So we talked about how bad the Mavericks were last week. I want to say Monday, Tuesday. Maybe I forget it's all blurring together. But no, NBA owner right now is more unhappy with his team than Dallas Mavericks owner Shark Tank Equity squeezer Mark Cuban. So we did talk about how the season went off the rails, right. We talked about how Luca is very unhappy and how Jason Kidds playing is just really coaching above his skis right now.
He's not handling the lineup great, especially Christian Wood. So the question is this, what's pissing off Mark Cuban? No, what is chopping Mark Cuban's Shark Tank ass Well, his team is awful, awful, awful, awful, one of the worst in shooting for they are the second worst team in the league. To be exact, they shoot seventy two point three percent from the charity stripe. Only the Memphis Grizzlies are worse, which is a whole other thing that we
can talk about some other day. It is the lowest, though, that the Mavericks have ever ranked in free throw shooting in their history. They once finished twenty seventh and free throw shooting in nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, and that team won exactly eleven games. Think about that. In nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, they are twenty seventh in the league, better than they are now at free throw shooting, and they won eleven games with Tim Legler.
No shaded Tim Legler like him and Mark Cuban is having none of this. He unloaded on the Dallas Morning News decided to go full nuclear. He was like, yeah, I told Jason Kidd, I told Michael Finley to figure it out. They know it's an issue. It's not like we don't see the box scores. It's not something we ignore. That's for damn sure. It's not like, ah, it's just gonna work out in the end. This is something we have to work on. He even bitched to Nico Harrison
as well several times about this. And let's face it, Nico has enough on his plate right now. He's got to defend the Kemba Walker move. He's got to defend the Facundo Composo move. So that's who knows how that's gonna be. But all of us to say what NBA owner is like in the weeds on your free throw shooting, like this is madness, Like Mark Cuban is a maniac, and I get it. You're thirty twenty ninth in free throw percentage. That's bad. But like Mark Cuban, don't you
have some like new sham wows to approve? Like I don't know what? Who? What are we doing here? You think he'd be too busy complaining about why he let Lori outmaneuver him for the scrub daddy right, like to read through MAVs stats, like what are we talking about? It's twenty five games in the season. You have Luka Doncic, But here we are anyway, he wasn't done. Cuban also said, literally, we would probably have five more wins if we could
shoot free throws. It's just the way it goes. We went through the same things last year, and for whatever reason, it's been our achilles heel another season crippling deficiency that was not addressed. Looking like things are not very sunny for the future of Jason Kidd and Nico Harrison. An unhappy Luca A front office that thought Facundo Compazzo and Kemba Walker to replace Jalen Brunson, was a good idea. Team is shooting five percent worse than they were last
year when it was their Achilles heel. Changes are coming in Dallas and it might happen sooner than later. And remember remember they asked Mark Cuban how important Luca was to them, and he said, if it was between Luca and my wife, I'm going down to the courthouse and file for divorce. So you better believe he's going to do everything he can to keep Luca Dodges happy and so that might mean deuces for everyone else. Speaking of Dallas, we need to address the fact that Luca is also
unhappy without the season is going. Since the MAVs only win when he wins thirties points, scores thirty points or more, you might think that's why. You might think it's because of Jason Kidd putting in someone else besides Christian would the fact that they replaced Jalen Brunson with some scrubs. No, it's not why you'd think that was why Luca was mad. But it's not you'd be wrong. Here's the latest tea. According to NBA reporter albrey Wynn, who was sitting courtside
at the game, Bucks versus MAVs. Awesome game went down to the wire. He said, I was sitting court side tonight and Luca was visibly upset at the coaching staff the entire second half. Anytime he had a chance, he looked over to the bench. This play to end the game was the final nail. He didn't talk to anyone. He stormed off the court. What was his final nail? What was the play to end the game? Well, they had like five seconds left out of bounds play and
apparently the bucks knew exactly what they were running. Luca knew that the bucks knew the final play, but he's trying to alert the coaching staff, and it was like they were in a trance. They had no ability to see Luca looking at him, trying to give him the hate. Hey look at me, Hey, this is bad. We gotta scratch this, we gotta do something else. Instead, they sat around with their glazed eyes, holding their dicks, doing nothing new, And of course the play got blown up. Of course
the MAVs lost. Of course, it was like Drew Holliday had to do nothing just to get switched back onto Luca, their best defender on Luca having to take a forty foot or to win the game. Yeah, and after the game, Lukat thanks to say he said, we gotta work on that. They pre switched. I think there was a little miscommunication with the players. I just wanted him to slip so I didn't have Drew on me. Yeah, no, shit, you don't want Drew on you, like that's the worst person
to have on you. And it happened to be the same final play the MAVs had used pretty much in previous games. That got sussed out. Why are you running the same out of bounds play in multiple games in a row? Why why are you doing that? Do you not? Do you have like four plays? What's happening? They did the same thing against the Raptors. They did the same thing against the Rockets. Basically, it ends up with a busted play with Lucas shooting and chucking a contested forty
footer and losing. Luca, of course, doesn't speak to anyone. He storms off. Can you blame him? This is bullshit? He had Rick Carlisle and now he has Jason Kidd. Is this man gonna get anyone who's creative or competent or has any idea of what the modern NBA looks like this is the slowest pace of play team in the NBA. I don't think it's all because of Luca's fatness. I really don't. I don't think it's the only reason. I have questions like, are we still running this Rick
Carlisle system in Dallas? Is this Lucas system? I mean, this coaching staff has absolutely zero bag, like none. This is so bad, This is so so bad. If this doesn't get cleaned up fast, Jason Kid's gonna hope upon hope that Frank Vogel gets hired again so that he can sit on his bench. That's the like, that is
the absolute best case scenario for Jason Kidd. If this, if this team doesn't get figured out fast, I mean, maybe Charlotte go to Charlotte, Jason Kidd, because if you can't win with Jannis and Luca, I don't know if you're cut out for this coaching thing. I really don't. Is Aunt Edwards better without carl Anthony Towns. It's a very important question to ask. Remember the first month of the season, Aunt hadn't had a single dunk all year, and people were like, what's going on with Aunt Edwards?
