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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this episode of The Heat Check. Are we are
we joking? Is this is this for real?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The NBA Draft lottery occurred. I got my hair on
my mic and God damn it, God damn it. Do
I have thoughts? I almost didn't. I almost didn't record
this late because I was like, oh, you tall get it,
Washington will get Cooper Flag something stupid. No, no, just chaos,
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absolute chaos.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Shocking night. I'm still stunned.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I think the NBA is rigged. We'll get into that,
as well as the NBA playoffs and some news from
around the league. In terms of y honest, how do
these things affect yanness? Jesus Christ, guys, this is crazy,
so much to get into.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Wyatt drop that motherfucker beat that, Johanna, you're listening to
the Hottest, the Hottest. It'd be a podcast out here.
I said what I said, it's the Heat chick Check.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I don't have work, I don't have words for.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What I just saw. The Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Just won the NBA lottery with a one point eight
chance of winning it, and now they have Cooper Flag.
They go from Dirk Novitzky white icon to Luka Doncic
fan favorite white icon. They trade his ass inexplicably to
the Lakers, and less than six months later they have
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another transcendent, this time two way player, white American icon,
first American one. You know Dallas, you know Texas. They're
all about America. Get these get these migrants, Get these
migrants out of my country.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I don't care if they're.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
European Hostilian is just is just America and South Africa only.
So now they've got Cooper flag.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Along with Kyrie Irving at some.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Point and Anthony Davis, and I think Nico Harrison saved
his job.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But when you get the number one overall pick directly
after trading Luca to the La Lakers, where they'll be
good for the next ten to fifteen years, and you
land the best white prospect from America this century.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Get all the way out of here, Get out, fucking go.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I can't just just go.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Just go. So many thoughts. Let's look at the order.
Number one is the MAVs.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Number two, sneaky, sneaky collusion is the Spurs. Number three
sneaky collusion on a rebuild is the Sixers. I mean, like,
what was Darryl Moury and Nick Nurse even doing there.
They're just there to collect. You got Jared McCain, the
TikTok Icon being the good luck charm. We thought they
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weren't even gonna get the first six picks because it
looked like the ESPN told us they wouldn't, and then
they got it in a Nope, they're actually top four. Nope,
actually the top three. Okay, So then we had Charlotte.
Charlotte we thought was gonna get a good pick, a
good pick, and they don't have a good pick. They
got a shitty pick, really fucking shitty. Congratulations Charlotte, you
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continue to be mediocre. Jazz, we thought maybe it would
be them. Nope, you get the fifth pick. Jazz, you won.
You had the most egregious tank we've seen all year.
We knew it was so aggressive. Nope, fifth pick for
you. You're in no man's land. The Washington Wizards, a legitimate
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bad team, rebuilding team. No, no, no, you get the
sixth pick. Pelicans get the seventh pick. Nets, also an
aggressive tanker, get the eighth pick. Raptors just bunds. They
get the ninth pick. Rockets get the tenth My Blazers.
Fuck you guys, why do we even win those games?
I know we're making our moves. We got good karma,
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word peace away. But at the eleventh pick, what are
we getting? Trade it, trade it away, trade it away.
I'll trade it and Anthony Simon's for some stuff In Orlando.
The Bulls get the twelfth pick, that's just exactly where
they were slotted. The Hawks get the thirteenth pick, and
the Spurs get the fourteenth pick. Tremendous Portland got screwed.
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We couldn't have gotten the worst pick if we tried,
just a truly worthless.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Pick, not top eight.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Just all that tanking, all that sucking, all that pain
for nothing. I mean, why couldn't we had a double
the amount of luck, double the amount of percentages to
get the number an overall pick than the Mavericks And
guess well we did not get that pick they got.
Fuck them the Sixers, they luck out. They've been aggressively
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tanking all year as well. Nate Duncan said it best.
