On this episode of the heat check, there's so much popping around the league.

We're going to get into Deerrin Fox, how he goes nuclear.

Why, despite the fact that the Lakers have won five in a row, I'm still not buying in.

In other news around the league, Anthony, my man, drop that motherfucking beat.

This should be Rihanna. Let me tell you, my Midwestern road trip nearly made this episode disappear.

It is a testament to how much I love the NBA that this episode got done.

For those who aren't following me on social, I flew to Indy.

I spent the day touring around, which included two NBA-related stories.

The first, we visited Hinkle Fieldhouse, which is the home of the Butler Bulldogs.

Very historic, Jim.

I was with my friend PJ, who is an

absolute menace when it comes to wanting to go and tour college campuses. So we went there.

We walked into the gym just with really no invitation. There was no security there.

There was a bunch of doors that were locked,

but we found the one door that was unlocked.

I strolled on walking into the facility.

Butler was preparing for their game against SMU

and Andy Enfield, who was just an absolute terrible coach.

Actually, SMU was in the gym uh practicing and remember nfield got fired at

u sce he's horrible anyway i watched sm uflip play for like five minutes um when i noticed there was

another side gym i heard basketball's bouncing so i don't know even why I decided to do it. I walked up,

put my little nose to the glass to see what was popping. And what did I see? I saw

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