Speaker 1: All right, so we gotta get into it news. It
Speaker 1: is our daily weekly check in on the state of
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets franchise. And I got through multiple paywalls,
Speaker 1: I set an incognito window up, I figured out how
Speaker 1: to get to the New York Daily News. I put
Speaker 1: in a fake email so that they would allow me
Speaker 1: to have five free one free article. And according to
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make you do all that, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna just kind of put that out and give you
Speaker 1: their news and disseminate what the truth is and what
Speaker 1: this means moving forward, because I tell you what the
Speaker 1: headline was, end times. The end game is near for
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets because of, of course, the complications around
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving. Right, we talked about this last pod. What's
Speaker 1: going on with Kyrie? What these comments that he's made
Speaker 1: mean on the I am athlete, Things that I just
Speaker 1: can't really wrap my mind around, but things that give
Speaker 1: me great pleasure in the tee world, which I love.
Speaker 1: I love tea. I'm actually gonna have my birthday is tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have some tea time, going to afternoon tea.
Speaker 1: So much cut out coffee. Now I'm all in on
Speaker 1: the tea. That's besides the point. Unlike Marvel and the Multiverse,
Speaker 1: there aren't fourteen gazillion outcomes for this whole Kyrie Irving thing.
Speaker 1: There's only a few potential outcomes we could see. There's
Speaker 1: like three three outcomes, right, The Nets are now expected
Speaker 1: to play hardball with Kyrie because guy won't play a
Speaker 1: full season, like he's just not around, Like do not
Speaker 1: forget he went on walk about during the pandemic. He
Speaker 1: had to take some time for himself. After the insurrection,
Speaker 1: he got suspended because he went to his sister's birthday
Speaker 1: party with no mask on, when that was like a
Speaker 1: major thing we all have society needed to do. When
Speaker 1: the NBA players were all locked down, they couldn't leave
Speaker 1: their hotel rooms or their apartments without having strict measures
Speaker 1: in place, certain people that they couldn't see, remember those times,
Speaker 1: Like that was Kyrie a year ago, right, So that
Speaker 1: and then of course that's not even including the whole
Speaker 1: fact that Kyrie Irving would not get vaccinated in a
Speaker 1: city in the state where you need to be vaccinated
Speaker 1: to be inside of a public place and perform inside
Speaker 1: of said public play, so had to be sat out
Speaker 1: of home games and then the Brooklyn Nets, of course,
Speaker 1: as you know, said well, you can't play only road games,
Speaker 1: and here we are, right, and then they get bounced
Speaker 1: out of the first round sweep. Sweet broom broom swiffer,
Speaker 1: easy work, not even a full broom like a swiffer. Right,
Speaker 1: that's where we're at now. And they're saying that because
Speaker 1: they're gonna play hardball with this New York Daily News,
Speaker 1: that they're gonna play hardball with Kyrie. This means that
Speaker 1: there's a potential exit plan, a hatch if you will, something,
Speaker 1: and some escape route, something our school systems apparently need
Speaker 1: for Kevin Durant. Here is the quote from the New
Speaker 1: York Daily News and what they had to say. If
Speaker 1: Irving leaves outright as a free agent this summer, disgrundled
Speaker 1: by the nets hardball stance on his availability, Brooklyn doesn't
Speaker 1: have the cat space to replace him, which means Durant,
Speaker 1: entering year sixteen Jeez could be playing with a questionable
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons and a roster full of Measley role players.
