The Warriors really are imploding, and Klay Thompson says he isn't losing sleep over it

Check twice in one week. That's how you know baby shit has gone sideways. So, as you know, I had the extremely sad news to report of the end of the Golden State dynasty. I am the first on the scene. I watched the body go cold. I saw the man put them into the body bag and into the ambulance. It has happened. Folks aren't ready to admit it. They think it's weekend at Bernie's out here, like Bernie's is alive.

You know, they're taking Bernie's. They're taking Bernie's to the movies, They're taking Bernie's to the grocery store, and it's like that man's dead. You want us to believe this man's still alive. Hey, he's not. They came at me at social they said, the Warriors just need to get healthy Draymond's back. They always have a chance with Steph. That's the weekend at Bernie shit, Fam. Bernie is not alive.

He just still has clothes on and they're pretending. Have you guys been paying attention to what you're seeing since that episode of the Heat check came out announcing that Bernie was dead? The Dynasty, our Dubs have played twice. What have they done? They lost to the Raptors one thirteen, win eighteen, and then they got their doors blown off

by the Pelicans. Checks notes score one forty one, one oh five at home at the Crib in San Francisco, after barely surviving a home game against the three win Detroit Pistons. That is, if that's not evidence this shit has gone off the rails in Golden State. I don't know what is. Nobody is exempt, not even Steph Curry. Look at Steph's numbers, Steph versus the Raptors, my Man's Superman nine points, one, rebound, six assists, two for fourteen

from the field, oh for nine from three. My man Scottie barn Locking, Steph curry Down, Steph versus the Pelicans fifteen points, one rebound, six assists, four from thirteen from the field, three for eight from three my man Herb Jones, Lock and Steph curry Down. I never thought it was possible, never thought anyone could do it, and now he got

two people on fledgling teams doing it quite well. It's it's so bad right now that Steve Kerr himself thinks this team has lost its spirit, has lost its confidence, has lost its belief. Say it ain't so old, yeller, Say it ain't so. Also, nearly every game they're playing two, just one l after the other row, they have hit the panic button in the bay. They're trying their best to revive this dead man. They're trying their best to find trade scenarios to figure out a way to get

back to those championship winning winning ways. There are folks, exactly zero vibes in the locker room for the Warriors. Clay has been getting booed by the way by his own fan base. And this is what he had to say postgame about it. Two home games obviously here and I'm used to that. How do you handle that you're supposed to sleep over it, Clay, I don't care. I don't care. What am I supposed to sleep over it? I don't care. Okay, you are fully into the bitch

zone right now. I love I love Clay. I have to say this as a lifelong Dubs fan. Clay is one of my favorite players. But the end of Klay Thompson's career has not been gentle to his legacy whatsoever. One thing that we have discovered is that Klay Thompson is a very sore loser. If you compare his reaction to steps, we need to see it. This is the second straight game that you guys were booed here. How does that make you feel when you hear that.

the way that they want. It's our job to, you know, give them something this year about we have not done that.

a right to boo. Are you fucking kidding me? You guys just got blown out to the New Orleans Pelicans and Zion only had nineteen points. Zion their star nineteen points. I think CJ. McCollum at less than ten, who was scoring on this team to give him one hundred and forty one points? You got, Jordan Hawkins, give you a thirteen. I need to know, I need to know. I need to look right fucking now. Highest scorer Yonas valanchotniss Are

we fucking serious. Yonas Valentotnis had twenty one. Nause Marshall the backup center had twelve. Cody Zeller had six. Okay, so that's eighteen carries the five does the math thirty nine points to the center position. It's bad right now in the paint because teams are going at you. They're going at you hard, and you have nothing but the wet paper for them to just run right dude, And Steph says this, We're not used to this vibe around our team. What do you mean, the stench of losing,

the stench of mediocrity. No shit, you've been in Dynasty. It must. I have to say I didn't write this down on my notes, but I have to say I'm delighted to watch arrogance. There's nothing I like more than to crush arrogance. It's the worst trait I think on the planet. And I get why they've had it, all that winning, all that success, all that dominance, the embarrassing nature in which they crush their opponents, and now that

same embarrassment is being thrown onto them. I have to say the humbling outside of Steph Curry, of course, because he doesn't need to be humbled. He's awesome. The humbling. I love to see it. I love to see it. And now the latest rumors are that Mike Dunleavy and the Warriors have all of a sudden become quite active on the trade market. Who might be moved? According to Champs, the mindset and golden state right now is everyone. Steph Curry is on the table. Rot Row, Clay rot Row wigs,

rot Row Draymond day day. Sorry, it's not your day day. It's time to say goodbye bye everyone. Clay drey lun coming up Moody Wiggins, as Steph said, because they said, hey, do you feel like you have to prove to the front office that you guys should keep the core together? And he said basically no. In fact, I'm rooting for the opposite. He said, it's pretty evident that if things stay the same, isn't that the definition of insanity doing

