Speaker 1: On this episode of This League, we talk about why
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma is the face for modern medicine, why the
Speaker 1: Warriors Number two pick is probably gonna be a bust,
Speaker 1: and holy shit, Kyrie Irving is finally back in the
Speaker 1: fold for the Brooklyn Nets. We also speak to Nets
Speaker 1: insider Anthony Puccio, who spills the tea on why Steve
Speaker 1: Nash might just be a puppet in Brooklyn, and we
Speaker 1: get into some listener voicemails without further ado. You know,
Speaker 1: some people say COVID is not funny, but in this
Speaker 1: case I disagree. I think COVID is hilarious. Not the disease,
Speaker 1: of course, or how it affects marginalized people's or the
Speaker 1: economic impact. I mostly think it's funny how people are
Speaker 1: reacting to COVID, their ability to rationalize anything, even something
Speaker 1: completely counter to what they just said, for their own
Speaker 1: own economic benefit. I think it's pretty fucking funny. I
Speaker 1: think it's funny when you spin something that you really
Speaker 1: want and make it sound like you're doing it for
Speaker 1: the good of the people, when someone is so obvious
Speaker 1: in their pivot, I find that to be fucking hilarious.
Speaker 1: The latest news is this. It's really touching. Actually, Adam
Speaker 1: Silver has decided for US America, especially the downtrodden, the poor,
Speaker 1: that disenfranchised, that the NBA will make the sacrifice if
Speaker 1: public officials deem that it is needed and take the
Speaker 1: vaccine early before the rest of us all put our
Speaker 1: lives at risk to do the same. Brave, selfless. I
Speaker 1: I am moved. Adam Silver, the humanitarian and the American hero.
Speaker 2: I mean, get this guy metal right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember Adam Silver talked about his stance to Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly what he said. I don't know
Speaker 1: how close it was to this stance, but I feel
Speaker 1: like it was a little different. Can you play the clip?
Speaker 3: Certainly, No, there's no way we would ever jump the
Speaker 3: line in any form whatsoever. And for the most part,
Speaker 3: because our players are young and healthy without some sort
Speaker 3: of comorbidity, they will not be a high priority for vaccinations.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are some other members of the NBA community.
Speaker 1: When did that video come out?
Speaker 4: That was December twenty first, I think, so like right
Speaker 4: before the season started, so a month ago, like a
Speaker 4: day before the season started.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so in one month's time, something happened, Something that's
Speaker 1: so vastly changed Adam Silver's rationale. He is now advocating
Speaker 1: that the NBA not but must take the vaccine early
Speaker 1: in order to benefit not himself, not the league, but
Speaker 1: skeptical communities. Now, the NBA has a duty, it is
Speaker 1: the public good to take the vaccine. Yes, communities look
Speaker 1: to athletes as their role models when it comes to
Speaker 1: making medical decisions in a pandemic.
Speaker 4: There have been discussions on vaccinating our players. It is
Speaker 4: something we're particularly focused on. There's real value in our
Speaker 4: players demonstrating to a broader community how important it is
Speaker 4: to get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's absolutely true.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 1: There is real value to the NBA for NBA players
Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. I agree, like billions of dollars of
Speaker 1: TV revenue, merchandise sales. I don't know shit, avoiding a
Speaker 1: bubble that no one seems to stand. So where is
Speaker 1: Adam Silver really saying. He's saying that these players are
Speaker 1: a PSA. The COVID vaccine is safe and only they
Speaker 1: can show us that it's safe. What a fucking spin
Speaker 1: zone if I've ever heard one, right, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it has something to do with the Grizzlies just
Speaker 1: postponed three games. The Wizards have missed like seven games.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if they're still in the league
Speaker 1: or if they've been relegated to the Gatorade League.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, And now Thomas Bryant's out,
Speaker 2: so like, who do they even have?
Speaker 1: Who can we run to? No one running up against
Speaker 1: the July deadline because Tokyo's coming around the corner and
Speaker 1: you can't miss that. Adam Silver found a way to
Speaker 1: rationalize that because Kyle Kuzma took the vaccine and that
Speaker 1: it's safe, that that means anything to the average American. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: Kyle Kuzma, coos, coos, yes, show us what it means
Speaker 1: to be the beacon of hope. Kyle Kuzma, be the
Speaker 1: face of science. It's an epidemiology for us. Kyle Kuzma,
Speaker 1: our infectious disease expert. Coos. We're gonna watch him on
Speaker 1: TV in the middle of Staples Center, in the middle
Speaker 1: of half court, sitting on a little little fold up
Speaker 1: chair with the rest of his team around. I'm like, coos, coos, Yeah,
Speaker 1: play the music, Marty, how's it gonna go? How's it
Speaker 1: gonna go oh yes, here we go, Oh yes, oh
Speaker 1: yes at six eight from Flint, Michigan, representing the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers taking his first moderna shot. It's Kyle gooz
Speaker 1: Mo goos goos. Yes. Let's get the youngest, healthiest, most
Speaker 1: rich men in the country, world class athletes to be
Speaker 1: the example for us to collectively take the vaccine. Yes,
Speaker 1: as a league, be in solidarity for us. Shows it
Speaker 1: safe for no other reasons but for us. Yes, there
Speaker 1: have been discussions to educate and influence the masses those
Speaker 1: who won't take the injection without it. Whenever we get it,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense. I've I don't know guys
Speaker 1: like Bill Russell or Michael Jordan, or I don't know
Speaker 1: Jerry West, guys who are actually in truly, truly in
Speaker 1: danger of the coronavirus. No, it can't be them. The
Speaker 1: only thing that's going to sway the people is coos
Speaker 1: cooso Get the fuck out of here this league. I
Speaker 1: love being right. I've said it a million times, I've
Speaker 1: said it once, I've said it a million times. But
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm wrong. Those are very far few and far between.
Speaker 1: But I might have been wrong when I said this.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry is no batman because I think the jury
Speaker 1: is still out at this point. Let's be real. He
Speaker 1: is currently elevating a team of no once. Who's on
Speaker 1: that team, Kelly, I think I can replace Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: Ubrey shooting twenty five percent from three, Yeah, thirty five
Speaker 1: percent from the field.
Speaker 2: He can still steal Kuzma's girl, That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. He can steal anyone's girl. And then you've
Speaker 1: got Eric Paschal, You've got Damien Lee, You've got guys
Speaker 1: that the casual fan has. Legitimately, they don't know if
Speaker 1: that's a real NBA player or not. I'm not just
Speaker 1: making up names. Andrew Wiggins, yes, I don't know what
Speaker 1: you would call him. But this roster is the fucking
Speaker 1: roster that Steph Curry elevated to beat the fucking world
Speaker 1: champs down multiple times, double digits. Impressive, not going to lie.
Speaker 1: So last season they had fifteen wins, they had the
Speaker 1: number two overall pick, and they chose James Wiseman could
Speaker 1: have had level would have fit in perfectly like a
Speaker 1: little glove. The problem is when you choose a guy
Speaker 1: who's eighteen years old and he's only played in three
Speaker 1: games in college less than seventy minutes total. When you
Speaker 1: risk a guy who doesn't know how to fucking play basketball, yep,
Speaker 1: and the Warriors have a problem, a big man problem.
Speaker 1: We're thirteen games into the season and I already have
Speaker 1: seen enough. Really, I have seen enough. I know what
Speaker 1: we have. I know who he is. Let me explain.
Speaker 1: We've got James Wiseman, seven foot two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: pound deer in headlights, a monster. We're seven foot six
Speaker 1: inch wingspan, nine foot six standing reach. Dude can touch
Speaker 1: the rim without even getting on his tippy toes. And
Speaker 1: it's sick. Sometimes you see yourself and you're like, this
Speaker 1: guy could be honest, holy shit, what did I just see?
Speaker 1: And then other times you're like, what the fuck James Wiseman?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? James Wiseman. That's a lot of
Speaker 1: the time, actually a lot of time you're like, Ah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, And do you know
Speaker 1: who else is like what the fuck? James Wiseman. Draymond
Speaker 1: Green in that game against the Lakers, Draymond Green tried
Speaker 1: to thread the needle to James Wiseman, and what did
Speaker 1: he do? Instead of going pound for pound, athletically gifted
Speaker 1: James Wiseman against an old rickety Mark Gassol. He turns
Speaker 1: the ball over just like boom boom. James Wiseman should
Speaker 1: win that matchup ninety nine times out of one hundred.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows that. And you've got Draymond then in the
Speaker 1: middle of the game, like, yo, why didn't you look
Speaker 1: for the ball?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 1: And he's like, I didn't see you. I didn't see
Speaker 1: He's like, that's the fucking point, bro, look for the ball.
