February 25, 2025 • 26 mins
Trysta Krick goes IN on the 76ers for their squandering of assets (again), how the Lakers have solved the Nuggets, Jimmy Butler's impact on Golden State, and putting a bow on this year's trade deadline now that all of the dust has settled.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
On this episode of the Heat Check, should the seventy
six Ers actually shut you well and beat and Paul
George down for the season. We'll break it down for you.
The Lakers take down the Nuggets, what's that mean? We'll
explain how Jimmy Buckets makes the Warriors a championship contending team.
And I will talk about something that never gets discussed
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after a trade deadline, the traw Let's.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Talk about it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So drop that motherfucker beat This should be Rihanna. You'll
you're listening to the Hottest the Hottest Span podcast out here.
I said what I said, beat it up.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's the heat Check, the heat Check, Heat Check?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Which should the credit?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Post trade deadline, post All Star break? This is where
the rubber meets the road. Who's real, who's not real?
And we have some news now on a team that
we know is not real and has known that is
not real since pretty much the first seven.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Games of the season, the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. They
fucking trash, trash, trash. The disaster keeps getting worse.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The Sixers have lost nine to the last ten games,
which is a crazy stat because you add that to
the fact that they have lost eight in a row,
and that is the first time that they've done that
since Joel Embiid was a rookie in twenty sixteen twenty
seventeen season in the midst in the darkness, in the
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depths of Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That was the beginning of the process.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
An unacceptable loss to the Brooklyn Nets where they are
actively trying to tank. Nick Nurse had to sit Joel
Embiid's ass down on the on the bench in the
entire fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Of course, he lied about it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And said, oh, we were just jelling, and so we
had to sit somebody who wasn't jelling with us at
that time, and we just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Let him roll with it. Blah blah, blahlah blah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
No, in reality, Joel Embiid was terrible. He was four
for thirteen through the first three quarters of the game,
and he was a team high of a negative seven
net rating.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So probably just flow related.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Right. Here's the thing, though, watching Joel andb play basketball
right now is painful. It is, and it's even more
painful if you think about this guy was the MVP
just two years ago, a guy that we thought maybe
was the most skilled, most actively athletic, most amazing big
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man in the league outside of Jokic, and now he's
a shadow of himself. Can't even stay on the floor.
He's slow footed, he's unsure, he's not confident, he's not
shooting well, he's not rebounding well, and of course he's
not available.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
He's just a trip away, like a slip of the
floor away from a constant limp.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He went from being stopped like unstoppable when Joel Embiid
got the ball even last year he was just putting
up forty with ease.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's about thirty and ten by the end of the
third quarter.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He went from that to getting his lunch handed tim
by Dayron Sharp, a guy that most casual fans don't
even know. A testament to how bad things are are
that of those thirteen shots that he took, six of
them were from beyond the arc, and they were flat
footed and gross, and he missed them all and he
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was wide open.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Nobody even gave a fuck.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was like it was like when I first get
to the gym, like at Equinox, in the middle of
like a post collegiate lunchtime run, and I get the
ball because they just have allowed me, because I've been
sitting there for so.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Long and then I get the ball on the perimeter
and they're just like crickets. Letter. Shoot, that's what they're
doing to Joel Embiid right now.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know if now is a good time to
tell you this or remind you this, but Joel Embiid
is under contract for five more years to the tune.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Of three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Five more years, three hundred more million dollars of this bullshit.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I actually feel really bad for him. And we'll
talk about that in a second.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So I'm not I'm not like trying to diminish Joel
Embiid and making it out like.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
This is his fault.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But this is this is a disaster. This is a
dead as a door nail season. Absolutely imperative that they
figure out what to do. And the truth of the
matter is we should probably discuss at least mention this
may not be fixable. Here is the latest on Joel
and b We have new news. Sixers have not quite
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shut him down for the year, but he was ruled
out Monday against Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Official reason was consultation with doctors and specialists. That's not good, doggie.
That is not good getting new imaging.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Joel Embiid has said himself that the team diagnosis of
his injury has not been accurate. Now the party line
is that they are hoping that he just avoids another surgery.
Of the problem is that his previous surgery, which happened
in February of twenty twenty four after Golden State Jonathan
Kaminga fell on his leg, just did not remove all
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of the meniscus cartilage. Why Athletic talks about it. The
hope over the past several month has been trying to
find ways to reduce the symptoms because there had been
no indication that additional surgery.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Would fix Embead's knee.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Indeed, there was belief that continuing to play would be
more beneficial than shutting him down.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So the picked slittions just not like, oh, his cartilage will.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Regenerate if he plays more, maybe he'll get fixed.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Letting him heal not great. That did not work.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Paul George agreed that that was the preferable way to go,
But it is really hard to take advice from Paul
George given that he has not been the model of
good health pretty much his entire career. Post the catastrophic
leg break that he had. He's actually missed more time
than Joel Embid if you can believe it, since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Paul George has missed more time since twenty nineteen than
Joel Embiid, a guy who has known for missing games.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
What does Joel Embiid want?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He said both publicly and privately that he thinks he
needs another surgery or an extended rest period for his
need to heal. And the only reason that he's trying
to play is because he's just desperately trying to get
this team into some version of a playing game.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Darryl Morey is so cooked, he is so dead. Clearly
this is not working.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Also, we need to give a shout out or actually
a big boo to Tyrese Maxey comeback player of the
Year or most improved player.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Excuse me last year, he's playing awful.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
In fact, the only reason we're not disparaging him more
is because the two stars that they actually have are
fucking trash. So the team seven and eight this year,
when the whole Big three have played.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
They suck. They're terrible.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The prominent voy including Stephen A, are saying that Joel
Embiid should consider retirement. I tell you, Doggy, if it
was me, I'm sticking around for that three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm not going a single fucking place. I don't care
how many games I play.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't care if I have to shuffle back and
forth like I'm going to canasta and I'm an eighty
six year old in a retirement home. I'm getting my bread.
