Hawks Surging Without Trae, Wemby Out, and the Pelicans' Mess

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Heat Check, Trysta officially enters NBA reality-check season... We’re far enough into the schedule to know who’s legit and who’s fooling everybody.

She breaks down whether the Sixers are slipping, why the Bulls are still mid, and how the Warriors crashed back to .500 after a hot start. Then it’s over to Atlanta, where Trae Young is hurt, Jalen Johnson is thriving, and the Hawks suddenly have the second-best defense in the NBA… without Trae. Should they actually consider trading him?

Trysta also dives into the Magic’s scoring problems, Tyus Jones’ shocking scoreless stretch, whether the Jazz and Lauri Markkanen are secretly good, and the play heard around the world: Wemby dunking on Draymond… followed by Wemby’s calf strain that could sideline him for weeks.

Plus: the Pelicans fire Willie Green, Zion is injured again, and New Orleans looks like a full organizational mess with the league’s worst record.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.0	On this episode of the Heat Check, NBA season is in cruise control, so let's check
0:10.8	in on some of the early season darlings, and let's check in on some of the wolfies.
0:18.6	Cinderella turned back into a pumpkin for a lot of teams.
0:23.3	Bulls.
0:24.3	And we get into Tyos Jones' incredible record as well as little news from around the league.
0:29.8	No time to waste, Wyatt.
0:31.6	We got a nice new camera set up.
0:34.0	So do me a favor and drop that motherfucking beat.
0:36.9	This should be Rihanna.
0:39.0	You're listening to the hottest, the hottest, the hottest.
0:44.0	NBA podcast out. Yeah, I said what I said. She's heating up. It's the heat check.
0:49.1	The heat check with Trista Crick. So we're far enough into the season now to look back at how some teams started the year and how they fared sense.
1:02.5	So let's start in Philly.
1:04.7	Sixers fans were going crazy.
1:06.5	They were like, oh my God, we're so fun.
1:09.2	We've got VJ Edgecombe.
1:12.1	We've got Tyrese Maxie.
1:13.1	We're lighting it up. And if we get anything from Joelle Embed, oh my God, what could we be?
1:16.2	And Paul George hasn't even come back.
1:17.8	What happens when Paul George goes back?
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