Speaker 1: Always look for the ball. How the fuck do you
Speaker 1: not know this? You've been playing basketball for how long?
Speaker 1: These are fundamental elements of the game, James Wiseman. That
Speaker 1: was Draymond Greed. He had this to say after the game.
Speaker 6: I was just kind of telling him what I feel.
Speaker 5: I think you know.
Speaker 6: That was that was right after the play where I
Speaker 6: threw it to him in traffic and he turned the
Speaker 6: ball over, and I was just telling him I had
Speaker 6: been looking at him the entire time down the floor.
Speaker 5: He never looked. I had been trying to give him
Speaker 5: the ball, and.
Speaker 6: I was just telling him. Most people will say, Draymond
Speaker 6: put you in a tough spot and you turned the
Speaker 6: ball over because you shouldn't have been in that spot.
Speaker 6: I think if I give him the ball right there,
Speaker 6: he knows how to handle it. He's one on one
Speaker 6: downhill with Marcasol, and I love Marcasol's game. I think
Speaker 6: he's been phenomenal all these years. He's a champion. I
Speaker 6: like James chances if he's one on one downhill under control,
Speaker 6: and so, you know, really just trying to get him
Speaker 6: to show him the different pictures, you know, And I
Speaker 6: told him I put.
Speaker 5: You in a tough spot.
Speaker 6: I did, but I think you can handle being in
Speaker 6: that tough stot And so I'm gonna do it again. Right,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna that spot again. You're gonna be in transition,
Speaker 6: and next time you're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it again, he says. If Draymond is
Speaker 1: doing that to Wiseman in the middle of the game,
Speaker 1: you know Draymond is doing all kinds of things, texting
Speaker 1: James Wiseman at all hours of the day, sending him
Speaker 1: video clips like, yo, you missed this backdoor cutter here, Yo,
Speaker 1: this is a setting a sloppy screen here. You didn't
Speaker 1: roll to the basket here. Ding ding ding ding ding
Speaker 1: ding ding ding from Draymond Green all night, sending him
Speaker 1: books from Amazon like Triangle Offense for Dummies, Basketball on Paper.
Speaker 1: God damn it, Draymond, will you leave me the fuck alone? Dude,
Speaker 1: bro Chill, I got this. He doesn't get it, he
Speaker 1: doesn't know it, but I get it. The dude hasn't
Speaker 1: had to learn the game because he's fucking seven feet tall.
Speaker 1: He's been guarded by dudes like six', eight six.' ten
Speaker 1: he's been a matchup problem his. Entire life he's never
Speaker 1: had to do anything else besides just show up and.
Speaker 1: Be athletic he's played only sixty nine minutes of. College
Speaker 1: ball what do you think you're gonna learn in that period?
Speaker 5: Of?
Speaker 1: Time Zero so, i'm, guessing though if at this point
Speaker 1: you haven't learned how to actually play, organized ball ball is,
Speaker 1: Not life. I'm guessing but this Is. About draymond do
Speaker 1: You think draymond has sympathy that his big man doesn't
Speaker 1: know how to play the game because he's been coasting
Speaker 1: on his athletic gifts his. ENTIRE life i don't. Think
Speaker 1: so do you think that's gonna stop him from Blowing
Speaker 1: up wiseman's spot in a primetime game when he, fucks
Speaker 1: up no. No chance but the truth is it doesn't
Speaker 1: Matter because wiseman's gonna get. His bread that's the way
Speaker 1: that the. Game, goes now folks that are gonna have
Speaker 1: to lock him up probably next year or the, year
Speaker 1: after because that's how it goes on, potential alone one
Speaker 1: hundred mil one hundred and fifty milk Going To. James
Speaker 1: wiseman and then what do you think is. Gonna happen
Speaker 1: what's gonna Happen Is james wiseman's gonna, be, Like Hey,
Speaker 1: bob myers tell Your boy draymond to shut the, fuck
Speaker 1: up tell him to stop barking at me in the
Speaker 1: middle of. The games i'm worth one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: MILLION dollars i don't want to hear his. Ass anymore six,'
Speaker 1: seven undersize, Fucking power forward get the fuck. Out of
Speaker 1: here or it's just, gonna Be Like if james wiseman is,
Speaker 1: a nice guy which it appears that, he might be he's, gonna, be,
Speaker 1: LIKE yeah Yeah, I have draymond, I got you i,
Speaker 1: Got you yeah and then he's gonna really not do
Speaker 1: anything differently. As, a RESULT so and i know that,
Speaker 1: this is true because this is like how it goes, with,
Speaker 1: Seven vooters right like, they get big they're, born this
Speaker 1: way and they get pushed into playing basketball because it,
Speaker 1: makes financial sense and do?
Speaker 2: They?
Speaker 1: Love? It not always is there always a premium. Attached,
Speaker 1: To height absolutely so you go in there, And you
Speaker 1: ball you use your athletic ability, and your height and
Speaker 1: you are a verse guaranteed to have a JOB. In
Speaker 1: the nba it does not matter how, good you are
Speaker 1: how much you, understand the game as long as your.
Speaker 1: Knees still work if you're, seven feet tall you're guaranteed to.
Speaker 1: Have a job and then. They get paid they, eventually
Speaker 1: get paid and you know. What they. Do they chill
Speaker 1: there's no. Incentive to improve and if the desire wasn't there,
Speaker 1: to begin, with holy shit when they GET a hundred
Speaker 1: milli what do you think. They're gonna do why Do
Speaker 1: you think shack shot fifty percent from the? Free throw
Speaker 1: line he didn't have to add that. To his. Game
Speaker 1: didn't matter and it's even worse now than It was. In,
Speaker 1: Shack's era millennials, oh my god we want to do
Speaker 1: that work. Life balance today i'm trying to like Enjoy.
Speaker 1: My life. Yolo that's. Yolo that's it that's. It right
Speaker 1: there you. Only live ONCE why do i want to
Speaker 1: be in the gym at two am SHOOTING jumpers when
Speaker 1: i could be CHILLING Playing two k do you think
Speaker 1: he's watching film On a Random saturday in july once he's.
Speaker 1: Making that. Money no chance And That's not. JAMES wiseman's
Speaker 1: fault i can't knock the. Brother for that he deserves
Speaker 1: to get what the market's, gonna pay him and those
Speaker 1: owners they better, fucking, Pay up period. God bless them
Speaker 1: but What were? The warriors thinking? They KNOW this if,
Speaker 1: I know this i'm just. A LITTLE layman if, I
Speaker 1: know this i'm Certain that the. Warriors Know this the
Speaker 1: warriors drafted a guy who, can't play basketball is just
Speaker 1: lost out there into, a complex system and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to pay him, pretty much immediately because you can't
Speaker 1: let a number two pick walk. Out the door once he,
Speaker 1: gets that money that's his. Ceiling that moment the goal
Speaker 1: of acquiring life Changing Money was james, wiseman's main goal
Speaker 1: and that goal will. Be accomplished immediately and who does
Speaker 1: he remind You Of. BESIDES ben simmons i know of.
Speaker 1: A Few guys andrew bynum, RING a bell, I See
Speaker 1: it kwame brown, ring a bell.
Speaker 2: Definitely see that.
Speaker 1: Big guys with tons of potential and athletic gifts, that
Speaker 1: just said, YOU know what i really don't want to
Speaker 1: improve any more areas. Of my, game casual fans you
Speaker 1: probably don't. Know their names, you know why because they.
Speaker 1: Flamed out Fast You had kobe Bryant Playing with andrew
Speaker 1: bidhm losing His Mind on andrew bidham on. A Nightly
Speaker 1: basis Michael Jordan had kwame brown losing His Mind on
Speaker 1: kwame brown on. A Nightly basis James Wiseman. And draymond
Speaker 1: green that's, what. We got folks. That is it if
Speaker 1: he's not learning how to play basketball now, when he's
Speaker 1: hungry when his family, was literally starving so they Had
Speaker 1: To get penny hardaway to pay the family just so
Speaker 1: that they could continue on and. Living their life. It
Speaker 1: was urgent if you're not learning the game, of basketball
Speaker 1: now what do you think you're gonna do. Down the
Speaker 1: road perennial talent and no incentive to? Do anything more
Speaker 1: do you think he's? Gonna do this do you think
Speaker 1: he's going to work hard when He's driving A bentley making,
Speaker 1: i don't know twenty five million, dollars a year living
Speaker 1: in a thirty, million dollar house waking Up Next to
Speaker 1: larissa pippin in. The, other room yeah, and, she's, like
Speaker 1: baby baby nah, nah nah nah, don't do that. DON'T
Speaker 1: do that. I got this, and, he's, like, yeah, BABE
Speaker 1: yeah babe. I got you. I got YOU i don't
Speaker 1: i don't need to go. To the facility We Chilling this.
