Inside Scoop from Portland, Celtics Struggle and Spurs' Fox Dilemma
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Trysta breaks down a wild first week of the NBA season! Fresh off being in Portland for the Blazers’ first game since Chauncey Billups’ arrest, she dives into Adam Silver’s bizarre Amazon interview, Ty Lue’s rumored poker involvement, and Portland's win over the Warriors. Plus, Austin Reaves drops 50, the Celtics stumble out of the gate, and the Spurs young backcourt is turning heads. All that and more — with exclusive Blazers insider updates all season long on The Heat Check.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | On this episode of the heat check, we've got our impressions of the first week of the NBA season, |
| 0:11.5 | and it is a week old now, and there's been a lot of drama. |
| 0:15.6 | And I actually ended up deciding, well, months ago that I was going to cover the Portland Trailblazers |
| 0:22.7 | and go to every home game or as many as I could. And then that became the eye of the storm |
| 0:28.1 | as our coach, the beloved coach, Chauncey Billups, get suspended for not only engaging in an illegal poker ring where there was some rigging |
| 0:41.7 | going on and x-rays and special lenses for your eyes, contact lenses, but also allegedly |
| 0:50.7 | aiding illegal betters in running a Ponzi scheme or some sort of illegal |
| 0:56.4 | sports betting in terms of giving out inside information. |
| 1:01.5 | I went to the motor center. |
| 1:03.4 | I was there in the Blazers' first game without Chauncey Billups, and boy, it was weird. |
| 1:08.0 | And then we also get into some assorted news from around the league during an awesome, wild, dramatic week in week one of the NBA season. |
| 1:16.8 | Do me a favor, Wyatt. |
| 1:18.2 | Drop that beat that should be Rihanna. |
| 1:20.8 | You're listening to the hottest, the hottest, the hottest. |
| 1:25.8 | NBA podcast out. |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah, I said what I said. |
| 1:28.8 | She's eating on. |
| 1:29.9 | It's the heat check. |
| 1:30.9 | The heat check. |
| 1:31.7 | Heat chat. |
| 1:32.3 | With Trista Crick. |
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