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What's a little news from around the league? Anthony, do me a little favor. Drop that motherfucker beat and that should be Rihanna, but obnestly's too cheap to pay for anything. Okay. Big news this week was the NBA's annual a for

wah uh A Bonjo. But voyage was it? Voyage into Europe where the Indiana Pacers played, not surprisingly the San Antonio Spurs because of Victor Webbin Yama question if the ping pong balls would have changed one number, literally just one, and Victor would have been a Portland Trailblazer and not Scoot, which, of course I love Scoot, but you know, I'm so happy with Scoot. But would Portland be going to France

instead of San Antonio? Would? Is it just wherever Victor goes, whatever team he's on, that's just what team goes to France? I don't know. Anyway, he played twice. The games in Paris were prefaced by a lot of Victor photo ops, and to be perfectly honest, I was intrigued by all of it. The French obviously are fascinated and in love with Victor. How could you not be. He's awesome, he's so fun, he's so likable, he's so tall, just so tall.

And this is the people not really known for being that friendly to even their own countrymen, and they love them. But France, France loves himself some wemby and he was so happy to show his teammates his home country. The team landed in Patti on Monday, and it was like it literally looked on Instagram, not just the San Antonio Spurs, but it was almost like Victor wembin Yama was the school teacher chaperone and all of the NBA were his students. It was like a high school trip or a middle

school trip. To Washington, DC. He took him on a never ending series of sightseeing photo op trips. A small list of what Victor did. Monday team dinner and then a group shopping trip at the legendary Hosmon Opera Saint Lazarre Quarter. I think I butchered that. Definitely butchered that

Tuesday trip back to his hometown. I'm definitely gonna butcher this La les Chesney, where he dedicated not one, but two basketball courts in his name, before heading back to past Paris for Why Fashion Week, good shit, Adam Sover, great Collabo, no wonder he has custom sweatsuits that I have no idea how they fit him. He probably has a tailor for sweatsuits. Wednesday, Paris Saint Germain's soccer game against Man City PSG one four two. Thursday first game

versus Pacers. Friday tour of the Eiffel Tower, which I thought only tours from Toledo went to. But I guess when Keldon Johnson gotta take them to the Eiffel Tower as well. Saturday second game against the Pacers. Sunday coss sauce with the Crodies, bagets with the boys, then get on the jet plane and fly back to San Antonio. What a fucking week, people, And also Opie Topping and his chick looking fucking bad, looking so good, all of the photo ops from the Pacers and the Spurs chef's kiss.

I am jealous. I love how much this trip happened. I want a team, an NBA team, to be in Paris. I love how much Wemby embraces his celebrity both in Europe and the United States. Just a super nice kid. I love this trip. I also thought it was interesting that they played twice because I was tripping when the NBA was putting out highlights, I was like, it's just me. I swear to God, this game already occurred. Are we getting highlights from three days ago or three minutes ago? Anyway,

this is what he said. This week was amazing, just seeing my family. I'm not trying to get emotional, but everyone did their job making this week incredible. And guess what. On the court, Wemby was tremendous in the first game, thirty point blowout win, which is insane. Victor put up thirty eleven and six five blocks five five blocks plus all eighteen net rating. Rick Carlile made it a point to stop him in the second game, and indeed the Pacers split the two game series with a thirty eight

point win. I think jet lag had something to do with it. They held Wemby to twenty twelve and two, but after the game, Carlile said he was shocked when he looked at the box score. You don't stop that guy, he said, he still had twenty to twelve, and it was our sole mission to eliminate him from the game. The entire week had not gone better, and as the Spurs point guard said, Victor responded despite the enormous pressure on him. He said, I can't imagine what it was

like for Victor come back home and play. He was so excited. But it's a lot of responsibility that comes with that. Every media outlet, every event, trying to see your family that you don't get to see to that often. And Vic is one of those guys who tries to sign every autograph. I just love it for him. I love him so much. I hope this becomes an annual tradition, the San Antonio Spurs bag Get annual bag Get Classic, you know what I mean. I hope they. I would

