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but he drops some fascinating and frankly unbelievable news. I had to literally read it multiple times in order to really allowed to seep into my soul. Basically, everyone but Joel Embiid and James Hardener are on the trade block. Everyone, literally everyone. I don't understand. I don't understand. This is the team that people told me was a monster. This is the team that people told me had enough wing depth, had enough shooting. Joel Embiid MVP level, Everything moves around him.

You signed Tobias Harris, you got Danny Green, You've got Mattis Stible as a as a defender on the perimeter. I was told this was a championship ship roster for the last three years, they were just getting bad luck. So imagine my surprise to read the Sixers realize, quote realize that their current roster is not suited to win an NBA championship. They're determined to upgrade it with established

players that can help propel them. I am stunned. I how could that possibly how how could they possibly come to this conclusion. Philly fans have attacked me for years now over this exact thing that the ownership. I need to get paid. I need to get paid to tell hard truths to franchises such as the Sixers, because this would have been a lot easier three years ago to do. This would have been a lot easier when he didn't

pay Tobias Harris and he had Jimmy Butler. I tell you that twenty nineteen would have been just the year to start thinking about tinkering with your roster, like I don't know. I had pointed out timidly, having a point

guard who doesn't shoot probably not the best idea. That was right, I pointed out, putting one hundred and seventeen percent of your offense on the back of a center who has a litany of injury concerns and issues and history, knees, chronic knee issues, back issues, orbital things happening, ankles, backs, all those things. Maybe not the best idea. He falls

like every other possession. Maybe maybe you want to get him some help the trading, I said, Maybe trading two first round picks for a guy who forced his way out of a place just twelve months ago, only to force his way out of another place in that twelve month period, while he's still fat and lost his explosiveness and wants fifty million dollars a year. By the way, maybe just maybe won't work either. Hell hell, I even pointed out that maybe just maybe paying Tobias Harris more

than Luka Doncic isn't a sound financial strategy. So yeah, I am absolutely baffled. The Philly thinks that their roster has to be significantly upgraded in order to build and compete for a chip. M Pay is now reporting as of today this is the news of the day that the Sixers are interested. I read it multiple times. The

Sixers are currently interested in trading. Get this list. Tobias Harris, Matisse, Thibel Ferkman, Cork Moss, Shaikh, Milton, Danny Green, and now even the number twenty three pick in this year's draft, because why the hell not, let's trade everyone. That is, literally every person on the roster. Don't know what to say about that winter in the summertime for Anthony da it's what that is, he said, summer in the wintertime.

It's winter in the summertime for my man. Ad Well, it only took twenty four hours for the entire internet to shame Anthony Davis into touching a basketball again, if you didn't know earlier in this week, which went viral because it was an accidental Instagram video where Anthony Davis admitted I haven't touched a basketball, not shot a basketball. I haven't touched a basketball since April. Excuse me, what April? That's two months from now, that's two months ago. That is,

let's be honest, alarming for me, that's alarming. Stephen A. Smith had a and JJ Reddick had a spirited discussion about it, and somehow both managed to be wrong at the same damn time. Play a little bit of that for the people.

the garbage. I don't give a deal what it is hedohold Molly. Last point before Mary goes. Anthony Davis went Healthy is a top seven player on the planet. I want him to know. That's how I think about him. Anthony Davis is big time. Went healthy, But there is no getting around how glaringly absent his perimeter shooting was this past season.

even Jay Lebron, not Jokic, not Mbat. You're not even a top ten player. You're not even probably a top fifteen player. If I really had to do some analysis on this, So then what did JJ Reddicks say. JJ Reddicks said, Hey, steven A, this is normal. This is totally normal. I myself went sometimes two months without shooting in the offseason. JJ Reddick forty three point shooter, and frankly so does Steph. Guess what Anthony Davis is not Steph Curry. Anthony Davis is not JJ Reddick Anthony Davis.

To get to an elite shooting level, let me just put it this way. You need to put up shots. Practice makes perfect. Yes, Anthony Davis struggles with being healthy, but you don't have to get up. I'm not talking about dribble dribble pull up. I'm talking about working on form. I'm talking about things that you can do wow in the midst of training. Get your body right. Secondarily, JJ Reddick and Steph Curry have long seasons. Anthony Davis has

barely played this year. What are we talking about? Also, when your reputation is that your your work ethic is in question, multiple people that I've talked to inside of the league have said Anthony Davis has been lazy since high school. Anthony Davis has been a top talent since he was probably twelve years old, and as a big man.

