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Mavericks fined $750,000 by NBA for sitting players
"The NBA find the Dallas Mavericks $750,000 Friday, saying the team engaged in quote conduct detrimental to the league and quote by sitting out most of its key players against the Chicago Bulls on April 7th despite still having a chance to reach the postseason. The league's investigation said Dallas violated the league's policy on resting players and had a desire to lose the game to the bulls quote in order to improve the chances of keeping its first round pick in the 2023 NBA draft. Dallas sat stark Kyrie Irving for the entire game against the bulls while Luka Dončić played about one quarter. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
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Warriors top Mavs
"The Mavericks welcome back to Luka Dončić, but fell under 500 with a one 27 one 25 loss to the warriors. Dončić had 30 points and 17 assists after missing 5 straight games with a left thigh strain. Steph Curry delivered 20 points and assisted on draymond green's tiebreaking three point play late in the game. Jonathan comeing scored 22 points on 9 of 11 shooting off the bench for Golden State. For a great team to win, needs him out for he needs to move the ball. Everybody gotta have to fill the ball. And that's pretty much what we came out there and do. And that's what got us this win. Dallas played with that Kyrie Irving and fellow guard Tim Hardaway junior. I'm Dave ferry
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"AP sports I'm Josh rowntree. We start on the NBA where Memphis took a game over Dallas with multiple stars sidelined. Correspondent Robert Stevens has more. Desmond baines scored 23 points as the Memphis Grizzlies completed a two game sweep of the Dallas Mavericks, one O four 88. Naz played without Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving both injured while the grizzlies were again without John morant. Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins says his team up this defensive intensity in the second half. Come out of halftime with just a renewed energy and mentality. Hey, we got to raise our level both sides of the floor. We made a couple adjustments defensively that paid off for us, which got us going with our groove on offense. And obviously that third quarter kind of changed the game. David roddy and Dylan Brooks had 19 apiece from Memphis while Jaden hardy led the Mavs with 28. Josh green at 23. Bob Stevens Dallas. In Houston, the rockets knocked off the Celtics one 11 one O 9. And jabari Smith scored 24 to lead the young rockets, one of the best teams in the league, where it was in the finals last year, you know, just competing with him. You know, going down to the wire like that with a great team like that. It's just real promise in this room. It's really good for us. The bucks beat the kings one 33, one 24. Giannis Antetokounmpo poured in 46 in the win. The warriors took down the sun's one 23 one 12 behind 38 points from Klay Thompson, including 33 in the first half. On the ice, buffalo scored three third period goals rallying to beat Toronto four three. Alex tuck at the 30 goal mark with a pair in the final frame. We kind of got back to just trying to work and make simple plays and you know I just roll over one line after another after another and it makes a huge difference out there and big news in the opening day of NFL free agency. The Raiders reportedly filled their QB void by agreeing to terms with former 49er. Jimmy Garoppolo on a three year deal worth, 67 and a half $1 million. The bears are set to give linebacker tremaine Edmonds a four year $72 million contract and the Steelers are bringing on three time all pro corner Patrick Peterson for a two year deal. I'm Josh Valtteri, AP sports.
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Grizzlies beat Mavs again in another meeting sans All-Stars
"Desmond baines scored 23 points as the Memphis Grizzlies completed the two game sweep of the Dallas Mavericks, one O four 88. Naz played without Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving both injured while the grizzlies were again without John morant. Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins says his team up this defensive intensity in the second half. Said it come out a half time with a renewed energy and mentality. Hey, we've got to raise our level both sides of the floor. We made a couple adjustments defensively that paid off for us, which kind of going with our groove on offense. And obviously that third quarter kind of changed the game. David roddy and Dylan Brooks had 19 apiece from Memphis while Jaden hardy led the Mavs with 28. Josh green at 23. Bob Stevens Dallas
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McCollum scores 32, Pelicans hold off Mavericks 113-106
"CJ McCollum drained 16 of his game high 32 in the fourth quarter to lead the pelicans past the Mavericks one 13 one O 6. McCollum's 7 30 point game of the season helped New Orleans win for just the second time in its last 8 games. Out of the score a lot of points in my career and it hit big shots. I'm just trying to do what I can to help the team win. So it was nice to make some shots and make some plays, but it's even better when it comes in a win. Kyrie Irving had 27 to paste Alice. Injuries affected stars on both teams, Luka Dončić added 15 for the Mavericks before leaving in the third quarter after re injuring his left thigh while Brandon Ingram had 12 for the pelicans before exiting with an ankle sprain just before halftime. I'm Denny Capp
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Durant tiebreaker lifts Suns over Mavs in showcase of stars
"Kevin Durant scored 37 points, including the tie breaking jump shot with 11 seconds to go to lift the Phoenix Suns past the Dallas Mavericks one 30 to one 26. Son's third straight win while the Mavericks lost 6 of their last date. Durant says it felt great to get a fun victory. Being a fourth quarter game when we had to, you know, be locked and all the way to the last possession. It's always fun, you know, playing against two all world Hall of Fame players as well on the other side. It just makes the game even better. So I'm glad we can come out here and get a W Devin Booker added 36 points for Phoenix while Luka Dončić led the mask with 34. Kyrie Irving had 30. Bob Stephens Dallas
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Doncic scores 42, Irving 40 as Mavs outlast 76ers 133-126
"Luka Dončić scored 42 points Kyrie Irving had 40 as the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in a shootout one 33 one 26. The Mavericks connected on 25 three pointers tying a franchise record. Dallas coach Jason Kidd says Dončić and Irving set the tone for the victory. They were aggressive from the start. They didn't wait. And so as we continue to talk as a team, we can't wait. We're not in that position to wait and so those guys understand that and they set the tone. The 76ers were led by Joel embiid who had 35 points, tyrese maxi added 29, while James Harden had 27. Bob Stevens Dallas
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Doncic, Irving get 1st tandem win as Mavs rout hapless Spurs
"The Mavericks roll to a one 42 one 16 rather the spurs. The first win for Dallas with Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving in the same backcourt. Provided 28 points and Irving added 23 as the mav stopped the three game losing streak. Dončić also had ten assists and 7 rebounds before taking a seat for good after three quarters. Mavericks coach Jason Kidd. Anytime you can score a 142 points and Luca doesn't have to play in the four if that's pretty good. Irving scored or assisted on 13 consecutive points early in the fourth quarter as a ten point lead balloon to 25. The spurs extended their team record losing streak to 15 games and have dropped 20 of 21. I'm Dave ferry.
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Embiid leads 76ers over Nets in Harden's return to Brooklyn
"In a game that literally came down to the last second and was the sixers editing the nets on the road by the final score of one O one to 98. It appeared that the nets Spencer did what he tied the game with a half court three point shot at the buzzer to send it to overtime, but the call was overturned in Philly escape with the win. 6 year Senate Joel embiid had a big night with 37 points and 13 rebounds. James Harden at a 29 points for the sixers who won their second game in as many nights. Newly acquired Michael bridges led the nets with 23 points as Brooklyn has lost three of its last four in a week that saw them trade away stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant. Mike Moore, New York
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Dinwiddie has 25 in Brooklyn return, Nets beat Bulls 116-105
"The nets won their first game since dealing Kevin Durant defeating the bulls one 16 one O 5. Spencer Dinwiddie scored 25 points in his first game since returning to Brooklyn. He was reacquired in the Kyrie Irving trade and provided 18 points in the second half. There's two stops I really enjoyed my MBA career and this is one of them. So if I was going to go back to a place, it would definitely be here. Then what he sparked a 26 run in the fourth quarter. Joe Harris finished with 18 points, and Utah watanabe chipped in 14 and 22 minutes off the bench. Zach lavine led all scores with 38 points, but demar Derozan had just 14 in Chicago's second straight loss. I'm Dave ferry.
