January 31, 2025 • 24 mins
Trysta breaks down the De'Aaron Fox trade situation as only she can. Then, she tries to figure out who has a better chance at winning it all right now between the Celtics and Thunder.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
On this episode of the Heat Check. Oh boy, lots
of drama coming out of Sacramento, and I'm here to
help you understand it. I explore who I think has
a better chance of making the finals, the Celtics or
the OKC thunder Both are leading the clubhouse right now
in terms of favorites to win the NBA title, which
I think is fascinating. And then we dropped some news
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from around the league. All right, Anthony, drop that motherfucking
beat that should be Rihanna. This is the bomb. This
is the Sham's bomb. This is the sound of the
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Sham's bomb, Shawn's bomb. Damn it. Anyway, you know what
I'm trying to say. Big news. We've got the trade
deadline coming. People thought maybe this was gonna be kind
of a weak trade deadline. We had rumors earlier on
The deeron Fox maybe just maybe wasn't ever gonna sign
his extension in Sacramento, And so there was some bubbling
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intention about a month ago before they fired their head
coach Mike Brown, and now dearon Fox, probably the best
guard since Chris Weber, Mike Bibby Jason Williams to play
for the Sacramento Kings, it appears will be could be
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traded by the February sixth trade deadline. That is a
fucking headline. Damian Barling, friend of show, said Sacramento Kings
are considering trading their star point guard ahead of the deadline.
Sean says the Kings are expected to open up talks
to potentially deal him by the deadline, and friend of show,
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Evon Townsend, who covers the San Antonio says that there
were whispers about Fox at San Antonio as early as November.
Then and then yesterday Jake Fisher, friend of show, came
out with this reporting that the Sacramento Kings were actually
the first who approach Dearon Fox's representatives about potentially putting
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him on the trade. But block, excuse me, it's the Kings,
according the league sources, who first approached Dearon Fox's Clutch
Sports representation about putting him on the market with immediate effect.
Sacramento set word to some interested in teams as early
as last week that it was open to such overtures.
That's when the switch flipped in Sacked Town. And now
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it appears the Vivek, the owner of the Sacramento Kinks
is in ok See at this very second trying to
patch things up with Dearon Fox to get him to stay.
More So, Demart Rosen, multiple time All Star bucket Getter,
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was on Running Back Today yesterday with Chandler Parsons and
said that if Dearon Fox gets moved, there's a possibility
that he will want out as well. Whoa first of all,
Dearon Fox is represented by agent Rich Paul of Clutch Sports,
who has indicated and we knew that there was going
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to be a sticking point as soon as Dearon Fox
was represented by Clutch, as soon as he signed with
Clutch that he will not sign a long term extension
with the Kings as of now. So the Kings as
an organization have tried to find help for Dearon Fox.
Multiple players that they tried to trade for Mike Brown
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shut down why he called them unethical hoopers, brandon ingram
John Collins said they are low IQ dudes I do
not want on my roster. He is now fired. Since then,
they have not been able to secure any player that
will help Dearon Fox to his assuagement. So now the
Kings have to figure out what they're gonna do. They
have to find a way to trade him before his
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value goes down and down and down with the year
remaining on his contract, and Fox has let it be known, Hey,
if you're gonna trade me, I want to go to
one place, San Antonio play with Victor Remeniama. That happens
to also be Dearon Fox's wife's hometown and Dearon Fox's
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home state from Houston. And while Dearon Fox is not
publicly requested to trade, Clutch's stance has made it clear
that San Antonio is his preferred landing spot. Now. The
current odds are minus one fifty for Fox to join
forces with Victor Emenianna. Are there other landing spots? Sure?
Vince Goodwill from Yahoo Sports says that it's essentially Houston,
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Miami and San Antonio and that's it. Some other NBA
media grifters are putting in to the ether the LA
Lakers as they always do because of the Clutch Sports
connection and the Brooklyn Nets. Those two destinations don't make
any damn sense. That's where we stand factually with our situation.
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Here's my take. I put out a clip earlier this
week about this, but I feel number one. The riding
was on the wall when Clutch got into the mix.
If you think about the situation that the Sacramento Kings
were in years ago and they had two guards that
were not functioning well together. Darren Fox Tyrese Haliburton, both
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marquee players, both thought they were franchised. Both wanted apparently
to be the guy instead Sacramento and make that team
a playoff team. They had aspirations of bringing Sacramento the
promised land, a marriage of sorts with the franchise Sacramento
pitched Indiana. I think the reporting is originally dearon Fox Indiana.
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The reporting is now very speculative. At one point said yes,
that's the recent reporting two years ago when this all
went down, said no, we would prefer a better contract
with Tyrese Halliburton. We want him instead. The trade goes down.
