This is an IHeart podcast.

Creativity is personal.

Your tools should be too.

Lenovo offers a wide range of devices to match your creative workflow with powerful GPUs,

color accurate displays and AI tools that help spark, shape and share your vision.

From morning hustle to midnight render, Lenovo delivers power that never sleeps because neither do you. One device, all your vision. From morning hustle to midnight render, Lenovo delivers power that never sleeps,

because neither do you. One device, all your worlds. Shop now at Lenovo.com slash back to school.

Lenovo, Lenovo. Bold ideas brought to life wherever inspiration strikes.

We're breaking down all the biggest NBA storylines.

You're tuned in to The Heat Check.

The Heat Check with Trista Crick.

The best podcast covering all the drama around the association.

So if the magic, the thunder, the pacers, and the jazz are all on the move, then who's

falling off the cliff?

That's the question.

Because this is a lot easier to predict, in my opinion, than the teams that are on the

rise, to be honest.

And it's for a lot of different reasons.

Number one, we got to go with the number one most obvious team that people think is actually a contender, but they are not a contender, and that is the LA Clippers. They are a team at a crossroads. They have one of the more talented deep rosters in the NBA, and it doesn't matter because their players don't play. Their players are never healthy. You have nine guys on the roster with at least seven years

of NBA experience under their belt, including seven with a decade or more of wear and tear

on that tread. That's fine. Like, oh, you on our veteran team? Yeah, but like those tires are

getting a little bald and the winter's coming.

...