jay you know we had to talk about kyrie
x right
that's that's when i'm going to kyrie
revolutionary
you know push on doors that says paul
and gets mad at the door that's kyrie
irving wrong plays wrong time all the
time
kyrie irving uh kyrie was fine kyrie and
the brooklyn nets were fined
25 000 each by the nba for kyrie's
refusal to address
the media during media week last week to
which kyrie issued a statement during
media day and then issued another one
yesterday
i know we got it in the back where he
used the quote from malcolm
x and then referred to the media as
pawns let's see that let's see that
quote
where he said he had enough of someone
else's propaganda as a malcolm
x quote and then jay says he prays that
they utilize his defined money
for the marginalized communities
especially where the world is presently
hurting right now
he's for peace love and greatness and
don't distract me and my team
and worry about the art and also the
type of stuff i do not talk to pawns
j.a adande we have covered the league
for probably a combined 30 plus years
right
maybe kyrie irving doesn't know that the
fine
money actually does go to charitable
causes
so kyrie you are not the smartest man in
the room
yet again but once again kyrie irving
referring to the media
as pawns and saying that uh the big bet
the big bad media jay
adande from this intellectual kyrie
irving
who was so hell-bent on educating the
media
the media is so mean they're so bad jay
i remember watching the last dance
and i remember the media not treating
michael jordan very well when his father
died
i remember the media not treating
michael jordan very well during his
gambling
exploits during playoff series kyrie
irving has largely been treated
with kid gloves and kyrie irving does
nothing more
and i don't know about you jay there is
nothing more
that gets on my nerves than a smart than
a person who believes he's smarter than
everybody else
and then tries to prove how smart he is
or smarter he is than everybody else
only to put
his foot firmly in his mouth to me
that is kyrie irving the elevator
doesn't go as high as he thinks it does
orbit it's not necessarily thinking that
he's smarter than everybody else
it's thinking that he's smarter than he
actually is you know and regardless of
where that
level of smartness is in relation to
other people that's when you get in
trouble
because there's certainly people out
there then he is that he is smarter than
but he is not quite as smart or
intellectually advanced
as he thinks he is and that's where you
start to get into trouble
uh he this notion of pawns yes that that
is offensive and honestly
the media is no more no less pawns than
nba players i mean if you want to look
at it
pretty much everyone short of the jeff
bezos level is probably pawns in the
system
right so so to your point where he's
placing himself above other people
intellectually
he is fooling himself if he thinks that
he is
any less of a pawn than say the media
are like we're all
pieces in this much larger system
um media pawns to some degree if you're
in the employee of any large
organization
yes then maybe maybe to some degree you
are upon but to categorize
the media is that and that's the sole
function that the media serves
is really ignorant and you talk about
michael jordan that was somebody who
certainly
utilized the media to his advantage to
get the status that he has
his team james is someone who
has utilized the media and continues to
do so and
you don't think part of the reason
lebron has been named man of the year
person of the year athlete of the year
by various outlets from sports
illustrated to time magazine
is in part because of his relationship
with the media
because of he might he might not be the
most accessible person as you know
covering the league
but he certainly is accessible he
certainly has been fined 25 000
for not meeting his media
responsibilities at the onset of
training camp you certainly saw him
throughout the bubble fulfilling his
media duties
and why is it so hard and we saw kyrie
learn and discover
after lebron left or after he left
lebron first i guess
you know he kind of had that makeup call
where he realized oh you know what
lebron was right and years from now at
some period in the future
he's going to understand that lebron is
right in the way he dealt with the media
too
as independent as lebron has been
forming his own media companies
creating his own content he still
accommodates the media he still makes
time for the mass media
because he understands it's better to
have them uh on your side
than to antagonize them and he certainly
hasn't referred to the media as pawns so
kyrie once again could learn a lesson
from lebron
well i think and and here's the thing
jay i've been someone that's given kyrie
a level of grace
that maybe the other me don't say other
media members i think i've given kyrie
more grace
than he believes that he's been given by
the mass media as a whole
i didn't think that the boston situation
was solely
on him i thought that was a lot of danny
ainge i thought that was a lot of brad
stevens in their inability i did think
that was some kyrie irving
in the cleveland situation the same
thing i'm sure kyrie irving did not like
being
asked the question about is lebron james
a father figure to you like there can be
some very annoying media questions jay
we've been in scrums our entire lives
we roll our eyes at some of the
innocuous questions
and there don't get me wrong there are
some people
who are trying to stir up the pot or who
ask questions that you know are only
there to try to get a rise out of guys
but for me jay this is kyrie trying to
shirk responsibility and accountability
because he doesn't want to be held
accountable for things that he says he
said the earth is flat and they got mad
at everybody else for reporting it
he got mad because he said we don't need
a coach in referring to steve nash i can
be the coach one day
kevin durant can be the coach one day
and said that we got that messed up that
we twisted
his words how can we twist his words
when is you on tape
there's something called context and
kyrie irving pretends to believe that we
don't understand
context and how to take something within
the proper context especially
someone like him i'ma give everybody
who doesn't operate in the media i'm
going to give you guys a
huge tip into how our world works nine
times out of ten if we're in the locker
room
and we want to talk to a player after a
game before a game we'll ask him at his
locker if he's there hey kyrie do you
want to talk tonight are you going to
talk tonight
and if he says no you know we do there's
11 other guys there there's three or
four other guys
we're not really worried about it so
it's not like we're being punished
where we're punishing him or we're being
punished because kyrie irving doesn't
want to talk to us
you know who's being punished the rest
of those guys on that brooklyn nets team
that are going to have to answer for
kyrie irving do you j
have you ever had a friend who just was
always into nonsense
