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

On this emergency episode of the Heat Check, we're doing it again because the first take wasn't recording.

You're welcome.

We convene on this Friday, not because of the Kings v. the Warriors.

That game was trash buckets, but because of the seismic news from north of the border. Alert! alert! The Raptors have fired Nick Nurse. They have fired him. He is fired. He is fired. My God. Laws to unpack. Let's get into it, folks. Nick, drop that generic ass beat.

This should be Rihanna.

What a way to wake up in the morning after a late-night game, guys.

Oh, my God.

So I was in San Francisco.

Super excited game.

Hour Dobbs came to play. Doesn't matter how they dogwalk the Kings. It happened. And I went to the post game presser, got back super late, made some TikToks, talked to some friends, and I crashed out. And then at like 6.30 in the morning, my time, zh, zh, my phone's my time. My phone's blown up.

My phone's blown up.

Nick Nurse, Trista.

Nick Nurse has been fired by the Raptors.

Let's get on it.

And we speculated about it, right?

We did.

We thought maybe he would quit, though.

Like, we really did.

We talked about it multiple times on the podcast.

I thought he would leave and go maybe to a place like, I don't know,

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