All Things Bulls and Ball with Lawrence Holmes

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Trysta is joined by Chicago sports voice from 670 The Score Lawrence Holmes to talk everything happening across the NBA. They dive deep into the Bulls up and down start, why Lawrence hasn’t missed LeBron, and what makes the Pistons surprisingly deep this season.

They discuss whether the Sixers are actually legitimate contenders, compare the top of the East vs. the West, and rave about just how ridiculously good Nikola Jokic continues to be. Lawrence also makes the case for why the Houston Rockets are LEGIT and the two break down the biggest surprises, disappointments, and storylines from the early NBA season.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.1	On this episode of The Heat Check, we have Lawrence Holmes from 670 to this score on to talk all things hoops, but also are the Chicago Bulls good or nah?
0:14.8	All right, Wyatt.
0:15.5	Drop that motherfucking beat.
0:16.7	This should be Rihanna.
0:18.4	You're listening to the hottest, the hottest.
0:23.3	The Hottest.
0:23.3	Yeah, I said what I said.
0:26.3	She's heating up.
0:27.4	It's the heat check.
0:28.4	The heat check with Trista Crick.
0:33.4	First of all, thank you for joining Lawrence Holmes,
0:42.8	knower of all ball, but also my representative for Chicago stand up,
0:47.3	not just the man with the master plan who knows all things Chicago sports. He also knows all things Chicago, period.
0:51.5	So he's been my tour guide a couple of times now.
0:57.2	We became friends because they were dumb enough to have me on their show a couple of times when he was on a different time slot.
1:02.0	But listen, just like an overall consummate pro, been in the business a long fucking time,
1:07.4	been talking hoops, been talking baseball, been talking, we don't even need to talk about
1:12.7	the fact that the bears are up right now, but this is the NBA pod, so that's exciting stuff.
1:17.9	So we are, it's November 18th as of this recording.
1:24.2	The Warriors have played 15 games.
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