He tweeted that the new NBA lottery odds are a
failure because more teams than ever are tanking, and the
teams it was supposed to help don't even get a
top pick.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
All the little small market bullshit teams.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
They got fucked okay except for San Antonio, but they've
got Wemby, so they are now a big market team.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I don't know what the Spurs are gonna do.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You've got Steph Castle, You've got Devin Vessel, you got
Keldon Johnson, I think still, and what are you gonna get.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Dylan Harper as well a Spailey. I don't know what
they're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's it's just tremendous. Lebron tweeted fifteen laughing emojis. Kevin
Love tweeted, are you fucking kidding me? It's safe to
say the internet is melting down.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I am one of those people.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You can't convince me that the NBA's not rigged.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
After you treat I'm out of this. I'm out of this.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We will be melting down for weeks. We'll have more
to say. We got to get to the playhoffs.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Whoo, things are bad in Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
After Game three, they win handily one twenty six pint
oh four at home. You had a pivotal Game four
on Sunday with the Calves looking to even the series.
Put some pressure on the Pacers, say listen, this is
just all injuries, because Indiana proceeded to give the Calves
the worst first half beat down I've seen in NBA history.
Were they scored eighty points in the first half. Eighty
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that's like a New York nick like, that's how much
they score with five minutes left to go to the game.
That's where they are at. To say it was bad
would have been an understatement. When the dust settled after
just two quarters, it was eighty to thirty nine. It's
not good. That's what we'll say about that. The Pacers
were up forty one points at halftime. The Pacers ended
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the half on a nineteen to two run to make
it a forty point lead. It was so bad the
Calves outscored the Pace seventy to thirty nine, and they
still lost the game by twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
This is a sixty four win team. This is it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
This is a number one team in the East and
they are getting smallywopped by a team that everyone thought
was dead twenty five games into the season. Because Tyrese
Haliburton his hand, he still wasn't fixed. I told you,
I told you, I said, Tyrese Halliburton is still hurt,
and everybody's like, maybe Tyre's Haliburton is just not the guy.
Maybe Tyre's Halliburn's is not the guy. And I said, look, stop, okay,
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Tyrese Halliburton maybe the guy.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
We don't I mean, I still don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
But he is really fucking good, especially in clutch time situations.
We saw multiple times. Now the Cavs have to win
three games in a row. They have to do what
they have only done one time when Lebron, James, Kyrie
Irving and Kennel Love were there seventy three and nine
in they lied, that's what they've got to do.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It wasn't even one of those.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Games where it was like, oh well, Tyrese Haliburton had seventy,
so what are you gonna do about that. There was
a complete comprehensive beatdown. This is what I tried to
tell our man Chiltown Hoops. I said, this team is
deep that anybody can get you twenty on any given night.
And guess what they all did on one night. Pascal
Siakam twenty one, Miles Turner Obi toppin twenty. Halliburton only
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had to have eleven points and five assists.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Ben Mathren, he got ejected.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He didn't even do anything at all. You won't find
how this game got so far ahead so quickly by
looking at the box score. What you're gonna need to
do is look at Cleveland. They had twenty two turnovers.
Twenty two turnovers. Nine players had two or more turnovers.
Kenny Atkinson said, head coach of the CAVSI, said they
dominated us in every facet of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
How bad was it?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
The only player other than Mathren who played a minute
before getting tossed who didn't score was Johnny Furfy. And
let's be honest, it was just a scrub hest fest
for most of the second half. My man James Johnson
had eight points.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
He hit a MIDI.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
He has eight points all season, but he had five
points in the playoffs. The Calves, I don't think they're
coming back. I don't even know how you assess what
they are. You had Darius Garland down for multiple games
with a turf toe. You had Evan Mobley down with
an ankle. You had Darius U DeAndre Hunter excuse me,
with the dislocated thumb. You have Donovan Mitchell out with
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an injury, played only twenty minutes ankle. It just is
hard to assess what they are to see whether you
actually have to make.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Any changes to this roster whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It feels though, it feels it feels a little utah jazzy.