What do you do if you're the Sixers can't really
put him on the floor. He's fucking a shell of himself.
In the third quarter against the Nets, he lost the ball,
hit the floor hard, slow to get up. Given his
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current state, the Sixers would probably be irresponsible to play
him anymore this season. And yeah, I know, although Philadelphia
has a six worth record in the NBA, they were
like just one and a half games out of tenth place,
so they might think, oh, there's hope.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Maybe, just maybe there's no hope.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The chances of him being getting another serious injury in
the playoffs or in playoff environment is even more great
than the Sixers making the playoffs. The league's better when
Joel Embid is healthy. The league is better when Joel
Embid is putting up thirty five and twelve. The league
is better when he's getting the ball at the elbow
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and jab stepping, cooking you in the face, splashing in
a way where you think he's one hundred percent from
the field, that's better. He's averaging eighteen nine and six
since coming back from injury, and that's like Tobias Harris numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But we don't expect that from an MVP.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We need more. He's not playing winning basketball. I don't
understand why to run him out there. And besides, the
Sixers have a vested interest in tanking at this point
because the number one pick that they traded in Brooklyn
is top six protected. So hey, maybe just shut the
whole thing down. More updates on the MBIAT saga will come.
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Sad hours for Nick Nurse, sad hours for Tyrese Maxey.
Paul George said, we don't even look like we can
compete at all, let alone compete to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Grow stuff in Philadelphia. At least your Eagles won the championship.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Moving on, Sometimes when you slay the dragon that everybody
thought you could not slay, everything changes, right, and I
think that is what we're seeing with the La Lakers.
Thirteen of the last fourteen games, the Lakers have gotten
waxed by the Denver Nuggets. And then the other day
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the Nuggets lost to the Lakers, won twenty three, one
hundred on the road, and.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Luca was Lukai.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was He was a version of him that we
have not seen in a minute. He was splashing, he
was aggressive, He was what we want to see from
him on a night to night basis. It was one
of the most impressive wins of the year. Bron went
off for twenty five nine and five. Austin Reeese had
twenty three four and seven.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Lukai Cobra Lukai went off for thirty two ten and seven.
That's a Cobra Kai joke. He went off all the
way off.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Pauls JJ called him, he said, I need him to
have a blackout moment where he screams at absolutely no
one for no reason. He doesn't know why, because he's
just excited.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And we got that Ruyachi Murrad twenty one. Just a
beat down. So if you didn't watch the game, let's
break down what happened.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So the Nuggets have seen this strategy before, but in
this moment, at this point in time, JJ Reddick dialed
up something that I think is very brilliant and only
real reason or real way that you can stop Jokic.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
From doing everything. You kind of pick your poison, and
it's this, Yokich is a fucking scoring on us. And
We'll let every other bro try to hit shots. We'll
let Christian Brown do his goddamn thing, We'll let Julian
Strather do his damn thing.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And we'll see, and we'll see.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
They blitz the fuck out of Jokic all night long.
Two three, four bodies. Everybody's got a foot in the paint.
Yokic only had seven shots. That's his lowest amount all season.
Tied for seven shots. I think the last time he
did that was in a blowout winner over the Dallas
Mavericks in January. My man JJ Reddick said, I didn't sleep.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Before the game.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I was dialing up a playoff atmosphere game plan to
stop these nugs, and it worked. Normal coaches don't do that. Psychos,
dude that and that's JJ Redick.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Like I said, two three defenders just sprinting at him.
Nicolo Jokic couldn't get the ball out fast.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Enough spray pause to his guys on the perimeter.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Nobody had shots havoc for Denver's offense. They couldn't get
a goddamn thing going, and they only scored one hundred points.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Jokic, by the way, I mentioned he only had seven
shot attempts.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He averages twenty shots a game. He took thirty nine
shots earlier this year against the only team with worst
centers than the LA Lakers, the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
When you got rid of Anthony Davis, I don't know
if you guys thought this. I thought, well, they are
fucking so cooked.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Jackson, Hayes, Jackson, No, jack I don't know what a
rhyming word is. I was not thinking that this would
go this way. I'm frankly shocked. I must remind you
the hottest team in the NBA the past month was
the Nuggets. Turns out they were probably playing a lot
of bottom theaters. And that's what YO can say, Like,
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I think we got a little confident over nothing. The
Nuggets were not really thinking about preparing or dialing up
a goddamn thing for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
By the way, that must be mentioned. But I bet
you what I bet you Michael Malone.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Has the La Lakers on his mind now, and the
Lakers have their eye on the Nuggets. They have won
eight of ten games the Lakers. They've moved all the
way up to the fourth place in the Western Conference.