Speaker 1: That's a first round exit, folks. And if Durant decides
Speaker 1: he's going to stay around for a first round exit,
Speaker 1: which is sus and just wait for the inevitable to
Speaker 1: play out, which we're not even sure. If that's the case,
Speaker 1: Durant in the NETS front office might have some decisions
Speaker 1: to make and they haven't even spoken since they were
Speaker 1: swept out first round. Alert Alert Warning, Warning, NETS are
Speaker 1: in peril. NETS are in serious Please eject, please turn around,
Speaker 1: go the opposite way. In Layman's terms. New York Daily
Speaker 1: News says, if Irving leads the NETS, it would not
Speaker 1: be a surprise if Durant becomes frustrated with the organization's
Speaker 1: ability to put champion and ship pieces around him. I
Speaker 1: didn't leave Golden State for this. They failed to do
Speaker 1: so at the beginning of last season, with none of
Speaker 1: their top off season acquisitions James Johnson, Bembrie, Javon Carter
Speaker 1: finishing the year in Brooklyn. Thus the fact that the
Speaker 1: NETS championship hopes hinge on an amicable solution with Irving,
Speaker 1: whose personal decision not to get vaccinated and predictable unpredictability
Speaker 1: in his injury history have left the NETS hesitant and now,
Speaker 1: according to the source, here it gets here where he
Speaker 1: gets really interesting. According to a source familiar with the
Speaker 1: NETS thought process, out right unwilling to give him a
Speaker 1: long term extension. Folks, Folks, this is bad. This is
Speaker 1: really bad. The Nets outright unwilling to give Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: a long term extension. Thus he either needs to ride
Speaker 1: out his player option, he becomes a free agent, and
Speaker 1: then what happens to Kevin Durant, He doesn't just chill
Speaker 1: and stay in Brooklyn on a four year max contract.
Speaker 1: That's Deuce's pair that with Kyrie's statements about reuniting with Lebron.
Speaker 1: James feels like the Nets are in the middle of
Speaker 1: the grenade is already in the building, folks, It's got
Speaker 1: about five seconds until it explodes. Everyone needs to leave
Speaker 1: the building in now. Who is to blame? You might
Speaker 1: ask me, everyone, all of them, every single bit. Josiah
Speaker 1: and his greed and his impatience, Sean Marks and his ineptitude,
Speaker 1: Steve Nash and his privilege and inability to get folks
Speaker 1: who knew what they were doing underneath him and empower them.
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving for recruiting James Harden too, the team,
Speaker 1: the Nets organization for even putting that trade together. Where
Speaker 1: you mortgage your franchise for a guy who's fat and
Speaker 1: old and really can tankers and ball dominant. With two
Speaker 1: other ball dominant players, you give four first round picks
Speaker 1: for him and Jared Allen and Karris LeVert and Torrian Prince.
Speaker 1: Not to say Torrian Princes anything, but like you could
Speaker 1: use him. He was pretty good in that Minnesota Timberwolve series. Folks, folks,
Speaker 1: So what happens now? I don't know. I just know
Speaker 1: it's not good. We got Chris Carreno, the NETS broadcaster,
Speaker 1: on and I can't wait to ask him what he
Speaker 1: has to say. But I tell you what. It's hush
Speaker 1: hushed around there. If the Nets are unwilling to give
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving the Max and Kevin Durant leaves, then you
Speaker 1: have no first round picks. The cupboards are dry, and
Speaker 1: Brooklyn just goes back to being New Jersey. The move
Speaker 1: him out again. I don't care. Move the Knicks to Brooklyn. Geez, man,
Speaker 1: where does he go? I don't know. If I knew
Speaker 1: that I would be filthy rich Miami would be awesome.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler to Brooklyn. They need someone who can initiate
Speaker 1: an offense. I tell you what, I tell you what.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. Next piece of news. We
Speaker 1: all know Brad Beale's about to sign somewhere. Probably gonna
Speaker 1: be some hoopla around his decision, probably some documentary like
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler had. Do you think I'm man Brock? You
Speaker 1: think I'm playing? Where there is no hoopla, There is
Speaker 1: no fanfare, just a Brinks truck and smiles all around.