love him to play four times a year. Fuck it, let them go multiple times. This NBA Cup, let's have that shit in Paris. Victor's already a star. He's on the cusp of becoming a top ten player in the league, if he's not already there, And it was just cool to have basketball on at two pm here in America. I was getting mad. It was like it was the pandemic all over again. Baby. I was like, Wow, two

pm on the West Coast getting a game. With the announcement that the NBA is looking to open a league affiliated EuroLeague, events like this take on in even greater importance, and Victor's announcement at the end of the week that he's gonna be playing for Team France and EuroBasket twenty twenty five seem like the final thank you from one of the more grateful dudes in the world of basketball

to his country. Well done, Adam Silver. That was one of the best well planned situations that you could ever have expected. Do that more, all right, Moving on, Moving on, Trey Young. Gotta talk about him. As you guys know, I'm not a huge Tray fan. You know, as far as ethical basketball goes, Trey Young's not at the top of that list. He's been the subject of a lot of discourse as of late, in large part because of the weird nature of the Atlanta Hawks, who really cannot

decide what they are. Are they good? Are they dog shit? Are they maybeocre? We don't know. They're twenty two and twenty three, largely because they've been four and six in the last ten games. They're sitting in ninth four games at a fourth place as the East decks up like Cordwood after the top three in the East. And also they've beaten every good team in the East. They've lost to all the bad ones. So we don't know. And since Trey Young is at the center of this team,

you can consider them the lighting rod. And whether Trey being at the center of the Hawks is a good thing or a bad thing is kind of what this is about. Jared Weiss from The Athletic tried to think peace how Tray Young has taken a step back so the Hawks can take a step forward kind of remind me of a Paul Abdul song, actually, and it resummarized the way Trey has been talked about as of late. Tilly.

What the article is about is how Hawks coach Quinn Snyder is trying to get everyone on the Hawks to embrace this defensive first basketball and that includes Trey Young, who has, let's face it, ben Akne for most of his career to date, despite the fact that he's one of the best stealers in the league west thiefs in the league. In addition, I actually love Quinn Snyder, by the way. In addition, Snyder envisioned in offense with Trey having the ball a lot less often in his hands.

As Trey noted, Snyder put it out in front of me and showed me how we can do it. And I can still get the same amount of touches because it helps our offense. But maybe it's getting off the ball early and getting a pick and roll later into the shot clock that can help too. The ball's in my hands, but I'm getting it in different ways. Allah, Steph Curry, That's what we've been trying to say for

many years now. But Steph, but Steph coming into the Trey Young experience hasn't really worked with the Jonte Murray experience. That's why he had to get a bat of there. The shift happened in the offseason with that trade for de Jontay Murray for Dyson Daniels in the offseason, because Dyson Daniels has been a revelation on track to set

an NBA record for steals. This guy was sitting at the end of the bench for the New Orleans Pelicans last year, I might remind you, and that has been setting the tone for a team that is now five points better in defensive ratings than they were last year. And Trey has responded. He is averaging twenty three game which is almost seven points worse than his career high, but he's also getting eleven and a half assists per game, which leads the league and is a career high for him.

His twenty one potential assists per game is four and a half higher than Nikola Jokic. That is nuts. That is nuts. The change in numbers come with some pain. Young is averaging a career low forty percent from the field. Part of that is because his percentage of isolation is nearly half of what it is last year, and his pick and roll plays have soared astronomically to twenty six per game. And let's be honest, like Trey Young made his bones at Oklahoma and even Atlanta as an IO

player as an IO god. That's what he does. By the way, pick and Roll plays five more than Damian Lillard, who is the only other player in the twenties also ISO god. That is also worth noting. The new look Atlanta Hawks have a ton going for them. Jalen Johnson's on the cusp of being a superstar. DeAndre Hunter has found his groove as a six man. Tyson Daniels, like I said, has been a revelation defensively. But the team

is still struggling because they don't have any shooters. As Lebron James has said many times many years, we don't have no snipers. They're currently twenty seventh in the league. From Deep Paiging Buddy Healed, Paijing Buddy Healed. The Hawks are on the cusp good enough to beat some top

