He's got smoke coming off his finger. He's as hot as a blowtorch.

Yes, he checked. Who got his cover?

His heat check, guys.

Welcome to the Heat Check Podcast. I'm your host, John Gonzalez.

I joined once more after a couple of weeks off with the other work concerns.

He is back in the fold. Isaac Lee is here.

It's good to be back, Gons.

Yes, we have many, many things to discuss. We're doing an emergency podcast here from L.A.

after just learning the LeBron James has signed a four-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers.

That's very exciting for the Lakers and less exciting for teams not named the Lakers that we're hopeful to get LeBron.

So we're going to get into a lot of that. But first, content on the ringer.

KOC has a piece on LeBron signing with the Lakers. You're going to want to read that.

We also have a running blog from all the free agency madness over the weekend.

That's courtesy of Helio Channasey and Justin Variere and Palo and the whole team.

So you're going to want to go and check that out on the ringer.com.

I also wrote a piece about Paul George re-upping with the Thunder on a three-year deal with the player option in year four.

And of course, we've got NBA desktop, which is in Concepcion.

And Bill Simmons, his podcast will be up. You're going to want to listen to that.

And Bill's going to join us later in the program to talk about all of the LeBron ripple effects,

how it affects teams in the East, what he wants to see happen.

And then after that, Justin Variere will join the program to talk about everything that isn't LeBron James related.

But first, of course, the big news, LeBron James, and for that, we need a big guest.

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