Speaker 1: James wiseman THING the more i, think about it it
Speaker 1: could be a disaster for Real. FOR the warriors i
Speaker 1: Mean Great. For, james wiseman again they had their one
Speaker 1: chance to draft. The perennial talent they tanked for the,
Speaker 1: number two pick and. They blew it they Could Have,
Speaker 1: had LaMelo ball, a perfect fit a guy who very
Speaker 1: very clearly knows how to play the. Game of basketball,
Speaker 1: because Why Uh because LaVar ball was like having them
Speaker 1: dribble at eighteen months old and like they're literally watching.
Speaker 1: Film at four, all three guys all three of his SONS.
Speaker 1: In The Nba if LaVar Ball Was was, James Wiseman's
Speaker 1: dad james wiseman would be. A fucking monster he would
Speaker 1: be insane and that's No Shot to, James wiseman's family
Speaker 1: but that's that's How good. LaVar ball was all three
Speaker 1: of his SONS, in the nba and none of them
Speaker 1: have even a fraction of the Physical Gifts that. James
Speaker 1: wiseman has this dude Turns Out prodigy's so i'm not
Speaker 1: saying that. THIS is, inevitable i mean We Know that
Speaker 1: james Wiseman told the warriors he wanted to. Be the
Speaker 1: best at least he's. A good, Liar you Know He's not, Anthony,
Speaker 1: EDWARDS saying hey i got a lot of other. Interests
Speaker 1: besides basketball but there's a good chance that he's the,
Speaker 1: next by them and he'll be sitting on the bench
Speaker 1: for the next seven Years while the warriors have their
Speaker 1: cat being dragged down into the luxury tax, in deep
Speaker 1: water and all they'll be able to think about is
Speaker 1: why didn't We Just? Draft Lamello ball kyrie irving he,
Speaker 1: needed a pause but. He is back took, some time
Speaker 1: away did. Some important things not all of us are
Speaker 1: invited to know what, those Things Are, including steve nash
Speaker 1: but all of that is irrelevant now because. He is back, all,
Speaker 1: it took though was a Blockbuster Trade. For james harden
Speaker 1: a couple Of quotes from harden about how natural it
Speaker 1: was with him, and kad alone. All this chemistry we're,
Speaker 1: grown men now we don't need much. More than this
Speaker 1: after beating the number one Contender, in The east while
Speaker 1: giannis played a full forty minutes to try to, get
Speaker 1: that Win boy and kyrie all of a sudden, it,
Speaker 1: WAS like yo i gotta get back To work or
Speaker 1: i'm gonna End up in sacramento For deer and fox.
Speaker 1: And some. Picks that's facts so. They go back They
Speaker 1: go for. Kyrie's first, game you know he's all. About
Speaker 1: the universe his first game Back. Was against cleveland he's
Speaker 1: showing them showing him that he has a ring on.
Speaker 4: His ring finger it was only his third game playing
Speaker 4: there as a non cav third or fourth, something like
Speaker 4: that which was.
Speaker 2: Weird to me he likes to run from.
Speaker 1: Those, FORMER arenas yeah i. Guess he does so then
Speaker 1: they Proceeded To let colin sexton throw forty two on
Speaker 1: him and. Losing, double overtime dude you Can't Break a
Speaker 1: cleveland cavaliers team down in two overtimes and make them succumb.
Speaker 1: To your will when they have half their backcourt and
Speaker 1: that one guy only. Has one ankle dude scored twenty.
Speaker 1: In a, Row, on you kyrie you couldn't figure out
Speaker 1: that the entire offense Was Running. Through colin sexton he was.
Speaker 1: The focal point it was him, and him alone a
Speaker 1: guy who just missed five games straight because his ankle.
Speaker 1: Was messed up not, A, GREAT.
Speaker 4: Start yeah i mean they WERE favored by i think
Speaker 4: ten and a half To. BEAT the CALVES i luckily
Speaker 4: i had a team, total win eighteen.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 1: HIT that yeah i stayed all the way. AWAY from
Speaker 1: that i Was nervous because colin was a. Game time
Speaker 1: decision this is about. To be trouble this team is
Speaker 1: going to be all drama, all THE time AND i
Speaker 1: just i just. Can't keep up so.
Speaker 2: Have we OFFICIALLY become?
Speaker 4: A nets podcast because it seems like that's kind of
Speaker 4: every time.
Speaker 1: Every single day, that we're on we HAVE some. NEW
Speaker 1: nets news i think we are WALL to wall nets
Speaker 1: coverage twenty four to seven. All the, time this league
Speaker 1: this sprookling league Hard and trade Kyrie's walk about kadie,
Speaker 1: balling out players not, talking to coaches not playing any,
Speaker 1: defense at all an assistant running things like His, name
Speaker 1: was jeppetto pulling strings on a first time head coach
Speaker 1: who he gets To MVPs too marty with his innovative
Speaker 1: waste noo energy on. Defense, OFFENSIVE schematics.
Speaker 2: Yeah i mean. That is harsh he deserved.
Speaker 1: That first one agree to. Disagree he did let's call
Speaker 1: it a developing. Situation yet again can you? PLAY the
Speaker 1: clip i think we have a dysfunctional organization, on our
Speaker 1: hand still stands dysfunctional organization and keeping up with The
Speaker 1: Theme of this league podcast BEING an official nets podcast coming,
Speaker 1: up right now We Talk, WITH anthony. Puccio nets insider
Speaker 1: he was the guy who was the First to Break Kyrie,
Speaker 1: and katie brooklyn also the first to Break. HARD into
Speaker 1: brooklyn i probe him hard on the dynamic And drama
Speaker 1: in brooklyn and he spills. All the tea welcome, To The.
Speaker 1: Show this League We've got anthony Puccio. Aka poo cheer
Speaker 1: puccio IS an in nba insider and creator. Of the
Speaker 1: association do you want me To? Call you anthony you
Speaker 1: want me to call you pooch.
Speaker 5: WHATEVER you prefer.
Speaker 7: I never know i never know how to INTRODUCE myself
Speaker 7: when i go to a, Party or, Something I'm, like
Speaker 7: i'm anthony but you could call me pooch.
Speaker 5: If you want no.
Speaker 1: Screwing, the pooch well thanks. For joining us let's try
Speaker 1: to get. Right into it kyrie has spoken as a
Speaker 1: guy who has Been covering the nets for a, very
Speaker 1: long time Insider. For the nets kyrie hasn't been, there
Speaker 1: very long but you've been around. For a while TELL
Speaker 1: me what i should Know about what. Kyrie just said
Speaker 1: break down and translate.
Speaker 7: It, for, ME well look i always try and separate
Speaker 7: the human being from. The player itself so taking what,
Speaker 7: he did say he briefly, mentioned mental health and he
Speaker 7: did briefly mention things that are going on in the
Speaker 7: country and that all having an effect on where he's
Speaker 7: been and why he. Hasn't been reporting but for, the
Speaker 7: most parts like he really didn't, address you know why,
Speaker 7: he was gone and nobody had, asked him, about you
Speaker 7: know ownership being, frustrated with Him because the nets were
Speaker 7: frustrated after they. Saw that video, they were, like all,
Speaker 7: right you know time to. Report to, work you know
Speaker 7: what are you? Doing out partying, so you know nobody
Speaker 7: had asked. Him about that nobody asked Him about the,
Speaker 7: capitol whole, INCIDENT and really.
Speaker 5: I don't want to say it was.
Speaker 7: A no, UPDATE you know i wish the best for,
Speaker 7: the person himself, BUT quite frankly i don't feel like
Speaker 7: we really got any answers other, than you.
Speaker 5: Know personal reasons.
Speaker 1: Someone asked him whether he thought he could get, the
Speaker 1: joy back and then he kind of asked he answered
Speaker 1: the question in, a completely. Different. OFFHANDED way, yeah i
Speaker 1: mean it's an interesting part. Of the saga does This
Speaker 1: mean that kyrie is really back in the fold? IN your, OPINION.
