Speaker 1: Come on and you're listening to Heat Check from Trista
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Speaker 1: and beyond. Exactly so, I said this in the pod
Speaker 1: that never was So did I even say it at all?
Speaker 2: That's the question. Buckle up, folks.
Speaker 1: We've now reached bizarro land.
Speaker 2: As of yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1: According to numerous sources, the NETS gave Kyrie Irving permission
Speaker 1: to pursue sign and trade packages also to sign a
Speaker 1: free agency using.
Speaker 2: The mid level taxpayer mid level exception.
Speaker 1: And it appeared that unless the Nets paid him max money,
Speaker 1: he was out this bitch. However, turns out Kyrie did
Speaker 1: opt in to thirty six million dollar contract and blew
Speaker 1: up all the speculation about him and KD finding new homes.
Speaker 2: By the way, Kyrie Irving is currently in.
Speaker 1: North Dakota opting into his contract, looking at all the
Speaker 1: scenes and sights. But unless, of course, nothing has actually
Speaker 1: changed and Kyrie is still on the move, no one
Speaker 1: knows what's happening, folks. No one, not Woj, not Wendy,
Speaker 1: who like me, ended up scrapping his podcast as well.
Speaker 1: He recorded the full thing had to start all over
Speaker 1: again once Kyrie opted in.
Speaker 2: Ain't that about a bitch? That's how it goes.
Speaker 1: Not even Schaum's Sharanya, who has a direct line to
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, knows what's going on with Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure.
Speaker 1: Truthfully, I'm not even sure that Kyrie knows where Kyrie
Speaker 1: is at.
Speaker 2: You know, that's just so human.
Speaker 1: You're just going through the decision tree and you're just like,
Speaker 1: I know it's not quite right where I am, but
Speaker 1: I also don't know if I go if it's quite
Speaker 1: right there either. So it's the evil you know versus
Speaker 1: the evil you don't know, and also a trip to
Speaker 1: North Dakota to embrace your roots.
Speaker 2: I do know, however, how we got here one.
Speaker 1: It started out not last season, but the season before,
Speaker 1: when Kyrie Irving went on walkabout and he got suspended
Speaker 1: because he went to his sister's birthday party, wore no
Speaker 1: mask to the event, went to Cynthia Nixon's Zoom Zoom
Speaker 1: activism situation, and at that point I spoke with my
Speaker 1: man Anthony Puccio, who was covering the nets, and he said,
Speaker 1: right then is when Josie said, I'm kind of tired
Speaker 1: with Kyrie Irving's antics. That was before the trade for Harden,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of where Josi is at. He did
Speaker 1: the trade, said maybe Harden is a contingency plan if
Speaker 1: we are sick and tired of Kyrie Irving's antics, And
Speaker 1: then of course James Harden got sick and tired of
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irvings antics first, and so he was like, I am.
Speaker 2: Out this bitch.
Speaker 1: So Josi, Sean Marks, probably Steve Nash all thinking to themselves,
Speaker 1: this guy can handle the basketball unlike we've ever seen, but.
Speaker 2: Is he worth it?
Speaker 1: Is he worth this headache, this lack of culture, this
Speaker 1: bullshit we have to deal with. And then Josi publicly stated, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am in full support of us not paying Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving the max.
Speaker 2: I am all in on us not doing that.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving offered, apparently the Nets a shorter term deal,
Speaker 1: how about like a two in one, And the Nets
Speaker 1: were like, how about a zero in one?
Speaker 2: How about you just hopped in.
Speaker 1: We are met to your lab that year and we
Speaker 1: can figure it out.
Speaker 2: And then Sideways, Me and literally everyone in the NBA media.
Speaker 1: Were like, is Kyrie Irving switching teams. The NBA off
Speaker 1: season went like it does, where literally the news cycle
Speaker 1: was like snorting a full line of cocaine. Everyone's just
Speaker 1: bouncing off the walls.
Speaker 2: Not knowing anything.
Speaker 1: Let me break it down calmly and rationally. Here's where
Speaker 1: we went, and here's where we go. Nets finalized and
Speaker 1: offer to Kai. What was in that offer is unknown.
Speaker 1: According to Zach Lowe, the Nets made a real offer
Speaker 1: to Kyrie Irving. We don't know the exact permutations. There's
Speaker 1: probably several, but this is not a case where it
Speaker 1: was a one year deal and that was it. It
Speaker 1: was offered real stuff. We don't know exactly what they are. Unquote,
Speaker 1: he called it a real offer. We do know he
Speaker 1: probably and the Nets probably had provisions. Provisions are the
Speaker 1: keyword for him not playing full games, for him deciding
Speaker 1: to go to Cynthia Nixon's birthday party, and also activism campaign.
