Speaker 1: It seems like we're always gonna be talking about Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: I want to stop it.
Speaker 1: I look through the news and I scratch out soon
Speaker 1: as I see the name Kyrie, as soon as I
Speaker 1: see the name Durant, as soon as I see the
Speaker 1: name Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: I try to just delete it. But this one, this
Speaker 2: one caught my eye this time.
Speaker 1: It deals with I mean, it's always Kyrie, isn't it.
Speaker 1: If it's not Kevin Durant just wanting out, it's Kyrie.
Speaker 1: He's in the news due to what's popping in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: More on that in a second, But today Kyrie is
Speaker 1: trending on social media for another reason altogether, connecting to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles as well.
Speaker 2: Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, Like, if you watch Winning time,
Speaker 1: you know Kareem's got a high sense and standard for
Speaker 1: what the role of an athlete should be. He even
Speaker 1: imparted that on Magic to the point where he was
Speaker 1: mad at Magic for smiling all the time. So when
Speaker 1: I read this story, I was like, Okay, it's just
Speaker 1: Kareem being kream.
Speaker 2: I saw the headline, I saw the quote.
Speaker 1: I didn't really look too far into it until I
Speaker 1: decided I would talk about it on this show, and
Speaker 1: at first it was.
Speaker 2: Like, man, can you just leave Kyrie Irving alone?
Speaker 1: So Kareem decides, I see this quote basically calling Kyrie
Speaker 1: a buffoon.
Speaker 2: What could lead him? Why? Why is he doing that
Speaker 2: right now? Why would he do that?
Speaker 1: The NBA's all time leading scorer decided to weigh on
Speaker 1: weigh in on Kyrie because, and this is where it
Speaker 1: gets bad. Kyrie Irving decided he was going to post
Speaker 1: repost and Alex Jones video from two thousand and two
Speaker 1: purporting to claim that things like COVID were planted by
Speaker 1: the government, that plagues would be planted intentionally for financial gain,
Speaker 1: and I believe the comment on top was someone saw
Speaker 1: it before everyone else or something to that degree, basically
Speaker 1: praising Alex Jones for spreading disinformation as a quick aside disinformation,
Speaker 1: misinformation very nuanced. One is intentional misleading, the other one
Speaker 1: is not.
Speaker 2: Kyrie though you.
Speaker 1: Can't do that. At this point, we baby, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? I was so ready to defend you, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, Kyrie, he doesn't mean any harm. He's a
Speaker 1: man that's just trying to be in tune with the universe.
Speaker 2: He's a little offbeat.
Speaker 1: He's marching to the beat of his own drum. He
Speaker 1: wants to be an activist. Why is Kareem getting all
Speaker 1: over Kyrie?
Speaker 2: You know what? I agree? I agree with Kareem. This
Speaker 2: is the full quote.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving would be dismissed as a comical buffoon if
Speaker 1: it weren't for his influence over young people.
Speaker 2: Who look up to athletes.
Speaker 1: How much influence does Kyrie have over like a nine
Speaker 1: year old right now? Truthfully, as an aside, when I
Speaker 1: look at some of the athletes who have used their
Speaker 1: status to actually improve society, Colin Kaepernick, Lebron James Muhammad, Ali,
Speaker 1: Bill Russell, Billy Jean King, Arthur Ash and Moore. When
Speaker 1: you create a list by the way of like seven,
Speaker 1: you don't need to say it more.
Speaker 2: It's really just like Lebron, Muhammad, Ali, Bill Russell, and Moore.
Speaker 1: It becomes clear moving on, it becomes clear how much
Speaker 1: Irving has tarnished the reputations of all athletes who strive
Speaker 1: to be seen as more than dumb jocks. Kareem then,
Speaker 1: I mean, actually I don't necessarily agree with that full quote,
Speaker 1: but he then goes on to say Alex Jones is
Speaker 1: one of the most despicable human beings on Earth, and
Speaker 1: when you share his video, you share his stench. That part,
Speaker 1: that part, Alex Jones is a scumbag. I think that's
Speaker 1: pretty much. I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Say words like scumbag anymore.
Speaker 1: But if there was someone who would fall under that umbrella,
Speaker 1: it would be Alex Jones. He's very harmful, He's very dangerous.
Speaker 2: He has a massive platform.
Speaker 1: He gets people to buy in to his lies in
Speaker 1: order for them to do whatever he wants to do,
Speaker 1: so he can make hundreds of millions of dollars. Kyrie,
Speaker 1: stop it. We can't have people out here. This is
Speaker 1: like part of the flat Earth thing. Like Kyrie is
Speaker 1: a conspiracy theorist and he's not smart enough or well
Speaker 1: researched enough to be able to be spouting things. It's
Speaker 1: him and Joe Rogan and all these bros that have
Speaker 1: just enough information to be danger You're too good with
Speaker 1: the basketball to be like supporting Alex Jones. That's pretty
Speaker 1: much it. You are too good with the rock to
Speaker 1: be spreading that bullshit. It makes it almost impossible to
Speaker 1: cheer for you.
