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

On this episode of the Heat Check, we've got an interview with Yahoo Senior MBA reporter

and friend of show, Jake Fisher.

He gives us some really good info on how the trade deadline went down,

how the Nets KD. Kyrie Hardin era will be looked at over time,

why the Toronto Raptors were never going to make a move at the deadline except for to be a buyer, who is going to tank moving forward this NBA season and much

much more. Lots to get into Nick, so do me a favor and drop that generic ass beat.

I just felt like the trade deadline as a whole, because I felt like, to a degree, it was like one of the more dramatic trade deadlines.

And then outside of the two real pieces of shock and all, there wasn't really anything of note.

Yeah, I mean, that's kind of what we with inside information were kind of saying

for a while, right, that like there wasn't a lot of like starting level players that were actually

going to move teams.

And then the Kyrie Irving thing obviously threw a giant monkey wrench in the entire trade landscape. But just like with Kevin Durant requesting the trade like an hour before

for agency started, like those two situations kind of happened in a vacuum outside of everything else like

free agency started at six o'clock on june 30th even though kd you know asked out and you know

the wheel still spun the world still moved on and like the fact that kairie's trade happened

to dallas like he requests him on friday so it was

six days before the deadline and then he was already dealt by sunday i mean the reporting has been

pretty clear since that kd requested his deal out of brooklyn on monday but but the nets they

weren't willing to discuss it with anybody he wanted to go to to Phoenix. He's wanted to go to Phoenix all along.

So the other 28 teams kind of operated as we were expecting, which was pretty much

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