This is an IHeart podcast.

You're tuned in to Heat Check with Trista Crick.

On this episode of the Heat Check, we got a new team on the rise.

They're called the OKC Thunder, and they have arrived.

Let me tell you, folks, they are a problem for the rest of the league.

So we talk about that.

We get into this new Yokic versus Embed controversy.

Little propaganda regime coming through.

Little news from around the league ranging from Charles Barkley's old, a unique way that he was

apparently forced to clean his jersey back in the day

to an unexpected voice on the league referee woes.

Three weeks left until the play in, Nick.

Drop that motherfucking generic ass beat.

Before. that motherfucker generic ass beat. Before I start out on the OKC Thunder,

let me just get a couple of things off my chest.

Number one, if you're watching on YouTube,

thank you.

And you're wondering, what's up with my lip?

Uh, how do I say this in a way that doesn't make me seem like either negligent or a victim?

My dog bit me in the mouth.

Uh, I don't know why, really, it was unprovoked sort of.

She's a rescue.

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