Pacers/Thunder Finals Set, WNBA Heat Check and Haliburton Hate with Robin Lundberg

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The Finals are set! Trysta kicks off the episode recapping the Pacers’ series-clinching win over the Knicks and the road that led to an unlikely Pacers vs. Thunder showdown. She also get's into Danny Ainge hiring his son, the Bucks looking at lottery picks and the Raptors and Suns getting active.

Then she’s joined by broadcaster Robin Lundberg for a wide-ranging convo on the Caitlin Clark/Angel Reese discourse, team outlooks across the WNBA (Wings, Sky, Lynx), and where the W goes next under its current CBA.

They also get into NBA storylines: Haliburton’s reputation among his peers, SGA’s foul-baiting debate, and how the East stacks up vs. the West. And to wrap things up: their top 3 greatest rappers, underrated hip-hop artists, and favorite concerts they’ve ever been to.

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1:27.5	She's heating up. It's the heat check. The heat check. The heat check. With Trista Crick. So the Knicks. They get game five, right? And they're rolling. They're high. Everybody's like, oh, the Pacers. The Pacers are the ones with all the pressure on them now because if they lose at home to the Knicks
1:46.0	and they have to go back to MSG, yada, yada, yada.
1:49.2	And I even said it myself, listen, you don't want to go back for a game seven.
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