Speaker 5: I mean i guess, so.
Speaker 7: FOR now right i think that it's one of those
Speaker 7: things where the nets were so frustrated that, it was,
Speaker 7: like you know, either you again either your report. Or that's,
Speaker 7: it you know we're ready. To MOVE on and i
Speaker 7: think that's what Kind Of accelerated. James harden talks that's
Speaker 7: what made them really up there Ante To. Get james,
Speaker 7: harden you know it Just, seems like kyrie with whatever,
Speaker 7: he's dealing with he's not finding. Fulfillment WITH basketball SO
Speaker 7: i don't i don't know if this is a. Long term, thing,
Speaker 7: you know again last year he did this eight weeks
Speaker 7: where he went without speaking to the.
Speaker 5: Media just randomly had had.
Speaker 7: A shoulder, INJURY and again i don't mean to, kill
Speaker 7: this guy because it's clear that he's going through a,
Speaker 7: lot of stuff, BUT you know i just he's just
Speaker 7: too unpredictable for me to say.
Speaker 5: Anything about him you mentioned that.
Speaker 1: His time away was one of the reasons that they
Speaker 1: expedited the Trade. Deal for harden how do you feel
Speaker 1: or from, what you Know how is kyrie feeling about
Speaker 1: this hardened move and was he anticipating this move to
Speaker 1: happen prior to it actually. Become a. Reality, you're, Smiling.
Speaker 7: Well look I've Never seen. Kyrie irving, play you know
Speaker 7: he was The. Batman the, kd's you know He Was
Speaker 7: The robin, ta, kd's batman right and now he's got
Speaker 7: to play the. Third fiddle here he's gonna be the
Speaker 7: ringo star of the bunch and he's.
Speaker 5: Never done.
Speaker 7: That you know he's obviously always kind of Had control In.
Speaker 7: Cleveland and boston he was always one. Of THOSE guys
Speaker 7: so i honestly don't.
Speaker 5: Know where he. STANDS with this i do know that before.
Speaker 7: The season started in, The Aw season Kevin Durant and james,
Speaker 7: harden were talking and they were Very serious about Harden,
Speaker 7: coming TO brooklyn and i think it was one of
Speaker 7: those things where it was not a matter of, if
Speaker 7: it happens more so. When it, Happens and again harden
Speaker 7: thought he Was coming To. Brooklyn in november they thought.
Speaker 7: This WAS done so i Don't know if kyrie signed.
Speaker 5: OFF on this i don't know.
Speaker 7: WHERE he stands i know he didn't Sign Off on
Speaker 7: steve nash and that's been kind of a shaky, relationship,
Speaker 7: to start, so, YOU know again i don't know how
Speaker 7: he's going to feel about being the ringo star, of
Speaker 7: the bunch but he better get used to it because
Speaker 7: these are the circumstances he's, being THROWN into and i
Speaker 7: don't know what his future.
Speaker 5: Lies ahead if he pulls any. Of, these stunts again.
Speaker 1: A couple of things that you JUST mentioned that i
Speaker 1: want to. Follow Up on the first one is that
Speaker 1: this was already being in The works in November and
Speaker 1: that kyrie may or may not have known. About, Its
Speaker 1: existence right how did this all come? Into your purview,
Speaker 1: because everybody, Said, you know puccio, you're a fraud like
Speaker 1: you're making. This shit, Up you were you were the
Speaker 1: first person to report Not only DID kyrie and Kd,
Speaker 1: come into brooklyn but also this Thing. Back in november
Speaker 1: so give us the backstory into how you you got
Speaker 1: without revealing anything that, you can't reveal what can you
Speaker 1: share us spill. A, LITTLE tea YEAH i guess i
Speaker 1: was a, Little.
Speaker 5: TOO early tristan i know.
Speaker 1: HOW that goes i know. How that goes so it is.
Speaker 7: What it is but YOU know WHEN i when i
Speaker 7: was speaking to.
Speaker 5: People back and remember, it was, LIKE you.
Speaker 7: Know kd is spending a lot Of Time with James,
Speaker 7: harden in, california you Know Specifically.
Speaker 5: In beverly hill.
Speaker 7: They were they were working out and, they were partying
Speaker 7: they were having a, good time.
Speaker 5: Together and talk started.
Speaker 7: To PICK up like, i mentioned, Earlier You know james
Speaker 7: harden basically thought.
Speaker 5: That he was going to start the Season With.
Speaker 7: The brooklyn nets and there was A point where i
Speaker 7: had maybe, five six people all different, type of personnel people,
Speaker 7: that were involved players, that were involved that thought, this
Speaker 7: was done that this was. A verbal Agreement and then houston,
Speaker 7: kind of said, you know What we're not we're not
Speaker 7: Going to give brooklyn. What they want we're Not Gonna
Speaker 7: give james harden, what he wants and then it just
Speaker 7: kind of drew out obviously up. Until this, POINT and
Speaker 7: again i think it was one of Those where the
Speaker 7: nets felt like they need An Insurance for kevin Durant
Speaker 7: And if kyrie irving isn't going to be here or
Speaker 7: he's going to pull these stunts again two years in
Speaker 7: a row where he's just kind, of got missing they
Speaker 7: need someone there that's going to help win, a championship
Speaker 7: Now and again kyrie's inconsistency is just one of those
Speaker 7: examples of again we Need to. Go antie up and
Speaker 7: it became that bidding War between The Nets And sixers
Speaker 7: tillman Furtita And Dal maury Tillman furtita and mike D'Antoni
Speaker 7: is this is a Coach.
Speaker 5: With the nets so it.
Speaker 7: Was, a you know very dramatic and drawing out process
Speaker 7: that probably could have Been.
Speaker 1: Done, in november, YEAH it's. Interesting, I think yeah kyrie
Speaker 1: has never played a full. Eighty Two games kevin durant
Speaker 1: coming off of a. Soft tissue injury both of those
Speaker 1: guys have question marks in terms of how available they're
Speaker 1: going to be from a physical. And health standpoint We
Speaker 1: Know that james harden is durable we know that he
Speaker 1: can get fifty wins all by himself if he has
Speaker 1: to and do. The load, management so yeah that makes.
Speaker 1: Sense To me and james seems like a perfect fit
Speaker 1: in this system and obviously great. Relationship with D'Antoni and it,
Speaker 1: Seems to me anthony that D'Antoni is Running show in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn And. Not steve nash what is your.
Speaker 5: TAKE on that i would have to.
Speaker 7: AGREE with you i Would say that mike D'Antoni is
Speaker 7: more the Head Coach.
Speaker 5: Than Steve.
Speaker 7: Nash steve nash look not to discredit, him or anything
Speaker 7: but they fired a very Good Coach in kenny atkinson
Speaker 7: last year and they didn't promote a very good head
Speaker 7: Coach and jacqu waan who led them to a seven
Speaker 7: and three Record. In the, bubble you know they were both.
Speaker 7: VERY good, coaches i, Think You know steve nash kind.
Speaker 7: OF came in kd signed, Off On it sean, marks
Speaker 7: liked him and he's kind.
Speaker 5: Of Serving as.
Speaker 1: Phoenix, sun's Connection Yeah the.
Speaker 7: Phoenix SUNS connection and i don't want to say, the
Speaker 7: word puppet but it's kind of one of those where
Speaker 7: he's standing in front. Of the camera he's, very well
Speaker 7: spoken he addresses sharp and he knows how to communicate,
Speaker 7: with players apparently but it's been a shaky relationship With Him,
Speaker 7: and KYRIE irving, like i mentioned, and you know the
Speaker 7: offensive system that they run is the same that They
Speaker 7: ran in houston and quite literally the same They Ran
Speaker 7: with kenny.
Speaker 5: Atkinson for the.
Speaker 7: Last three, years so yeah d'antoni's more of The Coach
Speaker 7: than steve.
Speaker 1: Nash, Right NOW yeah and i think that it speaks
Speaker 1: To also if kyrie is Having Friction with steve nash
Speaker 1: and this Is the dan toni system, that D'Antoni Pioneered that,
Speaker 1: steve nash, is you know de. Facto head coach who
Speaker 1: are the? Players talking to do you think that they're?
Speaker 1: Talking to D'Antoni do you think They're?