Speaker 2: No wonder, No wonder that.
Speaker 1: La Lakers say that you are no longer in their
Speaker 1: long term plans. Moving on to that now, apparently someone
Speaker 1: in the Lakers organization is peddling the idea that they
Speaker 1: are not interested in Kyrie serving long term next season.
Speaker 1: The Athletic reported an anonymous source declared that Kyrie is
Speaker 1: quote not in the Lakers' long term plans. Outside of
Speaker 1: this Alex Jones nonsense.
Speaker 2: Does anyone really believe that?
Speaker 1: Does anyone who's watched Russell Westbrook, Dennis Shrewder, Patrick Beverly?
Speaker 1: Is there another point guard I'm missing Austin Reefs believe
Speaker 1: that any of those guys are even on the same planets?
Speaker 1: Were flat earth as Kyrie Irving? No shot a team
Speaker 1: that gave up their half their team to.
Speaker 2: Bring on Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: You don't think that they want Kyrie Irving just for
Speaker 1: free agency, just to pay in the money, no picks,
Speaker 1: no assets, No.
Speaker 2: We're good. Are you serious? That is such a lie.
Speaker 1: That's maybe one of the most blatantly obvious lies I've
Speaker 1: seen from the Lakers in a long time, outside of
Speaker 1: the fact that they said, I don't know, we're not
Speaker 1: shopping Russ, which is.
Speaker 2: Also a lie. And if as you've seen this article.
Speaker 2: Just keep in mind that Lebron James has also.
Speaker 1: Seen this article and probably walked immediately into Genie Bus'
Speaker 1: article office and said, hey, do you see this.
Speaker 2: What's your thoughts on the fact that we are not
Speaker 2: interested in Kyrie long term?
Speaker 1: Because I personally Lebron James very interested in like Kyrie
Speaker 1: long term. We wont a title together. We had many
Speaker 1: good years, we went to multiple finals. He's the only
Speaker 1: guy I got a ring with in Cleveland, So I mean,
Speaker 1: what's that? And she's probably stammering, and she's probably backpedaling,
Speaker 1: and she's probably saying, whatever you want, we will do.
Speaker 1: And that is the way that it is in Lebron
Speaker 1: james business. Very suspect information. Not sure why it's coming
Speaker 1: out now. Where could this sourcing be coming from? Well,
Speaker 1: probably someone who wants to assert themselves as being in
Speaker 1: charge or powerful or a decision maker. It has come
Speaker 1: to my attention there are new players involved in the
Speaker 1: collaborative process within the Lakers organization, Joey and Jesse Buss.
Speaker 2: Has anyone heard those.
Speaker 1: Names in like fifteen years since the last time they
Speaker 1: staged a coup to try to get rid of Genie Buss.
Speaker 1: I thought that they were out like trout, but they
Speaker 1: are now, according to this athletic article, an integrative, an
Speaker 1: integral part of the decision making process. So if it
Speaker 1: was me who just got a powerful new role, maybe
Speaker 1: I would pull up my Rolodex and call a reporter
Speaker 1: start leaking some shit. We're not interested in that flat
Speaker 1: earth there, Kyrie Irving, he's not in our plans.
Speaker 2: It's like hmmm.
Speaker 1: And if it is Rob Polinka, which it could be,
Speaker 1: GM of the Los Angeles Lakers, I mean he's just
Speaker 1: continuously a.
Speaker 2: Liar, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's an agent. That's what they do. That's all that's
Speaker 1: all they do is lie. He said, oh yeah, Frank
Speaker 1: Vogel won't be fired. We're not shopping Russell Westbrook. He's
Speaker 1: gone on. And oh, Anthony Davis is gonna be healthy
Speaker 1: for the postseason. Anthony Davis is healthy right now. We're
Speaker 1: committed to Kyle Kuzman. There's been so many things. Don't
Speaker 1: believe anything coming out of Los Angeles. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: all smoke and mirrors and spin and pr this.
Speaker 2: Is what they do.
Speaker 1: And the thing that I don't understand is they think
Speaker 1: they're good at it, like they think that they are
Speaker 1: good at these like very non believable lies. We all
Speaker 1: know you want Kyrie. Lebron wants Kyrie. Kyrie wants to
Speaker 1: be in LA. There's no reason to refute that nine
Speaker 1: months before any decisions need to be taking place. They
Speaker 1: think they're sneaky with ad also saying he wants to
Speaker 1: play eighty two games this season, and then he's immediately.
Speaker 2: Listed as doubtful or probable for the preseason game.
Speaker 1: It's like, Bra, you have to be completely in all
Speaker 1: the Russell Westbrook drama, Darvin Hams trying to bring discipline
Speaker 1: to this franchise. They say it's gonna be very long.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a very fascinating season.