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Irving scores 24 in Dallas debut, leads Mavs over Clippers
"In his first game with his new team Kyrie Irving scored 24 points to help lead the Mavericks past the clippers one ten to one O four. I just felt good to get this debut out of the way. For the first time I ever got traded in the middle of the season. So it was new for me. But I'm excited that I'm here and I just keep things rolling now. Dallas shot 17 of 35 from three point land and led for the entire 48 minutes. Tim Hardaway junior added 19 points Norman Powell led the clips off the bench with 24, Mark Myers, Los Angeles
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Chiefs' Mahomes says ankle will be ready for Super Bowl
"I'm Bruce Morton. Good news for the chiefs and their fans. Patrick Mahomes says he's, quote, definitely in a better spot when it comes to his ailing right ankle than he was for the AFC championship game as the all pro quarterback proposed to lead Kansas City against Philadelphia in the Super Bowl. Pro basketball, the swapping has begun leading up to Thursday's trading deadline with the Lakers at the center of a three team deal. They sent Russell Westbrook to the jazz and got D'angelo Russell from the Timberwolves. Speaking of Los Angeles, newly acquired Kyrie Irving made his debut with the Mavericks Wednesday night in LA. He scored a team high 24 as
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"As they possibly could. Because look, the Lakers clearly were willing to part with Russell Westbrook, some combination of draft picks. Russell Westbrook does nothing for Brooklyn right now. I have a hard time believing that they would even kept him around if they acquired him. They might have just bought him out and used the roster spot for somebody else. I don't buy Phoenix being involved in this as much as was reported, you know, my understanding was that there was definitely conversations with the nets about some form of a deal, but the idea that like a Chris Paul Jay Crowder picks deal was actually proffered. I'm not so sure I buy that. I don't think the clippers were in it either. I don't think the clippers were going to put Trey man in a deal for Kyrie Irving. And what else is there? You know, you don't really want Luke canard if you're the nets that doesn't really do a lot of work. So this, I think this deal, given the time constraints and given what the nets were after was the best they could possibly do. Do you agree with that? Yeah, I absolutely do. Especially given what their priority was. Again, players who could help immediately. The Lakers did not have that. The Lakers outside of LeBron and Anthony Davis are basically a roster of 7th 8th and 9th men. They have three starters and any given night who probably would not start for any other decent team in the league. And so they just, you know, if the nets are trying to keep this thing going, right? Like they are still in a strong position in the east. Kevin Durant will be back and healthy soon. They certainly believe they've got a shot to still do some damage in the playoffs and show Kevin Durant that they're viable. You needed players like Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney Smith. There is no two player combination on the Lakers. Outside of LeBron Anthony Davis, who could do what Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney Smith will do for the nets. In the case of the clippers, it's about who they were willing to trade or not trade as you alluded to. In the case of the sons and Monty Williams was just on the record a little while ago out in Phoenix, telling beat writers there that, you know, he's upset that Chris Paul's name was put out there and he doesn't think there's anything to it. I don't think that's spin either. Like I really don't think that spin. Again, I had heard about conversation with two teams, but like think about it like just objectively. If you're Phoenix and yeah, Chris Paul's on the back 9 right now. Maybe the back three at this moment. But like, are you really gonna swap out Kyrie Irving for Chris Paul at the midway point of this season like that? That just doesn't, I can't quite wrap my head around that idea. Neither side of that would have made sense to me, by the way. So in the next case, you get Chris Paul really at the back end of his career showing all the signs of wear and tear. Not a guy who can do the things that Kyrie does in terms of taking some of the offensive pressure off of Kevin Durant because Chris Paul even had his best, was never really a go to score. Phenomenal floor general, but you know, he's wearing down. We're getting close to the end here. So if you're buying yourself time as the nets, he's not buying you much time. Jay Crowder hasn't played in a year, who knows what he's gonna look like. And by the way, as much as he's been at times a very good three and D player, it's sometimes he's not been. Like, I don't know what the next team who gets Jay Crowder is actually getting. So that's not that attractive of an offer without the picks. And again, the picks don't help the nets right now unless they're redirecting them somewhere. And on the flip side of that, the sun's, the sun's entire revival the last few years is about, you know, 20% money Williams and 80% Chris Paul. You know, play with those percentages as you will. It's those two guys. But without Chris Paul, they do not rise from lottery team that Devin where Devin Booker has looked at is just an empty stats guy for all those years to suddenly being a power in the west and a team that made the finals. That's Chris Paul. They're going to trade one of the consummate leaders at the position in Chris Paul. For Kyrie, one of the consummate wild cards. That did not pass the smell test to me. I'm not saying that those conversations didn't happen. I'm not saying they weren't maybe willing to do it. But man, there's something about that just struck me as weird throughout. But yeah, under the circumstances, under duress, I think the nets did about as well as they could. It's hard to get fair value even when a player is not as tarnished as Kyrie Irving is. But getting a couple of players who could not and not just those two players, like getting an unprotected future pick from the Mavericks, given that by 2029, who knows. Luca may be playing in LA or New York or Chicago or somewhere. I don't know. They did pretty well and to have more draft capital to then play with is advantageous. And then I'll just, I just want to add this before I forget. So the deal isn't finalized as of us sitting here recording. Maybe it will go through final while we are recording. But it's not at the moment. I do think they are looking around to see if other teams want to get involved. I have heard suggestions and I'm going to leave it as light as possible so that the aggregators don't go nuts with this if it doesn't happen. I've heard suggestions that the nets are going to try to redirect some pieces to Toronto to get OGN and OB. Now it's not the first time they've been linked to them, so that's not exactly a massive news flash that they might want in an OB or van vliet or even siakam if the raptors would part with them. Would not be shocking to anybody, but I have been, it's been suggested to me within the last few hours that the nets were specifically trying to redirect some part of this trade. In order to loop in the raptors and try to get an anomaly, that would be a phenomenal pickup. We'll see where this all ends up. The bottom line is given everything that the nets have been through. That Kyrie Irving specifically has put them through and given that they now had were on the clock to trade him or deal with not trading him and what he would, you know, who knows what he wears his head would be on Friday if he were still in a nets uniform. They did pretty well into the circumstances. I agree. Be interesting if they can find a way to make it work within an OB. He's one of the most coveted guys on the trade market right now. 25 years old, two way player. Good three point shooter under a good contract at the moment. There are a number of teams that are trying to pry him loose from Toronto. Another tough team to deal with Toronto. They oftentimes find themselves on the right end of a lot of these deals, so we'll see what happens with that. Super Bowl 57 in Glendale, Arizona is right around the corner for the latest on the chiefs and eagles look no further than the good morning football podcast. Join me, Jamie Erdoğan, Peter schrager, Jason McCourty, and Kyle Brandt, as we bring you the best storylines interviews and conversations heading into the final game of the season Super Bowl 57. What will decide the outcome? How much it will fall on the shoulders of the quarterbacks. MVP candidates Jalen hurts and Patrick Mahomes. We're talking about this game from every angle possible right here on the GM FB podcast. 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"Content these two are capable of. What does that mean? Could be the best duo ever. I don't see how you can beat that. Here they are. Chris mannix, and Howard back. And we are back cross over NBA podcast, Chris mannix, and Howard beckman, Howard, it has been all of two days since we broke down the Kyrie Irving trade demand speculated, wildly on where he might be headed and it turns out, Howard, I was right. Said the Dallas Mavericks. They were the team Kyrie irv was going to wind up with. I didn't believe it was going to happen on Monday or really break on Sunday, I guess should say. But Kyrie Irving has a new home. So we're going to have a lot to talk about this pod. We will indeed. And yeah, the lapsed time from trade demand becoming public to execution of the trade, much quicker than I thought. And I know the trade deadline was bearing down and all that, but I did not expect a Sunday afternoon execution of that deal, which by the way, as we tape this right now on Monday afternoon is not official. We can talk about why that might be too. Yeah, I mean, whenever a trade that gets reported isn't made official a few hours, even the next day, you start to wonder if the teams involved, they're going to get a third team involved, or a fourth team involved to try to expand the deal, happens all the time in the NBA. I believe the next game that Kyrie could potentially play for Dallas would be in Utah. I believe that's on Wednesday. So he's got a little bit of a wiggle room here to make something happen, but for right now that deal is not done. But we do expect it to get done. Some combination of players and picks. Right now, as the deal stands, Kyrie Irving is going to Dallas, Dorian Finney Smith, Spencer Dinwiddie, a 2029 first round pick and a couple of second round picks going back to the Brooklyn Nets. Now, let's start from the net side of all this Howard. They moved pretty slowly or deliberately, I should say, in the off season, when discussing deals for Kevin Durant, really