You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. On this episode of the Heat Check, we got some breaking news out of Golden State, Baby and our dubs. Our dubs have received a blow. It's not good Steph Curry with a labrum injury to his shoulder. I get into some soccer and the NBA as well. You'll have to listen because it's kind of hard to describe. I talk about Russell Westbrook's resurrection and how pretty much everyone is avoiding talking about it because it doesn't fit the narrative that
they thought about him. We go into the Charlotte Hornets and head coach Steve Clifford blowing the team pretty much up, throwing them under the bus because I don't know they stink at defense. And then we remember one of the old school OG's Hall of Fame player coach Paul Silas rest in peace hold out to Covernick. So drop that beat before we start the podcast, just to quick alert
and FYI a PSA if you will. My dnnis says I'm not wearing my visilin enough tisk tisk, So I'm gonna wear it on the episode because when I take it off, I forget to put it back in. Then my teeth move. So if I say anything out of pocket, or if I sound like I've got a lisp like a fourteen year old boy, forgive me. So let's move forward. Things are going from bad to worse in Golden State. Our Dubs just keep taking blow after blow. Hate to
see that. I'm not talking about their horrible road record either. They are two and thirteen currently on the road this year, second worst in the NBA. Actually, if you can believe it, never fear our Dubs. They will come. Road defensive efficiency a shocking one eighteen point eight that is bottom three in the league as well. These Dubs, our Dubs can't seem to win outside of the Chase Center. And now
another blow. Steph Curry, the man who has been pulling this team together on his back MVP campaign level numbers out at least at least is the critical component three weeks according to THEO this is the bomb. This is the sound of the wosh bomb Golden State. Steph Curry is expected to miss a few weeks with his left shoulder injury. Sources tell that was one of those invisiline moments. Sources tell ESPN Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Let's just say
he is out three weeks. That's the number that would put him on target for a Thursday Night TNT game against the Phoenix Suns on jail Anuary tenth. Between now and the earliest expected time, Let's go through their next ten games, shall we. The Warriors start with at Philadelphia, at Toronto, at New York, at Brooklyn, Memphis, Charlotte, Utah, Portland, Atlanta and Detroit. Boy, that is a tough slog without your primary score, and with Jordan Poole in a slump
and Andrew Wiggins facing his own set of injuries. Oh boy, that team could be three and seven in its next ten and that would not be a surprise. Three is seven. That is a tough spot. Golden State fourteen and fifteen right now at the moment, could be looking at a two and eight stretch without staff. That will put them squarely at sixteen and twenty three, which would be at that particular moment on life support. Not saying that's forever,
but that is at least three weeks. There could be more issues coming Labram issues if he needs to get surgery, for example, on a torn labrum. That would be bad. That would be one of those Steph breaks his hand, Put yourself in a suitcase and go home kind of moment. It's hard out here for us Dubs fans, just when we think we're back, just when we think the dominance continues and the dynasty just persists, sometimes it just happens like that. But we will persevere, will we not? Remember?
The only time we go blooded or out is when we're out, and when there is a cold, dead body. Last time I checked, the Dubs are still alive and kicking. Check back in in April. But if Steph is out any longer, even I lifelong Dubs fan will start to feel a little weary. People were slandering Russell Westbrook, weren't they. They were saying some mean things. They were saying he was gonna be waved. They were saying he was never gonna play basketball ever again. They were saying so many jokes,
angry comments, slander libel. People said he would never come off the bench. Everyone said, oh, if he does come off the bench, he's not gonna be happy. He's gonna fake an injury. Everyone said, oh, yeah, if he continues to be off the bench, comes off the bench and he's happy. He'll suck fair fair warning. What do they say like a just for full disclosure? That was me
as well. I said that as well. Those comments, those predictions, they were wrong, wrong and wrong, and I think that needs to be discussed the media, NBA fans, we have a narrative and no matter what happens, we stick to that narrative. Right, we have struck out on Russ, and honestly, like I liked Peak Russ, I did. I'm stoked that Russ is having this re emergence. I am as he
as someone who gets considered to be a hater. I like this version of Russ and it made me think, why do we treat Russ like he's been posting things that are anti Semitic on the internet. Why do we treat Russ like he coughed on a microphone, gave the entire NBA COVID and then started liking tweets from Elon Musk about prosecuting Fauci being his name designation. Russ has done nothing but ball. Even when he's stunk, all he
did was ball. He's coming off the bench for twenty three games now, averaging twenty eight, fifteen, six and eight twenty eight minutes, fifteen points, six rebounds, eight assists with one and a half steals and blocks per game. That's ridiculous. He had a seven game stretch where he shot fifty percent or better from three from three people. He was a brick layer, and all of a sudden, he's Steph
Curry when he comes off the bench. He's come back to Earth, of course, because he's not really a great three point shooter thirty one percent, but he's shooting better than Trey Yung. How about that? Way ahead of where he was as a starter. And guess what the best thing is. He's happy, he's smiling, he's living in his hometown. His family is in his hometown, his friends are there.
And that coincides, folks, with the Lakers actually being five hundred with the real shot to make the play in tournament. And who saw that coming? Who did you see it coming? Because I didn't see that coming. And now Sam Ammick is saying, but because of this very good play off the bench, he's the leader in the clubhouse plus one ninety to win six Man of the Year. Wait, excuse me. The John Havlicek Award which quickly. They already gave the MVP with Michael Jordan's face and body on it to
Jokic today. They made it, created it, shoved it down our throats, and then gave it to him. Amazing. Darvin Haam, of course, deserves credit for this Russell Westbrook adjustment. But what's interesting is the Amex article sort of says, the insiders believe that Russ is going to improve from here moving forward, and we all love a redemption story unless it's somebody that we already hated. Let's face facts, that's what it is, right Like, you can't redeem yourself if
we've always hated you. And that's what's happening to Rust right now. I don't understand it because I was never a Russ hater, and then I was like, yeah, he stinks right now he's making forty seven million dollars a year, but like we treat him like villain, We treat him like one of the worst humans on earth. We won't
give Russ any credit. Have you seen NBA today or for take or NBA radio be like, hey, by the way, Russ is on an absolute heater right now, responsible for the Lakers winning No No because why we're treating him like he went one hundred and fifty five miles per hour in a thirty in a school zone on Mollie. That's how we treat him. All he was doing was playing hoops and wasn't in making bricking a lot of shots hitting the side of the backboard. That's all he's
been doing. Damn. It's like the narratives. Once. Once those narratives are over, we just pretend that they never existed, and then we wait in the shadows and we hide in the weeds until Russ starts playing bad again, and then we're like, yop, we said it. Russ stinks. You see it. Four games in a row, Oh for seventeen fifteen turnovers like yo yo yo, yo yo. Twenty five games now Russ has been balling. You wait to talk about Russ for those five games. Media is fucked up, man,
The media is fucked up. I am happy for us. He went from one of the biggest names MVP in the NBA on a team that was sixth in the West, first time ever that he wins the MVP. He's getting triple double after triple double, just every damn night, he's getting one and people are saying he's unemployable. Unemployable. We've got people out here that you don't even know their name with jobs in the NBA. We got Drew U Banks out here getting minutes, no shade, Drew U Banks
ten day God, but like, are you serious? And now he's a lock for the sixth Man of the Year. It's a cold game out here. It's a cold game. It's a redemption arc. I am getting behind and if you don't get behind it, it's because you never liked Russ in the first place.