dollars a year is like, hey, let me join a betting consortium and bet against myself.

I will say this, I do know that some of Terry Rosier's friends are not the most upstanding citizens in terms of the professions that they take company they keep. So I'm just gonna throw that out there. No allegations, no slander. I'm just saying anything's possible. I don't think it's true, though, I really don't. However, here's what I learned working in the sports betting space. If the books think there is something suspicious going on, there is something

suspicious going on. Who was involved remains to be seen. Maybe he had a foot issue and we in the team knew about it, and somebody told somebody, and then somebody told it better, and then they told all their friends, and now the sports books pack it up. Moving on, We'll have a full trade deadline episode on Monday. But here's a list of some of the players who may be on the move not named Aaron Fox and Jimmy Butler,

Caleb Martin, Clint Capella, DeAndre Hunter. We're just trading all the Atlanta Hawks, bog Don, Bogdanovich, Keldon Johnson, gershawn Yabisele Nikola, Lusovich, Miles Turner, which is just a joke, absolute bananas. John Collins which is another one. Remember it used to be just John Collins and Miles Turner all the time, over and over and over again. Colin Sexton again another one, always in the news. Mitchell Robinson which why would anyone want his broken body right now? Use of Nurkic? Why

would anyone want his broken basketball game right now? And Yaka pertl Gonna be a busy week, folks. And finally, your weekly roundup of NBA injuries. Two major stars are out. First, emerging Hawks superstar Jalen Johnson is out for the season with a torn labram in his left shoulder. Huge law for the Hawks this He's become an insane companion for Chrey Young this season. He's averaged nineteen ten and five. His injury, of course, throws a massive wet blanket on

the Hawk season. But also they probably like it given the fact that they owe their first round pick that's protected I believe top ten to San Antonio. Pack it up, baby, We're gonna keep our pick. In a loaded draft. It's a lot more likely that they move guys out of the deadline than bring them back. Sad for Jalen He'll be back next year and hopefully maybe remember Atlanta somehow locked into the number one fucking pick of the draft

this last year when they did not deserve it. Another injury of note, LaMelo Ball stepped on a foot while backpedaling admiring his long three, which is so LaMelo Ball. Ball's ankles have caused him so many damn problems over the years that a lot of executives in the NBA now view him as a risk, both in the trademarket and the free agent market. He's gonna be reevaluated next week. He's probably gonna missfight to seven games. This coming on the back of the news that he will not make

the All Star Game. Sad times for LaMelo Ball. Speaking of the All Star Game, the reserves were announced, it's more interesting talking about who did not make the team than who did. Here are your snubs for this year, East Trey Young, Lamello Ball, Tyrese Maxey, Franz Wagner. I don't think Franz is really a snub because he was injured. Tyrese Halliburton, which really probably isn't a snub E there because he's been playing hurt in the Westmonasabonis biggest snub

every year. I don't understand dearon Fox Kyrie Irving, Norm Powell, Devin Booker. To me, there are two names that stand out in the East. Tyree Maxey, who's averaging twenty five and six. I know he's having a bit of a down year in the Sixer Stink, but he's kind of single handily propping up the entire franchise, the entire hope of this team. Demonasabonis, I think you got royally host. If you don't know by now that he is an All Star, insane, shame on you. Twenty one, fifteen and seven,

just an egregious oversight. We will talk more about the All Star game soon. That's all the time that we have for this episode of The Heat Check. Come back Monday with an all new episode. Check out the feed for past episodes of many episodes would drop unexpectedly like Deer and Fox Trade rumors didn't see that coming. Do not forget to follow the Heat Check. All sees along that he's download subscribing to your friends, even the ones that he doesn't talked to in years, and follow the

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