more than a month was spent talking to teams sifting through deals. Ultimately, they weren't able to get a deal done. This Kyrie deal came together in a matter of days. And that tells me that whatever happened in this last round of contract talks and kairi's decision to leak it and then not be available to play, whoever's just met was on Saturday. That feels like the straw that broke the camel's back to me. You were in the building in Barclays on Saturday. What kind of vibe were you getting there? And I will be back there again tonight on Tuesday night because they have home games this whole time. So they are definitely waiting on those guys. The vibe, it was interesting, you know, the nets have always had kind of a complicated relationship with Kyrie, right? And when I say the nets, that could be front office, ownership, locker room, coaches, and there have been three since Kyrie arrived. It's a complicated thing. Kairi's got a certain magnetism to him in a charisma and as you know, there's kind of a divide in this league. If you talk to players, players all speak for the most part, very glowingly about Kyrie Irving. If you talk to front offices, they talk about him like he's, you know, a pariah and a toxic element that you don't want any part of for a lot of teams. And the fact is and you use the right word in your column on this desperate that there were multiple teams interested in Kyrie Irving, wasn't so much about, you know, any measure of faith in Kyrie Irving, other than in his talent, it's more about the desperation. And the fact that frankly, if it doesn't work out, he can walk and maybe you're fine to let him walk. So, you know, the vibe the other night was kind of this, you know, and you know how this is. It's all managed. Everybody's no one's gonna say anything. They're not gonna sell out Kyrie Irving. Players don't do that to each other in this league. You don't air out the dirty laundry, and you don't, even though he is clearly, by definition, abandoned the nets. Made a trade off demand, wasn't in uniform, left them short handed again as he's left them short headed so many times in the last few years. No one's going to call him out for that. It's just not what you do. They had a great win. Kim Thomas went out of his mind, scored 44 points, whatever it was. And that's fine. They beat a shorthanded wizards team. Look, the bottom line is this. This nets team, as constructed with Kevin Durant, waiting in the wings, getting healed, getting ready to come back from that knee injury. Still feel like they have a shot. They have a chance to do something. And the key indicator of that is the way that the trade that they made. You know, the nets could have gone for more draft capital somewhere else, specifically with that Lakers offer. But they went for players who could help immediately. Now, put a pin in that because I don't know if Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney Smith are going to ultimately stay in Brooklyn or not. We can come back to that. But assuming that it's just a straight up two team trade and those guys stay. Those are players that Kevin Durant can win with right now. They're not as good as Kyrie Irving, but you've made your team overall stronger and those guys are more reliable than Kyrie Irving. And one of them Finney Smith is one of the best three and D guys in the league. One of the better perimeter defenders in the league. So if they thought they needed to tear down, if they thought that trading Kyrie Irving meant step one toward a complete tear down because now Kevin Durant is not going to want to be here. We'll have to trade him too. That's obviously not the case. They are keeping Kevin Durant for the foreseeable future. They're committed to trying to improve the team around him. Although I still have questions about where that ends up after the season because if this team is not good enough in terms of just sheer talent with just one star in Durant and that is all they've gotten in terms of stars. Kairi's gone and Ben Simmons is not a star anymore. If it's just Kevin Durant, now you're back to the same question in the off season. Is it enough? And what would renew his trade demand then? Yeah, the reporting on all this was all over the place, frankly. Let's pick it apart, right? Ultimately, the nets settled on the Mavericks deal, which I do think is a good one. I do think that however this all shakes out, Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney Smith are gonna wind up in Brooklyn. I think the question is, can the nets who really don't have much need for that 2029 first round pick? Can they use that pick to go get another player? They also have a 78 76ers pick that could potentially play with. So can they combine some draft picks to get more talent? And you mentioned it. Finney Smith excellent wing defender. One of the best in the NBA. Spencer Dinwiddie, look, say what you want about was Spencer Dinwiddie enough to play to be Luka Dončić. Guy averaged like 18 points a game. Like that's not nothing and talking to people in Dallas over the last couple of days. They liked Spencer Dinwiddie they like what he was giving them this year. So you're getting back NBA ready players. Rotation players that can help you right now. What this does do is it places an enormous amount of pressure on Kevin Durant to be great every night that he comes back. Some nights, you know, he could get away with being a little bit less than Kevin Durant because Kyrie was there to pick up the slack. Offensively, this guy is going to make this team go. He's got to be a score. He's got to be a facilitator. He's got to be everything on the offensive side of the floor. But if he can be and look, he has been for most of his healthy games this season. It's a pretty good team. Like, they're going to be able to throw waves of defenders at you, whether it's spinny Smith, Royce O'Neal is at a pretty solid year, Ben Simmons, if you can never fix his offensive issues, still a pretty good defensive player. So you're going to be able to do some things. And in Eastern Conference, whether it's Tatum and Brown in Boston, James Harden in Philadelphia, Jimmy Butler and Tyler hero in Miami, go to Chris Middleton in Milwaukee. You're going to have to defend perimeter guys. You need to have guys that can really make those guys work and the nets all of a sudden kind of have those guys. So I think they made out
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The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kyrie irving" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Look, he has had a lot of you go back and look at some of his quotes from the last couple of months. He's talking about leadership, he's talking about guys buying in, and now here we are, Kyrie Irving, a week full of trade deadline, asking out, how do you go back and look in that locker room to like Nick claxton who's playing out of his mind or the best years of his career and say, I'm all in, or, you know, Seth curry, a guy that badly wants to win. Like, how do you go back into that locker room? After pulling something like this, which is clearly only about yourself. He just said in a press conference within the last couple of weeks, he took this veiled barely veiled shot at James Harden by saying that the reason they're able to weather the storm better without Durant this time is we've got a guys who are all committed and buying in and want to be here says the guy who's about to drop a bomb of a trade demand. I mean, come on. I think Howard, I think he, I think he really believed that the nets were gonna blink. That they were gonna look at his play the last couple of months, this all star star, and say, you know what? Maybe we don't need protections as many protections on a multiyear contract as we originally. And again, the lesson that we all should learn and that all the other teams that are considering acquiring him should heed right now is, look at how well he was comporting himself on and off the court between the time his suspension ended and today. He was playing at a great level. He was engaged. He was not saying anything crazy, not doing anything to cause controversy, like he was, and now again, you can see why, because he was trying to gain that extension. And the second he doesn't get what he wants, he goes off the rails again. Like, it's so clear. It's a contract drive. I'm not going to stir it up. I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm not going to do any crazy on the court. I'm going to try to be the consummate teammate. Never mind that they've gotten their butts kicked a bunch of times when they faced actual competition without Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving showing you once again he's not a one a, he's got to be your one B or two at best, but everything was fine as long as he thought it was leading toward a long-term commitment from the nets, which they are right not to want to give him. Or if it was about conditions in that contract, they were right to condition it. And again, the reporting from Chris Haines today clearly coming from people who are close to Kyrie because it's insights into his thinking and his camps thinking is that allegedly not about the money, okay. Okay, you can't. You can't say that with a straight line. The last well, the last thing that crusade said that the report that I saw him do on TV tonight was, even if the nets came with a max offer now that he no longer even wants the max offer. I don't believe that for a second, but they're saying it's about principle. Of having conditions built in because he sees it as an insult. And again, that is an insight into kairi's thinking. He believes that because he is as talented as he is and can do the things he does, which granted nobody else in the league can do. He's incredible. As a talent, but that doesn't entitle you to a max extension when the team that you're asking this of has been thrown into chaos by you, the player over and over and over again. They are right to not want to make that commitment in full to want conditions. And if that was, again, as Chris Haynes reported, if it was conditioned on the winning a championship this year, that is a fully reasonable condition. Look, you help us win a championship, you get whatever you want. Anything short of that, all we're gonna remember is you're the guy who torches every season one way or another. So, you know, spin this forward, the question becomes, who out there is desperate enough and risk, you know, and let's get into that then. Let's get into the possibilities. Let me just add one more thing. Due respect to our friend Chris Haines, but I'm sure someone at Kyrie's camp was telling him that and he's relaying that information, but you can not sit here or sit there with a straight face and say, Kyrie would turn down a four year max right now. I don't think he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't do it. Stop. Stop. He