Nick Young's Heat Check

First, a brief primer. A heat check is what happens after a basketball player has made a couple shots so he takes a difficult shot to check if he's hot and can drain anything.

In Shea Serrano's guide to trash talking he wrote that it's one option to say after you make a shot:

Which brings me to this sequence from January 5th:

Young enters the game at the 5:16 mark of the first quarter. On his team's first possession with him in the game, he launches a 39-footer. And makes it.

In the corners, the 3-point line is 22 feet. It's almost a double three-pointer.

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The reality of the play is slightly less amazing than the transcript. In the video you can see that the shot clock was expiring so he basically had to take shot.



Still, it's quite the heat check.