Pistons Hornets Brawl, JJJ’s Scary Injury and Why OKC Keeps Winning
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Trysta is in Los Angeles for All-Star Weekend and is joined by producer Zeke to break down a wild week across the NBA. They look at the massive Pistons Hornets fight that led to big fines and fresh questions about Detroit’s “Bad Boys” reputation. Plus, is this Pistons team is actually built to win?
Then, a scary situation in Utah with Jaren Jackson Jr. being ruled out for the season after being diagnosed with PVNS and undergoing knee surgery. Trysta and Zeke also dig into why the Thunder keep hitting home runs on young talent, as Jared McCain has shined early in OKC.
Plus: early thoughts on Cam Thomas with the Bucks, including Doc Rivers’ public praise, Jeremy Sochan landing with the Knicks, Draymond Green’s latest hater take on NBA expansion, and the high-school-gossip fallout from the Golden State Warriors trading Jonathan Kuminga — including a stunning Alex Caruso deal they reportedly turned down.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:24.7 | On this episode of the heat check, I'm at All-Star. We're going to give you a quick preview of that. We've got a lot popping post-trade deadline. We've got Jaron Jackson, who actually has a benign tumor and is now out for the year. He's going to have surgery on his knee. Cam Thomas has been bawling out. Jared McCain. and oh, Casey continues to be amazing at everything they do. |
| 0:21.2 | We've got. year. He's going to have surgery on his knee. Cam Thomas has been balling out. Jared McCain. |
| 0:26.6 | Okay, Zee continues to be amazing at everything they do. We've got some news from around the league. |
| 0:31.8 | Of course, he got producer Zique here to help me out through it. Got a lot to talk about why it dropped that beat. It should be Rihanna. |
| 0:34.6 | You're listening to the hottest, the hottest, NBA podcast out. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, I said what I said. |
| 0:42.8 | She's heating up. |
| 0:43.9 | It's the heat check. |
| 0:44.8 | The heat check. |
| 0:45.6 | The heat check with Trista Crick. |
| 0:48.7 | All right. |
| 0:49.4 | It's All Star Week. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm here in L.A. |
| 0:51.6 | Been already a fucking zoo. |
| 0:53.7 | We'll be doing some social media content |
| 0:55.8 | from here and the surroundings of the game. Maybe. Actually, I don't even know if that's true |
| 1:01.7 | because I leave Saturday for Baton Rouge and nothing happens until then. So we'll see. |
| 1:07.2 | We'll bring on producer Zeeke back into the mix to get things popping. What are we in about? |
| 1:13.1 | Well, the trade deadline's come and gone, and now we've got to kind of see how things shake out. |
| 1:17.3 | But before we get into that, something happened that truly shocked me. |
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