wouldn't, he wouldn't do it. All right, so now we look at where the nets turn. In this situation. And it does say something about Kyrie Howard, that the only teams that would appear to be remotely interested are the ones like reeking of desperation right now. You've got the Lakers that have had some level of interest in Kyrie Irving over the better part of the last 8 months. They just acquired Rui hachimura, which is going to eat into their cap space next summer. So maybe they're a little bit more motivated to acquire Kyrie Irving now and use that Westbrook contract so that they can get an impact player, not just for this season, but perhaps for next season and beyond Dallas has been looking for somebody to pair next to Luka Dončić Phoenix. Phoenix sees the end of the Chris Paul era coming at this point and they've tried to do a big deal with Brooklyn before. How would you rank the landing spots? Who would you say is a FrontRunner? If anyone right now to go get Kyrie Irving. So I was going down the standings just to in my own, you know, some combination of Intel slash my own judgment and I came up with there are three yeses out there and all the reporting is that the Lakers suns and mavericks are all yeses in terms of their at least interested. I'm skeptical on the sun's aspect of this. I don't know how the suns get there. I don't know that you're not gonna put 8 in a deal for Kyrie. Are you swapping Chris Paul for Kyrie? I mean, so color me skeptical in the suns, right? Like I know the chemistry has been a little wonky there, but that's a team that has built made the finals and Kyrie is just he's a walking landmine and you just don't know. The Mavericks are desperate to get help for Luca and the Lakers are just desperate period. We know this. I threw down a few maybes. I saw Miami is a maybe. I was thinking like the hawks are the hawks ready. They're not ready to do this, but with a hux flip like get rid of their Trae Young headache and flip him for Kyrie and have a Kyrie dajon Murray back probably not, but I was playing with that idea. The wizards, I don't know what the wizards are even about or what their motives are or what motivates them at all. But the wizards could certainly use them. The bulls need to shake up of some kind, but they're probably more in the market for a teardown. And then I put the clippers on the maybe list, but that's about it. No one's gonna be knocking down the nets doors, and I don't really know what you can get of value, so I think
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kyrie irving" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Weekly NBA content these two are capable of. What does that mean? It could be the best duo ever. I don't see how you can beat that. Here they are. Chris mannix and Howard back. Well, if you're waiting for drama in the NBA before the trade deadline, Friday at about 2 o'clock eastern, you got it. Kyrie Irving has officially demanded a trade this news reported virtually simultaneously by the NBA's cadre of news breakers. So you want to credit jobs, you want to credit woes, you want to credit Chris Haynes and the other guys that might have had it have at it. But Kyrie Irving has requested a trade and that is more than enough for Howard Beck and I to jump on the podcast and break it all down for you. So Howard, let's start here. Scale of one to ten, how surprised were you that Kyrie Irving has requested a trade? Does this qualify as an emergency podcast? I'm never sure where the line is. What's alarming versus an emergency versus like potential tragedy? I don't know how we scale these things. I don't know the emergency feels very strong. It's an emergency for the nets, I guess. Scale of one to ten surprise. Is there anything lower than one? I mean, here's what I would say. Back when I wrote in early November that the net should burn it all down, blow it up, whatever. Tear it down to the studs, part of my assessment of where they were and why I thought this was unsalvageable was that you never know when the next thing from Kyrie Irving is coming. So could I have predicted or would I have predicted a trade demand? With less than a week to go to the trade deadline, I mean, it would have been on the dart board of possibilities. What I would have predicted for sure is something was going to happen. This was the one thing you knew. After the controversy and the suspension over the posting of an anti semitic film faded, you knew it was only a matter of time before there was something. And they won a bunch of games and everybody got healthy and Jacques von proved to be the right voice and everything seemed fine for a while and then Durant goes down and they start going off the rails, playing wise, Kyrie, comport himself well throughout. But you know with Kyrie Irving, it's always going to be something. Whether it's refusing a vaccine, whether it's posting an anti semitic film, whether it's taking a vacation in the middle of the season, whether it's whatever, you know, like something was going to happen. It might as well have been this. And we should have seen this coming. We should have seen this coming because when Chris Haynes of Turner sports tweeted a week or so ago reported a week or so ago, I think he actually had it on the site too. That kairi's agent slash stepmom had told him on the record told Christine's on the record that they wanted an extension. That should have been the writing on the wall that this was coming because you know the nets don't want to commit to him long term if they can avoid it, or at least not without a thousand caveats and conditions, which apparently is what was going on. And you know that Kyrie Irving wants as every player wants. More of an assurance. So we should have seen this coming in that regard. So surprise levels should be low. So mine's low, it's not as low as yours. I'd probably put it at like 5 or 6, if only because we had a lot of evidence that when the nets are healthy, they're pretty damn good. Before Kevin Durant went down, then that's where 18 and two. In the month of December, they were 12 and one. They were nipping at the heels of the Celtics for the top spot in the Eastern Conference standings. Now, yes, they have fallen off after the Durant entry that lost to Boston on Wednesday was less a loss as much as it was a throttling by the Celtics. So they're now at their low point of this portion of the season. But even though I agree with you, that we should have seen this coming, maybe part of me, the wide eyed optimist that you know I am a part of me thought, hey, maybe Kyrie looked at the way this team played in December and early January and said, wow, I might be able to win here. Maybe thought that asking for a trade before the deadline might be a bad thing to do. Was that too naive of me? What's the one thing? What's the one thing we should have probably learned about Kyrie Irving and his motives? And what self serving? Well, there's that. But this too. Left the Cavaliers when they had just gone to three straight finals and won a championship and he was the costar to the best player of his generation and decided to leave LeBron. Then he goes to Boston where he's now playing alongside a phenomenal up and coming young duo by the names of Jason and Jalen who are now the best one two punch in the NBA by a lot of assessments. He left them when he could have stayed there for years. So if we're saying that the winning of the nets and by the way, soft schedule when they were fattening up in December, never mind. If we were going to say that that was going to be what would keep Kyrie Irving on course on track and in the fold and wanting to stay, despite contract uncertainty, despite future uncertainty, despite everything, if you were thinking he's going to stay because of winning and the chance to win championships, well, we've already seen him leave a championship team twice basically because that Celtics team was a team that you could see the trajectory of that they were on the rise and lo and behold they were in the finals last year and he left them before they could get there and he left any obviously burned a lot on the way out. He left the Cavaliers. Why would we think that winning would keep him anywhere? Why would we even think that his friendship slash perceived loyalty to Kevin Durant would keep him on track and in the fold? This is the thing. Like I think if nothing else today underscores again is Kyrie Irving is about Kyrie Irving. And he was a big reason why last season got torched a championship potential title run torched because of his anti vaccine crap. He alienates James Harden. So now they forced to trade Hardin for Ben Simmons, which has been a net loss for the nets. I mean, every year it's something and he doesn't care what the consequences are. That's not even that's not even an opinion or a hot take. It's just an objective fact. We've seen it over and over again. It's just what he does. He acts in his own interest and the consequences be damned. Yeah, and let's be clear to people that are trying to kind of understand the machinations of why he'd do this now. Kyrie doesn't want to be in Brooklyn, at least not long term. So the best thing for Kyrie Irving individually is to get traded to another team that would have his bird rights. And because that team has his bird rights, they can exceed the cap and pay him whatever they want. So theoretically, Kyrie could get his four year $200 million extension from someone out there. If someone's because if someone's one, we'll get to that part in a second. But if Kyrie were to hit the free agent market and definitely didn't want to go back to Brooklyn and couldn't do a sign and trade, which are incredibly complicated. The teams that have, you know, let's just say 40 plus $1 million in cap space. I'm going to run them down for you. There's four of them. Utah, Detroit, San Antonio, Houston. Which of those teams is even going to be remotely interested in Kyrie Irving? I mean, Houston's kind of crazy, but I don't think even they're that crazy to add Kyrie Irving to that big. So this is entirely about next season. Kyrie does not give a damn about what happens in Brooklyn this season. That's why Howard, I think it's going to be really hard for him to recover from this. At least for this season with this team in that locker
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kyrie irving" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
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AP News Radio
Irving has 26, Nets beat Lakers 121-104 as James, Davis sit
"Brooklyn led by just a point early in the fourth quarter, then outscored LA 36 20 the rest of the way. Kyrie Irving led the nets with 26 points while patty mills and camp Thomas each scored 21 off the bench as Brooklyn won its second straight game after losing 6 of 8 since Durant injured his knee. James and Davis were given the night off to rest by the Lakers who lost for the 7th time in 11 games.