Speaker 1: We all know that Kyrie Iven doesn't play full season.
Speaker 2: That's just never what. He's not done that since high school.
Speaker 1: I don't even think Kyrie Irving played a full season
Speaker 1: in high school basketball in New Jersey. So Kyrie gave
Speaker 1: every indication he would only accept the Max deal in
Speaker 1: order to return to Brooklyn. But the new news, the
Speaker 1: current news, is that he wanted a shorter term deal
Speaker 1: at Max money, and that was probably a lie. Things
Speaker 1: began rolling downhill fast. Zach Low tweeted, the Max deal
Speaker 1: is not coming for Kyrie.
Speaker 2: The Nets will not be.
Speaker 1: Held hostage by the threat of Kyrie and then Kevin leaving.
Speaker 1: Brian Windhorse says, get the Nets are like all in
Speaker 1: on both gone and like we're not dealing with what
Speaker 1: we had last year. So if you guys both want
Speaker 1: to frolic along, then that's fine. We have Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: under a four year deal. We decide where he goes,
Speaker 1: and we decide what assets come back. You want to
Speaker 1: pull Ben Simmons, that's fine, But we know that Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons doesn't love basketball and you do, so you're not
Speaker 1: holding out like Ben Simmons.
Speaker 2: We know that.
Speaker 1: Kyrie then pulled the nuclear code, releasing a list of
Speaker 1: teams that he would prefer to be traded to Lakers,
Speaker 1: which we knew was gonna happen because Kyrie Irving went
Speaker 1: on some im athlete podcast and said if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for his ego, him.
Speaker 2: And Lebron James will be playing basketball still together. And
Speaker 2: that was when I said.
Speaker 1: Scooby, Scooby, is that what I think it is? Now?
Speaker 1: We're talking Lakers, Clippers, Snicks, Heat, MAVs, Sixers. Turns out,
Speaker 1: numerous reports from Jake Fisher, friend of show, there was
Speaker 1: only one team that was even remotely interested in Kyrie,
Speaker 1: and of course it was the Lakers.
Speaker 2: What would the offer of Ben.
Speaker 1: We don't know.
Speaker 2: That's the big question.
Speaker 1: If Kyrie left, we all began to wonder would Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant go as well. Sham's the ultimate shill of the
Speaker 1: man said, Kevin Durant is loyal to the Nets. He
Speaker 1: will not be going anywhere, and that is probably what
Speaker 1: It's probably a lie. He's not gonna be sitting there
Speaker 1: with a bunch of scrubs and no draft picks if
Speaker 1: you're a lottery team.
Speaker 2: And then just like this, the NBA World exploded.
Speaker 1: Nets Daily tweeted this, based on conversations this morning, I
Speaker 1: think that the Nets will be very active very soon,
Speaker 1: and not just on Kyrie.
Speaker 2: I was told to quote unquote buckle up.
Speaker 1: At this point, Kyrie had until Wednesday at five pm,
Speaker 1: which is tomorrow, to decide whether he was going to
Speaker 1: opt into his contract. All reports were that he was
Speaker 1: not going to chaos, of course, is in the streets.
Speaker 1: Two of the seventy five best players in the NBA
Speaker 1: right now, two of the seventy five best of all time,
Speaker 1: potentially going on the market at the same exact time.
Speaker 1: Exactly what is happening here?
Speaker 2: No one knows.
Speaker 1: Dame Lyott Lillard then photoshopped the photo of I don't
Speaker 1: know if he did it.
Speaker 2: Himself, so don't quote me on him doing it himself.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he owns photo shop on his computer,
Speaker 1: but i'ld be amazing. A photo emerged the Dame Lillard
Speaker 1: posted on his own Instagram story of Kevin Durant in
Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazer's uniform alongside Dame. People are freaking out.
Speaker 1: Parody accounts began Fate quoting that KD wanted to come
Speaker 1: back to Golden State.
Speaker 2: Shit is bananas b A na nas. Then Woes dropped
Speaker 2: a bomb.
Speaker 1: If Irving declines his thirty six million dollar player option,
Speaker 1: he would be eligible to sign with the Lakers for
Speaker 1: the six million taxpayer mid level exception. Of course, he
Speaker 1: would probably sign this six million dollar MLLE with the
Speaker 1: agreement that he would get a max deal from the
Speaker 1: team the next year.
