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

On this episode of the Heat Check, the trade deadline has come and gone.

So no better time than to bring on Keith Smith.

I was joined by my FedMGM co-host, Ryan Horvah, and Nick Ashu. We recorded

right after the deadline. Keith is a real deal NBA insider. He works for Spowtrak, breaks down all

the tea, you know, more than you can ever want. Amazing double-length episodes, so do me a favor, Nick,

and drop that beat.

Keith was as shocked as I was about the trade deadline.

He gets right into the Sun's trade and what it means.

Absolutely wild deadline.

I did not expect it to go quite like this.

But we'll see these deals are all going final now.

Some of them are going to structure as multi-team deals.

But we're going to be in the range of 20 total deals in season, and about 15 or 16 of them are going to have happened in the last about 12, 15 hours or so, which is absolutely

incredible.

So I think we're in a spot now where the league is exactly what he said.

It's wide open.

These teams feel like they have a chance to win.

So they're going after it.

And we saw, you know, kind of becomes an arms race in the Western Conference,

especially a couple East teams tried to do some things to shore up their,

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