Speaker 1: Can anybody tell me what is happening in Brooklyn?
Speaker 2: I am so serious that doesn't it feel toxic to you?
Speaker 1: Is it just me?
Speaker 2: Or does it feel broken? Like not quite broken broken?
Speaker 1: You know when you see like a crack in the
Speaker 1: glass and you're like that, like, I can't put wine
Speaker 1: in that. This is gonna be a bad night if
Speaker 1: I try to put some peno in that. So next GM,
Speaker 1: Sean Mars just gave an interview to the press exit
Speaker 1: interview of the season, and boy, oh boy, does it
Speaker 1: feel like they are at a crossroads. Truthfully, I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen an end of season interview like this,
Speaker 1: maybe ever, I guess maybe Steven Silas, but that.
Speaker 2: Was a different thing.
Speaker 1: That was just like pitiful, we suck. I don't know
Speaker 1: how we get out of this hole. Like, someone help us.
Speaker 1: This is like, yo, hard decisions coming down.
Speaker 2: You know they're hard.
Speaker 1: We know they're hard, and we know you're gonna probably
Speaker 1: have to make the wrong decision because you have no
Speaker 1: other options. He talked about a few things that I
Speaker 1: wanted to point out because if you're not on s
Speaker 1: n Y TV on the Twitter feed, you might have
Speaker 1: missed him and his accent going off about the state
Speaker 1: of affairs with the Nets first and foremost question time.
Speaker 2: Hey, Sean, are the Nets committed to Kyrie Irving long term?
Speaker 2: Chirp chirp, chirp, chure, chirp shure.
Speaker 1: According to Sean Marks, does not appear that the answer
Speaker 1: is an overwhelming yes.
Speaker 2: The answer is we'll see. We'll see.
Speaker 1: Here is what Sean Marks had to say from his
Speaker 1: own mouth.
Speaker 3: We have to factor all of that in.
Speaker 4: You know, when when you're honestly where we are, when
Speaker 4: you're giving somebody a minimum contract and it doesn't pan out,
Speaker 4: it's still factors into how you're building a roster and
Speaker 4: how much tax you're paying and so forth. So certainly
Speaker 4: when you're looking at players that are making thirty or
Speaker 4: forty million dollars so potentially making that you have to
Speaker 4: factor in everything. And that's you know, that's your's.
Speaker 3: That's the hard part of the business.
Speaker 4: Right We can all see what they can do on
Speaker 4: the court. It's one thing when you when you're evaluating players,
Speaker 4: whether it's at the college level or at the pros,
Speaker 4: like what makes them sick, what goes into you know,
Speaker 4: you know, what drives them? Do they want to be
Speaker 4: part of this, you know, are they motivated by something
Speaker 4: that maybe the you know, there's not good for the
Speaker 4: whole team here. So those are questions we're going to
Speaker 4: have to ask ourselves and also ask the players that.
Speaker 3: We want to bring back in here.
Speaker 1: Now forty eight seconds, folks said a lot first and foremost,
Speaker 1: a lot of obscucation, big words, just ducking and dodging
Speaker 1: out of the way with saying yes, as long as
Speaker 1: Kyrie wants to be here, we want Kyrie to be here.
Speaker 1: Did not say that, Diddy. You also made sure to
Speaker 1: point out we're looking for guys that want to be
Speaker 1: a part of something bigger than themselves, not just in
Speaker 1: the world Kyrie, within this basketball organization. This is very specific.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about you getting on zoom calls with
Speaker 1: Cynthia Nixon. We're talking about this Nett organization right here. Okay,
Speaker 1: play team basketball and be available and be available. Here's
Speaker 1: another little clip that was definitely not supposed to be
Speaker 1: about Kyrie, but it was.
Speaker 4: The culture is always going to change and tweak as
Speaker 4: to who comes in here.
Speaker 3: Did we take a step back?