Tyrese Haliburton is just sick, devastated. Thought he was going
to be the one that brought Sacramento back to relevancy
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and excitement and was going to be the one that
we everyone built the franchise around, and he was wrong.
Now he's in Indiana, he's franchised there, he's a partner
with the league. He's a partner with the Pacers, probably
for life. And instead the Sacramento Kings chose Deer in
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Fox that was the one that was the girl in
the analogy. You've got two girls, you gotta choose one
who you wiping up, and you chose the girl the
wrong one, and then she ends up getting out one friend.
You know the friend, don't you with the friend that's
always whispering. Oh he's fine. Oh you see that rolex
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on him. Ooh, look like he's driving. He's got a Bentley.
Your man drives a Honda. Ooh you see that that's
a Gucci bag. Ooh, he could take me shopping. Ooh,
this is what you could get from him. Oh do
you see his house? Oh, your man ain't shit. You
should go here, you should do this. And then all
of a sudden, your girl's out there on these streets.
And now all of a sudden, your girl's not trying
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to be your wifey. She's outside. And that's what's going
on with deeron Fox right now in the Sacramento Kings,
he is looking at Victor woman Yama and the San
Antonio Spurs as the guy with the Gucci belt and
the nice ass car and the Louisviton sweater and the
nice Rolex with the you know whatever pearl whatever the faces.
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You know what I'm saying. Anyway, she's he's opportunistically trying
to get to a better place, as he should if
he feels like he's not getting what he needs from Sacramento.
But the truth is he should be what the team
is building around. He should be the piece the teams
feel like attract stars too, but they can't get deals
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done a la Damian Willard and the Portland Trailblazers who
ended up needing to go as well. Is Fox the
villain in the situation? I don't know? Are the Sacramento
Kings the villain in this situation? I don't know. Is
this the best move for Sacramento long term in order
to finally get some pieces and draft picks to start
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building up their coffers. I also don't know why, because
this is not a rebuilding team right now. They have
de Margaret, he's in the twilight of his career. They've
got demonis the bonus prime of his career Max player.
That is not a team that wants to start stockpiling
a bunch of first round picks and become the Brooklyn Nets.
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So they better figure it out fucking fast. They better
get Steph Cassel, Devin Vassel, multiple first round picks. Those
first round picks better turn into a current player that
can be some sort of veteran, multiple veterans on this
team in order for them to be cohesive and back
to relevancy. Otherwise, I don't know how the fans are
gonna be able to stomach this for the long term.
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Boy oh boy, is the next week gonna be very
very interesting one week until the trade deadline. I'm on
the edge of my seat. Moving on. I was on
a show on a network called beck QOL, which is
the network I used to be on with my friend PJ. Glasser,
talking about who's the real contender right now? Vegas has
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the odds equal Oka see Thunder defending champs Boston Celtics.
The question came up, who, at this point in time
do you trust more Boston? Okay, see, I want to
break this down a little bit further because I think
it's worth exploring. Number One, You take a look at
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Okace right Chet Holmgren is slated to return rhet on
the All Star break and the thought of Chet, Isaiah Hartenstein,
Jalen Williams, Shay Gildis, Alexander Alex Caruso on the same
floor at the same time is to me, if I'm
another team terrifying. So much defense, so much length, so
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much physicality, the ability to get buckets on all three
levels of the court, and I feel like maybe the
return of Chet Hoolmgren is the biggest move at the
trade deadline for any team, and he's the only thing
that they've been missing to stretch the We need three
point shooting on this team. He provides that. So there's
a reason that OKAC is in first place. But this
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is a team that's just three and three in their
last six games. They are gettable. They've got a loss
to the Lucasas Dallas Mavericks. They've got a loss to
the toothless Golden State Warriors for some reason. I don't
know why, but Dallas has their number, and they better
hope they don't see them in the playoffs because I
think the same result happens if Luca is still healthy.
There's another team, though, that the OKC thunder I think
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should be afraid of, and they are the Houston Rockets
a team that wants to punch you in the mouth.
They are all in the best possible way, prison hoopers.
They've got shives, baby, they've got elbows, they've got fists.
They're putting their body into you. They're getting their sweat
into your face. And guess what they like it because
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emy Udoka has built them this way. They're no pretty
boys except for Jalen Green on this team, and they
are nasty and the best possible way. Ima Udoka called
this team soft twelve months ago, and they are not
soft now. Aman Thompson, what is he? He's an alien.
