WEBVTT - Respecting Kyrie's Boundaries 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:18.120 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.800 On this episode or the heat check trying to turn 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:26.000 the music down. We look at the final ramifications from 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.240 trade deadline day, including a deep dive and why the 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.559 Knicks couldn't make any deals done at the deadline when 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.240 they had every single player available on the trade block. 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.640 It was very strange, and we also talk about talk 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:44.599 about more things going on that are strange in New 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.440 York City. We talk about Kyrie's response to the Hard 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.560 and Trade. We all wanted to know, would Kyrie feel 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:56.360 any feelings about maybe contrition about Hard and bolting Town 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.680 only sixteen games into their trio. Well, I bet you 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.440 can only imagine what he had to say, But we 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.800 will get into that. And finally we talk about the Lakers. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.720 It's a heavy hitter, dysfunctional show, organizational quote unquote malpractice 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.840 that is happening right now in Lakerland. So Brock, we 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.520 have no time to wait. Let's drop that beat. Let's sun. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:19.080 Part good. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:25.640 Right. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.880 Imagine for a second, you move into a new apartment, right, 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.720 buy a bunch of furniture, and you kind of do 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.640 it in a rush, gotta move in. You don't have 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.920 a ton you got a couple of things, but you 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.560 piece it together trying to do it on somewhat of 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.680 a budget. You pay a lot for certain items and 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.680 then you skimp on others, and then you move all 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.840 in and like six months later, eight months later, you 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.400 look around your apartment and you're like, this shit does 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.680 not and this is the func shui of my place 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:10.080 is not vibing. These items do not fit together well 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.480 at all. I've got a coffee table too big for 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.480 my couch. I've got a rug doesn't even quite fit 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.840 into the room right. My entryways shelving I thought was 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.720 gonna be all clean lines. Now the coats are everywhere. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.000 You don't even get to see the clean lines of 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.400 this design within reach. Item that I spent like six 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.960 hundred dollars for everything else is kind of schlocky. You 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.800 want to tikea get the rest because you couldn't afford 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:43.880 everything being top dollar, So you hold a garage sale 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.440 and you're like, everything in here can go. I'm not 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:52.680 wedded to a goddamn thing. I'm ready to start fresh. Listen. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.519 I can work around a couch, I know I can 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.799 work around an end table, But this whole setup, I 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.600 just know there's something out right about this setup. And 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.920 then you get some people peeking in the window, they 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.320 touch your stuff, they're chatting, and the end of the 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:17.280 garage sill ends. You look around and nothing is gone 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.600 and nothing. Nobody wants your shit, no one, no matter what. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:28.240 Like what you got some offers, folks for that particle 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.520 board Ikia table that you paid three hundred and twenty 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.400 five dollars for it. You knew it wasn't a great 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.920 pot price, but you couldn't spend seven hundred on one, 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.119 so you just kind of get something. It's particle board, right, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.320 nobody's gonna spend three hundred and twenty five dollars three 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.560 hundred dollars what you spend three hundred and fifty dollars. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:51.400 It's particle board buyers in some of your stuff, they 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:57.400 want you to pay them to haul it away, Like, uh, listen, 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.520 Oh this isn't fucking goodwill Ymca March of Dimes. You're 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.400 gonna need to give me fifty dollars to haul that 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.600 piece of shit out the dough That right now, folks, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:15.480 is the New York Knicks. A week before trade deadline, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.760 there was no one more active than the New York Knicks. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.040 They were trying to get everybody. They went after CJ. McCollum, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.279 They went after Norm Powell, They went after Harrison Barnes, 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.120 Harrison Barnes, Harrison Barnes, They went after Jalen Brunson. They 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.560 went after Terrence Ross, the Orlando Magic, even Miles Turner, 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.240 the injured Star. You would think they would have learned 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.320 their lesson, given the fact that they have Mitchell Robinson 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:43.320 who also has foot issues. But nothing, and not a 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.280 thing happened even after the team, even after you saw 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:53.600 New York Post. Everyone's available, everyone's getta ball on the 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:59.960 New York Knicks. Even Julish rental the eight hundred dollars entry, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.920 a piece from Design within Reach. He is even available 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:09.680 for the right price. No one wanted your stuff. Zero 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:15.240 people wanted your stuff. Folks. If you are ready to 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:20.080 get rid of all the furniture and reshuffle, rebuy, figure out, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.800 maybe do a little swapperoo. That is not a team 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.720 confident about their current roster. That is not someone who's 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:32.120 happy with the setup of their apartments. Facts Mitchell Robinson 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:38.360 unrestricted free agent this summer. He's asking out. He's basically 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.320 signal to your team. He's not resigning. You have shocked 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.039 him around because you know you will get nothing for 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:49.480 him if you don't move him. Now you look around 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:56.599 and even he is not traded. What gives? What gives? 