This is an IHeart podcast.

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

On this episode of the Heat Check, my voice is absolutely toast.

I've been reporting on the ground in Las Vegas because it is NBA Summer League, baby,

and I am going to get these podcasts in the best that I can, just the price of being in Vegas when you have a squeaky, squeaky voice. So much to see, so much to do. It's almost like you wake up, blink, and it's 4 a.m. And you're going to bed again. Let's get right into it. So do me a favor, Nick, and drop that motherfucking beat.

This should be Rihanna.

All right.

I apologize for my voice, but this is just the way that I'm built.

My vocal cords are built for comfort, not speed, and not volume over large crowds.

So now what we're doing is low energy crick, low tenor of the voice crick.

I am only halfway through my Summer League's day.

I have no idea how I'm going to make it pray for me.

Summer League is well underway.

I am here to report live about it and to spill all the tea from the ground.

First of all, I've got to say, this particular Summer League is not like any of the other that I've been to, and I've been coming since 2012, Damien Lillard's first year.

I don't know why I chose him. It was just, you know, just a coincidence.

Yeah, and at that point, you could hear the players talking shit because the gym was empty and there were no fans.

But now, obviously, it's very different.

So like everyone else, I am going to give you my top line thoughts on the top six picks in the

draft, along with some Summer League sleepers that are balling out as well.

We've got plenty of time to dig in deeper on what we saw and what we did,

but for now, let's give our first reaction. Summer League. Summer League is an event this year,

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