Knicks Win the NBA Cup and the Bucks are Getting Desperate

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Heat Check, Trysta reacts to the New York Knicks winning the NBA Cup, breaking down their victory over the Spurs and why the tournament might finally be turning a corner. She also loved watching New York fans show real appreciation for Victor Wembanyama’s greatness.

Trysta weighs in on Adam Silver’s response to the Terry Rozier/Miami Heat dilemma, checks in on a Milwaukee Bucks team growing increasingly desperate — including reported interest in Zach LaVine — and revisits the ongoing Clippers disaster as new details emerge, including no one showing up to Chris Paul's Halloween party...

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.1	On this episode of the heat check, it's NBA Cup season.
0:07.9	The New York Knicks are your NBA Cup champs over the San Antonio Spurs, not the Oklahoma City Thunder.
0:15.6	And guess what?
0:16.1	There's an asterisk.
0:17.1	We also got the game of the year as a contender.
0:19.2	We also get in some news from around the league, including the bucks, kicking tires on a surprising player that I am hilariously into. And we
0:27.2	also get a peek at how out of touch NBA owners are when it comes to money. No time to waste,
0:32.9	Wyatt. Do me a favor and drop that motherfucking beat that should be Rihanna.
0:36.5	You're listening to the hottest. The do me a favor and drop that motherfucking beat that should be Rihanna.
0:43.8	You're listening to the hottest, the hottest, NBA podcast out.
0:45.3	Yeah, I said what I said.
0:46.4	She's heating up.
0:47.5	It's the heat check.
0:48.3	The heat check.
0:50.1	With Trista Creek.
0:59.5	So we have to talk about what it's like to watch a game, an NBA game, multiple NBA games where there's multiple teams playing at the same venue.
1:01.5	It counts towards the standings.
1:04.2	And it's in America, right?
1:05.7	Because, like, we have these Saudi Arabia.
1:09.4	We got these France games and people show up and no Americans do.
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