They're just two and a half games back of Denver
in the West. And if I'm the Nuggets, I'm sleeping
not that easily. After that, let's move on. So we
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talked about this Lakers win over the Nuggets. A lot
of people think that Luca added to this Lakers team
with Braun and all these boys make them the hottest,
most dangerous team in the West now. But you could
make the argument actually that it's not the Lakers that
are the most dangerous. It's a team that actually wins
for a living all the time, which is the Golden
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State Warriors that are in their twilight years as well.
The Jimmy Butler actually makes the Warriors the most dangerous
team in the West.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Let's talk about it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Before Luca was the trade of the probably ever trade
of the era, trade of the history of the league.
Before he sucked all the air of the room, all
of us all year long.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We're like Jimmy, Jimmy Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimy, where's he gonna go?
We know he's not gonna play for this trash ass
team after the deadline.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
He's changing his hair colors, he's getting suspended, he's missing.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The team flight. He's telling the.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
World I lost my love for basketball and he got
it back. Now you got heat legend. Tim Hardaway Senior
just continuing to try to put salt on the wounds,
putting dirt on Jimmy Butler's Miami heat grave you got
Tyler Hero talking shit too, basically saying Jimmy wanted to
keep doing what he always did, taking games off.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He didn't want to play in the playing games. He
wanted to have a week off before playing in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Guess fucking what, Tim, I love your crossover, I love
your jersey number.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But guess fucking what, Tim, I bet you wouldn't like
the play in either. I bet you wouldn't like that
atmosphere either.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The whole point is to have a week off before
the playoffs, not to just be ripping and running and sprinting,
trying to survive and then continuing to try to survive.
That's all Jimmy Butler does with the Miami Heat. Yeah,
I'm sorry that he's tired and doesn't want to be
on this trash team anymore. And so he didn't want
to go to the Warriors. He wanted to go to
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the Suns, which would have been a disaster. And he
found himself in Golden State thinking, you know what, I'll
make the most of this, and he found a winning situation,
which is all he's ever wanted. Let's be honest, Bulls,
not a winning situation. Timberwolves with the chuckleheads of Andrew
Wiggins and Karl Anthony Towns and Thibodeaux running guys in
the ground. Not a winning situation in any real way. Philadelphia,
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not a winning situation with our man Ben Simmons and
joe El Embiid on their bullshit and random coaches that
didn't make no damn.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Sense like Brett Brown. That's not a winning situation.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You get to Miami, you go to two finals, you
carry the team on your back. It's like, God damn,
when can I get with winners other winners? And now
he's got it. The Dubs are five and one.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
They got their swagger back.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Oh shit.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Sunday's game against the Dallas MAVs sort of an example,
blew them out by twenty four points. Now I know
that Dallas is not themselves. They're injured, multiple centers out.
Whatever Steph put up thirty and seven, didn't even have
to play the fourth quarter, which is Steve Kerr was
heart sick since he loves to play Steph all the
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damn minutes. But the most impressive thing is that the
Warriors put the MAVs in a choke cold Defensively. Kyrie Irving,
who has been damn near unstoppable lately at the peak
of his powers, I think, had a team I seventeen
and he shot seven for eighteen, which is not great.
He was a minus twenty in the game. All five
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Warrior starters had thirteen or more points. Even Draymond Green,
who is probably benefiting the most from Jimmy Butler's existence
defensively and offensively, had the.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Most points that he's put up since January fourth. Draymond
went on his podcast to talk about Jimmy Butler out
of the mix.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
He's saying that Jimmy Butler is the quote missing piece
and that the Warriors is now much higher because of
the trade. He said, this team all year has kind
of been like, man, we're right there, but we can't get.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Over the hump.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But there's a reason that you feel like you're right
there but can't get quite over. And I think the
reason we all couldn't get over it was because there
was a missing piece. And that piece isn't missing anymore.
That piece is Jimmy Butler. Steve kerrgrees. He says that
Jimmy gives them some swagger. And I know we've all
been talking about the proclamation. During All Star weekend, Draymond
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Green say, Hey, we're gonna win the championship this year,
I promise, And he actually has been talking about it
before that privately as well. They asked Jimmy Butler. Jimmy
Butler's like, listen, I'm not paying attention to all that.
I don't know that he said that, but we.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Do have a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And the reason why is not because I'm here. It's
because of the energy that I may or may not bring.
That means he's bringing the fucking energy, folks, is because
everybody thinks that we can win. And that's all that matters.
If anybody thinks that you can do something, you can
do it. That is a testament to what was going
on in my They knew they couldn't beat the Celtics,
they knew they couldn't beat the Cavs, they knew they
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could barely get out of the play in.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Jimmy's got a point. I think I think Draymond's got
a point.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Actually, Steph Curry's body language all years was buns. He
was like, get me off of these these jokers. This
buddy Heel, this Kelly Oubray.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I know he's not on the team anymore, but you
know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Saying, Brandon Pujemski, what are these chuckweds doing? And now
Steph and the Dubs are completely reinfigurated. Steph wouldn't even
shy away from the fact that Draymond Green is making crazy,
crazy proclamations.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
He's like, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I love the challenge and for us to root for
and shoot for something. I said this right after the
trade that the Warriors are one of the most dangerous teams.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
In the West.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
The Warriors are plus thirty over the last six games
with Jimmy Butler playing and create on the bench.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Before Jimmy Butler got to.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The team, the Warriors were minus ninety over the first
fifty one games. When Curry sat down, that is impact.