Speaker 7: Talking to, nash if if if, ANY of THEM i
Speaker 7: think i, think you Know We heard kyrie Irving Say
Speaker 7: on kevin, durant's own podcast and we don't have.
Speaker 5: A head coach this is, a collective.
Speaker 7: Effort you Know so and katie tried to bring, it,
Speaker 7: in Like yeah well jacques ball.
Speaker 5: And could. HELP you know i think it's one of
Speaker 5: those things in book where they do.
Speaker 7: Have a bunch of good assistant coaches and a lot
Speaker 7: Of Guys like Amari Stottamayer, and adam harrington like guys
Speaker 7: that used to PLAY in the nba and have trained
Speaker 7: these guys.
Speaker 1: In.
Speaker 7: The, PAST uh well i do believe that they do
Speaker 7: Consult With uh spencer dimody before. THE season set a
Speaker 7: head coach is more like a psych colleges now then
Speaker 7: THE next AND x and os. Type Of guy so
Speaker 7: i'm sure they have, everyone each player, might you know
Speaker 7: they might.
Speaker 5: As well have somebody that they.
Speaker 7: Can BANK off BUT i really i don't really know
Speaker 7: who the head coaches, of this team and it's kind
Speaker 7: of shown in the early goings.
Speaker 5: Of.
Speaker 1: The season yeah and it's interesting that you say that
Speaker 1: because you would Think That that steve nash might take
Speaker 1: exception to that comment When he heard kyrie say that
Speaker 1: on the podcast and, then you know very Clearly snitched
Speaker 1: on kyrie that he hadn't heard from him in terms of,
Speaker 1: what you know and that obviously would create friction for anyone, be,
Speaker 1: like yo Bro, like just tay can you chill and
Speaker 1: say that you. Spoke to me you don't have to
Speaker 1: throw me under the. Bus like that how where do
Speaker 1: you put their relationship now how much on the? Rocks is,
Speaker 1: it and like what does that actually Mean?
Speaker 5: FOR the nets i would.
Speaker 7: Just say inconsistent it's.
Speaker 5: Almost non existent you know from Just.
Speaker 7: From, what i've heard Is that really kyrie never gave,
Speaker 7: him a chance like he never he never really welcomed
Speaker 7: him because he didn't sign. Off On it Sean marks
Speaker 7: and ownership Didn't go to kyrie, and ask him who
Speaker 7: do you want the head? Coach to, be you know
Speaker 7: so he was he was frustrated with the organization. From,
Speaker 7: DAY one tyler.
Speaker 5: I don't know, who he, wanted you know maybe himself.
Speaker 7: At this point if he's saying that they don't need,
Speaker 7: a head, COACH you know i don't know, who THEY
Speaker 7: wanted and i don't know.
Speaker 5: Who he wanted so.
Speaker 7: It's it's it's a weird space And Him and steve
Speaker 7: nash they're gonna have to figure it out, because you
Speaker 7: know we're only in what game fifteen of the year
Speaker 7: and there's. Already issues There But watch steve nash in
Speaker 7: every press conference, that he does every time They Bring up,
Speaker 7: kyrie irving's name it's like a, very very quick short,
Speaker 7: and stoic answer like you are You confident that kyrie's
Speaker 7: gonna come, back the, season.
Speaker 5: He says sure.
Speaker 7: As he mentioned him saying that there's. Been no communication
Speaker 7: he literally he's not he's not shying. Away from it
Speaker 7: he's Making.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 1: Very yeah absolutely you mentioned that you think D'Antoni is,
Speaker 1: the head coach and you mentioned the Word Puppet. For
Speaker 1: steve nash do you also think he's a possible scapegoat
Speaker 1: if things don't work? Out?
Speaker 5: Right? Away absolutely absolutely who else are? You pointing fingers
Speaker 5: nobody's gonna POINT them at kd and.
Speaker 7: And they, shouldn't you know IT'S having an mvp like. Season,
Speaker 7: right now again, a LITTLE early BUT i Think i
Speaker 7: think nash is definitely the scapegoat The Same way kenny
Speaker 7: atkinson was the. Escapegoat last year kyrie didn't, Play any
Speaker 7: games kad didn't, play any games and somehow the. Guy
Speaker 7: got fired.
Speaker 5: They made the playoffs and he.
Speaker 7: Somebody GOT fired, so i mean at the end, OF
Speaker 7: the day i think the coach is always, gonna get
Speaker 7: played but It won't be mike d'An tony.
Speaker 1: That, gets play yeah he's waiting right there, in the. Wings?
Speaker 5: Isn't he, Anthony oh, yeah oh yeah all those guys.
Speaker 5: Are They're all jock vaughan's.
Speaker 1: Right, THERE too, yeah i mean.
Speaker 5: You know they have.
Speaker 1: All the resources tell Me, about the size how does
Speaker 1: ownership play into. This whole equation obviously there's drama and
Speaker 1: obviously there's three guys who are gonna expect to get
Speaker 1: paid a. Lot of MONEY from, what I understand the
Speaker 1: size don't care at all about paying. The luxury tax
Speaker 1: they want the. Best of everything how would? You describe
Speaker 1: them and and the relationship the players.
Speaker 7: Have, with Them look the size have made, their presence
Speaker 7: felt and they made it fell. From day one the
Speaker 7: Whole Thing, with kenny atkinson they had a big part to.
Speaker 7: Do with that they they HEARD what K d And
Speaker 7: Kyrie and DeAndre, jordan were saying and They looked on
Speaker 7: twitter and saw that the fans are unhappy with him
Speaker 7: and they, said that's, it you know and they.
Speaker 5: Cut him quick so then with this this whole incident.
Speaker 7: And everything that, WAS going, on i, mean you know they're.
Speaker 7: Very hands on they they they were okay with whatever
Speaker 7: was Going on with, kyrie at first and then they
Speaker 7: saw That Video and joe sai was pissed like he
Speaker 7: was he was, Just fed up, like he said this is?
Speaker 5: This is it? This is it so he's. Very hands
Speaker 5: on you got your.
Speaker 7: To understand, trust You know The Nets had kyle prokarov
Speaker 7: as Their Owner before Joe.
Speaker 5: Sai and pokarov nobody knew.
Speaker 7: Where he was he would be on A yacht in prague,
Speaker 7: or you know he was all. Over the place so
Speaker 7: When They, Hired Sean marks sean marks.
Speaker 5: Was really, like the owner he. Was the governor he
Speaker 5: was Kind.
Speaker 1: Of like Daryl Morey before tillman furtita came.
Speaker 7: In right right exactly exactly a lot of A lot
Speaker 7: Of nets.
Speaker 5: And rockets connections So.
Speaker 7: He so marx had this freedom and when he, had
Speaker 7: the freedom he was. Doing everything, right you know he
Speaker 7: turned a twenty win team into a forty. Two win
Speaker 7: team so what, you're seeing today but Now you know
Speaker 7: joe ci and ownership is.
Speaker 5: They have their. Hands on, EVERYTHING and Look.
Speaker 7: I know sean mars is now considered. An alternative governor he.
Speaker 5: Got he got like promoted last, week or.
Speaker 7: Something and the nets didn't. Publicly announce that so he.
Speaker 7: Still has power he still. Has to say but there
Speaker 7: are certain things, that have Happened Including the, kenny ATKINSON
Speaker 7: firing that I Don't think sean mars would have signed
Speaker 7: Off On.
Speaker 5: If mikyle prokarov was. Still the, owner very.
Speaker 1: Interesting Super interesting uh so that that begs The Question Our,
Speaker 1: Katie James harden kyrie irving speaking to the size more
Speaker 1: so than they're speaking in your, from your Viewpoint Speaking.
Speaker 1: To sean mars.
Speaker 7: It's hard for me to SAY that because i, really
Speaker 7: DON'T know but i think if they do, have a
Speaker 7: problem they're Going Straight.
Speaker 5: To joe SI that's what i. WOULD assume too i
Speaker 5: would assume that they're Obviously Speaking.
Speaker 7: TO sean MARS i think i think that there is a,
Speaker 7: relationship there obviously you know there, Has to be but
Speaker 7: if there's, a major issue you know it's Going Straight.
Speaker 1: To. Joe SI yeah and i heard that the wife
Speaker 1: was very.
Speaker 5: Involved, as well yes she's.
Speaker 7: The Co owner THAT'S clark Whose i she's she's very
Speaker 7: Much involved with joe and and and.
Speaker 5: Helps them with a lot of things also, off.
Speaker 7: The court they're fighting social injustice and criminal justice reform
Speaker 7: and all that.
