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On this episode of the heat check, here we go. I've been needing to talk about this. I just needed to get my notes arranged. There's a lot of moving parts here. There's a lot of things.

Obviously, my heart's in it. The inner six-year-old in me is in shambles. I'm just gonna say, I'm just gonna say, it's tough. It's tough right now. This episode is dedicated to all of this drama surrounding the Portland Trailblazers organization Chettatier. It's a damn mess out here on these streets. We have a GM fired for calls, not getting a salary. They have terminated him for improper hostile work environment as being a rage monster.

Which he is. Star player is hurt, he's upset, doesn't like the roster, doesn't like the new coach. Other star player is texting media members, goodbye, cryptic, goodbye messages, coaches, new coach, who's never coached before, but has been an off, had some off court turmoil and controversy. May or may not done some very shitty things. Apparently, now, allegedly, now is lighting the team up for being lazy.

So, let's get into it in detail. Come on, Brock. Drop that. Motherfucker beat.

So, after a brief moment of Stasis, 25 games or so, where there wasn't absolutely critical levels of drama after an offseason of drama, Portland

is back in turmoil, back in a no man's land, back into a place where I see no way out. I mean, we knew I knew we talked about this before the season started. We knew this team wouldn't be good.

We knew this team was somewhere between a seven seed and an 11 seed. We knew that. This is not any, this is not a top six seed. Just not. When you, you know how we knew, when you sign Ben Macklemore.

I'm going to talk about Macklemore. I'm talking about Ben Macklemore. I'm talking about Tony smells.

Excuse me, Tony, smell. Sorry. Tony, smell. When both, when you sign fucking Cody, I broken nose before the season, Zeller, little clear mask, Zeller.

When Larry Nance Jr., no shade, Delary Nance Jr., when Larry Nance Jr., no shade, Delary Nance Jr., I have to say that multiple times because when he's your best free agent pickup, you know, you know, it's going to be a bad year.

You know, when Dave is saying, please help me and these guys are the guys that you bring in and then you try to pedal it to us as the most deep roster you've ever built in your life.

He deserved to be fired for that anyway, right? Thank God. And then your star player plays like shit in the Olympics because he has an abdominal injury, which now bleeds into the new season.

I mean, you know, I know the blazers like the back of my fucking hand and I knew this wasn't going to be good, but where we are at now, holy shit.

I mean, we now have where we, where are we? We are now where the athletic, the athletic, which is an organization that does NBA reporting sports reporting covering all sports.

All of the NBA beat riders are now fully, fully focused on the Portland Trailblazers, like seven, eight articles, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, in rapid succession.

And none of them were good. None of them painted a rosy picture of what was going on. I mean, it's like a Hindenburg style disaster that we are headed for all hands now on deck.

Everyone is focused on Portland because there's just so much to cover not one man can cover all of the facets. So fucking octopus, octopi, level of problems, little arms everywhere fires, little fires everywhere.

So let's get into how it is, what's happening and my personal opinion of what comes next. Let's go through it Friday, Friday comes.

And then inevitable happens. Neil O'Shea, GM of the Portland Trailblazers who's been there since James rookie season got there before right before.

He's been fired. He's been fired for basically being mean, just basically being a mean guy, like stuck into the 90s.

Here's a little story. Here's a little quick little antidote. I don't know that I've ever spoken about this publicly. I met Neil O'Shea personally, his like first month or two on the job.

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