It feels a little utah jazzy to me. It's a
good thing Donovan Mitchell signed that big ass contract. The
Calves are about to flame out in the playoffs, and
none of us are gonna understand really why, except for
maybe the Pacers are just that good. Okay, okay, see
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Denver just giving, chaos, just giving.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
This game's not gonna be anything. And then all of
a sudden, you.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Look up in a super competitive Three of the four
games have been chef's kiss drama, absolute classics only okaysee's
Game two blowout game didn't offer us what we're wanting.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Game four perfect example.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Nikola Jokic, who had a terrible bounce back game, by
the way, from his horrible performance in game three. He
got the Nuggets within four points with three minutes to
go and change.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
But what killed him in.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
This game isn't Michael Porter Junior with one shoulder. It's
not the fact that Christian Brown is the only role
player they can rely on. It wasn't Ross shooting air balls,
which he had a few of those. It was something
so simple, the free throw. The free throw. The Nuggets
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missed ten free throws in the game. They were two
for six in crunch time and three for eight in
the fourth quarter. Jokichen Gordon each missed a pair in
the final five minutes in a game that they lost
ninety two to eighty seven. They missed ten free throws,
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three for eight in the fourth quarter, and you lost
by five.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
That'll do it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It was pretty ugly all the way around, honestly gross.
Okasee shot thirty six percent from the field. Denver shot
a disgusting thirty one percent. Both teams shot twenty four
point four percent exactly from three, which is insane. Okaysee
had one turnover more than Denver. Denver had one more
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stock stock stock stocks than oka se rebounding was pretty
even fifty six to forty nine.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
A favorite okay See.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I mean, we're talking about two very evenly matched teams here,
and that's pretty wild, considering that okase was the big
bad wolf all season long. I tried to say again,
Tristan Noseball, I tried to say if Denver can hang
on and just stay healthy, which they are clearly not.
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I said, this is a team that could go to
the Western Conference finals very easily. This is a team
that could fuck around and get to the finals. I
said that on Camra makes I said, that's the team
I'm I'm most keeping my eye on. I think Okase,
he's got some problems that we weren't really seeing, weren't
really apparent when they were steamrolling.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Through the regular season.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Chet holmgrin not himself, fully, not aggressive. He's averaging thirteen
and twelve for the series. He shot looks worse than mine.
Not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's flat.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's a push flat shot. I don't know what's going
on with it. He's shooting forty percent from the field,
twenty percent from three.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's not what you got him for. Tentative on offense,
not going to the rim.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Had a couple of nice lob dunks from Isaiah Hartenstein,
but defense is obviously good, but they're gonna need a
lot more from chat Jalen Williams has.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Been pretty good but also.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Inefficient, averaging nineteen to four, but it's been a roller
coaster for him just ten points in Game four, thirty
two points in Game three, and a loss seventeen and sixteen,
so had one great game. The allegations for Jalen Wims
aren't going away, and those allegations are that when you
need him the most, he's not always there for you.
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Shooting thirty seven, twenty one, eighty four, rough two for
thirteen in game four. A lot of chatter on these
internet streets about Yokic being worn down.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I think he is worn down.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
His shooting woes continue. He was seven for twenty two
in Game four, still put up twenty seven and thirteen.
His defense was electric, multiple steals, making things very tough around.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
The paint, and have a four steals.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
But I think maybe he has worn down from carrying
such a heavy load down the stretch in the first round.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I think he'll can bounce back. Also, his free throw
shooting has been atrocious.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I saw a fascinating staff and Yogish's five lowest shooting
playoff games.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The Nuggets won four of them. So I think we
just need more Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I think we need more Christian Brown, who's been very good,
a little more consistency from Peyton Watson, how about Michael
Porter Junior not be ice fucking cold like he was
three points in Game four three.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
New head coach of the Denver.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Nuggets, which we're actually not sure whether he's an interim
coach or not. He's pretty sure where Denver's issue is
the Zebras.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I think it might be the zebras.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
He said, if Shay's allowed to use his off arm,
which he's very good at, you hope to let us
at least have some impact with his body. It goes
both ways. The guy is so hard to regardless. He's
a foul artist. He's a foul artist. I don't think
you're allowed to say that. I kind of love it.
A foul artist artist. His numbers are up nine point
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three free throws per game.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I mean a lot up.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's eight point eight over the course of the regular season.