Speaker 1: Is in Denver. In the imminent future, we will now
Speaker 1: have the new highest paid player in the NBA in
Speaker 1: NBA history. Nikola Jokic, two time MVP, just got offered
Speaker 1: a five year, two hundred and sixty million dollars super
Speaker 1: Max contract. Shams is reporting that he not only plays
Speaker 1: decided immediately, but has made a long term commitment to
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. Even though we talked about Tim Conley being duss,
Speaker 1: he said, listen like it's good. They had a meeting,
Speaker 1: and this is what it leads me to. The best
Speaker 1: part about this is that the Jokic brothers were very
Speaker 1: involved in the process of getting Nicola Jokic to basically
Speaker 1: sign on and say I'm committed to the Denver franchise
Speaker 1: long term. Even with all of these gms and executives
Speaker 1: leaving the Okich brothers, you might remember, are the ones
Speaker 1: that created a Twitter profile just to come after the
Speaker 1: Morris twins like them. So they are now operating as
Speaker 1: a shadow agents for Nicola Jokic. And so they met
Speaker 1: with Nuggets GM new GM Calvin Booth and his team
Speaker 1: over the several days, and they reported back to Nicola, Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: everything's good. We're on the same page. They're gonna get
Speaker 1: you some goons. Everything's good. All is well. They even
Speaker 1: gave us a little spot on the team that we
Speaker 1: have no official title. We're just your enforcers. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about that. That's actually don't think that's news, but I
Speaker 1: think that's probably what somehow happened. The option upshot of
Speaker 1: these conversations is that the Nuggets convince Jokic that they
Speaker 1: are not only are going to keep Murray Porter and
Speaker 1: Nicola the core, but they're also going to be very
Speaker 1: aggressive on the market, focusing on defensive minded players because
Speaker 1: remember the Denver was the twenty sixth best perimeter defense,
Speaker 1: which is another word for saying like fifth worst, so
Speaker 1: really really bad, mask wol not great. So really they
Speaker 1: need to shore up the perimeter, right PJ Truck Tucker time,
Speaker 1: Lord Grant Williams. They're gonna be going after these types
Speaker 1: of players. The Nuggets are set to be fifteen million
Speaker 1: dollars in the luxury tax right now already, as Gordon
Speaker 1: and Porter's extension kick in this year, I could very
Speaker 1: easily see Aaron Gordon going bye bye. They paid i
Speaker 1: think two first round picks for him. Who cares? Who cares?
Speaker 1: You don't need him. He's not a piece of the core.
Speaker 1: Notice the core did not include his name. So this
Speaker 1: means wash the Nuggets on draft day because Sham's reported
Speaker 1: that if it means discussing the team's draft assets as
Speaker 1: a way of upgrading into win now talent, that they
Speaker 1: will do that. There's an openness to that. Nuggets right
Speaker 1: now have the number twenty one pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: Could yield them something. Move the twenty one pick with
Speaker 1: Aaron maybe you get a piece back. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: they're thinking about. Maybe if they do take somebody in
Speaker 1: the number twenty two, twenty one pick, maybe like a
Speaker 1: defensive minded wing like French international player Uzman Jang he's six'
Speaker 1: ten with a seven feet, wingspan or Maybe Kendall brown
Speaker 1: From baylor who's six to seven with the six to eleven.
Speaker 1: Wingspan Maybe David. RODDY i don't like him as. Much
Speaker 1: he's a point. Guard they don't need. That they already
Speaker 1: have a bunch of guards six, six six to eleven.
Speaker 1: Wingspan but remember they already Got Bones highland with a
Speaker 1: twenty six. Pick last year they got five spots, better, folks,
Speaker 1: ALL i know what does it all? Mean even though
Speaker 1: the architect is, gone his minions remain. Strong jokic isn't going,
Speaker 1: anywhere and neither of The nuggets cannot wait to see
Speaker 1: what The nuggets actually do because we know it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be more decisive and smarter than our pea brains
Speaker 1: can wrap our minds. Around look good On Draft, day
Speaker 1: we'll probably end up making The All rookie team just
Speaker 1: Like Bones island did at the number twenty one, spot
Speaker 1: or they're gonna get the, difference make