And I tell you what, if I'm a team like
Oklahoma City, I am so terrified. I want to stay
all the way away from the Warriors, keep away from
them like the Plague. Because you're the youngest team in
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the NBA and you got a team with two guys
who rant, three guys who ramp up their production when
they get to critical, impactful moments and half court setting.
You don't want to see the Warriors if you're okaze.
I promise you that be scurd all right, this.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Is not really news related, sort of is. We talk
about the trade deadline a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We talk about where guys are going, where they've been moved,
how that impacts the team's moving forward. But the thing
that I think never gets talked about is the psychological
and emotional standpoint of being traded. Like I've never really
heard guys talk about that impact. And a player bare
his soul about not only what it was like to
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be traded, but what it was like to be traded
from a team that he won a championship with a
team that he was super important on winning that championship.
One of the more important players, a crucial component to
go from a team that's contending to the worst team
in the league to be a contender, and then the
next moment you're on the bottom feeder the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
That's Chris Middleton. Chris Middleton, former.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
All Star, significant part of their championship team in twenty
twenty one twenty twenty two. He was on the Milwaukee
Bucks for almost twelve years and was probably for many
years one of the most underrated players in the league.
He until he made three All Star teams in four
years between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
But like he's just not healthy. His knee is never
not swollen.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
He's played one hundred and twelve out of a possible
three hundred and one games, which is why the Milwaukee
Bucks have been struggling and which is why they shipped
him out, and it's super unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But if i'm him, I'm gutted.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Middleton was probably one of the most popular guys in
the Milwaukee Bucks locker room, just an overall good dude,
which is why when the Bucks traded him to the
Washington Wizards for Kyle Kuzma, the fan base they just
of course melted down. Middleton had been a centerpiece of
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the Bucks since he was twenty two years old. There
was him and Yannis, guys that they never expected to
do anything that became cornerstones of a team that won
a chip in a small market. He hadn't been on
any other team since he played for the Detroit Pistons
after his rookie year. His reaction, though, I thought, was
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really classy, he said, and very telling.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
He said.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You go through a lot, you go through it for sure,
and you think to yourself, why the fuck are they
trading me? Then you go through damn. They really try denial,
there's no way. Sadness, then happiness. Happiness where I get
to come to a place, I get to be myself,
I get to grow back into myself. There's time for
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me to get back myself, to get my body right,
to get the game back to where it was.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You can't take it personal.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
They had to do what was best for them in
the organization, and now I've got to figure out how
to do what's best for me.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The stages of trade grief. I've never heard it put
quite like that. I've never seen anybody articulate it. Quite
as well as that, And of course people ask some
more questions like, oh, open your wound for us more,
Chris show show, is your blood bleed?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Your own blood for us? He said.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I mean I could say my time could have ran
out a long time ago. They held on to me,
believed in the potential, believed in the work that they saw.
But I think this time it was just we think
a different route is better for our team going forward.
And I can't do nothing but respect that. Can't do
nothing but respect Chris Middleton for not being like, why
the fuck are you asking me this bullshit ask question?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You know I'm struggling. I'm in Washington, DC, I'm living
in a double tree. And during their run.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
In the finals, to be fair, the players teams feared
most for the Bucks was not Yannis, it was Middleton.
He averaged twenty four to nine and four with three
stocks a game against the Nets during their run. Remember
the Nets, not the ones you know now, but the
ones with Harden and Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving on
it down two zero to the Suns. The Bucks reeled
off four straight in the finals, and Chris Middleton averaged
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twenty six six and five, and he was a plus thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Three during that stretch. Ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
During that playoff run, he had games of thirty eight
or more points against the Nets, Hawks and Sons their
final three playoff opponents, which is insane. And now he's
playing for ted leonsis in the Washington Wizards, and they're
not anywhere close for Chris Middleton to feel like they
are going to compete.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's just a sad, sad place.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Hopefully he gets rehabilitated and sends it, gets sent to
a contender for like a second round pick. I don't know,
maybe to like a team like Detroit or something, go
back Homecoming. Until then, I don't think you can find
a better locker room guy for a bunch of kids
in Washington than Chris Middleton. Consummate pro learn something from him.
Jordan Poole, all right, finally we talked about this last week,
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but more housekeeping happy news to offset it. This actually
is I think this actually is my last episode the
he checked for Odyssey. We're moving things over to the
Octagon Network. I want to say it's called eight sided.
I'm still getting it all arranged. I'm gonna be really
excited to move on I loved my time with Odyssey.
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I love my time doing some stuff with the LOCKEDWN guys.
I've been with Odyssey three and a half years and
now it's just time for something new, which I think
will be great and I'm not disappear. I think there's
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On this episode of the Heat Check, should the seventy
six Ers actually shut you well and beat and Paul
George down for the season. We'll break it down for you.
The Lakers take down the Nuggets, what's that mean? We'll
explain how Jimmy Buckets makes the Warriors a championship contending team.