I don't know what he is. He is so hard
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to defend. He has found his shot. He is one
of the most efficient shooters at the rim right now
in all of the league. He is a front runner
or at least a player in consideration for six Man
of the Year. If he keeps coming off the bench,
I think you probably have more of a legit case
for most improved Player. If Cad Cuttingham wasn't going crazy
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and you saw him the other night put up thirty
three points, getting clutch time minutes, hitting game winners over
the defending champs. He's attacking the rim. He is fun
and a huge spark for this team. You got Jalen
Green bombing away. We talked about him a few shows back.
He's become a sniper overnight. He's averaging twenty six to
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four and three over his last thirteen games, forty three
percent from three. Dylan Brooks, did you see him hit
ten threes the other night against the Boston Celtics alprin Shangoon.
He's on the verge of becoming a star. I love
the way he plays, super physical in the paint, incredible vision,
can score as well, defends almost as well this team
as Okay see, so if they had a score at
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the deadline, I don't know the Aaron Fox will say
they could be a threat in the West. And I
know a lot of people say, oh, well, Daron Fox,
they need shooting and Dearon Fox can't shoot. I'm sorry
those people haven't been watching stats and percentages recently. That
used to be true. Shoot forty percent from three now.
Okay sees two and one against Houston this year, all
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three games won by the home team. Now back to Boston.
In terms of the comparison, they're just twelve and ten
in their last twenty two games, just six and five
at home. The amount of home games that Boston lost
last year come all together throughout the season. We're almost
ready to hit that right now. But the truth is,
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I don't really care what Boston does in the regular season.
This is not a scenario where you're saying, Hey, Trista,
do you think the Boston Celtics are close to what
the Denver Nuggets were last season? Huge regression where no
one wanted to write them off because they were defending
champs and they had one of the best players in
the world. No, why did I not think that? Because
they didn't lose any of their pieces. Denver, what do
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they lose? They lost Bruce Brown, lost Jeff Green and
a lot of their depth in general. KCP had to
play a lot of minutes. You had Jamal Murray with regression,
with injuries, you had Michael Porter Junior really starting to
have a decline in his three point shooting, and so
Denver as a whole had to rely on just Jokic.
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Boston doesn't have that problem. Chris as Porzingis was injured
to start the season. He is back now. Everybody is
clicking on all cylinders when they are. They are very
dangerous now. Dereck White has had some regression. Players in
terms of the just the role players as a whole
have had some regression, And like I'm talking about with
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Derek White, he's come down to earth. Drew Holliday, his
three point shooting is down staggering ten percent down from
last year. The question is do you believe this is
gonna continue in the playoffs. I don't think so. The
issue right now for Joe Mazola probably is keeping those
guys hungry consistency. They'll bounce from blowing out a team
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by thirty, which they can do on anyone, to losing
a late lead against a team like Toronto. This is
the reason that no one thought Boston would win a
title to begin with, because they had so many damn
ten or more point leads that they allowed to slip away.
This is what Boston does. You have to just allow
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yourself to know it's not gonna be pretty with Boston.
But they're probably going to go through most of the
East except for maybe Cleveland, like just run through them.
But they can turn into a superpower anytime they want.
They've got Christaps Porzingis who's finding his feet they've got
Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, you got Peyton Pritchard as the
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leader in the clubhouse for six Man of the Year.
I like their chances to come out of the East
better than I like. Okay, see coming out of the West.
And if those two teams meet, boy and it's a
three point shooting contest, send Boston to the parade once again.
Move it on. It's the NBA news. We've got a
gambling scandal again rearing its ugly head. What you don't
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say it was a one off? Remember the John T.
Porter catastrophe last year where the brother of Michael Porter
Junior purposely through games to hit parlays that he had
placed by a gambling consortium betting on his own unders.
He's currently in jail for like a bajillion years too,
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thinking about fuck, why didn't I just ask my brother
for a loan? Why did I just ask my brother? Hey,
can you pay my rent? I'm in jail now now. Unfortunately,
scary Terry. It's getting scary for Terry Rosier. He is
in the news for an alleged incident from back in
his days as a Charlotte Hornet, which, let's be honest,
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if you were going to scam as an NBA player.
Charlotte's the place to do it, not a lot of
people watching your games with great scrutiny. The FEDS were alerted.
Here's the story in brief. FEDS were alerted to unusual
betting pattern surrounding Rosier's performance in a March twenty third,
twenty twenty three game between the Hornets and the Pelicans. Again,
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that's the one to do it, Okay. No one is
paying attention to a random March game post All Star
break when teams are starting to shut it down between
the New Orleans Pelicans and the Hornets. Rosier, who remember,
now he's at the Miami Heat. He was hooping that year.