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Irving has 32 points, Nets beat Knicks for 9th straight time
"The nets picked up their 9th straight win over the Knicks as Kyrie Irving scored 21 of his 32 points over the final 9 and a half minutes of Brooklyn's one 22 one 15 victory. Irving had just 11 points on four of 14 shooting before getting hot. It's his 6th straight game with at least 30 points. A career high and a team record, Irving also had 9 assists in 6 rebounds. Joe Harris finished with 16 points and Nick claxton chipped in 13 with 12 rebounds and 6 assists. Jalen Brunson had 26 points in RJ Barrett 23 for the Knicks, who trailed by 19 at one point. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Pistons beat Nets, first win in Brooklyn in almost 5 years
"The net swoon continued with a one 31 22 loss to the lowly pistons. It's a deep bay dropped in 25 points and Alec Burks added 20 is Detroit one in Brooklyn for the first time since April 2018. The pistons trailed by a point before scoring 43 points on 65% shooting in the third quarter. Bay had 15 points on 6 of 7 from the field in the third. The nets fell to two and 6 since Kevin Durant went down with a knee injury. Kyrie Irving had a game high 40 points and Nick claxton added a career best 27 for the nets. Brooklyn finished with that Ben Simmons due to knee soreness. I'm Dave ferry.
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James Harden, Tyrese Maxey lead 76ers past Nets, 137-133
"The 76ers erupted for 75 points in the first half before holding off the nets one 37 one 33. 5 sixers scored at least 18 points, led by tyrese maxi with 27 off the bench. Joel embiid delivered 26 points and ten rebounds, while James Harden added 23 points. Ned's guard, Seth curry led all scores with 32 points off the bench. Kyrie Irving provided 30 points and ten assists while Nick claxton had 25 points and 11 boards. Philadelphia has won 6 in a row to move into second place in the east. Brooklyn is two games behind Philly as the number four team in the conference. I'm Dave ferry.
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Irving scores 48, Nets beat Jazz for 1st win without Durant
"The nets four game losing streak is over after Kyrie Irving engineered a one 17 one O 6 verdict over the jazz. Irving scored 21 of his 48 points in the fourth quarter. Obviously, I made a few more shots than I did in the fast food games. That makes a difference, but I feel like we just played poise down the stretch and doing the little things throughout the game. We are in this win. Nick claxton chipped in 20 points and Roy so Neil added 13 with 6 assists in his first game back in Utah since being traded to the nets. Jordan Clarkson scored 29 points, and Lori market and tallied 22 with 11 rebounds for the jazz. I'm Dave ferry.
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Mikal Bridges scores 28 points, Suns beat Nets to snap skid
"Mikhail bridges led the way with 28 points, Deandre ayton added 24 as the suns held off a fourth quarter rally by the nets to get a one 17 one 12 victory and snap a three game skid. After missing 37 games with a knee injury, cam Johnson scored 19. The sun's got just their third win in their last 15 outings. Respecting the game, the NBA games are missing 37 and come back in is not a light task, observing those maybe one or two possessions and then just getting back to hooping. Kyrie Irving led the nets with 30 points, 21 coming in the final quarter, Brooklyn is now lost four straight games. George Phoenix
Lakers Nation Podcast
"kyrie irving" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Been waiting for our fireworks of another kind to go off of a Kyrie Irving trade. They're still waiting. What is going on? We're going to talk about that tonight. We'll talk a little bit about the Lakers roster build as well plus be taking your questions and comments coming in from YouTube from Facebook from Twitter, those of you guys joining us live. And of course, if you listen to the podcast version of this over on Apple podcast Spotify or whatever, we do appreciate you joining us from there as well. Make sure you do give us that 5 star ready and review over on Apple podcast. All right, let's get into this. Oh no, people in the chat already saying that the kairi trade will go down while I am flying to Vegas tomorrow for summer league. That is my nightmare. That is my nightmare. For sure. Joining me right now. Matt, the optimist Peralta. Matt, how are you? No, Kyrie trade still. I am good, Trevor. Happy 4th of July. I'm not sure if you guys can hear the fireworks outside. So I apologize if you do. But I'm doing well. I have zenned out on the whole tire everything, actually. I have learned to practice patients in this crucial moment of the Lakers franchise. Okay, so are taking the Phil Jackson approach here, right? Yes, I'm smoking the peyote in the desert. That's how you're getting through this. Yeah. What do you think about this whole situation, right? Like I've got a lot of fans who are saying, just get it done. Why is this not done yet? What's happening? I understand the frustration, but it's really only been a few days like, we're not even at the Kauai just yet. We're not there yet. No, so see, look, this is the optimism coming back, guys. I'm trying to live up to my nickname. Look, the way I've looked at this is between now and training camp, let's say, how does Kyrie Irving make himself any sort of attractive to the rest of the other teams the size of the Lakers here? I don't see it. I don't see anyone coming to the nets and saying, you know what? Kyrie is still on your team. Let's take them off your hands. I don't see that happening. I think the Lakers are the only team that is willing to trade for Kyrie at this moment. So this is a staring contest between the nets and the Lakers. I think that it's like you said it's only been four days really. So I think this can drag out a little bit longer, but I think practicing patients in this spot is key. I think what the nets are doing. And I think you're starting to see it in the fan base is we're just trying to create some restlessness and see if you can get you guys to panic trade for Kyrie. I don't think that's the approach. They're not going to get any leverage between now and the next couple of weeks. So I think it's still best to wait. Kyrie will be a Laker. I just think it's going to take a little bit longer than we had originally anticipated. The media narrative going back and forth depending on which side is leaking what? Right. It's a little bit maddening. I mean, there was a report, so there was a report in the New York Post from today that had suddenly the nets don't want to trade Joe Harris and they won't trade about her any circumstance. The previous report from Chris Hayes was, yeah, the sticking point is the Lakers want Seth curry in the trade, the nets want Joe Harris in the trade. I'll take that. Sure. It's craziness that it just keeps going back and forth..
