‘Heat Check’ — Old Friends and New Foes (Ep. 171)

The Ringer NBA Show

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4.2 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and John Gonzalez discuss Chris Paul returning to Los Angeles with the soaring Rockets (0:20), speculate on the possibility of DeAndre Jordan joining his old teammate in Houston (6:36), examine the cratering young Lakers (9:12), and consider the significance of Derrick Rose returning to the dominant Cleveland Cavaliers (13:30). Then, they detail the feud between Andre Drummond and Joel Embiid (18:33), debate the best big men in the league (21:17), recount the bizarre story of Nerlens Noel getting a hot dog during a game (28:38), and run through this week’s most exciting games (32:09). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:11.0	Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show. This is the Monday Heat Check. I'm Juliet Littman.
0:14.9	I'm John Gonzalez.
0:15.8	How are you doing, Gonzo?
0:17.0	Basketball.
0:18.0	Basketball is happening.
0:19.2	It never stops. It continues again.
0:20.7	Are you familiar with the musical Hamilton?
0:23.7	I feel like you've gotten a bad picture of me because before we started the show,
0:28.7	I explained to you that my pop culture intake basically grinds to a halt when the NBA season begins.
0:34.0	And I said, that's why you're a great employee.
0:35.9	You did. But now I think that you think that I have this supermyopic worldview and somehow I'm
0:41.9	unaware of Hamilton. Yes, I am aware of Hamilton.
0:44.5	In the beginning of Hamilton, they're talking about New York as the greatest city in the world
0:47.5	because everything is happening there.
0:49.0	Basketball purposes LA is the greatest city in the world because everything is happening here.
0:53.5	Including this past weekend, Chris Paul, former Los Angeles resident, returned with the
0:58.3	rockets to play the Lakers. And that was our number one headline, which is what's going on with
1:03.4	the rockets. The rockets are really good as it turns out, Juliet. We don't talk about them
1:07.3	probably enough or not as much as rocket fans would probably like.
1:09.6	You have what is with these fan bases that are like so salty but national media not talking
1:14.7	about them enough or not talking about them in the right way because the rockets are one,
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