teams in the league. They won over Boston twice, New York twice, Cleveland twice, the Lakers Milwaukee, and then they're bad enough to lose to the Drags, losses to the Wizards twice, Chicago twice, Toronto twice, Portland wolf So you never really know what they're gonna get. What are they gonna do with the deadline Are they gonna sell, are they gonna buy? Trade for another shooter? Ditch some contracts put themselves in a better position. When are they gonna

get rid of clink Appella? Who knows? But no matter what happens, Trey Young will be at the center of the Hawks moving forward. And I think for all of us who have been praying for more ethical basketball, we can at least give Trey Young a golf clap for more of what he's been doing than he's been doing this season. All right, Moving on, It's around this time

of year. Did NBA teams loser? Goddamn mindes? We're talking about tanking or in this case, capturing the flags watery and there are teams that don't feel like they really am getting the picture so far? Have they not been watching Cooper Flag? Have they not been seeing the clips? Are you guys not on X or fucking threads or on what's the one red note, blue sky whatever? Yellow bird? Who knows? Okay? Cooper Flag setting records, Dylan Harper, Ace

Bailey putting up monster games at records. VJ edgecomb killing it, Portland, New Orleans, Toronto, Charlotte not getting the memo, all four teams in the bottom flour of their respective conferences, all of a sudden have decided hoopin, hoopin' hoopin. Here's what they've done. Blazers four and one in their last five, Pelicans five and three in their last eight, Raptors five and one in their last six, Hornets four and two

in their last four. Of the eight worst teams in the NBA are all of a sudden, four of the hottest teams in the league. What are you doing? Portland? Portland, Portland. You've got Aton, You've got Rob Williams. You've got Jeremy Grant that you must trade. You need to trade them. New Orleans, Why why are you even trying to win when you could maybe, just maybe pair Cooper Flagg Wizion Williamson in the greatest duke connection of all time. Charlotte,

your season is over. Brandon nort it's a rap for him. You should be shedding salary. And worst of all, Toronto in the six you got no business winning five of six, no business. You stink you're gross, But a top pick in this draft could set you up for years. Baby, what are you doing? Who? You guys need to be taking notes from who you guys should just pull up

some YouTube clips. On the fourth quarter, Will Hardy of Utah Jazz aka the Master Commander of Tanking Utah Jazz, chugging along baby, doing what he's supposed to do, supposed to do. Two and eight in their last ten, Brooklyn Nets, who turned a five hundred team into a deep sea submersible. One and nine down the stretch. Oh yeah, baby, and they called it. And they you know, when you make a bank shot, you gotta go. That's a bank. That's what they said. We're losing. We're not gonna lose, you

know what I'm saying. We're not fielding the winning team no more. Shoot. Kyle Kuzma.

Pallo ban Cao, Chet Holmgren, Victor Wembin Yama, Brandon Miller, any of those players could have been my team's players. But guess what. We had to roll the ball out on a random February night and say we're gonna beat New Orleans tonight. Do you think we give up anybody? Anybody gives a fuck about that game three years ago? Now, No, we don't. We don't care at all. Do you think Paolo ban Caro would have been a nice consolation prize to a dismal season? Absolutely? Ask Orlando when your future

is on the line. A draft like this comes once every I don't know, decade or so. Do not fuck this up Portland. Those wins in February and January, those will mess up your lottery odds, and guess what, they will come back and haunt you. Okay, little news from around the league. ESPN's Mark Jones has reported it around three weeks ago. Anthony Edwards reached out to Michael Jordan about how to deal with double teams. Oh shit, oh shit. I was told by someone in his circle that three

weeks ago. Aunt reached out to Michael Jordan on advice on how to handle some of the double teams and traps that he's seeing. He's been extremely frustrated up until late. I don't know, if you see in the clips. He fucking hates it. He says, I can't stay in the game. I don't know what to do. They said, Aunt, do you get rattled? Do you feel like you can stay focused? He's like, I don't enjoy this. I don't enjoy just passing the ball to my teammates at all. I do

not want that. I want to score. Aunt. Let's talk about this season up and down. Since getting that advice from Michael Jordan, he's averaging thirty two, six and six forty seven percent from deep in his last twelve games. That is up from twenty one to six and five and thirty eight percent from deep in the last twelve games before. That would have been nice to know, probably would have been him. Not sure what Jordan told Aunt, but it seems to have worked. I know what. They