By the way, he has not been accused of any
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wrongdoing the probe. It's part of the same case that
led to the lifetime ban of John tay Porter. The
NBA said that they looked into it. They found no
rule violations, but is now cooperating with the US Attorney's
Office for the Eastern District of New York OOH Chuck
Rhodes is coming as they further examined the situation. During
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the game in question, Rosier played just under ten minutes
before exiting with the foot issue, ultimately sitting out the
last eight games of the season. Betters became very suss
when sportsbooks removed prop bets on Rosier hours before tip off,
and some expressed frustration after his early exit, believing something
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was amiss. Twitter was full of broken parlor, with Rosier
being the killing leg. Not sure if there's any fire here,
but there is enough smoke to cause the US attorneys
to kick tires because they believe something was suspect. The
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weird part was that Terry Rozier had a really good
first quarter. He had five, four and two for a
guy whose PRAA was around thirty the entire season, and
then pack it up, folks, take himself out of the game,
and then the underhits on all of his bets. And
like I said, he was hooping that year. He had
been a pretty reliable over before that, having hit thirty number,
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that thirty number in eight of his previous ten games.
So I don't really know what to do with that information,
but I find it nearly impossible to believe that someone's
who making twenty two million dollars a year is like, hey,
let me join a betting consortium and bet against myself.
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I will say this, I do know that some of
Terry Rosier's friends are not the most upstanding citizens in
terms of the professions that they take company they keep.
So I'm just gonna throw that out there. No allegations,
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no slander. I'm just saying anything's possible. I don't think
it's true, though, I really don't. However, here's what I
learned working in the sports betting space. If the books
think there is something suspicious going on, there is something
suspicious going on. Who was involved remains to be seen.
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Maybe he had a foot issue and we in the
team knew about it, and somebody told somebody, and then
somebody told it better, and then they told all their friends,
and now the sports books pack it up. Moving on,
We'll have a full trade deadline episode on Monday. But
here's a list of some of the players who may
be on the move not named Aaron Fox and Jimmy Butler,
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Caleb Martin, Clint Capella, DeAndre Hunter. We're just trading all
the Atlanta Hawks, bog Don, Bogdanovich, Keldon Johnson, gershawn Yabisele Nikola, Lusovich,
Miles Turner, which is just a joke, absolute bananas. John
Collins which is another one. Remember it used to be
just John Collins and Miles Turner all the time, over
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and over and over again. Colin Sexton again another one,
always in the news. Mitchell Robinson which why would anyone
want his broken body right now? Use of Nurkic? Why
would anyone want his broken basketball game right now? And
Yaka pertl Gonna be a busy week, folks. And finally,
your weekly roundup of NBA injuries. Two major stars are out. First,
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emerging Hawks superstar Jalen Johnson is out for the season
with a torn labram in his left shoulder. Huge law
for the Hawks this He's become an insane companion for
Chrey Young this season. He's averaged nineteen ten and five.
His injury, of course, throws a massive wet blanket on
the Hawk season. But also they probably like it given
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the fact that they owe their first round pick that's
protected I believe top ten to San Antonio. Pack it up, baby,
We're gonna keep our pick. In a loaded draft. It's
a lot more likely that they move guys out of
the deadline than bring them back. Sad for Jalen He'll
be back next year and hopefully maybe remember Atlanta somehow
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locked into the number one fucking pick of the draft
this last year when they did not deserve it. Another
injury of note, LaMelo Ball stepped on a foot while
backpedaling admiring his long three, which is so LaMelo Ball.
Ball's ankles have caused him so many damn problems over
the years that a lot of executives in the NBA
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now view him as a risk, both in the trademarket
and the free agent market. He's gonna be reevaluated next week.
He's probably gonna missfight to seven games. This coming on
the back of the news that he will not make
the All Star Game. Sad times for LaMelo Ball. Speaking
of the All Star Game, the reserves were announced, it's
more interesting talking about who did not make the team
than who did. Here are your snubs for this year,
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East Trey Young, Lamello Ball, Tyrese Maxey, Franz Wagner. I
don't think Franz is really a snub because he was injured.
Tyrese Halliburton, which really probably isn't a snub E there
because he's been playing hurt in the Westmonasabonis biggest snub
every year. I don't understand dearon Fox Kyrie Irving, Norm Powell,
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Devin Booker. To me, there are two names that stand
out in the East. Tyree Maxey, who's averaging twenty five
and six. I know he's having a bit of a
down year in the Sixer Stink, but he's kind of
single handily propping up the entire franchise, the entire hope
of this team. Demonasabonis, I think you got royally host.