Was wrong with Ann Edwards was wrong with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Turns out, of course, as we know, it's a spacing issue. Rudy Gobert and Carl Anthony Towns were such a disaster together that Ant had no idea where to be, where to go, what to do. What has happened Since Karl Anthony Towns has headed to the ir Ant has been unleashed. He's been absolutely a monster. He is averaging twenty five and five with four point four steels per game since
Carl Anthony town has got hurt. Are you serious? Four point four steals per game is absurd? That is absurd. The reason why he's going to the rim again, he's dunking, He's driving so much. Ask why he's driving so much? Well, I'm just going I'm not thinking about doing too many moves. I'm just trying to play off the catch and play faster. Gee. I wonder what was the change? I wonder what makes him be able to operate faster a more space like
a free, open wide plane. I don't know, maybe the lack of another seven footer known to be slightly soft, slightly bitchy. I'm gonna make a bold take care Carl Anton Town's gotta go. He's gotta go. It's either Gobart or it's Karl Anthony Towns. You can't have both. And I'm pretty sure Aunt Edwards would agree with me. There, boy, oh boy, did that go Bear trade turn into one of the least fun moves in NBA history. There's an NBA star that is being sued by literally everyone who
is it, Probably the nicest guy in the NBA. It's raining lawsuits and Steph Curry has absolutely zero umbrella. We know he doesn't have an umbrella because he's got like six kids too. A huge number of big stars in Hollywood and sports being sued over their connection to the Ponzi scheme known as FTX. You guys, remember that he was like, I don't need to know anything about crypto, like literally looking back, probably not a great advertising campaign.
Remember they're a crypto exchange. They had these nerdy founders, and those nerdy founders stole literally billions of dollars from their clients and then they lost it all in this like nerd term called arbitrage trading. Running point for the celebrities promoting this fraud Steph Curry. But he gets worse. So the Golden State. Golden Boy not only being sued for promoting crypto, but he's also being sued over the NFT ponzi scheme known as the board Ape Yacht Club.
I didn't even know that was a thing, did you guys know? Google this? People argue that the board Ape Yacht Club was founded by racists. This is crazy, intending to make gross racial stereotypes and passing him off as cool. Who could possibly make someone with the squeaky clean of his image of Steph get involved in NFTs and crypto? I don't know. Bad advice people also very very probably
greed as well. Steph Curry's got enough money, he doesn't need to get involved with that what's it called again, board Ape Yacht Club? This is a great lesson. Sometimes not every bag you need to go and grab. You know what I'm saying? Like this is rough. Don't get involved in shit you don't understand, and if you don't understand it, don't make commercials about not understanding it. Because I can promise you I have about as much knowledge of crypto and non fungible tokens as Steph Curry does,
and I know less than nothing. I don't even know why a screenshot can't just double as an NFT I have no idea. The difference between me and Steph Curry is I haven't lost any money on crypto, and I haven't lost anyone else money on crypto, and I'm not being sued for losing other people's money on crypto. In both suits, they're trying to determine the level of liability
that is Steph Curry's. But there's billions of dollars missing and the courts are they are foaming at the mouth to find people to blame in probably one of the biggest scam sense since made off right. And I am betting Steph Curry wishes he and the Golden State Warriors never got involved in FTX. The Warriors were involved too. Remember they were selling FTX bibble knights. They thought it was all easy money. Crypto dot Com arena FTX, this board ape yacht club that listen. Bad news for Steph.
There are gonna be people taking him to court and they are not gonna stop until they get some of his money that he got for who knows what doing, who knows what money? They say money and a fool and his money are soon parted. Yeah, that's what's about to happen. That's all the time that we have for the Heat Check. Will be back Thursday, which means Friday for you. With the new episodes. Check out the feed for past episodes, many episodes that drop every single day.
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