and whenever something came up he was
never around but people had to ask you
hey what's up with your mans
and sometimes you'd answer your question
and sometimes you like may ask him
i'm not in this dude's shoes how long
will it be
before those guys get sick of being mad
ask him
go to his can't go to his locker but get
him on zoom
they're gonna have kyrie irving looking
like a hostage in a minute
because kevin durant and charis levert
and spencer dimwitty and all these other
guys
are sick of answering questions for
kyrie irving when kyrie irving doesn't
even want to take accountability
that's my biggest problem months amongst
other things here jay that i along with
the fact that mike d'antoni can't seem
to catch a break
well you know what's interesting is that
wow what did tony come in
but but just a second he left james
but kevin love gets dragged into it too
you know we've got this clip of kevin
love being asked about what kyrie had to
say let's roll it
i think that that calling
anybody upon is is a is a sure sign of
disrespect
and i i understand where kyrie
is coming from and trying to uh you know
better
a number of people's lives but i i'm
just not a divisive person
so that's where i stand on that and i
love kyrie
you know i don't know what's you know
where i know he's changed what's going
on but i'm just again i'm just not a
divisive person i believe that everybody
has a part to play
so long as the intent's there and it
comes from a good place
so i appreciate what kevin love had to
say there somewhat coming to the media's
defense
and also in order to be worthy of that
defense that he offered
it's really important that we look at
the context and we frame it properly and
that
he was saying he disagreed with kyrie
had to say about this
he's not riding off kyrie irving his
former teammate entirely
he's basically saying on this position
he disagrees with him
and i wonder if we still have room to
make those type of distinctions if
if our the level of intelligence of our
country hasn't
devolved so much that it's not going to
be turned into
kevin love blast kyrie no kevin love
disagreed with kyrie irving on this
point
it doesn't change how he feels about
kyrie irving overall and it's really
important i feel like we need to make a
point of saying that
because in this day and age those
nuances and those distinctions
aren't being made anymore you're you're
right here's the thing jay when kyrie
was going through some of the things he
was going through last year his first
year in brooklyn
i actually wrote a piece for yahoo
sports because he was so
vulnerable talking about mental health
and i give people a certain level of
grace whether it was kyrie irving
whether it was kevin love who we just
saw whether it's demar derozan
like being vulnerable and and being in a
world where
you can't show vulnerability especially
in terms of basketball where everything
all of your emotions
are laid to bear on the floor let alone
what happens
when you get in the locker room i
completely understand that but what i
will not stand for
is this broad painting of a media brush
in the way that he exp the way that he
says that the media paints him with a
broad brush
he paints the media with a broad brush
with that same weapon
so it's like i'm not going to listen to
this straw man argument from a you know
whether he's a pseudo-electional uh
intellectual whether he's really smart
and doesn't show it
like whatever those things are like jay
i can parse the things that he's done
whether it's the stuff that he's done
with social justice the stuff that he's
done with the wnba
the stuff that he's done uh with the
indigenous people i
i can look at all those things and say
that he's done great work
and he's been applauded for that
properly this is not a thing
where those things have been ignored and
we've only cracked on kyrie for some of
the goofy things that he said
it's been the same intensity and the
same energy
all across the board but at the same
time if you're going to say something
stupid i'm going to call you out for it
especially
if it's in your contract like here's the
thing about it and this is not the media
is making themselves to be so important
it is written in the nba contracts
that players are obligated to talk to me
it doesn't say for how long it doesn't
say to who
you can show up and say i'm just here so
i don't get fined whatever the case may
be
but it's written in the contract that
this is something that you are mandated
to do
why because the nba is not the nfl why
because the nba grew from a league in
the 1980s that was on tape delay and
then magic and michael and larry and
isaiah and all those guys came along
and with their smiles and their
personalities and everything else they
grew the league
into being something that kyrie irving
has been on the stand on the shoulders
of
to earn a 35 or 40 million dollar
contract you don't do that without the
media partners the nbc's the tnts the
four letter networks
all that type of stuff so to spit in the
face of that
especially when you say that you care
about the greater good do you care about
the players coming behind you
because the players who came before you
did and last i checked
we haven't caught him tragic johnson we
haven't called him
all these different names that the media
of previous generations
have applied to superstars where they
were relentless
you're worried about twitter you're
worried about wait twitter eggs
coming for you and cracking on you i
think you got
kyrie and this is a generational thing i
can say this as somebody in my mid 30s
some of these young guys got to toughen
up a little bit
yeah he wouldn't wanted no part of that
peter bessie smoke for example
but it actually did kyrie did cause me
to reevaluate
and reassess and maybe pull back a
little bit and going after
lebron james because lebron made a
statement or two that i didn't
necessarily agree with
but i'm not gonna blast him on it and
i'm not gonna criticize
and try to take away his right to say it
when he said that
he's gone through and and he's achieved
two of the most difficult if not the two
most difficult
championships in nba history
maybe i would have blasted him about
that even a few weeks ago but after this
kyrie experience you know what
i'd rather have lebron meeting with the
media
making statements like this than having
him just hide behind statements like
kyrie irving so
the fact that lebron is willing to talk
and to fulfill his media obligations
guess what
i'm gonna cut him a little bit of slack
when he says something that's maybe out
of line
such as the statement that he won the
two hardest championships in nba history
does this change the way you think about
lebron when he makes that statement or
are you still going to blast on vinnie
for for making that statement i'm going
to blast him because i think that's
patently ridiculous jay i'm sorry
i'm i am not going to give lebron this
pass
on saying 2016 and 2020 were the two
hardest one championships in nba history
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