If you don't know by now that he is an
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All Star, insane, shame on you. Twenty one, fifteen and seven,
just an egregious oversight. We will talk more about the
All Star game soon. That's all the time that we
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On this episode of the Heat Check. Oh boy, lots
of drama coming out of Sacramento, and I'm here to
help you understand it. I explore who I think has
a better chance of making the finals, the Celtics or
the OKC thunder Both are leading the clubhouse right now
in terms of favorites to win the NBA title, which
I think is fascinating. And then we dropped some news
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from around the league. All right, Anthony, drop that motherfucking
beat that should be Rihanna. This is the bomb. This
is the Sham's bomb. This is the sound of the
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Sham's bomb, Shawn's bomb. Damn it. Anyway, you know what
I'm trying to say. Big news. We've got the trade
deadline coming. People thought maybe this was gonna be kind
of a weak trade deadline. We had rumors earlier on
The deeron Fox maybe just maybe wasn't ever gonna sign
his extension in Sacramento, And so there was some bubbling
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intention about a month ago before they fired their head
coach Mike Brown, and now dearon Fox, probably the best
guard since Chris Weber, Mike Bibby Jason Williams to play
for the Sacramento Kings, it appears will be could be
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traded by the February sixth trade deadline. That is a
fucking headline. Damian Barling, friend of show, said Sacramento Kings
are considering trading their star point guard ahead of the deadline.
Sean says the Kings are expected to open up talks
to potentially deal him by the deadline, and friend of show,
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Evon Townsend, who covers the San Antonio says that there
were whispers about Fox at San Antonio as early as November.
Then and then yesterday Jake Fisher, friend of show, came
out with this reporting that the Sacramento Kings were actually
the first who approach Dearon Fox's representatives about potentially putting
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him on the trade. But block, excuse me, it's the Kings,
according the league sources, who first approached Dearon Fox's Clutch
Sports representation about putting him on the market with immediate effect.
Sacramento set word to some interested in teams as early
as last week that it was open to such overtures.
That's when the switch flipped in Sacked Town. And now
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it appears the Vivek, the owner of the Sacramento Kinks
is in ok See at this very second trying to
patch things up with Dearon Fox to get him to stay.
More So, Demart Rosen, multiple time All Star bucket Getter,
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was on Running Back Today yesterday with Chandler Parsons and
said that if Dearon Fox gets moved, there's a possibility
that he will want out as well. Whoa first of all,
Dearon Fox is represented by agent Rich Paul of Clutch Sports,
who has indicated and we knew that there was going
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to be a sticking point as soon as Dearon Fox
was represented by Clutch, as soon as he signed with
Clutch that he will not sign a long term extension
with the Kings as of now. So the Kings as
an organization have tried to find help for Dearon Fox.
Multiple players that they tried to trade for Mike Brown
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shut down why he called them unethical hoopers, brandon ingram
John Collins said they are low IQ dudes I do
not want on my roster. He is now fired. Since then,
they have not been able to secure any player that
will help Dearon Fox to his assuagement. So now the
Kings have to figure out what they're gonna do. They
have to find a way to trade him before his
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value goes down and down and down with the year
remaining on his contract, and Fox has let it be known, Hey,
if you're gonna trade me, I want to go to
one place, San Antonio play with Victor Remeniama. That happens
to also be Dearon Fox's wife's hometown and Dearon Fox's
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home state from Houston. And while Dearon Fox is not
publicly requested to trade, Clutch's stance has made it clear
that San Antonio is his preferred landing spot. Now. The
current odds are minus one fifty for Fox to join
forces with Victor Emenianna. Are there other landing spots? Sure?
Vince Goodwill from Yahoo Sports says that it's essentially Houston,
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Miami and San Antonio and that's it. Some other NBA
media grifters are putting in to the ether the LA
Lakers as they always do because of the Clutch Sports
connection and the Brooklyn Nets. Those two destinations don't make
any damn sense. That's where we stand factually with our situation.
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Here's my take. I put out a clip earlier this
week about this, but I feel number one. The riding
was on the wall when Clutch got into the mix.
If you think about the situation that the Sacramento Kings
were in years ago and they had two guards that
were not functioning well together. Darren Fox Tyrese Haliburton, both
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marquee players, both thought they were franchised. Both wanted apparently
to be the guy instead Sacramento and make that team
a playoff team. They had aspirations of bringing Sacramento the
promised land, a marriage of sorts with the franchise Sacramento
pitched Indiana. I think the reporting is originally dearon Fox Indiana.
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The reporting is now very speculative. At one point said yes,
that's the recent reporting two years ago when this all
went down, said no, we would prefer a better contract
with Tyrese Halliburton. We want him instead. The trade goes down.