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"kyrie irving" Discussed on Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"Here with CLN S dot com and stealing us media as we talk about the off season of the NBA. So gentlemen, let's get right to it. Bob, I'll start with you. Our good friend Kyrie Irving has opted back in with the Brooklyn Nets. The nets disappointed he opted back in and are you surprised he didn't have anywhere else to go. From all we gather what the bottom line here is is that no one wanted him at his for him other than the Lakers. And they weren't going to pay him what he wanted to start with the members. So in a better way, this would be a sobering thing. It might make him cause to reexamine his whole business, but it won't just reinforce him that he's right in the world's wrong. And we just understand him and never will because how can we understand someone and that incredible intellectual level and a level of feel that he's just a whole week better human being in the rest of us. So, you know, nobody wanted them to, you know, that's what it was. She was back with the nets. It's amazing. Amazing to me that we're at this point. Now, again, sure we saw this coming to some degree, but still the fact that we are there. And we are looking at one of the best players in the league, one of the most talented guards we've ever seen in the NBA and the fact that nobody wants them and it's not like, again, it's not like he did something so egregious to people, right? Like there's some guys that are just such bad people. It's not like you could say that about Kyrie. He's just so out there. And not a great teammate, but for different reasons. I mean, let me read you his quote. When he basically said he was coming, quote, normal people keep the world going. But those who dare to be different,.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"kyrie irving" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Okay, maybe you could talk me into it there. But Kyrie Irving for Anthony Davis, no, it doesn't make sense. And I know there's a lot of people. I know there's a lot of people out there who are not high on Anthony Davis right now, Lakers fans who are frustrated with Anthony Davis based on what we've seen with the injuries, right? We saw two major injuries for Anthony Davis this season, kept them off the floor for a good chunk of the time, and even when he was healthy. We didn't see very many. There were some flashes, but we didn't see a lot of the dominant Anthony Davis, right? Think back to the bubble when Anthony Davis looked like a league MVP. That was probably the last time we saw that guy. His three point percentage, what was it this season? Like 18%. So I understand why some Lakers fans will be frustrated with Anthony Davis and some might be willing to just wash their hands in a situation and say, let's move on. So let's just move on from AD and if you can get Kyrie to get Kyrie. Okay, if that is the approach that you want to take to Anthony Davis, I understand I don't agree, but I understand it. However, here's what I'll present. Kyrie is not the guy that you want. If you want to trade Anthony Davis, okay, that's fine. Don't do it for Kyrie Irving. It makes no sense. Here's the thing. We talked about this coming into the season. Russell Westbrook and LeBron James together on paper does not fit. Does not fit at all. It's a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad rotten fit. The Lakers gambled that that fit issue was going to be mitigated by talent. That Russell Westbrook, LeBron James, together they're just so talented that the fit wasn't going to matter. Sometimes that happens on paper, Dwyane Wade, and LeBron James. Don't fit. Don't fit. And yet they won championships..
Winning Plays
"kyrie irving" Discussed on Winning Plays
"What it is? With Kyrie Irving, Irving still on the roster, and I say no, because you can't play emea DOCA defensive system. No. With Kyrie. Out there for 40 minutes a game. It would be a disaster. We've seen it especially in the postseason. We're seeing it in this series right now. We've seen it for years when he doesn't have an amazing defense around him to protect him. It would help. It would still be a great defense, but it wouldn't be this good. And so in a way, now if the subjects continue this run and somehow get to the finals here, again, a long way to go, but in terms of their long-term trajectory, I think the possibilities of what this roster can become, the upside is almost better without Kyrie in the picture and all the baggage he brings. Yeah, because and I love this. I mean, this is homegrown. Like this is the approach that I wanted all the time. Back in 2018, right? So I'm writing for the sports hub website. I write a thing about why the Celtics should not trade for LeBron or sign LeBron or whatever, when LeBron was a thing and people were going out there trying to court him. And a bunch of people picked it up, you know, like deadspin kicked me around a little bit. It was just like, oh, great, you know, this is good. I'm getting some attention for my quote unquote, hot take, but really I just didn't want LeBron on the Celtics. And I wanted them to be a team that I could get to know, watch, grow, maybe raise my kid on a little bit, like these are some players that we can expect to see here, you know, we have a real kinship with them, like this is the ultimate goal. Again, I will keep saying this. I'm not going to come on here and get yelled at and called green teamer because I'm praising the Celtics right now and they haven't actually accomplished the ultimate goal. I think there is some reason to say that we really like what we're seeing here. And it's just, it's fun for me to have it go this way, particularly when everyone was naysaying. You know, that this wasn't the approach or the Celtics needed that third star. You know, like all the conventional MBA stuff they need to build a super team..
Winning Plays
"kyrie irving" Discussed on Winning Plays
"I can't compare, I'll come back like that to this team just being like, I'm not going to disrespect those guys. We're like, what? These Kevin Durant is not worthy of comparing to LeBron James. What are you trying to say, Kyrie? It's a disservice to Richard Jefferson. And Ken and I were talking about it. I mean, Kyrie Irving probably pro basketball Hall of Fame standards, right? He's like setting himself up to be in Springfield. I probably probably. Maybe he needs a little bit more. I mean, he's a champion. He's been an all star, a bunch of times. But like, you know, he came in the league, he was on that rebuilding team. They were bad. It wasn't his fault. He still put up good numbers. LeBron comes back. They win a title. He hits that key shot, but really since then, 2017 is playoff run was good. Despite the fact that they lost. But he's really been living off that shot. Yes, since 2016. I mean, you think about what he did here. He didn't play during that miracle run in 2018, 2019, he played some of the worst basketball of his career and that buck series. And what, 2020 was injured? Should I shut it down? Shut it down. Yep. Because Durant wasn't playing, so it was like, why do I need to play? And then last year, he actually got injured. It wasn't a faux injury, and then this year you get the whole vaccination saga, whatever. And leading into this, where he talks about the Celtics. Gelling as if like this team has been together for like half a decade. Right. There's three players on the team who were there when he was there, who have been there the entire time, smart Brown and Tatum. You brought back Al you brought back tice. Sure, but this is not the same team. This isn't like some bubbling under thing like the warriors were, you know, when they had Mark Jackson and David Lee was still there. And then they had to make some tweaks, and then they were ready. This is kind of all happened really quickly for the Boston Celtics. And he's just totally characterizing it the way that he wants to characterize it because he's going to write the Kyrie narrative. I mean, this is a guy who's got a Hollywood experience, right? So he's, you know, he's going to write the script the way that he wants to write it. Uncle drew with his pen, sitting down. Oh man, it's just, it's like, I can't wait to be rid of him because he's exhausting. It's kind of like when Taylor Swift sings were never ever getting back together. She just wants to be done with that guy. But at the same time, it is fodder for the lyrics that she writes. Much like you writing about Kyrie last night. It's just such a blessing to have this guy open his mouth. It's the gift that keeps giving..
