This is an I-Heart podcast.

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

On this episode of the Heat Check.

Yes, it's time for us to do a little deep digging.

On the Dallas Mavericks,

I am back from the Phil Knight Invitational and the Phil Knight Legacy Tournament,

which there is a lot of good stuff

that we'll talk about sometime soon in the future.

But for now, my eyes are squarely on Dallas.

Something's wrong.

No one seems to be talking about this.

I think that they will.

There's a lot of tea brewing around the Mavericks organization.

Is there a secret cabal that Jason Kid is running?

I don't know, but we're going to find out.

And we'll also hit some of the stories popping from around the league as well.

First day back.

So if I say something dumb, just give me a little grace.

All right, Nick, let's drop that beat.

Have you ever had someone do something that caused you to rethink everything that you thought about them

and everything that you thought you knew about them.

Like there are decisions, I think, that you can make.

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