Giannis Stays, Harden to Cleveland, AD to Washington and More Deadline Drama
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The NBA trade deadline was looking bleak... until it wasn't! Trysta is joined by producer Zeke to break down every major move and what it all actually means around the league. From Giannis Antetokounmpo staying put (for now), to James Harden landing in Cleveland, to Anthony Davis heading to Washington and giving the Wizards a surprising sense of direction.
They also dive into the Warriors finally moving on from Jonathan Kuminga, the Hawks’ intriguing reshuffle, Jaren Jackson Jr. landing in Utah, a wild Pacers deal for Ivica Zubac with eyebrow-raising pick protections, and the Bulls hitting the reset button by trading everyone. Plus, all the other deadline madness you need to know in one place.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | On this episode of the heat check, me and producer Zeeke go into all of the trade deadline |
| 0:09.9 | madness. |
| 0:10.4 | We thought we were going to get some fucking boring shit. |
| 0:13.0 | And guess what? |
| 0:14.0 | It was kind of low-key lit. |
| 0:16.4 | I don't care that Yonis put out his stupid I'm not leaving thing. By the way, that guy, Leonardo Cabroth does leave. I think he does get fired. And that was just a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible meme to put out. And don't act like Janus. You didn't want Anna Milwaukee in that you still don't want Anna Milwaukee in that. Oh, we're going to send, we'll get into it later. Anyway, me and producer Zika are going to break down this trade online. Obviously, I'm hyped up. All right, Wyatt. Drop that motherfucking beat. This should be Rihanna. You're listening to the hottest, the hottest. The Hattest. The podcast out. Yeah, I said what I said. She's heating up. It's the heat check. The heat check. With Trista Crick. Okay. Producer Zeex is going to ask me some questions about the trade deadline. And we're going to get into it. Lots of thoughts. Lots of players got moved. And now the Cleveland Cavaliers, shockingly, are the favorite to win the East. |
| 1:13.9 | And for that, I say, and I'm not sure if we're going to talk about this at length, |
| 1:18.4 | because it's going to be a Q&A that I'm not aware of to keep me on my toes. |
| 1:24.2 | But James Hardin is now on this team, folks. |
| 1:32.4 | James Hardin is somebody that we cannot trust in a postseason setting. |
| 1:40.1 | James Hardin is someone that is now the reason that the Cleveland Cavaliers are our favorite in the East. |
| 1:40.9 | Absolutely fucking not. |
| 1:42.9 | Producer Zeeke, let's start off and get to where you |
| 1:46.5 | want to go. All right. For a trade deadline that seemed kind of dead in the water for like the last |
| 1:50.8 | 48 hours before it, we kind of got a lot of movement over the last day and a half. |
| 1:55.5 | Not 48 hours. It was like more like the last, we got some stuff on like Monday, Tuesday. |
| 2:00.4 | Yeah, but it wasn't like the hardened thing happened. And then it was like really a lot of speculation about guys who ended up not getting moved. And people ended up getting moved that kind of surprised people. So let's get into what I think are the big five trades from the deadline. And we'll get your thoughts on each one of them. So we got to study. Producer Zika has the top five trades. |
| 2:18.4 | Yeah, we do. |
| 2:19.2 | And you know what's funny about it is we're not even going to start with Hardin. Hardin's number two because we got to start with what Zach Lowe said. Zach Lowe threaded something. Is it Jared McCain? Is number one Jared McCain? Jared McKeown. Actually, Duwaprith is the one that we're doing. Jack Lothreaded |
| 2:31.8 | God damn it |
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