Winning Plays
"kyrie irving" Discussed on Winning Plays
"I'll be pretty sorry walking the dock here. Sure. This is going to do it. I just want to talk about Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant. You know, Kevin Trent is getting what he richly deserves. And if he should be irritated, he shouldn't be irritated with Kyrie, but himself because he hitched his wagon to a guy who missed a bulk of the games this season due to not getting the vaccination. Then decides to do the Ramadan, which I can respect, but you're in the playoffs right now. They're not gelling and you know how they're not young is because they didn't have an opportunity to play together. I mean, if he's irritated, he should be irritated to Kyrie, but more of himself. I mean, you hit your wagon to the sky, this is what you get. He bailed on Boston's last season and, you know, he's going to mail it in again. It's just, he's richly getting what he deserves. I just wanted to touch on that. You know, I mean, I'm enjoying seeing the collapse of Brooklyn, you know? They wanted during the, you know, during the all star break, wanting to get together. So, you know, what comes around goes around and I'm enjoying the karma. That's all I wanted to say. Yeah, thank you, Joe. And I mean, that's certainly the mentality around here. You know, you look at it from a national lens P rob, do you think that a lot of the folks out there are looking at Durant and there's always legacy talk and this and that and just kind of saying it's easy for bostonian to say, oh, the nets, they're no good. They got that dirty bump Kyrie, but you know, when you kind of go out and take the 10,000 foot view, is it, is this like really damaging to that conversation for Kevin Durant? You have to at this point. I mean, look at it the three years they've been together in Brooklyn right now. Year one was a wash since Durant was hurt, and they knew that going in, but Kyrie gave up on that team halfway in regardless and got Kenny Atkins and fired. Good coach. They had a lot of emerging young talent there that they cashed in on for James Harden last year. Last year was their chance and Kyrie got hurt in the postseason, which has happened a lot in his career, which he's always had durability, which is one of the biggest knocks on him. And then this year, Joe covered.
Winning Plays
"kyrie irving" Discussed on Winning Plays
"You go, no, yes, but, you know, I forget what he finished for the game last night, but at least in the first half, he was making him. And was a big part of, I don't know, I just felt like they controlled that game. There was never a loss of control where it was like the other teams going on a run. The counter punches were there, every single time, where the nets did close it to two or three points. And smart was probably bigger than anyone at the end of that third quarter when in that last minute. I think honestly, that might have been the game right there, Sean. I think the nets had cut it to three and smart comes down. He beats old friend Kyrie Irving on the offensive glass sneaks by him, gets to next time down, steel, pull up three for the perfect two for one and then jaylen Brown closes out the quarter with a steal and a dunk, 7 O run nets, just absolutely demoralized. And they weren't really able to climb back into it, at least threatened seriously after that run. Yeah, after watching so many games in the first half of the season where it felt like things would slip away in the third quarter to see that sort of response. And to see the resolve and getting a key defensive stop leading to a last second win in game one or a comeback win or in game two. And then this one was close and they just rolled..
ESPN Daily
"kyrie irving" Discussed on ESPN Daily
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Call for cost information and conditions, equal housing lender. Licensed in all 50 states and MLS consumer access dot org number 30 30. So next back in the present tense, it is January 5th, 2022, it's still hard for me to say that. But the nets are 23 and 12, they've lost three straight games, but I want to talk about the game they lost to the clippers because they were completely decimated the clippers were as a team as a roster. And you tweeted after that one that you had never seen Kevin Durant. Quite so frustrated in his entire career. What happened there? How would you describe the state of what the nets have going as we speak? The chemistry is not good. Chemistry of this group looks like there's still unsure of exactly who is going to show up night tonight. You go back on new year's night and they lose to a clippers team that is playing with all these no name G league guys that most people would know. They're up double digits in the last few minutes and they're given up wide open shots. They've slipped walk through parts of this game and now facing the fire to the corner man alone. He got it. Terence man makes it a two position clipper lead. Durant will fire the three no good and that is a really rough loss for Brooklyn. As somebody who recovered Kevin in that last year, in Oakland Pablo, I think he knows right now that the attitude for a team that has championship aspirations isn't to the point that he needs him to be. How confident are you in this group to be able to bounce back the way you guys need to follow in this kind of loss? Continue to get a character if we don't oppose to the game in a proper way. It's about the group. So by how we want to come out here and be the best that we can, each possession. Tonight wasn't one of 9th. To hear him that mad over, gave me knows that they should have won. Led me to believe that he knows that behind the scenes, there are a lot of different questions that have to be figured out if they want to get things all the way back on track. So I'm looking ahead to your life to your schedule, Nick, the nets schedule. They play an indie tonight. They have two home games in which Kyrie can op participate for reasons that are now obvious. They get two road games early next week when in Portland, one in Chicago, that's a big game, of course. You know, the experiment also is just what it's like to go without him in this very deliberate alternating way. Does that feel like something to worry about just on a purely conceptual level? Yes, I mean, you and I have covered the league a long time. We've talked to a lot of people in play for years and years and what do you always hear? The group needs to be on the same page. There needs to be continuity between the stars, finding their rhythm together and everybody else who is kind of orbiting around in this case, the KDs and the hardens and the kairi, I have never heard a coach say, you know what? You know what would be great. I would love to have one of my star players. Only playing half of these games. I mean, that's never in the history of basketball. It's something that any coach or GM would throw out there because they know that this is a game built on timing and rhythm and I don't care how unbelievably talented a player is. And Pablo, if there's anybody who can buck this trend as these bucks, so many other trends along the way, it's Kyrie Irving, but that is what makes the next four or 5 months that much more intriguing because not only have none of us really seen this, it's a matter of all right, well, maybe the nets do play well. Maybe they go on this long road trip. They go into the West Coast at the end of the month and they play really well and they're picking up a bunch of wins. Well, they come home and they don't see Kyrie, at least playing in the games, and that is gonna be such a huge adjustment I would think early on that even if you feel like you have figured it out, how much can you figure out when you're taking that much talent off the floor for gaps in time? When I think about the playoff picture, what feels epically epically bizarre is that the nets might be in the situation, and that's by the way currently number two in the east. They may be in a situation where being the one seed in the Eastern Conference having home court advantage might actually be a disadvantage for them because Kyrie can't play in those home games, right? I mean, he could not play as things stand now in games one, two, 5 and 7. I've been wonder be perfect. What's lippy perfect? Losing your star point guard in and out like that. And honestly, part of me perversely wants to see that. I can not imagine the NBA has been searching for strong storylines and excitement and pump up the hive at every point Pablo can you imagine the warriors versus the nets with the warriors having home court advantage with Kyrie balancing in and out of San Francisco and you've got Kevin Durant and draymond green, you went back and forth and you've got Stefan harden seeing each other in a playoff series again..
The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"kyrie irving" Discussed on The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"Authority. He's not gonna send the authority. That's not yeah. He's not gonna succumb to authorities. No, Gary, I think this is it. People like Kyrie, don't see all these problems that created until they're out of the game. When they're out of the door, now it's like, oh, damn, I did that. And I pissed this person off and I didn't do this. You don't miss your water. You don't miss your water till you will run dry. What happened to our half of the ally? When the game got you out? Over Kyrie's lifetime. People have lined up the kisses ass. And even with the Celtics, when he was here, there are a lot of things they want him to do from a public relationship standpoint. Kyrie said no. I don't want to do it. And the Celtics did, okay. All right, 'cause we want to sign you as a free agent again. We only keep you happy. Until somebody steps into his ass, like, and I think the person has to step in his ass has to be somebody like the ring. Somebody who is better than him. But Kevin Durant says something to him. That might resonate. Because we know when LeBron says something to him, that just pissed in the hell off. Yeah, I think no, I think that Kyrie Irving at the end of the day looked at LeBron like, I'm just as good as you, if not now. Yes he did. Stand about the rent, he said, that dude can make every shot I can make and more. So he respects him a little bit more on the offensive end. I think with, I think if you look at Kyrie, okay, he's always like, I think the level of life he was the number one overall pick in 2011. So he's ten years in the league now. He's 29. Okay, there is no guarantee everybody is going to be LeBron or Kobe, God bless his soul, playing to the 36 37, okay? He's a Kyrie now as an off injured player, okay, and becoming more of a headache to organizations. Now, Cleveland looked at Boston and said, see, y'all thought, you know, you said we were talking about, and now Brooke Boston, you're saying the Brooklyn. See? Now we're talking about. So now using this third organization, you know, this is what remember, this is supposed to be his happy place. I'm coming home. That's fan. I'm near my family. All these, hey, it all came together. I'm playing with my friend, Kevin Durant. And my other buddy, Deandre Jordan, this is I finally found peace. How long did peace last? He missed most of his first season with his shoulder injury..