And I will talk about something that never gets discussed
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after a trade deadline, the traw Let's.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Talk about it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So drop that motherfucker beat This should be Rihanna. You'll
you're listening to the Hottest the Hottest Span podcast out here.
I said what I said, beat it up.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's the heat Check, the heat Check, Heat Check?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Which should the credit?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Post trade deadline, post All Star break? This is where
the rubber meets the road. Who's real, who's not real?
And we have some news now on a team that
we know is not real and has known that is
not real since pretty much the first seven.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Games of the season, the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. They
fucking trash, trash, trash. The disaster keeps getting worse.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The Sixers have lost nine to the last ten games,
which is a crazy stat because you add that to
the fact that they have lost eight in a row,
and that is the first time that they've done that
since Joel Embiid was a rookie in twenty sixteen twenty
seventeen season in the midst in the darkness, in the
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depths of Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That was the beginning of the process.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
An unacceptable loss to the Brooklyn Nets where they are
actively trying to tank. Nick Nurse had to sit Joel
Embiid's ass down on the on the bench in the
entire fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Of course, he lied about it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And said, oh, we were just jelling, and so we
had to sit somebody who wasn't jelling with us at
that time, and we just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Let him roll with it. Blah blah, blahlah blah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
No, in reality, Joel Embiid was terrible. He was four
for thirteen through the first three quarters of the game,
and he was a team high of a negative seven
net rating.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So probably just flow related.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Right. Here's the thing, though, watching Joel andb play basketball
right now is painful. It is, and it's even more
painful if you think about this guy was the MVP
just two years ago, a guy that we thought maybe
was the most skilled, most actively athletic, most amazing big
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man in the league outside of Jokic, and now he's
a shadow of himself. Can't even stay on the floor.
He's slow footed, he's unsure, he's not confident, he's not
shooting well, he's not rebounding well, and of course he's
not available.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
He's just a trip away, like a slip of the
floor away from a constant limp.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
He went from being stopped like unstoppable when Joel Embiid
got the ball even last year he was just putting
up forty with ease.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It's about thirty and ten by the end of the
third quarter.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He went from that to getting his lunch handed tim
by Dayron Sharp, a guy that most casual fans don't
even know. A testament to how bad things are are
that of those thirteen shots that he took, six of
them were from beyond the arc, and they were flat
footed and gross, and he missed them all and he
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was wide open.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Nobody even gave a fuck.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was like it was like when I first get
to the gym, like at Equinox, in the middle of
like a post collegiate lunchtime run, and I get the
ball because they just have allowed me, because I've been
sitting there for so.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Long and then I get the ball on the perimeter
and they're just like crickets. Letter. Shoot, that's what they're
doing to Joel Embiid right now.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know if now is a good time to
tell you this or remind you this, but Joel Embiid
is under contract for five more years to the tune.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Of three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Five more years, three hundred more million dollars of this bullshit.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I actually feel really bad for him. And we'll
talk about that in a second.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
So I'm not I'm not like trying to diminish Joel
Embiid and making it out like.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
This is his fault.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But this is this is a disaster. This is a
dead as a door nail season. Absolutely imperative that they
figure out what to do. And the truth of the
matter is we should probably discuss at least mention this
may not be fixable. Here is the latest on Joel
and b We have new news. Sixers have not quite
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shut him down for the year, but he was ruled
out Monday against Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Official reason was consultation with doctors and specialists. That's not good, doggie.
That is not good getting new imaging.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Joel Embiid has said himself that the team diagnosis of
his injury has not been accurate. Now the party line
is that they are hoping that he just avoids another surgery.
Of the problem is that his previous surgery, which happened
in February of twenty twenty four after Golden State Jonathan
Kaminga fell on his leg, just did not remove all
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of the meniscus cartilage. Why Athletic talks about it. The
hope over the past several month has been trying to
find ways to reduce the symptoms because there had been
no indication that additional surgery.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Would fix Embead's knee.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Indeed, there was belief that continuing to play would be
more beneficial than shutting him down.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So the picked slittions just not like, oh, his cartilage will.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Regenerate if he plays more, maybe he'll get fixed.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Letting him heal not great. That did not work.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Paul George agreed that that was the preferable way to go,
But it is really hard to take advice from Paul
George given that he has not been the model of
good health pretty much his entire career. Post the catastrophic
leg break that he had. He's actually missed more time
than Joel Embid if you can believe it, since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Paul George has missed more time since twenty nineteen than
Joel Embiid, a guy who has known for missing games.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
What does Joel Embiid want?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He said both publicly and privately that he thinks he
needs another surgery or an extended rest period for his
need to heal. And the only reason that he's trying
to play is because he's just desperately trying to get
this team into some version of a playing game.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Darryl Morey is so cooked, he is so dead. Clearly
this is not working.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Also, we need to give a shout out or actually
a big boo to Tyrese Maxey comeback player of the
Year or most improved player.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Excuse me last year, he's playing awful.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
In fact, the only reason we're not disparaging him more
is because the two stars that they actually have are
fucking trash. So the team seven and eight this year,
when the whole Big three have played.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
They suck. They're terrible.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The prominent voy including Stephen A, are saying that Joel
Embiid should consider retirement. I tell you, Doggy, if it
was me, I'm sticking around for that three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'm not going a single fucking place. I don't care
how many games I play.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't care if I have to shuffle back and
forth like I'm going to canasta and I'm an eighty
six year old in a retirement home. I'm getting my bread.
