The Pistons Are BACK & How Do the Lakers Keep Doing This?

Heat Check with Trysta Krick

The 8 Side

Basketball, Sports

2 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving from The Heat Check! Trysta breaks down the latest in the NBA, starting with... the Lakers. Trysta hates it, but somehow they keep pulling off escape acts. She recaps the Lakers–Clippers NBA Cup game, how L.A. went from near collapse to now in great shape, and why nothing about this makes any sense.

Then she dives into the red-hot Detroit Pistons. Cade Cunningham is playing at an All-NBA level, the team is on a massive win streak, and they’re doing it without Jaden Ivey! Detroit basketball might be officially back.

Plus:
• New shocking updates in the NBA gambling scandal
• The Clippers sliding and Ty Lue’s seat getting hotter
• Hornets quietly gauging LaMelo Ball trade value — is it real?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:23.5	Guaranteed Human. On this episode of the Heat Check. No, no, no, come on. Come on. No, we don't get that. We get something else, another type of music. I don't even know what it is. I think it's like bootleg 90s hip-hop. Anyway, thanks. Happy Thanksgiving. Let's start this on a high note. Start this on a higher note.
0:32.6	We got turkey wings coming today. Happy Thanksgiving. This will come out while you're digesting your turkey. Actually, in the middle of Thanksgiving. This is coming out on Thanksgiving Day, not on Friday.
0:40.2	We will get into the Detroit Pistons.
0:42.9	We've got to take a look at Cade Cunningham.
0:44.7	We've got to dissect an exit interview with Alexi Pocchevsky.
0:50.0	We have an update on Chauncey Billups.
0:51.9	We have a lot of news from around the league, Wyatt,
0:55.0	and I have to start with a gripe.
0:57.9	No time to waste.
0:59.5	Drop that beat.
1:00.3	This should be Rihanna.
1:02.1	You're listening to the hottest, the hottest, the hottest.
1:07.1	NBA podcast out.
1:08.6	Yeah, I said what I said.
1:10.1	She's heating up.
1:11.2	It's the heat chat.
1:12.2	The heat chat.
1:13.0	Heat chat with Trista Crick.
1:15.9	I want to start out by saying, I am thankful for you.
1:23.0	I'm thankful for my fans.
1:25.0	This should be a day where there is no besmirching.
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