ESPN Daily
"kyrie irving" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Marks. The general manager's position he is just gone right into punt formation. When talking to the media sense said it's a private matter for kyrie. Well it is a private matter for kyrie but it's a heck of a problem for the nets Whether they want to hide behind that statement or not yeah. It feels like look. There's a larger conversation we'll touch on here about public health and privacy and how many of these choices are around vaccination. But we're really talking about here is also just a sports business story. It's actually just a sports story. What happens when one of the three best players on the nba. Title favorite ends up not being able to play a half of their games because of a local ordinance and it feels like you know so much of this got kicked off through this rolling stone story that came out and look. This is not spn's reporting but it was explosive reporting. They talked to kyrie's aunt she's the head of his family foundation. She's described as one of the few people in his regular circle of advisers. How would you describe what she said. As kyrie's motives here are concerned. I don't wanna put words in her mouth but she basically implied that kyrie was going to be fighting a grander fight beyond just whether he could play in the nba or not Just basically a fight for anybody who felt that they were being forced to vaccinate or forced to do anything. I think if i recall his aunt said something along the lines of what he's doing is not religious based its moral based knowing whether his aunt was speaking for him or whether she was speaking on your own would be a key yes or no question to get from kyrie irving at some point hiree definitely feels a draw to be much bigger than basketball and in certain areas in his life. He has been and by the way in some areas of his life. It's been very admirable. Yeah and you know. It's it's a big standard. Take i think for modern athletes who want to be you know bigger than athletes. The icon is mohammed ali and muhammad ali at a very delicate time and our country stood up for what he believed in in terms of the draft. And i don't want to put words into kyrie's mouth or make an assumption of what he's thinking because that's really dangerous. But i think hiree would like to be somebody who is seen as that type of inspirational person beyond the game hiree in the past has dabbled around the concept of trying to start his own league away from the nba. So you know he has a guy to say the he's a guy that he thinks. Big is true. I believe he's even talked about After his playing career going living on a commun- things of this nature so there's no telling what he may say and what he may do quite frankly and pablo. It's actually my preference as somebody who covers the nba. I really made a decision a couple of years ago. Then i'm gonna came to kyri. I was only going to focus on the rectangle of the basketball court. Because after that got a little bit squishy and you could find yourself sort of stuck in a swamp trying to follow going on in this case we have no choice because his actions and words outside the basketball court affect the team on the court. Who's maybe highest profile team in the nba. And a chance to win the championship this year. Which is the core of everything that we do. At certain point. It feels like i guess. Life has dealt me this hand where. I must now go hunting for these instagram posts. Tyree has started liking in which vaccines are alleged to be part of a plot to connect people to a master computer on behalf of satan. I can't say for sure that's why he thinks. But certainly there's evidence that he is is studying those concepts. So what does happen from here brian. How long does go on. What kind of resolution do you see on the horizon. If at all so the nba is doing everything in its power to force players into getting the vaccine. The lives of players who are unvaccinated are much more uncomfortable than their vaccinated teammates from them. Not being able to sit in the sections of the plane. That are more comfortable to them. Not being able to eat with their teammates to how much they have to test to Whether they may have to spend time away from the team if they're exposed to cova And most importantly they're gonna take kyrie irvings money for games that he doesn't play and not much. Are we talking about ryan well. That's a key factor here so the nba players union and the league as we speak are fighting over this exact thing the nba in an effort to force kyrie and andrew wiggins quite frankly to get vaccinated decided they were not going to pay a players if they if they had to sit due to the city rules and for kyrie irving that is going to be in the neighborhood of four hundred thousand dollars per game. They are absolutely trying to turn the screw as hard as possible on on kyrie to get vaccine so brian i mean looking at your latest reporting here with woes tonight about what. The nets are kind of feeling about all of this right now with two weeks to go before the season starts. How would you describe how the organization is approaching this at this point. Well they've been hopeful that kyrie you know would get compliance would get vaccinated and since that is not happening and the reality pablo is. There's only one day left in the entire preseason where the nets are are scheduled to be out of new york. And that's a that's a one game a one day trip to philadelphia for a game next week. it's kyra can't practice at least with the team and so as they peak ahead to their early season schedule they have six game homestand in mid october where it would be eleven consecutive days. Where under the current rules of kyrie is not compliant. He only play in those six games. He can't practice on the days off in between man and so it's very difficult in the national basketball association to not play a practice with your team for seven to ten to fourteen days at a time and just show up and play and the nets are now starting to come to terms with the reality that their hopes that kyrie would get this Taking care of aren't going through. You know they were. Hopefully we could go in here. They are a week later. It's not taking so. They have started to to examine whether or not they want to allow kyrie to be a part time player. Do they want to enter into a situation where they will have to go through. These shock changes to their team bringing kyrie in and out There's even a stretch pablo in in november and december. Where they're at home for twenty out of twenty six days i mean the nba has accepts stretches. The reality is that the nets are starting to think that they may have to make a decision on this. I mean. i don't think they're there yet. But i think they are trying to be responsible and the thing about is they're very deep team. You know they don't have another kyrie irving but they have another great point. Guard have another. Mvp level point guard right there in james harden and they have a patty mills who they who is their major offseason free agent signing Who is a starter level player. He's not kyrie irving. Don't get me wrong. But he is a quality replacement and so they are beginning to to to say listen. We have to go through a process here and really pablo if i could translate it. Yeah i think it's the nets beginning to push back To basically say kyri we. We will support your decision either way. But you've got to make that decision you can't sit on the fence and so we may be headed toward that becoming a you know a pinch point four korean the nets in the short term future. But it would. Just be blunt with me here about this brian because if the nets are beginning to push back in a decision might be made a very tough decision i mean are we talking about a trade. Are we talking about something else. Who in the organization has the power on that. How how's the power structure work here. Well it's it's be kevin durant. Kevin durant is the guy who really is the point person on any big decision with the nets. This would be a huge. You know the situation really is is that kyri is is not a valuable player in new york. If he's not vaccinated he's a valuable player in twenty seven other cities he's how slayer in new york. He's half a player in new york and the nets are trying to title this year. Kyrie may feel unfair. But it's the reality. It's the reality of the nets have to play with and and so. I don't think we're at that point and i don't think katie is at that point but i think a week ago. Everybody was hopeful and sort of in full support. That is now starting to come in doubt and the nets in in kevin durant are going to have to evaluate their options. And i don't want to talk about trade because that starts to fire people up. But let's get aggregated buddy if you are going to be a new the every other player currently playing in new york no matter where they are on the vaccination has gotten vaccine because they understand if you wanna be a player in new york. This what you have to do right now. Kyri has not made that decision and so you have to start to deduct about whether he wants to be a player in new york and that's a situation that the nets have to do the calculus begin to think about doing it. So brian before my head explodes at all of these possibilities now of what happens to kyrie and his organization and what kevin durant ask. Do any of it..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"kyrie irving" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Post game show Celtics Nets will get into the game a little bit. We've got a a little bit of a developing situation after the game. We're going to talk about as well. Involving Kyrie Irving so welcome in here. Bobby Manning, get me to Sano people found quickly here. Yeah a lot of stuff to talk about, for sure. One of the things we want to discuss. We're going to do this right now. We're gonna put this up here just so you see it. We're not going to spend all our time talking about it, but this is video just sent to us from Joseph, A Pavone from TD Garden involving Kyrie Irving, leaving the court again, and that's beat the Celtics here. This is start the rounds a little bit on Twitter, so I'm going to go ahead and play it. Here.