What do you do if you're the Sixers can't really
put him on the floor. He's fucking a shell of himself.
In the third quarter against the Nets, he lost the ball,
hit the floor hard, slow to get up. Given his
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current state, the Sixers would probably be irresponsible to play
him anymore this season. And yeah, I know, although Philadelphia
has a six worth record in the NBA, they were
like just one and a half games out of tenth place,
so they might think, oh, there's hope.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Maybe, just maybe there's no hope.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The chances of him being getting another serious injury in
the playoffs or in playoff environment is even more great
than the Sixers making the playoffs. The league's better when
Joel Embid is healthy. The league is better when Joel
Embid is putting up thirty five and twelve. The league
is better when he's getting the ball at the elbow
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and jab stepping, cooking you in the face, splashing in
a way where you think he's one hundred percent from
the field, that's better. He's averaging eighteen nine and six
since coming back from injury, and that's like Tobias Harris numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But we don't expect that from an MVP.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We need more. He's not playing winning basketball. I don't
understand why to run him out there. And besides, the
Sixers have a vested interest in tanking at this point
because the number one pick that they traded in Brooklyn
is top six protected. So hey, maybe just shut the
whole thing down. More updates on the MBIAT saga will come.
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Sad hours for Nick Nurse, sad hours for Tyrese Maxey.
Paul George said, we don't even look like we can
compete at all, let alone compete to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Grow stuff in Philadelphia. At least your Eagles won the championship.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Moving on, Sometimes when you slay the dragon that everybody
thought you could not slay, everything changes, right, and I
think that is what we're seeing with the La Lakers.
Thirteen of the last fourteen games, the Lakers have gotten
waxed by the Denver Nuggets. And then the other day
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the Nuggets lost to the Lakers, won twenty three, one
hundred on the road, and.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Luca was Lukai.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was He was a version of him that we
have not seen in a minute. He was splashing, he
was aggressive, He was what we want to see from
him on a night to night basis. It was one
of the most impressive wins of the year. Bron went
off for twenty five nine and five. Austin Reeese had
twenty three four and seven.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Lukai Cobra Lukai went off for thirty two ten and seven.
That's a Cobra Kai joke. He went off all the
way off.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Pauls JJ called him, he said, I need him to
have a blackout moment where he screams at absolutely no
one for no reason. He doesn't know why, because he's
just excited.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And we got that Ruyachi Murrad twenty one. Just a
beat down. So if you didn't watch the game, let's
break down what happened.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So the Nuggets have seen this strategy before, but in
this moment, at this point in time, JJ Reddick dialed
up something that I think is very brilliant and only
real reason or real way that you can stop Jokic.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
From doing everything. You kind of pick your poison, and
it's this, Yokich is a fucking scoring on us. And
We'll let every other bro try to hit shots. We'll
let Christian Brown do his goddamn thing, We'll let Julian
Strather do his damn thing.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And we'll see, and we'll see.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
They blitz the fuck out of Jokic all night long.
Two three, four bodies. Everybody's got a foot in the paint.
Yokic only had seven shots. That's his lowest amount all season.
Tied for seven shots. I think the last time he
did that was in a blowout winner over the Dallas
Mavericks in January. My man JJ Reddick said, I didn't sleep.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Before the game.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I was dialing up a playoff atmosphere game plan to
stop these nugs, and it worked. Normal coaches don't do that. Psychos,
dude that and that's JJ Redick.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I like that. I like that.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Like I said, two three defenders just sprinting at him.
Nicolo Jokic couldn't get the ball out fast.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Enough spray pause to his guys on the perimeter.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Nobody had shots havoc for Denver's offense. They couldn't get
a goddamn thing going, and they only scored one hundred points.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Jokic, by the way, I mentioned he only had seven
shot attempts.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He averages twenty shots a game. He took thirty nine
shots earlier this year against the only team with worst
centers than the LA Lakers, the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
When you got rid of Anthony Davis, I don't know
if you guys thought this. I thought, well, they are
fucking so cooked.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Jackson, Hayes, Jackson, No, jack I don't know what a
rhyming word is. I was not thinking that this would
go this way. I'm frankly shocked. I must remind you
the hottest team in the NBA the past month was
the Nuggets. Turns out they were probably playing a lot
of bottom theaters. And that's what YO can say, Like,
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I think we got a little confident over nothing. The
Nuggets were not really thinking about preparing or dialing up
a goddamn thing for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
By the way, that must be mentioned. But I bet
you what I bet you Michael Malone.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Has the La Lakers on his mind now, and the
Lakers have their eye on the Nuggets. They have won
eight of ten games the Lakers. They've moved all the
way up to the fourth place in the Western Conference.
They're just two and a half games back of Denver
in the West. And if I'm the Nuggets, I'm sleeping
not that easily. After that, let's move on. So we
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talked about this Lakers win over the Nuggets. A lot
of people think that Luca added to this Lakers team
with Braun and all these boys make them the hottest,
most dangerous team in the West now. But you could
make the argument actually that it's not the Lakers that
are the most dangerous. It's a team that actually wins
for a living all the time, which is the Golden
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State Warriors that are in their twilight years as well.