probably told him. Shoot from the lolo, motherfucker, shoot just further back. I know there are a lot of jokes about Michael Jordan being Anthony Edwards's dad, But let me tell you, if Aunt Edwards keeps playing like this, those comparisons, those DNA tests, the asks are gonna keep coming out in Phoenix. Moving on, we apparently have some beef between Yusuf Nurkic, the fourth string center, and Mike budenholds her

what huh? Nirk told the Arizona Republic that the two haven't spoken a couple of days, right, we can couple of leaks three weeks two months. NRK said this, We don't have a relationship, so it's fine. Don't let you're on that back. We don't have a relationship, so it's fine for me. Just be a pro, do the best I can work and stay ready for whatever it might be. But there is no chaos or bringing that to this team. They already have plenty of it. Oh my god, Nirk

with grenades. Oh boy. Bud was stoic about Nirk's comments, considering he basically has demoted him to dnp's AKA do not Play, saying it's never easy in the league. He hasn't played. Why I did a video about this, he hasn't played. I'm sure he's frustrated. I respect that this story's tremendous, the story the Suns. They really want to get the last year of the nrks contract off their books. I tried to tell folks, the best part of the Dame trade was getting rid of NRK. The best part

of the Dame trade was getting rid of Nirk. This guy is not good. Four years seventy million dollars to NRK nineteen point four million on the books. You want to talk about fanasasu tokupos of the world, you know, just there because the superstar wants them there. That was Nurk and Damian Lillard. Send that motherfucker to Milwaukee. Phoenix is a mess. Things like this will not make them any more attractive for free agents who might be tempted to head out to the desert. Oh boy, what a

tremendous story. And I'm sure it's only gonna get more calm as the free as the trade deadline approaches. Finally, out in Indiana, where the Pacers have been scorching hot nine of eleven, there are whispers yes they are. These are the good ones. There are whispers of the most familiar kind. Miles Turner is on the trade block again. Oh man, I've been talking about Miles Turner on the

trade block for the Indiana Pacers since twenty twenty. Since twenty twenty, death taxes and Miles Turner on the trade block. Say it ain't so. Literally, one of the trade machine Hall of famers just cannot be quit. This time from friend to show Yovan Bouja, who reports I've heard a little bit of chatter about that, about some uncertainty and not Lakers specific, but just kind of league chatter in

terms of Turner. If he's available, it would be more so because Indiana and the contract situation, and not as much about them because Indiana is not really a team that tanks or looks to sell off players. But that could be an exception just based off of his contract situation. If Miles Turner is available, I think if you're the Lakers, you have to go get him because he just fits perfectly next to ad on both sides of the floor. He spaces the floor, and he's a rim protector. That

would be the ideal. Even over Walker Kessler. This is what we call no shade to Yovon Bouja. Really, no shade. Just throwing shit against the wall, that's what that I mean. Really, that's not reporting. That's just like, hey, you see that girl over there, I would fuck that girl, you know what I mean? Like, that's just the Lakers being like, if he was available, man, we would trade for him. Okay, Like there's no side of interest from Indiana's perspective that

they are willing to trade Miles Turner. And I don't think he's that back of a contract either. Can we just stop these Miles turn trade rumors? The dude has been through enough. He's been so good in Indiana. The Pacers are red hot. They are now in fifth, They're a game out of the fourth for slot, I sincerely doubt that they make a move like trading him for contract reasons. That is, throw shit against the wall for Miles's sake, For for Miles's sake, Can we just him live?

Can we just have one year without a Miles Turner trade rumor? Please? Please Yo Yo Vaughn, make it stop. That's all the time that we have for this episode of The Heat Check. Tune in Wednesday for an only episode and check out the feed for past episodes and many episodes which drop unexpectedly. Like all the teams that I enjoy watching the Buffalo Bills and the Washington Commanders, I am heartbroken. Fuck the Bills, I mean, fuck the Chief excuse me, fuck the Eagles, Fuck this super Bowl.

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