Tyrese Haliburton is just sick, devastated. Thought he was going
to be the one that brought Sacramento back to relevancy
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and excitement and was going to be the one that
we everyone built the franchise around, and he was wrong.
Now he's in Indiana, he's franchised there, he's a partner
with the league. He's a partner with the Pacers, probably
for life. And instead the Sacramento Kings chose Deer in
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Fox that was the one that was the girl in
the analogy. You've got two girls, you gotta choose one
who you wiping up, and you chose the girl the
wrong one, and then she ends up getting out one friend.
You know the friend, don't you with the friend that's
always whispering. Oh he's fine. Oh you see that rolex
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on him. Ooh, look like he's driving. He's got a Bentley.
Your man drives a Honda. Ooh you see that that's
a Gucci bag. Ooh, he could take me shopping. Ooh,
this is what you could get from him. Oh do
you see his house? Oh, your man ain't shit. You
should go here, you should do this. And then all
of a sudden, your girl's out there on these streets.
And now all of a sudden, your girl's not trying
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to be your wifey. She's outside. And that's what's going
on with deeron Fox right now in the Sacramento Kings,
he is looking at Victor woman Yama and the San
Antonio Spurs as the guy with the Gucci belt and
the nice ass car and the Louisviton sweater and the
nice Rolex with the you know whatever pearl whatever the faces.
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You know what I'm saying. Anyway, she's he's opportunistically trying
to get to a better place, as he should if
he feels like he's not getting what he needs from Sacramento.
But the truth is he should be what the team
is building around. He should be the piece the teams
feel like attract stars too, but they can't get deals
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done a la Damian Willard and the Portland Trailblazers who
ended up needing to go as well. Is Fox the
villain in the situation? I don't know? Are the Sacramento
Kings the villain in this situation? I don't know. Is
this the best move for Sacramento long term in order
to finally get some pieces and draft picks to start
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building up their coffers. I also don't know why, because
this is not a rebuilding team right now. They have
de Margaret, he's in the twilight of his career. They've
got demonis the bonus prime of his career Max player.
That is not a team that wants to start stockpiling
a bunch of first round picks and become the Brooklyn Nets.
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So they better figure it out fucking fast. They better
get Steph Cassel, Devin Vassel, multiple first round picks. Those
first round picks better turn into a current player that
can be some sort of veteran, multiple veterans on this
team in order for them to be cohesive and back
to relevancy. Otherwise, I don't know how the fans are
gonna be able to stomach this for the long term.
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Boy oh boy, is the next week gonna be very
very interesting one week until the trade deadline. I'm on
the edge of my seat. Moving on. I was on
a show on a network called beck QOL, which is
the network I used to be on with my friend PJ. Glasser,
talking about who's the real contender right now? Vegas has
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the odds equal Oka see Thunder defending champs Boston Celtics.
The question came up, who, at this point in time
do you trust more Boston? Okay, see, I want to
break this down a little bit further because I think
it's worth exploring. Number One, You take a look at
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Okace right Chet Holmgren is slated to return rhet on
the All Star break and the thought of Chet, Isaiah Hartenstein,
Jalen Williams, Shay Gildis, Alexander Alex Caruso on the same
floor at the same time is to me, if I'm
another team terrifying. So much defense, so much length, so
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much physicality, the ability to get buckets on all three
levels of the court, and I feel like maybe the
return of Chet Hoolmgren is the biggest move at the
trade deadline for any team, and he's the only thing
that they've been missing to stretch the We need three
point shooting on this team. He provides that. So there's
a reason that OKAC is in first place. But this
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is a team that's just three and three in their
last six games. They are gettable. They've got a loss
to the Lucasas Dallas Mavericks. They've got a loss to
the toothless Golden State Warriors for some reason. I don't
know why, but Dallas has their number, and they better
hope they don't see them in the playoffs because I
think the same result happens if Luca is still healthy.
There's another team, though, that the OKC thunder I think
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should be afraid of, and they are the Houston Rockets
a team that wants to punch you in the mouth.
They are all in the best possible way, prison hoopers.
They've got shives, baby, they've got elbows, they've got fists.
They're putting their body into you. They're getting their sweat
into your face. And guess what they like it because
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emy Udoka has built them this way. They're no pretty
boys except for Jalen Green on this team, and they
are nasty and the best possible way. Ima Udoka called
this team soft twelve months ago, and they are not
soft now. Aman Thompson, what is he? He's an alien.