The Jimmy Butler actually makes the Warriors the most dangerous
team in the West.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Let's talk about it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Before Luca was the trade of the probably ever trade
of the era, trade of the history of the league.
Before he sucked all the air of the room, all
of us all year long.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We're like Jimmy, Jimmy Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimy, where's he gonna go?
We know he's not gonna play for this trash ass
team after the deadline.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
He's changing his hair colors, he's getting suspended, he's missing.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The team flight. He's telling the.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
World I lost my love for basketball and he got
it back. Now you got heat legend. Tim Hardaway Senior
just continuing to try to put salt on the wounds,
putting dirt on Jimmy Butler's Miami heat grave you got
Tyler Hero talking shit too, basically saying Jimmy wanted to
keep doing what he always did, taking games off.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He didn't want to play in the playing games. He
wanted to have a week off before playing in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Guess fucking what, Tim, I love your crossover, I love
your jersey number.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
But guess fucking what, Tim, I bet you wouldn't like
the play in either. I bet you wouldn't like that
atmosphere either.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The whole point is to have a week off before
the playoffs, not to just be ripping and running and sprinting,
trying to survive and then continuing to try to survive.
That's all Jimmy Butler does with the Miami Heat. Yeah,
I'm sorry that he's tired and doesn't want to be
on this trash team anymore. And so he didn't want
to go to the Warriors. He wanted to go to
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the Suns, which would have been a disaster. And he
found himself in Golden State thinking, you know what, I'll
make the most of this, and he found a winning situation,
which is all he's ever wanted. Let's be honest, Bulls,
not a winning situation. Timberwolves with the chuckleheads of Andrew
Wiggins and Karl Anthony Towns and Thibodeaux running guys in
the ground. Not a winning situation in any real way. Philadelphia,
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not a winning situation with our man Ben Simmons and
joe El Embiid on their bullshit and random coaches that
didn't make no damn.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Sense like Brett Brown. That's not a winning situation.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You get to Miami, you go to two finals, you
carry the team on your back. It's like, God damn,
when can I get with winners other winners? And now
he's got it. The Dubs are five and one.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
They got their swagger back.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Oh shit.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Sunday's game against the Dallas MAVs sort of an example,
blew them out by twenty four points. Now I know
that Dallas is not themselves. They're injured, multiple centers out.
Whatever Steph put up thirty and seven, didn't even have
to play the fourth quarter, which is Steve Kerr was
heart sick since he loves to play Steph all the
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damn minutes. But the most impressive thing is that the
Warriors put the MAVs in a choke cold Defensively. Kyrie Irving,
who has been damn near unstoppable lately at the peak
of his powers, I think, had a team I seventeen
and he shot seven for eighteen, which is not great.
He was a minus twenty in the game. All five
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Warrior starters had thirteen or more points. Even Draymond Green,
who is probably benefiting the most from Jimmy Butler's existence
defensively and offensively, had the.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Most points that he's put up since January fourth. Draymond
went on his podcast to talk about Jimmy Butler out
of the mix.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
He's saying that Jimmy Butler is the quote missing piece
and that the Warriors is now much higher because of
the trade. He said, this team all year has kind
of been like, man, we're right there, but we can't get.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Over the hump.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But there's a reason that you feel like you're right
there but can't get quite over. And I think the
reason we all couldn't get over it was because there
was a missing piece. And that piece isn't missing anymore.
That piece is Jimmy Butler. Steve kerrgrees. He says that
Jimmy gives them some swagger. And I know we've all
been talking about the proclamation. During All Star weekend, Draymond
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Green say, Hey, we're gonna win the championship this year,
I promise, And he actually has been talking about it
before that privately as well. They asked Jimmy Butler. Jimmy
Butler's like, listen, I'm not paying attention to all that.
I don't know that he said that, but we.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Do have a chance.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And the reason why is not because I'm here. It's
because of the energy that I may or may not bring.
That means he's bringing the fucking energy, folks, is because
everybody thinks that we can win. And that's all that matters.
If anybody thinks that you can do something, you can
do it. That is a testament to what was going
on in my They knew they couldn't beat the Celtics,
they knew they couldn't beat the Cavs, they knew they
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could barely get out of the play in.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Jimmy's got a point. I think I think Draymond's got
a point.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Actually, Steph Curry's body language all years was buns. He
was like, get me off of these these jokers. This
buddy Heel, this Kelly Oubray.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I know he's not on the team anymore, but you
know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Saying, Brandon Pujemski, what are these chuckweds doing? And now
Steph and the Dubs are completely reinfigurated. Steph wouldn't even
shy away from the fact that Draymond Green is making crazy,
crazy proclamations.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
He's like, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I love the challenge and for us to root for
and shoot for something. I said this right after the
trade that the Warriors are one of the most dangerous teams.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
In the West.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
The Warriors are plus thirty over the last six games
with Jimmy Butler playing and create on the bench.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Before Jimmy Butler got to.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The team, the Warriors were minus ninety over the first
fifty one games. When Curry sat down, that is impact.
And I tell you what, if I'm a team like
Oklahoma City, I am so terrified. I want to stay
all the way away from the Warriors, keep away from
them like the Plague. Because you're the youngest team in
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the NBA and you got a team with two guys
who rant, three guys who ramp up their production when
they get to critical, impactful moments and half court setting.
You don't want to see the Warriors if you're okaze.