the same thing and expecting a different result. Steph wants them all fucking out of here, start again, start fresh, bring me some vets, figure it out. I still want to win rings. I'm thinking about my legacy. Ain't no friends on POWA days, That's what they say. Snowboarders always say, when the powder comes, we have no friends. Ain't no friends. Running and trying to get a ring, even if it means you're running mates that you've built a dynasty with

have to go. He's like, yeah, I'm good with that. That's why they call him the baby face Assassin. He is not playing around. The look on his face on and off the court tells you he is tired of going over nine from three. He is tired of having to come off random sloppy screens with guys who can't handle the rock. Has to change his role and his behavior because he has no teammates he can trust and like clockwork, like I don't know why I said, like

like that, like clockwork. We've got rumored trades everywhere. A lot of them are centered on Pascal Siakam. For what it's worth, don't leave you. Massi Eugeria were spotted together in the tunnel pregame, probably conspiring. It's been reported that the Warriors are unwilling to include Kamingi in the trade. That is a lie. Massai Uzeri, you know how he rolls. Massai Uzeri collects African NBA players, that's a part of

his deal. Six seven long wingspan athletic from Africa. Yes, that's what you are now, a Toronto raptor Our Dubs, And let's be really like, you guys don't really want Kaminga. You don't want to develop Kaminga. You just want to have him sit on the bench or kind of use him at whatever frequency suits you, regardless of how that affects his development. You don't really want to build what Cominga can be? Let miss how Usuerie do that? Be honest?

Our Dubs act like Kaminga is the second coming of Kawhi Leonard, when he's probably closer to another Talen Horton talker. And I like Kaminga. And the truth is, I mean again, it's weekend at Bernie's, Like it's there's nothing that you can do. You might as well try. I guess you have to. That's your job. That's Mike Dunley, a London Levy Junior's job. It's gonna take multiple moves to make this team a contender again, but I guess it's possible.

Look at what the Lakers did. They want a championship, they moved things before the deadline. They look dead in the water. They got rid of Russ, they brought in D'Angelo Russell and some other randoms, ruey Hachi Mura, and then that momentum took them to the Western Conference finals. A couple of things fell in their way. They played the Nuggets in the final round and just like that, pretty successful. I guess the question is do our dubs

have the balls to break up the game? Because if not, they're allowing Steph Curry to rot away in the twilight of his career in his massive mansion, scrolling through his wife's pictures of let's move. If you think the football tea is popping with Sabin, Belichick and Pete Carroll all retiring or getting fired within twenty four hours, do not be sleeping on the NBA t where it never stops, it just continues to roll. We've got a lot of fun little stories to get into, so let's clear the

decks on this NBA Friday. So we talked about last week how we hadn't heard a peep about Ben Simmons. They must be listening to the heat check in the next organization, because light clockwork. A day after we asked the question, the Nets gave a complete update on his injury, almost like they had been writing it in their diary waiting for someone to say, Hey, we have not heard

from these motherfuckers. What's up? Nets report is the Ben's back injury is not the same injury that he had last year that cost him to miss most of the season.

He had an MRI this week that showed nerve irritation issues on the lower left side of his body, which is going to cause him to miss some time as he rehabs and builds himself back from that unquote, but that will not keep him out and definitely they say, the NETS say, with the proper kind of rehab, he will be able to resume his season in a short period of time without any issue. This reminds me of

Lonzo Ball. Unfortunately. This is what that vibe is. The early updates where Lonzo Ball has had a successful cleanup of his knee. All he needs to do is rehab. He's getting onto the treadmill, he's starting to walk, he's starting to run at three miles per hour, he's starting to walk at four miles per hour. Lowns and then the next update is Lonzo Ball has just completed another surgery on his knee, terrible. So there you go, We've

got transparency. We also have an update to our Injury Show yesterday where John Moran had a successful surgery on his right shoulder. They're never gonna say that the surgery was unsuccessful, I don't think. And although he'll miss the rest of the year, he will be back. Good is new, they say, back, good is new next season, just a brand new shoulder. Can't wait. Joel Embiid, who we mentioned briefly, is going to miss more time than expected because of

the knee injury that he's dealing with. Also, didn't he have an ankle sprain, a pretty bad one. He came back from that ard his knee tough, expected, but tough. Apparently that knee injury that he's dealing with is the same one that he had during the playoffs last year that derailed their season. Ramona Shelburne, friend of show, reports quote, this is the kind of knee injury that is normally four to six weeks with it slatest one. He wants

to play. That sixty five game threshold that all guys are very aware of this year is always in the back of your mind. So Joel Embiid finally has some sort of accountability to keep him really on track playing for the pain back to back MVP award. I don't know if that's a good idea. Honestly, we don't care about these MVPs. We care about championships us long time

Philly fans. We're looking for rings for a player who's never once in his entire career had an injury free playoffs, forcing himself onto the court in meaningless games that his team is probably gonna win no matter what, just to get another MVP or at least be in the MVP conversation. Probably not a good decision, I would say. Sadly, I've

got a new injury update. This time, the often snake bitten Marcus Smart of the Grizzlies, who was already by the way, missed significant time, has suffered a serious injury to his right ring finger on his shooting hand and will miss at least six weeks. Okay, time to shut it up, pack it up, send it away, send everyone off. Now you need to really be in full tank mode. It's time for you to trade Marcus Smart to a contender.

