You're listening to The Hottest The Hottest. It be a podcast out here. I said what I said, it's the Heat Chick, Heat Check Check. It's just a creaking on this episode of the Heat Check. Let's try this again. My computer just absolutely crashed in the middle of this episode. It was it was very funny. Only only I will know though though that only you will not know that Jaw is back out here doing Jaw things. I am so freaking excited. I could not be happier. It's also Friday.
Time to check in on the Rookie of the Year futures market. There is some wild movement and we will get into some news from around the league on Joel embiid, Zion Williamson, and my favorite rando in the league, blood Sport James Johnson. Lots popping here, so let's get right into it and drop that motherfucking beat. It should be Rihanna, all right. So John Marine returned back to action in New Orleans for the first time of the season, and he showed everybody why his presence has been missed so
freaking much so. The Grizzlies played the Pelicans right. They fell down big fast, which in all reality has been happening all year long, right all year long. There's a reason that they were six and twenty five or six and nineteen to start the first twenty five games of the season, and that's because they stink. I said that maybe they were the worst roster in the league without Jahn Moran, and I wasn't lying. They're basically a more
expensive Detroit Pistons without Jahn Moran, swear to God. So anyway, they're down. They're down big. I think they're down like twenty something point and John only has seven points at halftime, and everybody's like, ooh, it is John rusty, Oh my goodness, is he not gonna be himself for a little while? Are the Memphis Grizzly sunk? Is their season and sunk? How long is it gonna take for Jaw to be himself? And that is, folks, that right there we have the
kernel of doubt. Not me. I'm a Jaw fan. I'm a John believer, you know what I mean. I've got my hand to the jaw God. Anyway, anyway, that's when Jaw comes back in the jaw we know, the jaw we love and is remarkable. Heroics take over. They return and guess what, and guess what, and guess what. A twenty four point lead shrivels and just crumbles into Dustoo. That's the sound of their lead leaving the building. That
is their sign of their hope starting to diminish. Because yes, by the way, we're gonna have to talk about this too, Willie Green. At some point, we got to talk about him. Eighth double digit lead that the Pels have blown in the second half of games this year. Who does Willy Green think he is? He thinks he's Brad Stevens. In a quick side note, I don't know if that's for the real ones, Like if you don't remember Brad Stevens.
At one point I had a white board just for Brad Stevens, just for Brad Stevens blown leads, swear on my mom's life. And at one point I think it was eighteen leads that had been ten points or more that had ended up into losses. There's incredible Brad Stevens won a run to end his coaching career. Anyway, back to Jaw. Jaw went ballistic, no pun intended, firing from all over the court, no pun intended, and at one point he even used a massage gun. No Pun intended
on his calves during a time out. Three gun references in a sentence that's not about guns and it's about Jaw, Trista, how do you do it? Anyway? With the game tied one thirteen, one thirteen, nine point six seconds left, the Grizz call a timeout. Taylor Jenkins on a missed basket for the Pelicans. Jaw gets the rebound. He's ready to cruise up like a thoroughbread, but no, Taylor Jenkins must call a time out to rain Jaw in from doing something stupid and firing away. No Pun intended. It's almost
like he doesn't trust Jaw in crucial situations. But I mean that makes sense, right. Jaw's made some questionable decisions over the last year. I thought he probably should allow let Jaw cook or whatever. Anyway, Jaw had some ideas and he wanted to run him past Desmond Bane. What were those ideas on how to win the game? Jah came up to me and asked me. It was like, you want to run a postuff for Jaren And I was like, no, Like we go to get to the ball. He told me, no, you getting the ball? So at
that point. It's just you know, I pretty much just had to you know, lock in and go delive and delivery. He did also imagine a world where Jaren Jackson, with nine point six seconds left, gets the ball. Just don't know, like Ja Morant is here, Jaw is Superman. We don't need to give the ball to Is there a Superman refers, I don't know, Like, do we need to give the ball to Catwoman when we have Superman? No, we do not.
So just like that, Jaw with five seconds left in the game down the lane, Herb Jones on him isolation on an island, one of the best defenders on ball in the league. And you know what Jaw did say, I don't care who you put on me, sir, I am going to create space on you and put a bucket on your dome piece. That is what he did. Hit him on the island. Tween spin, body contortion, not
an easy uh nothing but net kind of a shot. No, no, no, Ja Morant doesn't roll like that, waiting until he almost is touching Earth back from the sky, puts the ball up, rattles around the rim, ball goes through the net and just like that, just like the ball going through the net, the soul leaves every fan at Smoothie King Center, Because yes, Sir, Jaw Moran is back. Your division rivals are here, and
Jaw game blouses one fifteen, one thirteen. Jaw finished the game thirty one points, six rebounds, eight assists and a game winner over one of the best defenders in the league period period. My lord, Just like that, folks, Grizzlies back in the action. Grizzlies are gonna be nationally televised again. Jaw goes through the tunnel. I kept receipts. I kept the receipts too. Who was saying this, Who was saying Jahn Moran's not gonna be any good when he comes back?
What he didn't tear his achilles? He got suspended for brandishing a gun. Brandish my new favorite word, brandish. Brandishing a gun that may or may not been the lighter for his handles. John Morant with a chip on his shoulder is all the league needs. Yes, Sir, I cannot tell you how exciting that was for me. Just proven the Jaw doubters wrong, all of the naysayers, all the people who want to wish upon that man's downfall, not me, even after the game, Team Rant's like, yo, you thought
it changed. The inner circle is still the same. Just because DeVante Pack is not allowed to come to Grizzlies games, He's still up in our circle, folks. We also now, for now get to enjoy one of the greatest players in the world winning a game on a last minute shot. All is right in the NBA world. This is why I said jaw on a Tuesday in December, which is what that was, is the most exciting player on planet Earth. And now he's showing everyone why that exactly