I promise you that be scurd all right, this.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Is not really news related, sort of is. We talk
about the trade deadline a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
We talk about where guys are going, where they've been moved,
how that impacts the team's moving forward. But the thing
that I think never gets talked about is the psychological
and emotional standpoint of being traded. Like I've never really
heard guys talk about that impact. And a player bare
his soul about not only what it was like to
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be traded, but what it was like to be traded
from a team that he won a championship with a
team that he was super important on winning that championship.
One of the more important players, a crucial component to
go from a team that's contending to the worst team
in the league to be a contender, and then the
next moment you're on the bottom feeder the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
That's Chris Middleton. Chris Middleton, former.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
All Star, significant part of their championship team in twenty
twenty one twenty twenty two. He was on the Milwaukee
Bucks for almost twelve years and was probably for many
years one of the most underrated players in the league.
He until he made three All Star teams in four
years between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
But like he's just not healthy. His knee is never
not swollen.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
He's played one hundred and twelve out of a possible
three hundred and one games, which is why the Milwaukee
Bucks have been struggling and which is why they shipped
him out, and it's super unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But if i'm him, I'm gutted.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Middleton was probably one of the most popular guys in
the Milwaukee Bucks locker room, just an overall good dude,
which is why when the Bucks traded him to the
Washington Wizards for Kyle Kuzma, the fan base they just
of course melted down. Middleton had been a centerpiece of
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the Bucks since he was twenty two years old. There
was him and Yannis, guys that they never expected to
do anything that became cornerstones of a team that won
a chip in a small market. He hadn't been on
any other team since he played for the Detroit Pistons
after his rookie year. His reaction, though, I thought, was
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really classy, he said, and very telling.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
He said.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You go through a lot, you go through it for sure,
and you think to yourself, why the fuck are they
trading me? Then you go through damn. They really try denial,
there's no way. Sadness, then happiness. Happiness where I get
to come to a place, I get to be myself,
I get to grow back into myself. There's time for
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me to get back myself, to get my body right,
to get the game back to where it was.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You can't take it personal.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
They had to do what was best for them in
the organization, and now I've got to figure out how
to do what's best for me.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The stages of trade grief. I've never heard it put
quite like that. I've never seen anybody articulate it. Quite
as well as that, And of course people ask some
more questions like, oh, open your wound for us more,
Chris show show, is your blood bleed?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Your own blood for us? He said.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
I mean I could say my time could have ran
out a long time ago. They held on to me,
believed in the potential, believed in the work that they saw.
But I think this time it was just we think
a different route is better for our team going forward.
And I can't do nothing but respect that. Can't do
nothing but respect Chris Middleton for not being like, why
the fuck are you asking me this bullshit ask question?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You know I'm struggling. I'm in Washington, DC, I'm living
in a double tree. And during their run.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
In the finals, to be fair, the players teams feared
most for the Bucks was not Yannis, it was Middleton.
He averaged twenty four to nine and four with three
stocks a game against the Nets during their run. Remember
the Nets, not the ones you know now, but the
ones with Harden and Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving on
it down two zero to the Suns. The Bucks reeled
off four straight in the finals, and Chris Middleton averaged
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twenty six six and five, and he was a plus thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Three during that stretch. Ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
During that playoff run, he had games of thirty eight
or more points against the Nets, Hawks and Sons their
final three playoff opponents, which is insane. And now he's
playing for ted leonsis in the Washington Wizards, and they're
not anywhere close for Chris Middleton to feel like they
are going to compete.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's just a sad, sad place.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Hopefully he gets rehabilitated and sends it, gets sent to
a contender for like a second round pick. I don't know,
maybe to like a team like Detroit or something, go
back Homecoming. Until then, I don't think you can find
a better locker room guy for a bunch of kids
in Washington than Chris Middleton. Consummate pro learn something from him.
Jordan Poole, all right, finally we talked about this last week,
(24:28):
but more housekeeping happy news to offset it. This actually
is I think this actually is my last episode the
he checked for Odyssey. We're moving things over to the
Octagon Network. I want to say it's called eight sided.
I'm still getting it all arranged. I'm gonna be really
excited to move on I loved my time with Odyssey.
(24:49):
I love my time doing some stuff with the LOCKEDWN guys.
I've been with Odyssey three and a half years and
now it's just time for something new, which I think
will be great and I'm not disappear. I think there's
a new RSS feed coming. Because of the hosting technological
stuff that this eight sided network has, it's all very nerdy,
but you're probably gonna.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Have to get an update. I don't know how it works,
but just roll with me.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's time to move on. The heat Check is going
to be joining the eight sided network. You won't miss
a single beat. Thanks to everyone at Odissey for helping
me in the past three and a half years. I
still have the weekend show on six seventy the Score.
I will do hits on the Odyssey stations, but I
have enjoyed our time we're using doing the heat Check
and we'll miss it even more as I'm excited for
(25:36):
a new start.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
That's all the time that we have.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
This episode will come back Friday for an all new episode,
and check out the feed for past episodes and many
episodes which drop unexpectedly, Like JOELMB when he slips on
the floor.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Do not forget to follow the eat check.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Off he's longing to Me's download Subscribe, Tell your friends
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me the way they used to, but I'll roland. Thanks guys,
We'll see you soon.
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