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.239 What is the mindset of the New York Knicks right now? 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.559 I don't know. But here's what the New York Post 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:10.000 my man Mark Berman is saying. Being sellers and dumping 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.640 players just to open up summer cap space was considered 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:19.560 but then scrapped aka garage sale. And this off season 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.600 will now stand as one of the most important ones 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:28.520 in franchise history. That's a little much, don't you think 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.039 that's a bit of a hyper boil. But you know 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.000 how these New Yorkers are. You know, everything's the fucking 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:40.960 end of the world, the most important off season in history. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.200 We'll see poor TIBs though, TIBs, TIBs. They do them wrong. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.159 They do him so dirty. Here's what he had to 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.440 say about it, the fact that he even needs to 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.880 answer any trade questions as a head coach. Listen, I'm 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.240 not the GM here. Okay, this is what he said. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.200 We already made a trade earlier on Cam Reddish excuse me, pause, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:07.360 do not He was a part. He was the random 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.920 little uh ottoman you picked up off the street and 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.320 you realize very quickly did not fit. Let me just 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.520 throw this thing back outside us business. This shit is 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:24.240 got mold inside. I'm not sure about this. They trying 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.000 to flip them like that. They literally just got them 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.160 and they tried to flip them immediately. Did not work. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.200 He said, that's part of it. You look at your 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:39.400 trade possibilities, free agents, Leon rowse Wes, Scott Perry. They 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.840 look at this in totality. He wants to keep his 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.120 job so bad. It's ongoing, it doesn't end. It's every 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.680 day thinking about how we can improve this team. Propaganda. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:58.000 They're short term planning, long term planning, and you're always consistently, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:03.480 constantly looking at both. That's Leon's job. He'll continue to look. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:10.360 There's always possibilities. Is there different ways you can improve 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:15.480 the club? And I trust him. I don't know that 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.320 he said it quite like that, but that's the most 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:24.360 optimistic quote reread. Sounds like they are looking right now 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:30.240 at the buyout market because the Knicks just finished, or 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.560 getting a open roster spot filled, but they still can 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:40.480 wave my man Kemba Walker Kemba might be in line 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:44.120 for a buyout. He is also on sad Boy season. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:50.080 This is what he said. Yeah, I'm here, Like I said, 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.640 I mean, what can I do. It's not up to me. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.120 I'm just a player. I don't make those decisions or 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.560 anything like that. So yeah, yeah, I want to be there. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.720 That's why I came here to be a part of 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:11.959 my home team. But it's not really my decision. Oh uh, 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.040 that feels like a change of tone. Does not seem 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:19.520 like he's skewing optimistic. We'll say that. To say that 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.320 Kemba is not a part of the problem would be 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.560 not true. Not true. He started out bad. Uh, then 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.079 he got benched, and then he got better, and then 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:33.600 he got worse again. Right now, Kemba has shot I 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.480 can't even believe what I'm looking at. Right now, Kemba 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.760 has shot twenty eight point six percent from the field 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:47.800 in the last seven games. Yikes, I tell you. Let 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.000 me say it again for the folks in the back 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:55.640 who aren't quite processing this. Right now, Kemba Walker, New 0:09:55.720 --> 0:10:01.520 York legend, is shooting twenty eight point six percent from 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.120 the field. Not from three, not from twenty five thirty 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.360 five feet out. I mean including like right underneath the 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.120 basket to whatever the furthest distance is that he shot 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:19.439 all of those together combined on average twenty eight point 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:28.280 six percent under thirty percent in totality bad. We've already 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.320 talked about Julia's Randalls season that he only seems to 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:39.959 ball out on Nashley televised games. We've also noted when 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.679 I was talking about the coffee table made at a 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.520 particle board when you could have spent another two three 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.960 hundred dollars on solid wood, that analogy was Evan Fournier. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.680 He is the particle board coffee table boy. He is 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:00.760 a model of inconsistency. You only get one move with them, 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.760 like you know those coffee tables. You know you've got 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:08.400 one move, probably the move from the Ikea to that apartment, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.080 and nothing else, not the ikea, set it up, build it, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.760 put it in storage, put it in a No. That's 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.160 Evan Fournier. And that one move was in Tokyo. Literally, 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.680 that was his best version was the first place, Tokyo. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.920 You took it from Tokyo to New York, and you 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.080 thought that baby was gonna hold your feet up when 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:36.760 you watch the TV. That shit folded quick shesh. In 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:42.160 his last fourteen games, Evan Fournier has scored anywhere from 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:47.920 four points to thirty points, including five games of twenty 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:55.120 or more good and five games under ten bad. The 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.000 only trade the Knicks made was again for my guy, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.840 Camriddish aka the poof that you got on the side 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.920 of the road, realized really quick wasn't quite the decor 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.960 you thought it might be when it was free. Same 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:12.840 guy who left Atlanta is averaging twelve minutes and five 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.280 points per game. During his eleven game stint, he has 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:21.720 seen four dnps. Tibbs is reportedly not a fan. Reddish 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.160 has actually been pretty good. He played pretty well when 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.440 they beat the Golden State Warriors. They did go on 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.679 the road. They played five games on the road. They 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.240 only won one, and that was the game Cam Reddish 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.680 balled out, played like seventeen nineteen minutes, had a bunch 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.200 of points off the bench. Apparently they tried to trade 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.800 Cam Reddish for Jalen Brunson. If you thought you were 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.760 gonna trade a poof off the side of the road 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:56.319 for a mid century modern cocktail table from like the 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:01.960 early nineteen fifties, a Renaissance piece that is peaking right 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:06.600 now seventy years after. Like Jalen Brunson is an American original, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:12.160 Jalen Brunson is one of the better role player point 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.880 guards in this league. Cam Reddish is getting DMPs okay 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:22.800 poof off the street, mid century modern and table. To me, 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:27.640 this feels like the Knicks, after being the darlings of 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.240 last year, are at what we would call a fork 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.839 in the road. It's not just me saying it, obviously. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.040 Mark Berman, as I said, calls this offseason the most 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:43.720 important Enfranchise history. Could it have something to do with 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.720 a very unhappy fat player living in New Orleans currently 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.480 rehabbing his foot in Portland. We don't even need to 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.679 say his name. You know who I'm talking about. I mean, 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:59.680 it's Zion. I mean this team is already basically the 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:05.440 can Tucky East with five UK Wildcats on it, five 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.600 Kevin k Ox, Julius Randall, Michael Kidd, Gilchris didn't know 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.959 he was on there, Nerlan's, Noel and Emmanuel Quickly, this 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:19.440 could also become the Duke Blue Devil's team with Cam Reddish, RJ. Barrett, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:24.240 and Zion Zion Zion Zion. I don't know, I don't know, man, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.920 the Knicks are apparently still aiming for the playoffs, sort 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.240 of aiming for the play in despite being seven games 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.440 under five hundred two and a half back two and 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:41.080 a half back of the ten seed. Yikes, this seems 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.600 like a team that really should just say take it all. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.400 We've got a generational piece here. If we go ahead 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.520 and tank Pallo Ban Carrol's right around the corner, Chet 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.040 Holmgern run around the corner, Jabari Smith right around the corner. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:15:00.400 I don't know. It's gonna take a lot the next 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.400 to resurrect their season, I tell you what. But you 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.720 know what they did, go on a one and four 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:10.160 West coast road trip and that one win. I'm pushing 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.840 p I'm trying. I'm trying to find the sun in 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.480 the gray clouds and beating the Warriors. If you're gonna 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.600 win one out of five games, make it against the 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.480 team that has the third best dogs to win the title. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.560 You know what I'm saying, Hope that springs the turtles 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:44.200 for the knickerbox. That girl only knew he alone, and 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.560 then and then they did. That's what they did. That 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.800 Sean Marks traded Hardened to Philly. She would probably leave 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.160 Hardens for Simmons Traders in the books now as the 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.240 Double Dust. There's like a zillion questions that I have 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.760 a zillion Let's just look at you. First of all, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.800 we thought in the beginning of this trade the Harden 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:15.520 signed a player opt in which would give the Philadelphia 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:20.960 Sixers this season and next season to evaluate whether my man, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:28.680 James Harden was or was not washed. But apparently we 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.240 do not think he's washed. I just want to go 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.440 on the record, I do not think James Harden is washed. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.160 But if I was evaluating him to the point of 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.800 maybe paying him sixty million dollars a year in seven 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.480 and five, four years from now, maybe I would be 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:48.320 a little less enthusiastic and optimistic as me the hardened 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.400 fan that I am, the huge, completely optimistic hardened fan 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:58.000 than I am. He didnt d the player contract, so 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.840 you got the twenty five games and then it's time 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.040 is it marriage? Is love and marriage or is it 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:08.679 time to cut your losses and go elsewhere. I think 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.320 they're gonna I think they're gonna sign them. Regardless they 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.760 paid up too much, that so much has gone on, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.880 you had Ben Simmons on the books for the next 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.680 four years anyway. I mean, he wasn't gonna play for 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:25.440 you ever, so who knows. But it is an important detail, nonetheless, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.639 that everyone thought that a part of that deal was 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.600 him opting in, so that you had a season and 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.679 twenty five games plus this postseason to evaluate. But if 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.359 you're worried as a Sixer fan that he's gonna go 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.000 somewhere else in free agency, do not be worried, at 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.280 least for about this, because James has got nowhere else 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.320 to go. Yeah, you go no place to go. You've 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.679 got the Spurs and you've got the Pistons as the 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.360 two most likely teams to have cap space this offseason. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.479 And I tell you what, if you're James Harden, you 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.480 push your way out of Houston, you push your way 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.480 out of Brooklyn. You are not gonna be excited about 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:05.720 playing with de Jonte Murray or Kaid Cunningham. Have you 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.639 seen Kay cunning I'm not even gonna go into Kaid Cunningham. 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.120 But yeah, he had got nowhere else to go. The 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.720 only teams are them, and plus if he were to 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.320 go to the Spurs of the Pistons, he would have 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.520 to sign a deal of four years, two hundred million, right, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.760 that's a lot of jack. But if he signs with 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.359 the Sixers, he can sign for five years, two hundred 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.200 and seventy million. And let me ask you this, riddle 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.640 me this. Do you think if he signs a four 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.720 year deal with another team, somehow in that fifth year, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.760 they're gonna that's gonna be a seventy million dollars one 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.560 year deal for James Harden when he's thirty seven years old. 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.919 No shot, there's no shot he makes up that money. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.080 Fascinating stuff, Just a little wrinkle for folks to think 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.320 about in terms of how you want to, I don't know, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.760 deal with James Harden long term and vice versa. Secondly, 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.280 I personally wanted to know what Kyrie Riving had to 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.080 say about this trade. I personally thought maybe he would 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.960 address feeling I don't know, bad, like sad, like damn. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.760 Maybe I could have done more. Maybe I could have 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:18.000 called him and told him I was looking into vegan 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:23.119 vaccines and it might be coming soon. Who knows, who knows. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.320 People were asking Kyrie, Kyrie, what'd you think? Would you think? 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.040 I don't know, Like the fact that he's missed most 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.760 of this year despite being healthy enough to play. Maybe 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:38.119 he would have some self awareness that not being available 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.480 despite being healthy could have pushed James Harden to a 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.240 place where he was feeling like that was in a 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.080 situation he wanted to be in, putting a lot of 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.040 pressure on James, pressure that James didn't no longer want, 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.639 which is why he left Houston to begin with. I 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.960 don't know pressure that Kyrie had the hand on his lever. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.080 He could change how much pressure up and down all 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.080 you wanted, down, pressure, up, pressure, and he turned that 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.920 volume all the way up. No, James, Now look Kd's out. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.399 It's all you all by yourself. You and Paote, Nick Claxton, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:14.960 just you two know, Joe Harris, It's just you and 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.920 old Wash, Blake Griffin and Harder with me a LaMarcus 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:27.280 Doldridge and me halftime. So I wanted to know, Kyrie, 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.760 what do you say? Here's what he had. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.440 To say, player media games with somebody else. 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:32.640 Bro. 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.000 Please I understand that there's a lot growing on a 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.600 reb and I'm here as a human being just like you, Bro. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.679 Please respect my boundaries. Man, That's all I'm asking. 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:41.920 Bro. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.199 There's no guilt that I feel. You know, I'm the 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.840 only player that has to deal with this in New 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.520 York City because I played THEREK If I was anywhere 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.639 else in another city, then it probably wouldn't be the 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.879 same circumstances. But because I'm there, we have Eric Adams, 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:56.920 we have the New York Mandate, we have things going 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.040 on that are real life circumstances that are not just 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.480 affecting me. Bro. So you asked me these questions. I 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.360 don't feel guilt. I'm just living my life as best 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.200 I can, just like everybody else. The miss these last 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.520 two years. You know, I didn't have a plan in 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.240 place when all this was going on. Didn't know. Like 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.040 I said, the NBA and the MVPA made it very 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.480 clear that there would be things that I would be 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.000 able to do the work around this, and that's off 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.119 the table. So you tell me if I'm just alone 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.880 out here, or do I have support from everybody else 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:27.120 that's dealing with the same thing. 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:30.280 Jama James, I'm so glad you got the fuck up 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:34.360 out of there. I didn't feel that two hours ago 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:39.520 when I first heard that. But what is he talking about. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:44.280 Let's break this down for a second. Kyrie not only 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:49.240 feels zero guilt, he decided to go on the offensive 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:53.000 on the media member who asked him, do you feel 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:57.679 any anything about the fact that the reason potentially that 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:03.040 James Harden left early was because you were not around 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:07.159 due to your choices you've made that have impacted the 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:09.760 team for the to the point where you weren't even 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.959 around the team at all until they needed you because 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:16.879 guys were dropping like fly, so they allowed you to 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:21.400 come back for only road games, and you decided, not 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.639 only do I not feel guilt, how dare you even 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:30.000 imply that I should feel guilt? No, this is something 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:34.440 that only I have to deal with, because no other 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:38.119 human being has to deal with a pandemic and the 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.440 decisions that you make by being vaccinated or not vaccinated 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:45.600 in the city of New York, like even intimating that 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.320 there is a possibility that you were a factor, a 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:52.400 determining factor, or a catalyst in that decision making. First 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:56.240 and foremost, you should acknowledge that. Second of all, if 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.679 you were a catalyst for someone leaving and becoming pissed 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:02.840 off because you're not around because you won't get vaccinated. 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:04.439 To the point where I've come on the show and 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:08.240 said James Harden on a press release said, I am 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.639 going to give Kyrie Irving the shot myself in a 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.000 joking but not really so joking manner, to the point 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:18.200 where you on those role games that you're so able 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.440 to play when you go to Cleveland, you're burning sage 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.200 in front of him, like bad vibes. Get these bad 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.320 vibes out of here, Like you're basically trying to burn 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:29.959 the COVID away. What the fuck are you talking about? 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:38.960 And secondarily like boundaries, Excuse me, boundaries. We're literally asking 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.160 you questions about something that just happened that you are 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:48.720 probably directly responsible for, and you're talking about boundaries. Excuse me? 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:49.359 What? 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:51.840 What about the boundaries that the New York City set 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:54.240 in place about trying to keep their people safe when 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:58.159 athletes are going into the stadium, whether they're vaccinated or not. 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:02.480 What about those boundaries that you don't care to respect. 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:06.480 What are we even talking about? He was genuinely outraged, 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.359 and I didn't care. The first I heard that like 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:12.680 six times and I was like, oh, Kyrie, you're so funny, 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:14.600 And I was like, if I'm James Harden, I'm like, 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:16.920 fuck this guy, what's he meaning? As a field guilt? 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:20.760 He's the reason that I left. We were a trio 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:25.920 that went thirteen and three in sixteen games. We could 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:31.119 have been an unstoppable offensive force. When all healthy ad 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.160 role players that'll come here and play for us for nothing, 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:41.560 we're chilling. What are you taking? You forced him out? Period? Yes? 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:43.280 Was James Harden a bit of a bitch and the 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:47.000 way that he left? Yes? Were you responsible for him 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:51.440 taking this downturn and his attitude going from I want 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:54.560 to play in Brooklyn. That's the place I want to 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:57.399 go is reunite with Katie, which I was already a 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:01.399 little suss about to play with who I've heard things 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:05.280 about all of us together going in one direction like 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:08.719 a boat unstoppable. But when we're going in different directions, 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:11.439 we're going absolutely nowhere, which is why they went on 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:15.439 an eight game losing streak. Kyrie, perfectly healthy, which he 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:20.280 normally never is, decides you know what, James, it's just 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:22.920 you out there, go ball out my dog on the road. 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:28.840 I'll see you in Houston. Are you insane? Back in October, 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:31.440 Shaun Mark said that there would be no contract extension 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:36.360 for Kyrie. He signed through next year at thirty six 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:38.879 million dollars a year. Then maybe we can start talking 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:42.359 about boundaries at that point. Huh, what if they don't 0:25:42.400 --> 0:25:45.800 sign him when he's able to be extended. How about 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:49.040 the guilt he might be feeling at that point in times, 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:53.600 So the three amigos become two amigos, become one amigo 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:58.280 and holy shit, it's just kd out here by himself 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:03.240 hoping for chet Holmgren. What a wild, bizarre ending to 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:09.320 a team that could have been fucking electric, and instead 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:14.919 we get this fucking multiverse of madness where we have 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:19.320 to think of alternate realities where this three would have 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:24.080 been together facing off against Giannis and the Bucks, which 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:27.400 they certainly could have won that series, in an alternate 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:31.040 scenario where they play the Warriors or the Phoenix Suns 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:35.000 in the finals this year, in an alternate reality where 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:39.640 everyone's healthy and maybe they win not one, not two, 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:45.760