If they applied the regular season foul rules to Shay,
he'd probably be averaging fifteen fouls per game. Adam Silver
just went on the air during the NBA Lottery Show
and he says he loves the throwback basketball and the
physicality and that coach k coach KOs Kozhevsky from Duke
was a part of that process allow him and Joe Dumars.
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Shout out to Joe Dumars, New Pelicans jam was a
part of bringing the physicality back to the league. Fans
love defense, we do. Game five is Tuesday night. It
is a must win for the Nuggets, but I also
think it's probably.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
A must win for the Thunder as well.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Regardless, I think the series is going seven, and I
for one, I'm gonna watch every minute of it unless
my mom makes me watch Call the Midwife. All right,
moving on two series play out a Monday night after
I record it, so I will wait until later this
week to talk about them. Minnesota's up to one on
Golden State. Hoop collective guys are saying Game four as
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a much swin. Don't think it's gonna be a must
win for Golden State. I think Steph Curry is not
gonna be back until Game six. I don't think they're
getting to a game six. I don't think so. Timberwolves
having shot well in this series and they continue to
win games. Anthony Edwards can have a four point first
half and score still to score thirty five. Jimmy Butler's
rocking one butt cheek got Brandon Pajemski with the siki
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flu and mono or whatever the fuck he's dealing with.
You've got Jonathan Kaminga out there thinking he's staph. They're
gonna have to play all of them excellent in order
for them to get a win. Draymond over here getting
fouled out, getting technicled, getting all kinds of flagrance. I mean,
it's just a sad state of affair for our dubs.
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Moving on about the next, the next whole the two
to one lead right now, at this very moment, it's
a six point game.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's the second quarter. But I'm just gonna I'm not
gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm afraid for our knicks. It hasn't looked good. Even
in the games that they've won. You're like, how did
you win that? You're so obviously outmatched. This is the
kind of team that must rely on their defense and
tenacity and some lucky breaks and you going cold from
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deep in order for them to reliably win meaningful games.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's pretty much it.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They've done a phenomenal job at maximizing the players that
they have, but the Celtics are just much better.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
The good news is this is the last.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Time they'll ever see this version of the Celtics in
the playoffs because they're so goddamn expensive. You got Jalen
Brown already talking about how he's the best guy to
go to be able to drive to the paint in
NBA history or some bullshit like that. He's already being like, hey,
either move me or move Tatum or I don't know
what's gonna happen, but we're not seeing this team roll
back again. So it really doesn't matter if you're the Knicks.
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This is just kind of the Swan song that you're experiencing.
On the other end of things, Jalen Brown is like,
you gotta beat us four times, not twice, and that's right.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You do.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
And I don't think they're going to. I really don't
think anyone's going to. I don't think the Pacers are
going to. I don't think the Nuggets are going to.
I think they're gonna win again. And then I'm gonna
have to be like, oh, Jason Tatum, I don't care
that he wore He's choked out ultra tight tims and
his one strapped Koala overall set with the NAZ T shirt.
He's a champion two time champion, even despite the fact
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that he's scoring like seventeen points per game. More on
that series soon around the league. Let's get to it
some interesting news. Not often you get news that makes
the draft lottery.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Look small, but this did? Uh you got Yannis? Is
he gonna leave? Is he gonna stay?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
The Yanna Sweet Steaks have commenced? Chalms have has confirmed
what everybody has been speculating. People in Jannice's camp are
telling him that Jannie is open to playing elsewhere with
the proviso. Jannis thinks he needs another superstar because the
Dame experiment worked.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Out so well.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Brian Windhorst is saying there are only two teams that
have a chance at landing him, the Houston Rockets. Who's
the superstar on that team? By the way, who is
the superstar on the Houston Rockets that Yannis wants to
play for?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Who is it? Who is it?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Jaylen Green? He's not keeping him? Is it? He's not
a superstar? Is it? Who? Who? Alprin Shangoon? Who is it?