Speaker 4: You know, without a doubt, without a doubt, the culture
Speaker 4: isn't what it quite was, and it's going to be
Speaker 4: our job, you know, to pick that up, and between
Speaker 4: Steve and myself as leaders of that, we will certainly
Speaker 4: be doing that. But again, we've got to find the
Speaker 4: players again that are going to drive that culture. It
Speaker 4: has to be driven by players. It cannot be driven
Speaker 4: by one or two people. It's got to be driven
Speaker 4: by the players. They've got to want it. We've got
Speaker 4: to find players again that have the characteristic that support
Speaker 4: that which is going to be a little bit of
Speaker 4: that gret and determination and fight. I think we know
Speaker 4: we're looking for, you know, we're looking for guys that
Speaker 4: want to come in here and be part of something
Speaker 4: bigger than themselves, play selfless, play team basketball, and be available.
Speaker 4: And that goes not only for Kyrie, but for everybody here.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, are they motivated by something that's not good
Speaker 1: for the whole team here?
Speaker 2: Do they want to be a part of this?
Speaker 1: Shots fired, Kyrie, get your ass together, and they're over
Speaker 1: a barrel. He can sign the player option if he chooses,
Speaker 1: as Sean Marks noted, but there's a lot of bad decisions,
Speaker 1: and pretty much all of them in with you signing Kyrie,
Speaker 1: irving you a five year deal right now, Like they
Speaker 1: pretty much all end up there, Like you try to
Speaker 1: go to choose your own adventure and then you end
Speaker 1: up you know, when there's like the flow chart and
Speaker 1: you just end up at the same spot no matter
Speaker 1: what the flow is, like, whatever part of the flow
Speaker 1: chart you decide, it just ends up with signing Kyrie
Speaker 1: to a max five years.
Speaker 2: You're gonna do it now or you're gonna.
Speaker 1: Do it a year from now, so you're even pushing
Speaker 1: the timeline out another year.
Speaker 4: Sheesh.
Speaker 1: Also another thing that Sean Mars had to say, I
Speaker 1: couldn't find the club, but it was a quote on
Speaker 1: the New York Post that also gave me a little
Speaker 1: perk up. They asked him about the culture, Sean Marks,
Speaker 1: what do you think he said?
Speaker 2: You think he said it was good? Then do you
Speaker 2: think he said it was good? What do you think? Uh?
Speaker 1: Did we take a step back? This culture is not
Speaker 1: what it used to be. It's going to be our
Speaker 1: job to pick that up. Between Steve Nash and myself
Speaker 1: as the leaders of that, we'll be doing that. We've
Speaker 1: gotta find players that'll drive the culture. It has to
Speaker 1: be driven by players. It cannot be driven by one
Speaker 1: or two people aka me and Steve Nash. It has
Speaker 1: to be driven by the players. They've got to want it.
Speaker 1: We've got to find players that have the characteristics to
Speaker 1: support that which is going to be grit, determination and folks,
Speaker 1: do they want to be part of this? Are they
Speaker 1: motivated by something that's not good for the team. We
Speaker 1: need to build a culture. Culture has taken a step back.
Speaker 1: Can't be driven by me and Steve needs to be
Speaker 1: driven by players.
Speaker 2: All of these things. Do you see where we're going?
Speaker 2: He also mentioned that because they have huge contracts on.
Speaker 1: The books, that the roster will be and I quote,
Speaker 1: a revolving door. Sir, how let me ask you truthfully,
Speaker 1: and I wish I was there? How do you build
Speaker 1: an elite culture if your roster is a revolving door?
Speaker 1: How do guys buy into being a part of something
Speaker 1: greater than themselves if they don't even know how long
Speaker 1: they're going to be somewhere there for? We'll move on
Speaker 1: from this so much to impact. I also want to
Speaker 1: know what the happened with James Harden?
Speaker 2: What's happening with him? All right? This is what he
Speaker 2: has to say about Harden.
Speaker 3: It's a two Way Street.
Speaker 4: Whenever you bring a player in here to any organization
Speaker 4: or anybody for that matter, not even a player, and
Speaker 4: it's not a fit, you know, you have to look
Speaker 4: in the mirror and you have to say, okay, what
Speaker 4: could we have done differently? The onboarding piece is easy, right,
Speaker 4: everybody can say, hey, look come here, I can sell this,
Speaker 4: that and that. It's the off boarding piece. That's where
Speaker 4: you've got to make sure, Well, why did I debrief
Speaker 4: on this?
Speaker 3: Did I really debate? Did I really do everything I could?