Big men on their own have a reputation of not being as hardworking because the game comes to them easier because of their height advantage early on in their life, and also the fact that they are pushed into the game in ways that little guys are not. Even if you don't love basketball, if you're about to be seven feet tall, you sir, my son, my dad, you are playing basketball. So Anthony Davis reputation for not being a hard worker, reputation for slacking in terms of his training regimen.

Do I think Anthony Davis is getting it in PT and putting in three four hours of PET to get his ankle right so that he doesn't become what do they call him? Glass of bones and skin of paper? What is it? What is it they call him? Anyway? It's they say, like say, it's like bones of bones, of glass and skin of paper? I forget, but like Anthony Davis, I am certain is not getting his body

right four or five hours a day. I'm certain Anthony Davis not shooting from the touching of basketball, not touching, not handling, nothing when he struggles with the perimeter. Do you have it for me street clothes? Yeah, eighty street clothes for sure. When your nickname is street clothes. Because you never play basketball, you don't need more time off. You know what I'm saying, You don't need more time off. And this is here's my stephen a move. I love Anthony Davis when his game is on, I do. I

think he's a really good player. I think his confidence has diminished as his health has diminished. He's maybe the only guy in the NBA who can actually defend Giannis consistently. And when he's healthy, I think he's a top fifteen, top twenty bucket get her in the league. But the key word here, folks, is when when he's healthy, and when is not very often. His shooting has gotten worse over the past five years. He's gone from a high of thirty four percent from three to twenty seventeen to

eighteen percent from three last year. His free throw percentage has fallen from eighty five percent in the bubble to seventy one percent last year. So forgive me if I say it might be worth touching basketball in the off season to get that fat up. And then this jem, this gem dropped on Instagram literally twenty four hours later from Chris Matthews, a well known shot doctor who goes by the name of Lethal Shooter. So he posts this

on Instagram. It's amazing twenty four hours after. It's like on first take and mad Dog's chime in in and JJ chaiman in and stuff's happening. Letho Shooter says, great workout today getting my brother Anthony Davis ready for next season. It's been over in a year and a half since we locked in. God is truly good to help others master the art of shooting. Brothers for life, stay locked in. The post had a photo of them to standing courtside,

which could have been taking at anytime. Honestly, pause, look at this. It's been over a year and a half since we locked in. That's a ricochet shot at Anthony Davis. Listen, kid, maybe you need to pay me so we can get into the gym and your shots can go up. Come on now. First of all, I love how the internet shamed Ad into putting basketball in his hand again. He called up lethal Shooter and he's like, I gotta figure this out. This is they're burning me up in the

streets right now. I don't know what to say. I got Rob Planket calling me, I got Genie Buss calling me. I got Braun being like, what, you don't touch a basketball for two months? What I wish the internet existed in like the nineteen twenties, so people would have like tracked this and been like, yo, Picasso, haven't seen you with my many brushes in your hand? Where's the art at? What's happening? First take? Next? Up on, first take? What's happening?

I saw this Instagram video Picasso mentioned that he hasn't touched a paint brush in over three months. You know that's very normal, actually, Jean Michel Basquiat, I think he's he's done the same thing. You don't know art, You don't know how these things work. Jackson Paula doesn't need to pick up a paint brush. He goes he has to keep his hands sturdy. And then the next day, and then the next day, you see like awesome, awesome time in the lab ig post of him working on

musicians with masks. Just Pablo getting the work in with the brush, yep, working on my surrealism cubism today, just me and and lethal Painter in the lab. Imagine having to be shamed by the Internet into playing the sport in which you're currently making third five million dollars a year to do. Hey, if you're a Laker fan, it could be worse. You could have Ben Simmons, who never touches the basketball. Literally, I think I saw it on Twitter's like Ben Simmons is doing a collab with the Ferrari.

Somebody quote tweeted, when's he gonna do a collab with a basketball? That's all the time that we have for the Heat Check. Will be back Monday with a new episode, previewing and wrapping up the NBA Finals. Follow us as the season comes to an end, the draft happens. I will be out at Summer League for the entire time. Hopefully we'll get some good interviews. I'll shame people into coming on the pod. Do not forget to download subscribe.

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