Gambling Drama, Sixers Hype, and LeBron's Future with ChillTown Hoops

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Trysta is joined by Jermaine Womack — better known as ChillTown Hoops — to take a deep breath and break down the chaotic first two weeks of the NBA season. The two dive into the ongoing NBA gambling scandal and the latest on Terry Rozier.

Chill gives his unfiltered takes on the Sixers’ hot 4-0 start (“fool’s gold”), LeBron’s uncertain future with the Lakers, and whether the Warriors are actually good. They also hit on Giannis’ quiet dominance, Ryan Rollins’ potential, KAT on the Knicks, and how NBC’s new coverage feels so far.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.0	On this episode of The Heat Check, we've got on a very special guest.
0:09.0	OLLI. Be quiet. It's not OLLI.
0:11.0	It's Chiletown Hoops, aka Germain.
0:14.0	He's on a million things.
0:15.0	He's one of the best NBA and basketball voices I've ever met.
0:20.0	So we pick his brain on everything from
0:23.4	What to Make of the Milwaukee Bucks?
0:26.7	Are the Sixers Fool's Gold?
0:29.0	Is this scandal one of the most historically relevant NBA situations we've ever had?
0:35.6	Or are other ones maybe more impactful lock in here it is you're
0:42.7	listening to the hottest the hottest NBA podcast out yeah I said what I said she's
0:50.9	eating up it's the heat check the heat check with Trista Crick.
0:56.4	You know, the thing is crazy is like you've been watching sports longer than I've been alive.
1:02.0	That's not the crazy part.
1:03.0	But you've seen scandals.
1:04.1	You've seen the Donahy situation.
1:07.0	You've seen a lot, I'm sure, in all kinds of sports.
1:10.1	But when you see a current NBA player go down for being a part of, I think, fixing their own player to a degree, I guess you could say it's not really fixing a game, but impacting the outcome of a game in some way for money. And now it comes out today that Terry Rozier had $8 million in back IRS debts.
1:43.3	$8 million.
1:45.7	Wow, right?
1:53.9	What is the context from a historical standpoint for you, chill, because you've got a lot more background into this than me?
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