Giannis Deep Dive and Chris Paul Sent Home with Keith Smith

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Trysta is joined by Keith Smith of Spotrac to break down every angle of the looming Giannis Antetokounmpo sweepstakes. They talk potential trade destinations, how realistic a move actually is, what the Bucks can get in a trade, and why a return to Greece later in his career may factor into his decisions. Then, Trysta and Keith react to the Chris Paul saga in L.A., as the Clippers send CP3 home and chaos continues to surround the organization.

Cap strategy, drama, and all the big picture NBA storylines with the man Keith!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:05.1	You're listening to the hottest, the hottest, the hottest.
0:10.1	NBA podcast out.
0:11.6	Yeah, I said what I said.
0:13.1	She's heating up.
0:14.2	It's the heat check.
0:15.2	The heat check.
0:16.0	Heat chat.
0:16.5	With Trista Crick.
0:19.0	All right.
0:20.1	Welcome to the show, my guy friend of the show, Keith Smith, cat expert, and just general ball knower.
0:29.4	I'm super excited.
0:31.2	This is a great time to talk to you because we've been hearing all of this rumblings about Janus and his, we'll call it like,
0:43.2	unhappiness in Milwaukee.
0:45.2	This has been going on kind of for years, right?
0:47.4	Like he had that GQ article and like every time he expresses his displeasure and says he's going to leave,
0:54.8	Milwaukee has done something, right, in order to try to keep him happy.
0:59.0	And this time, it feels like it's, according to the reporting, Keith, backfired,
1:03.8	which was moving on from Damien Lillard, who was pretty much gone all of this year
1:08.2	with an Achilles injury and deciding to go ahead and get
1:11.9	Miles Turner by waving and stretching him. And Brian Winhorst says that was kind of the final straw.
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