Speaker 5: TYPE of stuff i had done a.
Speaker 7: Story with her and it was it was made very
Speaker 7: clear that she was the co owner, of the team
Speaker 7: and they most Recently Both In.
Speaker 5: New york, liberty so yeah. Very very involved.
Speaker 1: So are you are you excited? About these three are
Speaker 1: you skeptical? About these three or are you fearful?
Speaker 7: About these, three YOU know trist i watched these last
Speaker 7: TWO games and, i was like this is, This is
Speaker 7: fun like this is this is what, It's all about
Speaker 7: like This is what nets fans have. Been Waiting for
Speaker 7: James Harden, And kevin durant like. It's it's unbelievable and
Speaker 7: the Attraction That that james harden brings, on the court
Speaker 7: right those double teams and he's able to just kick
Speaker 7: It Out to kevin, durant open three kick It Out
Speaker 7: to joe harherd shooting.
Speaker 5: Fifty three, three you know it's.
Speaker 7: It's a LUXURY but now i have, to ask Myself
Speaker 7: like with kyrie coming into, THE mix again i mentioned
Speaker 7: that ringo star effect and not to mention.
Speaker 5: Two guys who really need the? Ball in, there you
Speaker 5: know is that going to disrupt this rhythm that.
Speaker 7: We've been, seeing you know They they handled milwaukee pretty.
Speaker 7: WELL last night i know it came down to the last,
Speaker 7: last second shot but they were Winning that whole but let's, Be.
Speaker 1: Real Too anthony james harden, hasn't played one hasn't practiced
Speaker 1: at all, with the team just came in like it
Speaker 1: was pick up and ran the box out. Of the, Gym.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah and that shows how lethal they are and
Speaker 7: how much is rhythm.
Speaker 5: That They're in james harden is just happy, to be.
Speaker 7: Here like we IT look like I feel Like I'm
Speaker 7: WATCHING james harden i haven't, seen in years because.
Speaker 5: He's just happy. He's bought in he wants to. Win
Speaker 5: a championship he'll do. Whatever it takes so part.
Speaker 7: Of me is Like skeptical about kyrie coming back and messing,
Speaker 7: up the rhythm but part of me, is also, Like
Speaker 7: you know kai knows that he's kind of like on
Speaker 7: his last Leg here And Kad and james harden are
Speaker 7: going to be, his biggest supporters knowing that he's going
Speaker 7: through a rough time and they're gonna do everything they
Speaker 7: possibly can to make this work because there's that human
Speaker 7: side that does come out, and you right you're rooting
Speaker 7: for the, person as well and you want them. To
Speaker 7: get better basketball is supposed to be therapeutic. For these
Speaker 7: guys so it's kind of one of THOSE things where
Speaker 7: I feel Like harden and katie have to be, his
Speaker 7: biggest fans and he help him work his way into
Speaker 7: this offense and just like mentally get back into the space.
Speaker 1: Of WORKING well And kd and kyrie are, supposedly best
Speaker 1: friends so you would think that that would. Make things easier?
Speaker 1: Is that changing is it harder to be friends when
Speaker 1: you have to work? Together every day is there anything
Speaker 1: that you're? Knowing, about that, well.
Speaker 5: They, said you know you don't do, business, with friends
Speaker 5: right but that there was a little bit of a
Speaker 5: distent relationship.
Speaker 7: Between THEM too BUT i think kd Has his bad,
Speaker 7: No matter what kd's not. Here without him but it's
Speaker 7: also one of THOSE things, where, i like.
Speaker 5: Dude you, brought me here you Brought. ME to brooklyn
Speaker 5: i need.
Speaker 7: You with, ME so no i wouldn't really comment any further.
Speaker 1: On, THEIR relationship yeah i think that the part about basketball,
Speaker 1: for basketball, heads you know this isn't a podcast that
Speaker 1: breaks down. X's AND no's but i was talking to
Speaker 1: somebody earlier and The time that kyrie was really the
Speaker 1: most effective was when he Played for the calves and
Speaker 1: he was sort of coming. Off the Ball it was
Speaker 1: braun bringing, The ball up kyrie not. Taking THE hits
Speaker 1: that I Think now james harden can, take you know he's.
Speaker 1: Much More durable kyrie irving has, issues with durability especially
Speaker 1: when he has to be the one to shoulder the
Speaker 1: burden and be the focal point. Of the offense And Instead,
Speaker 1: of kevin love Now You. Have KEVIN durant so i
Speaker 1: think that possibly could be an Ideal scenario if. Kyrie
Speaker 1: buys in is that kind Of what the nets are
Speaker 1: thinking or are they thinking that kay is going to
Speaker 1: go back to being The one and james is about to.
Speaker 7: BE the, Two I mean kevin durant said That He
Speaker 7: sees james harden as. A point Guard So if kevin,
Speaker 7: DURANT says, that I believe and i think that's the
Speaker 7: best possible solution for them is to have hard and bring.
Speaker 7: Up the, ball but again it's one of Those things
Speaker 7: where kyrie is used to having the ball.
Speaker 5: In his ends he's used to driggling. Out THE clock
Speaker 5: so i have to watch. THEM play together i.
Speaker 7: Have to see him off the ball and see, if
Speaker 7: look again you mentioned. A good point he played well
Speaker 7: off The. Ball in cleveland But with, this nets team
Speaker 7: superstar egos and all that, TYPE of stuff i just
Speaker 7: have to see. Them play together there's no doubt that.
Speaker 7: It could work when it, comes to talent. They have
Speaker 7: it it's just a matter. Of buying, IT right now
Speaker 7: i know two out of three.
Speaker 5: Guys, about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah no doubt let's talk about you. For a second
Speaker 1: tell me about how you got in got. Into THE
Speaker 1: business so i.
Speaker 7: WAS well, TRISTA i mean i could beat, AROUND the
Speaker 7: bush i.
Speaker 5: Could be real honest. With you know it's one of those.
Speaker 7: Types OF things but i was in HIGH school.
Speaker 5: AND i felt i felt to.
Speaker 7: Some part, Ships you know i've gotten evicted. From my
Speaker 7: home my dad, was very sick so. He COULDN'T work
Speaker 7: SO i was i was young in HIGH school and, i,
Speaker 7: WAS like yo i was playing. VERY competitive basketball i
Speaker 7: was on the number nine ranked nationally Team In, the
Speaker 7: UNITED states and i went TO basically. EVERY nets game
Speaker 7: I watched. Every NETS game so i kind of looked
Speaker 7: at myself in THE mirrroom and, i was, LIKE you
Speaker 7: know i don't want this type.
Speaker 5: Of stuff to happen to my kids. IN the future
Speaker 5: i don't want to have to deal with this. In
Speaker 5: the future not to make my parents out to be
Speaker 5: bad people or. Anything like that it was just a.
Speaker 7: Lot of misfortunes so it was one of those, Things
Speaker 7: where said i'm. GOOD at basketball i, WATCH every game
Speaker 7: i might as well. Write About, IT and trista i
Speaker 7: was AWFUL writing. LIKE i was, I WAS bad like
Speaker 7: i WASN'T a good i wasn't a very good for?
Speaker 1: How many years for how many? Years you were what
Speaker 1: you were? The beat? Writer?
Speaker 7: Eight, years yeah Yeah but before i'm, SAYING before. THAT
Speaker 7: i was i was just like senior, in high School
Speaker 7: Like sending microsoft, word articles around, asking you know and
Speaker 7: and a lot of people got, back To ME Like
Speaker 7: frank i solo got, Back To me stefan bondie got,
Speaker 7: back to me and eventually, My Former boss Tom Lorenzo,
Speaker 7: and nets, daily you know he read it and, he, was,
Speaker 7: like look dude you know you have a passion and
Speaker 7: you're going through a, lot of stuff like stay. Persistent
Speaker 7: WITH it so i. MAJORED in communications I Went To
Speaker 7: nasal COMMUNITY college and, i kept writing and, two years,
Speaker 7: later better yet, A year later i Circled Back with
Speaker 7: tom lorenzo, and he, said all right, let's do it
Speaker 7: like we're gonna get you. A season credential and from,
Speaker 7: THEN on out i had. MY communications degree I. Went to,
Speaker 7: NYU after that I Went to saint JOHN'S and while i,
Speaker 7: WAS in college i was covering the. NETS full time
Speaker 7: i was doing seven am to, one am Shifts going
Speaker 7: from Queen's Back, to long island getting, in a suit hopping,
Speaker 7: on a Train, going to brooklyn getting home, one.
