Kuminga Divorce Looms, Cuban Defends Ballmer, and Trae Young vs Pat Bev Beef

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Heat Check, Trysta breaks down the latest NBA chaos including Jonathan Kuminga’s messy “divorce” from the Warriors, the Kawhi Leonard x Aspiration scandal heating up with Adam Silver and Mark Cuban weighing in, and Trae Young’s beef with Patrick Beverley.

She also hits on J-Will’s Slam cover, Steve Kerr finally addressing the Draymond–Poole punch, and the latest out of EuroBasket where Dennis Schröder went off and Isaac Bonga took MVP honors. Plus, Giannis calls Greece’s bronze medal his greatest achievement and Adam Silver continues to tease NBA expansion across Europe.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.0	On this episode of the Heat Check, Moore, Kauai Leonard, Steve Bomber, aspiration, situation going on.
0:14.0	It's getting more complicated.
0:15.7	Mark Cuban enters the chat.
0:17.4	That's interesting.
0:18.3	Another billionaire stumping for a billionaire.
0:20.4	I wouldn't have ever expected that. There was stumping for a billionaire. Wouldn't have ever
0:20.9	expected that. There was some unexpected results, though. Have you ever tried to defend your friend
0:26.0	in defending them? You actually made it worse for them because that is what happened here.
0:30.2	The Jonathan Caminga story gets even more strange. There was a secret meeting between Joe
0:35.9	Lacob and Jonathan Kaminga.
0:38.5	It was a heart-to-heart.
0:39.6	Don't think it went anywhere.
0:44.4	A lot of news from around the league, also including a Trayung versus Patrick Beverly Beef that I didn't expect.
0:47.0	We have Jalen Williams, J-dub on the cover of Slam talking about how teams can win
0:52.0	without veteran players.
0:53.0	And Steve Kerr talking about
0:55.8	the Draymond Green Jordan pool punch oh boy so much to talk about Wyatt drop that
1:01.5	motherfucking beat that should be Rihanna you're listening to the hottest the hottest NBA podcast out
1:10.7	yeah I said what I said.
1:12.2	She's heating up.
1:13.3	It's the heat check.
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