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You're tuned in to Heat Check with Trista Crick.

On this episode of a Heat Check, we are now at the halfway point of the regular NBA season.

Can you believe it? Time is going fast, folks. It is time for me,

Professor Crick, to give out some grades. Some guys, some teams are getting the ruler, folks.

Smack, smack, smack. This episode, we're going to break down the Eastern Conference.

We're going to grade every team from Atlanta down to the Washington Wizards.

So let's get right to it, Nick.

We don't have much time.

Drop that generic ass beat.

All right, so we've reached halfway throughout the season.

Actually, last Thursday I could have done it, but I didn't feel like it.

It was too much work.

It's a lot.

You got to go into all these ratings and stats.

I don't mean to make it sound like my job's like super complicated.

It's not.

I do this for the love of the game. So I wanted to do it. I wanted to do it right. And complicated it's not i do this for the love of the game so i wanted to do i wanted to do it

right and now it's just like college it's like the midterm exams and we're giving out mid-semester grades

some teams i think will be very happy with their scores kids that into the classroom, they had a backpack with no

books in it, and you said to yourself, oh boy, this is going to be a doozy. And all of a sudden

they became one of the best students in the whole damn classroom. And then others will probably

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