I don't know what he is. He is so hard
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to defend. He has found his shot. He is one
of the most efficient shooters at the rim right now
in all of the league. He is a front runner
or at least a player in consideration for six Man
of the Year. If he keeps coming off the bench,
I think you probably have more of a legit case
for most improved Player. If Cad Cuttingham wasn't going crazy
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and you saw him the other night put up thirty
three points, getting clutch time minutes, hitting game winners over
the defending champs. He's attacking the rim. He is fun
and a huge spark for this team. You got Jalen
Green bombing away. We talked about him a few shows back.
He's become a sniper overnight. He's averaging twenty six to
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four and three over his last thirteen games, forty three
percent from three. Dylan Brooks, did you see him hit
ten threes the other night against the Boston Celtics alprin Shangoon.
He's on the verge of becoming a star. I love
the way he plays, super physical in the paint, incredible vision,
can score as well, defends almost as well this team
as Okay see, so if they had a score at
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the deadline, I don't know the Aaron Fox will say
they could be a threat in the West. And I
know a lot of people say, oh, well, Daron Fox,
they need shooting and Dearon Fox can't shoot. I'm sorry
those people haven't been watching stats and percentages recently. That
used to be true. Shoot forty percent from three now.
Okay sees two and one against Houston this year, all
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three games won by the home team. Now back to Boston.
In terms of the comparison, they're just twelve and ten
in their last twenty two games, just six and five
at home. The amount of home games that Boston lost
last year come all together throughout the season. We're almost
ready to hit that right now. But the truth is,
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I don't really care what Boston does in the regular season.
This is not a scenario where you're saying, Hey, Trista,
do you think the Boston Celtics are close to what
the Denver Nuggets were last season? Huge regression where no
one wanted to write them off because they were defending
champs and they had one of the best players in
the world. No, why did I not think that? Because
they didn't lose any of their pieces. Denver, what do
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they lose? They lost Bruce Brown, lost Jeff Green and
a lot of their depth in general. KCP had to
play a lot of minutes. You had Jamal Murray with regression,
with injuries, you had Michael Porter Junior really starting to
have a decline in his three point shooting, and so
Denver as a whole had to rely on just Jokic.
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Boston doesn't have that problem. Chris as Porzingis was injured
to start the season. He is back now. Everybody is
clicking on all cylinders when they are. They are very
dangerous now. Dereck White has had some regression. Players in
terms of the just the role players as a whole
have had some regression, And like I'm talking about with
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Derek White, he's come down to earth. Drew Holliday, his
three point shooting is down staggering ten percent down from
last year. The question is do you believe this is
gonna continue in the playoffs. I don't think so. The
issue right now for Joe Mazola probably is keeping those
guys hungry consistency. They'll bounce from blowing out a team
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by thirty, which they can do on anyone, to losing
a late lead against a team like Toronto. This is
the reason that no one thought Boston would win a
title to begin with, because they had so many damn
ten or more point leads that they allowed to slip away.
This is what Boston does. You have to just allow
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yourself to know it's not gonna be pretty with Boston.
But they're probably going to go through most of the
East except for maybe Cleveland, like just run through them.
But they can turn into a superpower anytime they want.
They've got Christaps Porzingis who's finding his feet they've got
Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum, you got Peyton Pritchard as the
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leader in the clubhouse for six Man of the Year.
I like their chances to come out of the East
better than I like. Okay, see coming out of the West.
And if those two teams meet, boy and it's a
three point shooting contest, send Boston to the parade once again.
Move it on. It's the NBA news. We've got a
gambling scandal again rearing its ugly head. What you don't
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say it was a one off? Remember the John T.
Porter catastrophe last year where the brother of Michael Porter
Junior purposely through games to hit parlays that he had
placed by a gambling consortium betting on his own unders.
He's currently in jail for like a bajillion years too,
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thinking about fuck, why didn't I just ask my brother
for a loan? Why did I just ask my brother? Hey,
can you pay my rent? I'm in jail now now. Unfortunately,
scary Terry. It's getting scary for Terry Rosier. He is
in the news for an alleged incident from back in
his days as a Charlotte Hornet, which, let's be honest,
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if you were going to scam as an NBA player.
Charlotte's the place to do it, not a lot of
people watching your games with great scrutiny. The FEDS were alerted.
Here's the story in brief. FEDS were alerted to unusual
betting pattern surrounding Rosier's performance in a March twenty third,
twenty twenty three game between the Hornets and the Pelicans. Again,
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that's the one to do it, Okay. No one is
paying attention to a random March game post All Star
break when teams are starting to shut it down between
the New Orleans Pelicans and the Hornets. Rosier, who remember,
now he's at the Miami Heat. He was hooping that year.
