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Welcome to the Monday Heat Check, Martin Luther King Jr. Day edition. I'm Juliet Littman.

I'm John Gonzalez. What's up John? We have another podcast. There's a lot of

best. We'll split a game today. We'll split a game before we get into everything.

We have a big show to get into and we'll get into some MLK Jr. Day talking points as well.

But I wanted to give shots to our producer, Isaac Lee, for our new theme music that we didn't call

out last week, you killed it, dude. Nicely done. Great stuff. Lovely way to start this podcast.

Yes. Let's get into it. Let's start with some headlines. We're in the middle of the season.

It's the midpoint, believe it or not. Most teams have played like 45 or so games. How do you feel?

Do you feel like you're still running the race? You're not fatigued yet? I'm ready to go.

I'm ready to go. You're ready for the second half sprint. That's great. Everyone's watching

football and I was like, who's watching Warriors Raptors? What a game we got here in Toronto,

drinks there. We missed a couple of good NFL games. I watched them. I watched, yeah.

I was at a bar for the Vikings games. That was exciting. You lead quite a life. You tell me

all about these wonderful things you do on the weekend. I got to hang out with you more.

Well, or at all. Sure. You had to love too. What is your biggest surprise so far of the season?

45 games in. So we're going to do biggest surprise and biggest disappointment in minor linked.

We're going to start for me with the rookie class. The rookie class, I did not expect to be this good.

There have been a lot of individual performers who obviously were big fans of Jason Tatum,

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