Speaker 5: Two am doing the same thing. The next DAY and,
Speaker 5: here i, am you know, seven Years later now I'M
Speaker 5: covering the nba. As a whole so it's it's, been a.
Speaker 7: Crazy crazy journey it obviously, doesn't just stop but or
Speaker 7: the adversity. Doesn't JUST stop but i would like to
Speaker 7: think that all those hardships kind of propelled ME to
Speaker 7: where i am today and THE person that i.
Speaker 1: Am as well when you beat Out woj Or Shams,
Speaker 1: or Mark Stein where, chris haynes is what is that
Speaker 1: environment like from. A competitive standpoint i'm not in. THE
Speaker 1: scooping business i obviously was very wrong about my Scoop
Speaker 1: of about Hardened, going TO philly which i thought was
Speaker 1: definitely gonna happen from someone. Very high up they didn't
Speaker 1: know they. Were Getting played but i've heard that it's
Speaker 1: a bit, of a mafio so vibe.
Speaker 7: To a, Degree oh man i'll tell you what one
Speaker 7: thing is that you get absolutely killed Like by just twitter,
Speaker 7: is just, absurd you know like who wfa n they
Speaker 7: went ALL day when I had The kd. AND kyrie
Speaker 7: thing i got into a whole thing With those Guys
Speaker 7: geo and boomer because they doubted MY reports About kde
Speaker 7: and Kyrie. Back in april but it's one of those
Speaker 7: things Just where like i'm pretty thick skin that i'd like,
Speaker 7: To believe in i'd also Like to. Believe i'm humble
Speaker 7: but it's also one of those, things WHERE no like,
Speaker 7: i BELONG.
Speaker 5: Here like i. TRUST my people i work damn.
Speaker 7: Hard for this And just BECAUSE woja's With, espn or
Speaker 7: stein who is, a good friend Is With The, new
Speaker 7: york times it doesn't mean that they're.
Speaker 5: Better than me, or they're this or, THAT you know
Speaker 5: i belong. In this space, so.
Speaker 7: You know, it's to me it's all Justification And it
Speaker 7: james hard and stuff is.
Speaker 5: Kind, of vindication yeah did you run? Up?
Speaker 1: THE scoreboard.
Speaker 7: Uh i did a little bit of, a you know
Speaker 7: some victory last but not too much because, it's you
Speaker 7: know it was two months. After the FACT so again
Speaker 7: i like to try and stay AS humble.
Speaker 1: AS i can i guess if it was ME knowing,
Speaker 1: WHO i am i love. To be right there's nothing
Speaker 1: to me more fun than everybody telling me how wrong
Speaker 1: my insight is and then me coming out and it
Speaker 1: turns out. To be, true but uh let's. Do this
Speaker 1: more you want to? DO this more i would love. To,
Speaker 1: you want yeah let's do this on. A regular basis i.
Speaker 1: Am totally down how do we? FIND find you i know.
Speaker 1: YOU do periscopes i know that you are the creator
Speaker 1: of the association doing. Your damn thing tell everyone how?
Speaker 7: To, FIND you yeah i mean they could sign up,
Speaker 7: for the newsletter which is every day at the. Association
Speaker 7: dot com they Could email me Anthony at the, association
Speaker 7: dot com or just type in A, Pooch, On, twitter
Speaker 7: INSTAGRAM facebook what i heard it is they.
Speaker 5: Could hit me.
Speaker 7: Up over there so it's.
Speaker 5: Very very simple and, Thank. You again tristan.
Speaker 1: This, was fun no thank you. For coming on let's do.
Speaker 1: This more again thanks again. For Coming. On anthony puccio
Speaker 1: we will. See you again this is a being A de.
Speaker 1: Facto nets Podcast now the nets are now the center,
Speaker 1: of the universe especially with everything that's gone on for
Speaker 1: it to get. To this place I'm certain that kyrie
Speaker 1: will provide us with More nuggets that i'm going to
Speaker 1: come out and reach out. To you for, So believe
Speaker 1: me i'm gonna be.
Speaker 5: Reaching out, Soon, I'm here trista and thank you for.
Speaker 7: No mafia jokes that's ONE thing that i get A
Speaker 7: lot when i go on podcasts AND.
Speaker 5: Radio, and tv well it's. Very much appreciate.
Speaker 1: That's very unfair that's very. UNFAIR of me i would
Speaker 1: never do. That, TO you.
Speaker 5: Well i appreciate. You for.
Speaker 1: That thank, you all right talk, to.
Speaker 7: You.
Speaker 1: Soon bro, thanks all right let's get into. Some Listener
Speaker 1: voicemails if.
Speaker 5: Power isn't, going to retire show. Up the work you're
Speaker 5: bum not bad for A soulless broad.
Speaker 1: Keep it up who? Is this DUDE why do i love?
Speaker 1: Him so much so there's a little. Backstory behind this,
Speaker 1: first of all my mom at ONE point and i
Speaker 1: talked about this on the radio, and the cousin so
Speaker 1: this guy must listen to. The serious ExM she called
Speaker 1: me soulas uh one, Time, she said trista you. Have
Speaker 1: NO soul because i don't actually know why. SHE said
Speaker 1: that i think IT was because i didn't want to listen,
Speaker 1: to some dumb dramatic story that she had. To TELL
Speaker 1: me and, i, WAS like yo, I gotta go i
Speaker 1: gotta get off. The phone now, And, she's like jesus you, Have,
Speaker 1: no soul tristan has anybody ever. Told you, that, i'm
Speaker 1: like well it's coming from, my MOM now so i
Speaker 1: guess it's the only. Person that matters and, now she
Speaker 1: swears she swears, on her life she's. Never said that shout,
Speaker 1: out to mom who's definitely listening, to this podcast but
Speaker 1: not the cover of the. Same ground, AGAIN but yeah
Speaker 1: I get why nets fans are salty, about ALL this
Speaker 1: but i Also understand why. Kyrie did, it you know
Speaker 1: he's got. Things to accomplish she ended up by The
Speaker 1: Family Of. George floyd house he's going through, some mental issues,
Speaker 1: SO you know i get both sides of. It being
Speaker 1: frustrated and, the truth is we're gonna have no Idea
Speaker 1: how the nets are gonna actually look until, the playoffs
Speaker 1: start because they're not gonna try to play defense until
Speaker 1: it's a. High leverage situation they're not going to care
Speaker 1: about Winning Against the cleveland cavaliers On a, Random wednesday.
Speaker 1: Night no shot they're gonna show up for the games
Speaker 1: that they think, are statement games and they're gonna mail
Speaker 1: the rest in doesn't matter. Where they're seated there's not gonna.
Speaker 1: Be any fans we know that home court doesn't mean,
Speaker 1: Anything at all so who knows if they're like a
Speaker 1: five or. A six? Seed who cares as long as
Speaker 1: they're not an Eight seed playing milwaukee in. THE first
Speaker 1: round i think that's really all. They care about what, Do?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 4: THINK marty yeah i mean they are just going to
Speaker 4: score just that hell of a lot and itt until
Speaker 4: we get to the point where the games really matter
Speaker 4: and like seeding.
Speaker 1: Is.
Speaker 4: REALLY important yeah i don't think we're gonna be saying
Speaker 4: the was high level effort.
Speaker 1: From, that team yeah they're still trying to. Get, it
Speaker 1: together yeah they still haven't practiced together as a trio that.
Speaker 1: That deserves noting, yeah all right let's do.
Speaker 8: The next voicemail how The Hell did james harden just
Speaker 8: absolutely finess every single one of us man ate his
Speaker 8: Way out of houston.
Speaker 5: TEAM in The.
Speaker 8: Nba pie peace.
Speaker 5: Love.
Speaker 1: That outro, UH you know i think the more we
Speaker 1: Learn About the, james harden Situation the more clarery. You
Speaker 1: get right so The Truth is james harden thought that
Speaker 1: he was going to Be On the brooklyn Nets, back
Speaker 1: in november before the, Season even started so. That's one
Speaker 1: piece and then Clearly it Was January and james harden
Speaker 1: hadn't been moved yet a couple months past when he
Speaker 1: thought he was going to be. On the. Team no Movement,
Speaker 1: Tilman for Titta salty FOR tata as i like, to
Speaker 1: call him was not interested in doing it anything unless
Speaker 1: it fit him on his timeline for the assets. That,
Speaker 1: He wanted OKAY so If I, WAS james harden i
Speaker 1: would DO everything that i could to pull the levers
Speaker 1: of power and, make them uncomfortable just like they said
Speaker 1: they wanted. To, Be right okay so he pushes the
Speaker 1: buttons to get. Out of town but it Really is A,
Speaker 1: tilman for tida the Owner Of the. Houston rockets problem
Speaker 1: he was the reason that this whole thing happened the way.