By the way, he has not been accused of any
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wrongdoing the probe. It's part of the same case that
led to the lifetime ban of John tay Porter. The
NBA said that they looked into it. They found no
rule violations, but is now cooperating with the US Attorney's
Office for the Eastern District of New York OOH Chuck
Rhodes is coming as they further examined the situation. During
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the game in question, Rosier played just under ten minutes
before exiting with the foot issue, ultimately sitting out the
last eight games of the season. Betters became very suss
when sportsbooks removed prop bets on Rosier hours before tip off,
and some expressed frustration after his early exit, believing something
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was amiss. Twitter was full of broken parlor, with Rosier
being the killing leg. Not sure if there's any fire here,
but there is enough smoke to cause the US attorneys
to kick tires because they believe something was suspect. The
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weird part was that Terry Rozier had a really good
first quarter. He had five, four and two for a
guy whose PRAA was around thirty the entire season, and
then pack it up, folks, take himself out of the game,
and then the underhits on all of his bets. And
like I said, he was hooping that year. He had
been a pretty reliable over before that, having hit thirty number,
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that thirty number in eight of his previous ten games.
So I don't really know what to do with that information,
but I find it nearly impossible to believe that someone's
who making twenty two million dollars a year is like, hey,
let me join a betting consortium and bet against myself.
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I will say this, I do know that some of
Terry Rosier's friends are not the most upstanding citizens in
terms of the professions that they take company they keep.
So I'm just gonna throw that out there. No allegations,
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no slander. I'm just saying anything's possible. I don't think
it's true, though, I really don't. However, here's what I
learned working in the sports betting space. If the books
think there is something suspicious going on, there is something
suspicious going on. Who was involved remains to be seen.
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Maybe he had a foot issue and we in the
team knew about it, and somebody told somebody, and then
somebody told it better, and then they told all their friends,
and now the sports books pack it up. Moving on,
We'll have a full trade deadline episode on Monday. But
here's a list of some of the players who may
be on the move not named Aaron Fox and Jimmy Butler,
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Caleb Martin, Clint Capella, DeAndre Hunter. We're just trading all
the Atlanta Hawks, bog Don, Bogdanovich, Keldon Johnson, gershawn Yabisele Nikola, Lusovich,
Miles Turner, which is just a joke, absolute bananas. John
Collins which is another one. Remember it used to be
just John Collins and Miles Turner all the time, over
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and over and over again. Colin Sexton again another one,
always in the news. Mitchell Robinson which why would anyone
want his broken body right now? Use of Nurkic? Why
would anyone want his broken basketball game right now? And
Yaka pertl Gonna be a busy week, folks. And finally,
your weekly roundup of NBA injuries. Two major stars are out. First,
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emerging Hawks superstar Jalen Johnson is out for the season
with a torn labram in his left shoulder. Huge law
for the Hawks this He's become an insane companion for
Chrey Young this season. He's averaged nineteen ten and five.
His injury, of course, throws a massive wet blanket on
the Hawk season. But also they probably like it given
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the fact that they owe their first round pick that's
protected I believe top ten to San Antonio. Pack it up, baby,
We're gonna keep our pick. In a loaded draft. It's
a lot more likely that they move guys out of
the deadline than bring them back. Sad for Jalen He'll
be back next year and hopefully maybe remember Atlanta somehow
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locked into the number one fucking pick of the draft
this last year when they did not deserve it. Another
injury of note, LaMelo Ball stepped on a foot while
backpedaling admiring his long three, which is so LaMelo Ball.
Ball's ankles have caused him so many damn problems over
the years that a lot of executives in the NBA
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now view him as a risk, both in the trademarket
and the free agent market. He's gonna be reevaluated next week.
He's probably gonna missfight to seven games. This coming on
the back of the news that he will not make
the All Star Game. Sad times for LaMelo Ball. Speaking
of the All Star Game, the reserves were announced, it's
more interesting talking about who did not make the team
than who did. Here are your snubs for this year,
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East Trey Young, Lamello Ball, Tyrese Maxey, Franz Wagner. I
don't think Franz is really a snub because he was injured.
Tyrese Halliburton, which really probably isn't a snub E there
because he's been playing hurt in the Westmonasabonis biggest snub
every year. I don't understand dearon Fox Kyrie Irving, Norm Powell,
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Devin Booker. To me, there are two names that stand
out in the East. Tyree Maxey, who's averaging twenty five
and six. I know he's having a bit of a
down year in the Sixer Stink, but he's kind of
single handily propping up the entire franchise, the entire hope
of this team. Demonasabonis, I think you got royally host.
If you don't know by now that he is an
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All Star, insane, shame on you. Twenty one, fifteen and seven,
just an egregious oversight. We will talk more about the
All Star game soon. That's all the time that we
have for this episode of The Heat Check. Come back
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