Speaker 4: Did we as an organization do everything we could for
Speaker 4: not only James, for everybody that comes through those doors.
Speaker 3: So it's a good point for us to reflect on it.
Speaker 4: But again, I think when players' minds are made up,
Speaker 4: and James's mind is made up, you know, I think
Speaker 4: it's also foolish to try and change their minds to
Speaker 4: that extent too.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, if it's not a fit.
Speaker 4: And you're paying a guy thirty plus million dollars and
Speaker 4: it doesn't work, you have to make it a decision.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think that's something that we did.
Speaker 4: We pivoted, quickly, moved, and we weren't stuck trying to
Speaker 4: figure out decisions and what could have been and you
Speaker 4: know it's time to move on from that perspective. How
Speaker 4: important was it for the organization to reconnect with the
Speaker 4: fan base in that way and get that support through
Speaker 4: the year. Absolutely incredible. I mean, you know, you guys
Speaker 4: have all been in Baclas. You know what it sounds like,
Speaker 4: and you know the energy that's in that building. And
Speaker 4: to have, you know, to be quite fanctive being here
Speaker 4: six years and to see sort of where it's coming,
Speaker 4: to see it continue to grow.
Speaker 1: You pivoted fast.
Speaker 2: You got rid of his ass. Is are you seeing
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing here? Culture? Guys don't want to be here?
Speaker 2: What are we doing to.
Speaker 1: Cause guys to get turned off so much that they
Speaker 1: were just here and now they're forcing their way out?
Speaker 1: Then he told uh, I want to say the athletic earlier.
Speaker 1: It's just a feeling. It's a feeling of when you
Speaker 1: know this is not working when it's on the court,
Speaker 1: off the court for a variety different circumstances. I give
Speaker 1: James credit for telling us, being open.
Speaker 2: Up front and on us.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be here anymore. This motherfucker Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving is crazy. He won't get vaccinated. I have to
Speaker 1: play all the minutes. My fat ass is not in
Speaker 1: shape for this. The whole tenor of this presser was
Speaker 1: just like.
Speaker 2: We want to make people be here. James Harden didn't
Speaker 2: want to be here.
Speaker 1: Veil jabs at Kyrie and by the way, Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: who isn't playing basketball and making thirty million dollars, lots
Speaker 1: of shots fired here.
Speaker 2: Team, honestly, to me, show, this is a show. I
Speaker 2: look back and I sit back in my seat, and.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be as open minded and as optimistic
Speaker 1: and as pushing pe as I can. There's too many
Speaker 1: things going on. There's just too many things, extra things
Speaker 1: that make it roadblocks for this team to win KI
Speaker 1: and then you need to figure out you can pay
Speaker 1: Kyriek Max's contract.
Speaker 2: He's injury prone. We don't even talk his walkabouts anymore.
Speaker 1: Like the walkabouts just like an issue that just has
Speaker 1: fallen off the ledger because it's a COVID thing. Like no,
Speaker 1: he took a leave of absence without asking the team
Speaker 1: and decided I'll come back whenever I want. He was
Speaker 1: not playing when James Harden trade went down. He was
Speaker 1: going to his sister's birthday party, getting suspensions.
Speaker 2: Not wearing masks.
Speaker 1: I love Kai I love his game. I just want
Speaker 1: to say, for the record, I love Kyrie Irving. I'm
Speaker 1: a big Kyrie Irving fan. Damn it does.
Speaker 2: He make it hard to be in his camp.
Speaker 1: And I know how bosses are, I know how employees
Speaker 1: and employer relationships go down. It doesn't take much for
Speaker 1: them to say, ah.
Speaker 2: Should we maybe go different direction.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It doesn't matter how talented you are,
Speaker 1: but all the they'll say, like, you're a great talent
Speaker 1: on the floor, but all the off the court stuff, Kyrie,
Speaker 1: we just need to worry about, are you really committed
Speaker 1: to being here? This conversation's gonna be on call comfortable.
Speaker 1: It's going to lead to Kyrie even getting the max.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you they're not happy about it. Drama, drama, drama,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they become if you take a
Speaker 1: bet on the nets on them being a favorite to
Speaker 1: win the title again after everything went down, You're an idiot.
Speaker 2: That's all I have to say about that.