Speaker 1: That It Happened if tilman furtida would have just kept
Speaker 1: his mouth shut and stayed, In His lane james harden
Speaker 1: would Still. Be a, Rocket right NOW how do? I Know,
Speaker 1: this all right let's go. Through the history i've been
Speaker 1: wanting to, Work this sin so let's do, it right.
Speaker 1: Now Let's go tilman fortida buys a team. In twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen he keeps hands off for. A Little while darryl
Speaker 1: moury doing. His damn. Thing He's fluid daryl moray doesn't
Speaker 1: have to really ask anyone. To do anything he's the
Speaker 1: defacto owner of the team, at this point and he's
Speaker 1: one of the best at making moves. On the. Fly
Speaker 1: All Right then tillman fortitda comes in about a year
Speaker 1: later little, more and says, you know what handcuffs. Are
Speaker 1: off me now. That's a quote handcuffs. Are, Off, me
Speaker 1: now darryl you need to run every single. Thing By
Speaker 1: me darren, moore is like what? What'd you? Say All,
Speaker 1: right Uh so now maury doesn't have the ease, to
Speaker 1: make moves, to make trades to make those financial decisions
Speaker 1: that make or break. In the league a second or
Speaker 1: two and now you've got a red type tape Crisis
Speaker 1: that the. Frittada is running what? Are you Doing? Tilman
Speaker 1: for titta he fucks up. With the flow and then
Speaker 1: d'An Toni and darryl. Mori a, united they're like We Don't.
Speaker 1: Want russell westbrook there's. Only one ball this thing has
Speaker 1: disaster written. All over it and just like an owner
Speaker 1: who's a, busybody would do he forces that. Trade to happen,
Speaker 1: and he says, you know what these guys got a.
Speaker 1: LITTLE cold feet i made sure to turn the heat.
Speaker 1: Up on them Now we Got russ in houston and
Speaker 1: it is. A fucking nightmare and then he. Wouldn't extend D'Antoni,
Speaker 1: he was, like oh yeah. Lame duck. D'Antoni i'm okay
Speaker 1: his agent didn't want to get. A deal done he did.
Speaker 1: Me a favor these. Are all quotes. Look him up
Speaker 1: he did. Me a favor and, Then he says i'm
Speaker 1: not extending you the very next year after he didn't
Speaker 1: extend him, the last offseason, and D'Antoni says, You know.
Speaker 1: What i'm out i'm not going to take a bunch
Speaker 1: of one year contracts and have, uh you on have
Speaker 1: me on a LITTLE leash where i do exactly what you,
Speaker 1: want To do because i'm worried about. Not, Getting extended right,
Speaker 1: so he says, You know, What i'm Out And then, darryl,
Speaker 1: Morriy's like yo. I'm out too i'm gonna take some
Speaker 1: personal time and. They Both bounce daryl mory gets a
Speaker 1: lucrative contract BEING the second gm, on a contender and
Speaker 1: d'An toni becomes the de facto head coach. On a
Speaker 1: Contender and then james looks Around and it's tumbleweeds and
Speaker 1: a guy coming OFF of an acl injury that he
Speaker 1: doesn't want, to play with, and he's, like holy shit.
Speaker 1: Give me out so all of this Comes. Down to
Speaker 1: tillman if it wasn't for him doing all, his shady
Speaker 1: things then maybe we would have a team that. Was
Speaker 1: still intact so and you're still, he's still salty so
Speaker 1: that he didn't make he didn't want to make That
Speaker 1: Trade with daryl Morey To. Get ben simmons you Could
Speaker 1: Have had ben simmons on your, squad right now and
Speaker 1: Instead You have victor oladipo on an expiring and. Some draft,
Speaker 1: Picks nice Job, tillman for titta you fucking played.
Speaker 4: Yourself some picks that are probably gonna be worth nothing
Speaker 4: to exactly what's?
Speaker 5: Up this League This.
Speaker 9: Is nick lawson i'm calling from, My Own Podcast big Banther.
Speaker 9: Pod shout out you have To Talk about stephen curry
Speaker 9: as one of the goats got to put him in THE.
Speaker 5: Category.
Speaker 1: With mj kobe that's such a ridiculous thing to say
Speaker 1: other old.
Speaker 5: Men out there who used to. Play the game STEP's
Speaker 5: gotta be a.
Speaker 9: GOAT category finalist, i said, it hot take you got to, talk.
Speaker 5: About it got, to be. Addressed my man it's a fucking.
Speaker 5: SAVAGE thank you i.
Speaker 1: Think the four to one five area Code. Is the bay.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure that man Lives In
Speaker 1: the san. Francisco, metropolitan Area Okay so steph curry. Not
Speaker 1: a goat he's not one of the greatest players. Of
Speaker 1: all time he will go down as probably the greatest shooter.
Speaker 1: OF all time i think that's kind of not. Even
Speaker 1: in question that's, pretty locked up. Pretty locked up is?
Speaker 1: HE a batman i already. Said it's possible whatever that,
Speaker 1: caller's name is so get. OFF my back i already walked.
Speaker 1: My stance back he's already elevating a shitty team to.
Speaker 1: Do GREAT things so i have a statement to make.
Speaker 1: For This Caller if steph curry Can Take The golden
Speaker 1: state Warriors To The western conference finals this year with that,
Speaker 1: trash ass roster which we know does not deserve to
Speaker 1: be Anywhere Near The. WESTERN conference finals i will label
Speaker 1: him A batman and i will never. Recant That, state
Speaker 1: so steph. GO do it i know you're not GONNA
Speaker 1: get to i know you're not going To Get Past King,
Speaker 1: KOOPA lebron, james i know but just getting there is
Speaker 1: enough to put you into to goat status. Or batman
Speaker 1: status so that's what it takes To.
Speaker 7: Get, the cape Hey.
Speaker 5: THIS is kevin I. LIVE in georgia i WAS calling
Speaker 5: BECAUSE i don't i think more people need to be.
Speaker 7: Talking About How bad trey.
Speaker 5: Young's hair?
Speaker 6: Is all, right.
Speaker 1: You know sometimes, you see say you see something and
Speaker 1: you feel pelled, to say, something see, Something say something
Speaker 1: and the other, times you THINK maybe if i don't
Speaker 1: have anything, NICE to say i won't say. Anything AT
Speaker 1: all but i do get paid to, give my opinion.
Speaker 1: AND my opinion i have been holding back for, a
Speaker 1: long time AND that, Is i mean i've literally held
Speaker 1: myself back From talking About deer and fox now for
Speaker 1: five episodes And why deeron fox cutting his hair makes
Speaker 1: him completely irrelevant, ON the floor i can't even tell
Speaker 1: whether he's out, there or Not and makes sacramento probably
Speaker 1: less exciting as a result of. That Hair cut so
Speaker 1: i've been wanted, to Say it and. I've been reluctant
Speaker 1: so this collar it came at. A perfect, Time I,
Speaker 1: think trey young it's time fam, to go home to just,
Speaker 1: cut it off just go. FOR it bald i don't
Speaker 1: know if you need, to GO bald but i think
Speaker 1: your hair is, it's very. Thin it's translucent it's like
Speaker 1: it's like powder. In hair form YOU know what i
Speaker 1: mean that. That, MOVIE powder yeah i.
Speaker 4: Mean Hair Matters when josh jackson, cut his hair that
Speaker 4: WAS the moment i stopped believing in.
Speaker 1: Him, Thousand percent Sometimes Like imagine colin sexton cutting off his,
Speaker 1: hair right now what? Would you think no way you
Speaker 1: went from damn that guy has swagged a rock his.
Speaker 1: Hair like, that so wow you really went corporate on using.
Speaker 2: Threw away that head, and shoulders.
Speaker 1: Money corporate calling we Don't. Want corporate Colin, so so.
Speaker 1: Trey it's time not everybody deserves or CAN have, An
Speaker 1: s curl and that. Applies to you. Cut IT off as,
Speaker 1: svp would, Say, come home. Trey come home that's all
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