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And welcome to another episode of the heat Check.

In a week of MBA action where King James seems to have regained his crown as the man in L.

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It's We're gonna break down everything from the Battle of L.

A to the race for eighth in the Western Conference on Look at me.

Joined on the sofa by esteemed company.

As always, my to Cody's are back.

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Look, I've got the man on my left here the drip king.

I'm calling this custom piece Gucci top to bottom Momen see on a man to my right, He's in business mode.

I'm gonna clear the king of bake off.

I'm just humbled.

I sleeves like that, David.

Like yours today I gentlemen, what we thinking about when we think about last weekend's action?

I know we all sat down and we watch the battle of L.

A life, but LeBron James absolutely kicked butt Boston got their butt kicked.

I start already.

He has started low already.

I Look, I'm not gonna take it longer any longer.

Let's jump into our first segment.

I don't think it's a bad place to start than obviously still reflecting on what happened in L.

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Obviously.

Clippers versus the Lakers.

As you've already said, the Lakers kicked butt.

You have.

But I didn't like just what happened on the court from the Lakers.

I kind of like the attitude that was off the court from the Clippers on, especially Patrick Beverley.

He came out afterwards, and Tom and I made it very clear he is not afraid of anybody.

And then it says Market LeBron James or Garden LeBron James was an easy feat.

So what do you tell Manny?

Think should LeBron James and Patrick Beverley squash this?

Or should Patrick Beverley maybe pick his battles and a bit more wisely?

No.

I love this Oliver identity.

He loves the entities.

Compare sports to athletes, competing hot, take upside down Marga because the fire is falling down the fire.

Look at you.

You're loving the energy that you see him from Pat Bevin.

That's what I'm saying.

This is the right side.

So he's saying, Yeah, I'm saying the opposite Killer energy.

You arguing with the wrong guy?

You know for it to be like a robbery has to be a two way thing.

You know, Boston L.

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It's a mutual kind of, you know, it's a mutual kind of deal.

Okay, this is like L a and, like all and well, you know what?

It's actually look at some of the stuff that actually happened this weekend and more than anything else, of course, I looked like a common foul from Patrick Beverley.

But it's here.

It's no allowing LeBron to kind of regain its position, no allowing them to read, recovering in terms of his own mentality and just being the best that we know Patrick Beverley to be doesn't doesn't, doesn't it once more?

He does it twice.

That's his game boat.

And this is the point where I think that every sort of competitive mixer, well, we're thinking a little bit when Patrick Beverley, what's right away like a fly.

He's still there.

Look, it's Kent is personal for him for him, but looking LeBron.

But here's the thing.

You have to do the history behind the university he was traded.

He was traded to the Lakers and then obviously was traded away.

So he and then had to go to Europe to solve, navigate his own career.

No, even then cover debut four years later after being traded into talk drafted in 2009.

It's personal for him.

I don't think that weighs into, I think, what it is like.

Do you guys remember last season in the playoffs around one Clippers against the Warriors?

They thing against diversity.

Patrick Beverley was Gannon to Kevin Durant the same way he's getting on.

So LeBron Patrick Beverley is not even in the same shot spheres.

Kevin Durant as a bar school player, right?

Cary Grant is one of the best scores we ever seen.

Okay, but what is Patrick Bradley's game?

He's not anything on offense.

He's a defensive pest.

He's like a troll in human form on a basketball court, because what does he do?

He gets under your skin.

He irritates you.

Game one against the Warriors.

He will come into round.

Ejected from the game in Game two, he was in Katie's head.

Nine turnovers.

Clippers had that massive come back, one of the biggest comebacks we've ever seen in MBA history.

This is what he does.

This is why he gets paid this wise on the team.

He's in there to disrupt things, shake things up, get under everyone's skin and make sure you know everyone knows it's not gonna be an easy battle over the will come to you quickly.

Obviously, when LeBron James obviously was made his massive move and that the movies, they turn mine and say to Miami, obviously, Patrick Beverley with someone that got waved in the short situation, So he's had to then go and navigate his own career somewhere else.

So he has held that personal grudges hold time.

He then obviously fast forward, is now a star or wants to be a star on this dig and could be a starting guard.

So do you not feel that he has a right to hold this grudge at all?

Roger will be born James test of what it's like.

It's a business.

No, no, no, it's a business.

But you know, there's some people that you just don't you don't mess.

If you don't poke you, don't you don't poke the bear.

That's what goes.

No, no, no, No one around the league does it.

That's what he doesn't think he did it to Katie.

And then what?

Upset.

And then what happened?

What?

The next game?

Off to go.

Katie ejected.

Katie had eight points in 19.

Okay.

And then what?

I know I'm trying to get to the point where they lost that.

I know you're gonna throw it.

If he didn't do any of that, they wouldn't.

Even one that one game, they wouldn't Even one that one game, they would just got swept away fruit.

But he made his point, made his mark on that series.

To know about that team Last year was no joke.

It's not gonna be an easy battle for them.

I'd agree with same thing.

He's cancel a bronze head.

I agree with you in the fact that that's all he that's what he has to bring that would be on the floor.

Cool.

But then my whole point is just don't start.

You know he's picking a fight with the wrong guy.

You can pick that fight with Durant.

Durant, I think a little bit younger than LeBron James and direct, you know, he takes sort of debate online.

You seeing him get into stuff online?

How many times have you ever seen the bond James get into any all occasions online.

Do any of that pay stuff like That's not LeBron James.

So that's the last person you're wasting.

That's his DNA.

That's what he does.

He's got a point.

Not gonna change your just cause you're LeBron jokes.

So loathe The question was, what do you feel like?

Teach teachers deserve to carry the energy.

You feel like you should be said he shouldn't show you Picked the wrong Can't do what he's doing.

Picked the wrong fight.

What?

Just cause he's number on James.

Statistical figure.

All know King LeBron.

Let's bow down to, you know, yeah, against making under schedule against a Hey, Okay, the big question the big question to pose for you then is okay.

There's this energy carry forward.

If, as we all hope in the possible community, these two do meet in the Western Conference in the capital for l keep this energy for the rest of his life is not personal to LeBron James.

It could be honest.

It could be who I mean.

People don't quite seem to be quite, is whoever he goes up against in the parts it's been poor George, You know, I'm saying it.

That's what he does.

That's who he is.

So just because you're LeBron James about one point you've done X, y and Zed.

At what point does he need to tone it down?

What point is it?

He won't know what to say.

Miss Dennis Rodman.

I say Miss Charles Bock's.

This is what these guys do.

As you can see, it's split innovation in hair already on.

We can't wait.

Hopefully, this will become the Western Conference finals when we get to see this over a seven game series.

But fast forward a little bit.

I'm gonna take you now to a blockbuster trade that we'll watch last summer.

Yeah, we turn mine and said its 16th of July 2019 Russell Westbrook traded to the Houston Rockets, obviously in reverse.

Chris Paul traded toe.

Okay, See, Funder.

At that moment in time, everyone felt four.

The winners with Rocket.

I'm not gonna give you a hot take here