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Welcome to the Heat Check pod. I am your host, John Gonzales. Join us. I will be every week on the ones and twos by our producer, Isaac Lee. What up, Isaac?

Hey, I'm good. How are you? I'm excellent. They gave us the keys to the Ringer NBA Show Heat Check podcast last week, said take it for a spin.

I think you and I and everybody at the Ringer, very surprised we did not wrap it around a telephone pole. Still an operation. We're excited about that.

We're also excited about the new format for the NBA show on Fridays called Draft Class. That's hosted by Kevin O'Connor, Jonathan Charks, Danny Chow.

Isaac Lee also produces that one. Isaac doesn't go home. He just has a cot in the back.

Yeah, I just sleep here all the time. He sleeps here all the time. He's very busy. But that shows fun because in the run up to the NBA draft, when you're looking for news and opinions, stats, all kinds of stuff about international prospects, domestic prospects.

You can get that on Fridays for draft class, which is very impressive, by the way, because not only do those guys watch as much NBA as I do and Isaac and probably all of our listeners, they also get into college and international basketball, which was the time.

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