Desmond Vane overs all day, every night. And moving on, two league related stories that I am following first of all woes reported today that the NBA is awaiting a final sign off from the MBPA to make the NBA Draft a two day affair AKA a way to make more money, a way to swindle us into watching what we could probably find out on Twitter ourselves before they put it on TV. This year, the draft will take place in Brooklyn on June twenty sixth and twenty seven,

Wednesday for first rounders and Thursday for second rounders. I don't love it. I don't like it. It's hard enough to get excited for guys getting picked twenty eighth in the draft like day Ron Sharp, but an entire day devoted to guys largely. I probably don't know. I probably do know from a college perspective, but let's be honest. I know what Adam Silver's trying to do. We all know what Adam Silver's trying to do. He wants it to make it a multi day event like the NFL Draft.

Maybe you should move it out of fucking Brooklyn. Then it's in Brooklyn every goddamn year. There is nothing fun going on on the eve of the NBA Draft. The NFL Draft shuts down Broadway Street. In Nashville. It's a thing. People are coming in droves to watch it out on the street. The NBA is not doing what he wants them to do. If that's what you're trying to achieve, which is some sort of fanfare, I'm very unhappy. I guess the green room thing probably gets changed. You're gonna

have to wait until the second day. In other words, though, another news excuse me, the NBA and Netflix are going to be partnering to create new reality show following five NBA stars. The first four make perfect sense. The fifth star is probably because Nikola Jokich said, no, let's be real, we need five Americans, four American stars and one foreign star. Well, actually that's not true. We need two foreign stars and

three American stars. Of course, it's Lebron James. No way that he passes up an opportunity to continue to shape the narrative that he is the greatest of all time. And by the way, I don't know if I am saying this later because I don't remember, but it's his production company that's in charge of the narrative. So it's kind of last dance vibes. Two are legit superstars that you would probably guess Jason Tatum and Jimmy Butler. One

is in the twilight of his career. One is only nineteen years old and he's been nineteen years old for seven years. Jason Tatum no shocker, huge amount of social followers. The fourth, a young rising star, one of the more charismatic dudes in the league, is gonna be an absolute blast to follow. Anthony Edwards. I think that this will elevate Anthony Edwards to a place unknown to most casual fans. He will become a household name, the very top of the list of the NBA celebs. He is going to

show why NBA fans love him. The final spot, Oh, it is one. It is just one. No Yannis, the final spot Demonas Sabonis, to which I say, hell fucking yes. Stick it to the man, Stick it to those casual fans that hate Sacramento. He does not get anywhere enough love. So this is going to be an incredible induction to the public who don't watch Sacramento Kings games because they're never on national TV and probably because they don't love

Demana Sibonis. But here's the thing, Like, let's be real, Jokic said, no, Yana said no. Yanna said no. Jokic said no. Probably in that order, Demana Sibonis was not the first choice. Lucas said no. Yeah, so Lucas said no, Yanna said no, Jokic said no. M Bead said no. I am cautiously optimistic about this show, given the fact that it is produced by three production companies, which who

knows what that's gonna be like. One is Barack Obama's company, two is Lebron James's production firm, and three is Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions. I love things that helped the league. I know I'll be watching. I wish that they were at vastly different stages in their career, one rookie, one rising star, one current star, and one aging and declining star. That's how they did it. In the Quarterback Series. We will do a deep dive finally on the Utah Jazz

and how they have resurrected their season very soon. But they are now nineteen and twenty after beating the shit out of the Nuggets won twenty four to one to eleven, they have won twelve of sixteen games. They are screaming up the standings. But I wanted to use the Jazz today for Trista's crazy ass killer staut of the Week The Utah Jazz. Did you know this? The Utah Jazz are undefeated. They are nine and zero in games that they have told Taylor Horton Tucker to sit your ass

fucking down. He has been a healthy scratch and they are nine and zero. That seems impossible, but it is true. Tucker began the year as a starter. I hate him, not as a human, but like as a player. He is annoying. He has slowly seen his minutes a road as Colin Sexton has emerged, who by the way, this is a total side road is absolutely ripped, just yoked, beyond measure for a point guard. Anyway, he has emerged

as a legit scoring threat. His streak began December twenty first Welcome to the Solstice, and since the eleven games after that, he has been healthy, but only has played twice, in a seven point loss to the Pelicans and a twenty nine point blowout loss to the Celtics. The other nine games he has not seen the floor, and Utah in those games is nine and zero. No better way to ensure you get traded by the deadline especially since he's on an eleven million dollar expiring contract. Bye bye

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