Speaker 2: How serious was this chatter?
Speaker 1: Christian Winfield New York Post reported that the belief among
Speaker 1: team and league execs and players is that Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: was Deuce's peace up atown down.
Speaker 2: Having only played.
Speaker 1: One hundred and three games in three years, he has
Speaker 1: missed forty one point four percent of the possible games
Speaker 1: with the Nets with all teams excuse me, since twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: that man is operating in a sixty percent clip. That is,
Speaker 1: in academia, what we call a failing grade.
Speaker 2: If you're wondering how.
Speaker 1: Scared the Nets might be about the prospect of losing KD,
Speaker 1: when Horse just reported the Nets would rather lose Kyrie
Speaker 1: and KD both and to go through hell that they
Speaker 1: went in with both of them together, and that bulls
Speaker 1: and that turmoil. In addition to this, the cooling between
Speaker 1: the Nets and KD was something to watch as well.
Speaker 1: Apparently the Nets fired Adam Harrington. Who is Adam Harrington?
Speaker 1: You might ask, why does he matter? He was Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant shooting coach back in Okase when Kevin Durant was
Speaker 1: there before he went to the Warriors. Kevin Durant specifically
Speaker 1: asked for Adam Harrington to be an assistant coach of
Speaker 1: the Nets. He has now been recently fired, and Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant reportedly was weighing his options and his faith and
Speaker 1: interest in trust in the decision making in the Nets
Speaker 1: was starting to come under question. Incredible, and yet Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving does opt in but does not tell the Nets
Speaker 1: he's opting in. He did not even alert them, just
Speaker 1: like he did not even alert them that he was
Speaker 1: going there in the first place. Do you guys remember
Speaker 1: that Kyrie Irving chose the Nets without the Nets choosing him.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Iruving chose the Nets before the Nets offered him whatsoever.
Speaker 1: They just backed into a relationship. It's like if I
Speaker 1: went to the Oscars and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: someone came up to me and they were like, Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan says, he wants to date you. He's got an offer,
Speaker 1: he's got a ring, And I'm like, well, I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that. Uh, I didn't even know Wait, excuse
Speaker 1: me back this up a little bit.
Speaker 2: So Michael, what wants to do?
Speaker 1: What? Like?
Speaker 2: That's the Nets with Kyrie River also though it's like
Speaker 2: Michael B.
Speaker 1: Jordan's friend, He's also wants to marry you as well.
Speaker 1: It's like hold On, Kadi and Kyrie are both coming
Speaker 1: to the Nets.
Speaker 2: We didn't even know. So that's a disaster.
Speaker 1: On top of the fact the Nets don't have their
Speaker 1: own first round pick for the next five years.
Speaker 2: All of their turmoil, all.
Speaker 1: Of the chaos, all of the mediocrity spiraling, all of
Speaker 1: that does is build up the war chest for the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets. And that is why Tielman for Tita made
Speaker 1: a billion dollars off of low end shrimp, because he
Speaker 1: is a man that understands business and understand how that
Speaker 1: assets work.
Speaker 2: Here, I don't need any pieces for James. Don't worry
Speaker 2: about that. I don't want I don't want Ben Simmons that. No,
Speaker 2: I don't want Jared Allen that. Nohoh.
Speaker 1: Just give me five first shround picks. Give me four
Speaker 1: first round picks and four pick swaps. How about that.
Speaker 2: I'll take that.
Speaker 1: I can see how things have worked out with you
Speaker 1: when you traded for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pearson.
Speaker 2: Toron Williams. We'll just keep our ass over here.
Speaker 1: We don't want these pieces that are not on the
Speaker 1: timeline of our young guns.
Speaker 2: And then Kyrie had to go.
Speaker 1: Ruining all of our chaos by doing this opt in,
Speaker 1: Like your fans were already planning their parade. Then they
Speaker 1: went into a probably they're in a coma right now.
Speaker 1: NBA media all had to scrap their podcasts, they had
Speaker 1: to scrap their articles, their think pieces. Bet MGM as
Speaker 1: well as other sports books had to maneuver their odds.
Speaker 1: And now we've got news that opting in makes it
Speaker 1: even more likely that Kyrie is on the move. So
Speaker 1: if you had to ask me what I think is
Speaker 1: going to happen, do it doesn't seem like I know?
Speaker 1: Does it seem like I even have the foggiest idea
Speaker 1: what to make out of this?
Speaker 2: Buckle up, folks, we're just can get started.
Speaker 1: Its June thirtieth could not come back