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Welcome to Heat Check I'm your host John Gonzalez joined as I am every week by my producer

Isaac Lee who Isaac Good morning I said something to you and immediately it went over

your head because it was a reference about top gun which is a movie from the 80s and

as we've long established anything pre 95 is is out the window with you. I mean I have

watched top gun to be very clear I've watched it but I was way too young so I don't remember

any of the references. I believe you said talk to me goose. Yeah I said talk to me goose

and you said why do you call me goose and I immediately looked for something sharp or

even dull top myself because every time I come to the ringer I'm constantly reminded by

how much I am than everybody else who works here but that said happy Martin Luther King

junior day to everybody we have a full slate of NBA games today as you listen to this some

of them might have already happened but we appreciate you listening to Heat Check as always

we encourage you to please rate and review us and all of our fantastic wringer NBA shows

and pods and we have lots of great content up on the wringer.com we've got KOCs picks

for the 2019 all stars and he also explains why the selection process needs changing

amen to that we've got our staff updating our NBA trade deadline tracker there's all

sorts of juicy rumors and reporting in that that we update regularly plus I want to give

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