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this situation. Turns out, the Sixers are very mad that the Clippers told them that Terrence Man was untouchable, only to find out that he was able to be touched. They offered up Man, uh like an order for Drew Holliday, and now Daryl Morey is upset. As for Harden has not played one game. He is now back with the team kind of. He tried to get on the team plane and they turned him away and said, once you go back to the facility, work yourself out a little bit.

Why don't you go work with the training staff. Huh, your fat ass needs it. Huh. Don't be getting on our plane distracting our players when we're on a road trip. This is nuts, right, This is absolutely insane. He's gonna be on the bench soon. I think he might have been on the bench for the Portland game in Philadelphia. We're gonna keep a close eye on this. At any moment, anything could happen. I don't know, like maybe Harden taking all of Tyrese Maxi's minutes just holding the ball. Who knows.

Moving forward. Next news story, Nikola Jokic tells Chet Holgren he needs to get his weight up. We moved to Chet. He's at a great start to his rookie season. Got hurt Summer league last year, missed the whole first season with a hurtfoot monster game against the Cavs sixteen thirteen and two ran into the buzzsaw known as Nicola Jokicic and even though he had nineteen points, he pulled down just four boards, zero blocks, zero steals. After the game, Jokic had this to say about Chet. He's a really

talented guy. But this is his first year. He's still learning everything. I think he needs to be a little fatter, to be honest, But yes, he has that talent that is unique. A little fatter. You didn't need to say fatter, right, Like, we don't need to do all that. Dude has been trying to gain weight since he was thirteen years old. Chet Holmgren has wet dreams about having your Nicola Jokicic's metabolic rate, which is slow. This is just an insane story.

Reminds me of seven to six Sean Bradley back in the day he was trying to gain weight in the offseason. He was seven six two forty five s I wrote this in ninety three. He's eating butter drowned baked potatoes and Jurassic sized t bones, fist thick cheeseburgers and ridiculously chubby fries, double chocolate cakes, Trippler triple decker dagwoods. Just for breakfast. Every day Bradley would get up, try to down the pancakes, the eggs, the cereal, the milk, the juice,

and the calorie dense power milkshake. Then he would go home to his four hour workout, throw up in the middle of it, come home, throw up again, and get more food down before going to sleep. He was a puking machine, so fam was taken in ten thousand calories a day, and after that torture of an off season, when he was done, he was still two hundred and forty five pounds, did not gain a single pound. Chest's not thrown up eight times a day to not gain anyway,

I tell you that. So if you chat Holmgren's gonna have a body type like Nicole Jokic without some sort of performance altering like mechanism, you're fucking outrageous. As for Chet, he was stoked playing with Jokic. He says, you gotta take it to heart, figure out what you can do to be better. Yeah, Chet, get your weight up, be fatter, drink a gallon of protein shakes, and maybe, just maybe you'll be able to compete with Joki. That's insane. We'll

move forward. Houston in the headlines, Houston, we still have a problem. I wanted to really like this Houston team. I said they were my league past team of the year, And boy, does it look like that is starting out a bit shaky. I love you, may Udoka, a lot of swag, so many photos throwing up the shaker. But turns out you can change your coach and not really the roster, and things will still stay the same even if you've got the sw I guess defensive minded coach

in the NBA, you still could be a loser. Unfortunately for the Rockets, they got rid of the chuckleheads, but they did not get rid of all the chuckers, folks, because they are zero in three in very winnable games. At least two of three were winnable. But it's not just that they're losing, it's how they're losing. That's very strange. Uh well, not really strange. They have been doing this before Emai Udoka when it was Steven Silence. They're losing

by an average of fifteen points. They've lost to Orlando, who missed the playoffs last year, San Antonio, who was in last place and had the number one overall pick. They lost to Golden State, which makes sense, and just like that, they're in last place again. And the reason that they're losing they're shooting thirty percent from three, but worse fifty five percent from the free throw line. Fifty five. I had to check that twice. Fifty five. I don't

even know how that's possible. Alprin Shangun is the bright spot. He is a nominee, did not even get an honorable mention, but he was a nominee for the HEMMI Award. He is averaging twenty eleven and six and a half. We were wondering if you emy Udoka would love him, and he does. Leading scorer, leading rebounder, and unfortunately the leading fowler. He is averaging five fouls a game. Chucking folks is a disease and it takes a long time to leave

the bloodstream. Dame time heads to Miami and Tyler Hero could give two bucks quick note about Damian Lillard and the Buck's taking on the Miami Heat coming up tonight. When Tyler Hero, who was at the center of the rumors about the Heat trading for Dame, he was asked if he had any motivation extra and he said this, never spoke to Dame a day in my life, probably never will. You never spoken to Dame, really like you

never spoke to Dame. Lollard the consensus, nice guy. You don't think you and Dame would have ever dapped each other up as guards. These are lies. I don't know what stings worse the fact that you were rumored in every Heat trade as the centerpiece of the Dame trade. The Blazers absolutely did not want you, or three that you're lying about it because Pat Riley lied to the world about never putting you in a trade talk. I

would be salty too. You removed your profile, you remove the Miami Heat from your profile, and it turns out didn't even need to. Tyler's having a good start to the season. He's gonna want to put buckets on Dame. He'll probably shoot thirty percent from three, the Heat will lose by eight, and Dame will have fifty Heat fans enjoy that last segment. Let's talk about the Hemmy Awards. Who is him? He's him? That's what the kids always say. Kimmy of the Week award goes to the player who

is him. We had a lot of choices. There were some good players this week. We could have gone with Dane Lillard. He absolutely crushed the Bucks debut, crushed my heart for a big time parlay, helped the NBA get the highest ratings in six years for an opening game. He personally beat the Sixers down the stretch on the way to thirty nine points. I think he scored the last fourteen on his own and in the fourth quarter convinced Giannis to tell him he is him. In Milwaukee

is now Damian Lillard's team. I wanted it, but no, he's not the him. He's not the himmy I really wanted to give to Jalen Durhan making a statement for most improved player under Monni in Detroit. They're winning games. He's averaging eighteen fifteen and three, three blocks in a steal in his first three games. Himmy numbers, himmy numbers, my friend. But the Hemmi of the week goes too boom. Luca fucking don chicch the man who comes into the

season once again dogged by injuries, got a cashtrain. He don't care condition questions, He don't care. Kenyon Martin says that all real NBA players know that Luke is the second best player on the MAVs. And what did he do in Week one? I don't know. Forty one twelve and nine in wins against the Spurs and the Nets. He had forty nine points in the opener, no turnovers. Pretty fucking good numbers for a guy who's like, not

even the best player on his team. By the way, Kyrie is averaging twenty five and six so far, a half of the HIMMI, And congratulations to Luca. I have dogged the MAVs. But if he puts out forty every night, They're gonna be very, very tough to beat. That's all the time that we have for this episode of the Heat Check. We'll be back tomorrow. Check out the feed

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