If you're tuned into Heat Check with Tristal Quick on this episode of The Heat Check. So football season's basically over, so it's time to get you caught up on what's been going on when you've been sitting there dealing with fantasy watching playoffs, and fill you in on all the things you might have missed. It's also trade deadline season, so we're gonna update you on the best trade rumors. I also have to mention this end of the Celtics Lakers game where Lebron James do the biggest tantrum I've
ever seen in my life, and it was hilarious. Also potential bad news for our tubes. Too much happening around the league. Next to do me a favor, drop that generic ass beat. Alright, so let's get into it. I know you've been watching football. I know you haven't been watching the NBA. I know it. There's lots of games going on on Saturday and Sunday. Did you watch any of them? No, I know you didn't. It's fine. I didn't either, but I did watch him after the fact.
So I wanted to start the episode with some fun facts, some things that may shock you or surprise you. Or delight you. In doing my research and getting ready for this episode, not a lot of time to get into him deeply, so we're just gonna go through them line by line, step by step, day by day. Number one, Kawhi Leonard. Currently. You may not know this. A lot of people think Kawhi Leonard is washed. Kawi Leonard is currently the best player in the third best player in
the NBA over the last two weeks. Yeah he is. He's averaging twenty nine points per game on fifty eight percent from the field, forty four percent from three, and ninety percent from free throw in the last eight games. That's what his shooting splits are. He's also averaging one and a half steals per game and a half of a block during that time period as well. So just a fun fact for the Clippers, which is why they're searching Aunt. Edwards has become from ant man to superman
as well. He's averaging thirty a game as well, fifty percent from the field, forty four percent from three, eighty four percent from the free throw line. He has two steals per game, so he's actually currently better than Kawhi Leonard almost a block per game two and then as a result. The Minnesota Timberwolves. I don't know if you know this, but they're actually good again. They're up on the standings above the play in version above going to the play in tournament. They are seven and three in
their last ten. They are cooking without Karl Anthony Towns and do not look now. They are currently fifth place in the West, fifth in the West, and in the month of January, if you look at their wins, oh, they're probably playing cupcake teams, right, they're probably playing teams that want a tank. No. In the month of January, they've beaten the Nuggets, the Clippers, the Cavaliers, the Nuggets, I said that already, Grizzlies and Kings all top four teams.
That's ridiculous. The Pelicans, we move on. They are horrible right now. They currently are not very good. They've gone from second in the West to eighth in the West in a split second time. They've lost eight in a row. Herb Jones has missed sixteen games out of fifty one. BI now has missed twenty two games. He's finally back, but is he back? Zion has missed twenty two games. Don't know what's going on with them? But they probably need to make a move at the deadline. Sixers. Sixers
currently the best team in basketball. Yeah, and Beat has gone from fifteen to one to win the MVP to now just just shy of three to one. He's currently second in MVP power rankings. That is how dominant Embate has been, and that's how good the Sixers have been in the last two weeks. The Wizards, and I mean this, I mean this in the best possible way. The Wizards are actually something that you can talk about on this show.
The Wizards. They have won their last five. They've traded ruy Ha Chi Muren somehow got better in the five game win streak that they have had. The Wizards are top ten offensively they are ninth and top ten defensively they are seventh. They are shockingly a ninth place right now, even though I thought that they might be tanking, and they are one team that thinks that they are a piece away for making some sort of playoff run. That's where we're at. The Pacers, who we love good fun
story Tyrese Haliburton ballin. They are atrocious. Currently. They are one to nine in their last ten, which is the worst in the NBA during that timeframe, and that happens to coincide exactly with Tyre's Halliburton's injury. Of their nine losses, they are losing by an average of thirteen points. So if you are a gambling person, a betting person, whatever, keep that in mind when you're thinking about playing or fading. The Indiana Pacers. Bad stuff pretty much more important to
his team than almost anybody else. The Bucks, who have been terrible all of a sudden, are hot. They are currently blowing teams out. Since Chris Middleton got back. Since he arrived back from injury, things offensively clicking. They have scored over one hundred and thirty five points in three of their last four games. They scored one hundred and fifty against the Pistons, Giannis back to scoring fifty again.
Their demise greatly exaggerated. The Raptors are in such disarray there are now reports that Nick Nurse could be on the hot seat. They are talking about trading everyone three
other five starters, Fred van Fleet, Gary Trent Ojannobi. The latest is that oj Annobe might be going to the Suns, which would be something which probably means DeAndre Ayton is going to the Raptors, and I thought they probably save their season for maybe a week or two, and now they haven't, and now Nick again on the hot seat. Current news from Sean Sharana. There are Jaron Jackson conspiracies
brewing around the Reddit realm. There are reckless claims about his stats being padded at home because I guess scorekeepers are being influenced by the Deep State or something. I'm not sure. There were highlights that were put out on Twitter, there were extra scrutiny in that game. And what did Jaron Jackson decide to do in that game when those extra eyeballs were there at the crib? Have a block party? Just defending recklessly currently minus two hundred to win Defensive
Player of the Year. And finally, the part that's much more interesting to me than almost any other is that the Kings are so good, they are so hot, that a fan base that hasn't seen the playoffs in over fifteen years expect them to win every game. They want to riot in the streets when they lose games that they probably should or must or can lose. Yeah, they
believe that they should win every every single game. Now, that's where the fan base is at that's how good the Kings are sending atop the West with just one football game left on the schedule. We're about to enter full NBA season, so that's gonna run from the Super Bowl through June and the end of the Final. So now that you're all caught up what's happening around the league, don't miss another episode because things are gonna get crazy very very soon.