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Dylan Brooks, Fred VanVleet, Oh, yeah, undersize point guard. That'll
work great with Yes with the Spurs, though, getting the
number two overall pick in the draft. I would not
be surprised that they get into this.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They don't need Dylan Harper.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
What they do need they could use a Gianas Oh baby,
That interior defense would be ridiculous. I don't know if
I love the idea of Giannis as a big getting rubbing,
getting rubbed off on pause, Wemby rubbing Okay, you know
what I'm trying to say, Wemby's three point obsession rubbing
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off on Giannis. I don't know if I love that
Giannis needs to stick into the paint pause. The odds
are stacked.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
In San Antonio's favor.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
They have the second and the fourteenth pick this year,
a boatload of future picks, and a lot of young talent.
How about we give you for the San Antonio Spurs.
We'll give you Devin Vasel, will give you the number
two overall pick. We'll give you the fourteenth pick, and
we'll give you some salary match whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
That looks like. We'll give you Chris.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Paul, We'll give you a Caldon Johnson will give you
Chris Paul, will give you Jeremy Sohan, Devin Vessel and
all these picks. And you give us Yannis, you give
us honest.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That's it. That's the end.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Giannie Wemby fox Castle, Holy shit. Also moving on, really
big news could be not news, could be major news,
depends on what version of MJ we get. NBC just
announced that they are going to be hiring Michael Michael
James Jordan, Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Why did I say James
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan as a special contributor. MJ has a
little affinity for NBC, considering that ahmadra Shad was working
for NBC doing NBA sideline coverage, also doing NBA inside stuff,
and they became best friends. I feel like that's the
only network that Jordan would ever do anything for. I
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don't think he's gonna do any studio work.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
What's he gonna do? I want to know what he's
gonna Is he gonna like zoom in? Is he gonna
patch in?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Are they gonna have him for pregame coverage?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Are they gonna have him as like a guest? I
don't know. It's gonna be really interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
The best guest people have is that he's gonna somehow
leverage us to promote his racing team as NBC produces
now the NBA and NASCAR, and Jordan is a big
NASCAR fan. He has a racing team, but that that
is probably too cynical.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
More Jordan around the league better.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Other people said, man, the economy really is crashing if
Jordan needs to get into the columns the studio analyst game.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Anyway. Bill Simmons is on.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
One as of late because the Celtics got hammered in
the first two games of their series against the Knicks.
But this week he made a bull proclamation the Lakers
will one hundred percent trade Austin Reeves this summer.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I mean that makes a little since I think the.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Lakers can only offer him four years in eighty three
million as an extension, So I think Austin Reeve.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Is gonna get a lot of money. I get a
lot of money on.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
The open market, so you probably want to trade him
before you lose him for nothing. Also, finally, pat Riley
gave his end of the season presser for the Miami Heat.
He took the time to address everything from the fact
that there will be no rib Rib run it back
and that he probably shouldn't have told Jimmy Butler to
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shut up and dribble, and that that friction between the
two was just two alpha males not getting along. When
men say the word alpha male, I just cringe, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like, Ugh, why'd you do that? Why just say that?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Now you don't seem like an alpha male. Now you
seem like a beta male. Now you seem like you
want to sound like you're a big swinging dick.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Don't love it.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
What I did love, though, was old man Ryle's response
to the acquisition that he was too old and the
game had passed him by. He said that eighty is
the new sixty. I'm competitive as hell. I love being
in the bowl. In the Bowl, I got a little
depressed after the last two games. Mickey Errison and Nick
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Rison that I met, they've been very good to me,
and they say, carry on, Pat, I'm gonna carry on.
I'm gonna make this thing better. Some people are talking
about Barry Jackson, friend of Show in his own weird way,
is that the Miami Heat should have had the pick
that ended up going to.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
The Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Sweet sweet Justice, pat Riley's not going anywhere. You're gonna
need to pry the basketball out of his cold dead,
slick hands. He's gonna be probably running this team until
he's ninety five.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Just watch.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
As for the heat not sure what the not sure
what the path for it is for them, We're gonna
have to see if the fucking Mavericks can rescue themselves.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Anyone can.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
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