Leaves okc to go to a 73-9 team that beat him when he was up 3-1.. leaves to go prove his self on the nets and is quitting his way out, requesting a trade to the number 1 seed in both conferences (suns) (heat).. unbelievable -Barkley was right
Yep KDs career is a joke can’t even put him as a top 15 greatest tbh what a cupcake no competitive bone in his body he just wants to sit corner and shoot 3s
Lebron honored his contract in Cleveland despite the team not wanting to build around him, he left to the 10th seed Heat and won 2 rings, he then rejoined the Cavs that was a tanking team for 4 straight years and broke the curse to win a ring, then he joined the Lakers that was a joke of the league for a decade of not making playoff and tanking an won a ring so far. KD joined a 72-10 team that beat him and won a ring already and now demanding a trade to either Miami or Phoenix who were both number 1 seed in the conference last season.... i don't wanna hear the KD vs Lebron argument anymore.
He should leave because it’s a toxic environment? He made it toxic! He demanded power and didn’t know how to use it, he demanded they trade a great player for his friend, he demanded they trade every draft pick for the next 5 years for his other friend Harden, he demanded they trade Harden for Simmons and the one time the team pushes back and doesn’t give him what he wants (a max deal for Kyrie) he wants out. You can’t blame the Nets for the situation when the one time they didn’t bow to Durant’s insane whims he demands a trade! If they held their ground earlier this would have happened earlier!
Stupid how is he toxic when he’s the only one whose been carrying the team? You stupid if there’s anyone toxic it’s Irving whose been nothing but drama since the beginning. You clown
@@Nandoswitharando “some players” some don’t even want that responsibility think about Kobe they would ask him what players he wanted them to get he said that’s the Gm job. Not every player wants that responsibility & speaking of Steph I’m sure he doesn’t have power but if you’d like to think he does then I’m pretty sure he didn’t get that till AFTER HE WON A CHIP. LeBron runs franchises now but his first 7 years in Cleveland he didn’t cause he would’ve had the help he needed.
Kyrie and KD reportedly want to still play together but Kyrie wants to play in LA and there's no team that is going to gut their team to rent Kyrie for a year.
Lakers want everyone every year look who they got it was a bluff noway he wants to be with LeBron just wants the money .... his a joke of a human a sook and a role model that should retire and just give up.. LeBron is a joke he gets kyrie and then wins a 5th chip noway he deserves to be in my rankings his had a elite 3 in every team Gianni is better
Thank you Nets! Your allowing KD and Kyrie hijack the franchise is what brought Atkinson to the Warriors AND convinced him to stay as an assistant over taking a HC job in a different organization.
I think the issue is that KD and Kyrie didn't know how have a winning culture or know how to control/build a team because they've either played for established organizations that already had a strong culture (Golden state and Boston) or were too young to have true control (OKC and Cleveland)
The nets don't know how to have a winning culture. You don't get two players like that and pair them with a coach with no experience and give rust bucket DeAndre Jordan 40 mil.
KD is a superstar; however, he isn’t a leader. Look at his time in OKC vice GSW and look at his body language. His time with the GSW was what he always wanted and he left.
I'm thinking here. Is KD trying to get away from the Nets or From Kyrie? Arent they supposed to get along well? Some say they want to play together somewhere else. If so, then the issue is the Nets? Just happy to see Bun Simmons stay alone sitting on the bench like king. lol
Leaving your team in free agency is one thing, at least you played out your contract. But requesting or forcing a trade when you’re one year into a four or five year deal is weak man Lol Brooklyn was Kevin Durant’s chance to solidify his legacy and he only made it worse by doing this (The Warriors winning a championship this year certainly didn’t help either)
Shes absolutely right about that DeAndre Jordan thing. Firing your coach for wanting to start the better player so that their stars could make their friend a starter was ridiculous.
Durant best player in the world. Them together could have easily been the best offensive duo in the world. They really should of given it another decent try. They both needed it in they’re careers to stamp themselves in the history books as the best duo of the twenties. It could of easily happened it just didn’t work out in brooklyn such a fkn shame. Kd without golden state Kyrie without Lebron winning the chip would of truly proved them, would of been the ultimate F U.
Not that either of them have much else to prove. They’re among the greats. Too good unbelievable talent. It’s totally okay to respond to your own comments
Kyrie is never happy anywhere he goes. Eventually it all goes down burning in flames because of some bs with him. Imagine leaving curry to play with kyrie and he tries to leave you alone holding the bag 1week ago.
@@juniordexter3214 so why couldn’t Kyrie carry KD then? Since Lebrons been “carried” how come Kevin Love, or D Wade aren’t carrying any teams? Oh yeah that’s right. Wade retired. He was done after the heat run. K love is washed.
I agree he’s one of the greatest leaders but I wouldn’t want Kyrie anywhere near him. LeBron will be 38 next season and he deserves to finish his career with the least drama possible. Kyrie is too unreliable and injury prone, pairing him with an injury prone AD is just a disaster waiting to happen.
He signed the extension because the Nets gave their word that they would max him and Kyrie out together and then they went against their word. So now he wants out. Simple. The Nets failed.
Exactly. People were praising the Nets for “standing firm” against Kyrie. But they knew what would happen if they did it, so the only one to blame is Brooklyn.
@@cybertutorials5609 The Nets are the big winners. They can get back some good young assets they gave up to get KD and Kyrie. 4 years with them has produced 2 missed playoffs, Harden leaving and a 1st round sweep. Too much drama and too little winning.
Wow, he would be a great edition to any roster. Would love to see him go so one of the up and comers like the Grizzlies or even Bulls but that probs wont happen. Wont be surprised if he ends up somewhere like the lakers, 76ers or clippers.
For the cautionary fact windhorst Kevin Durant did not carry team USA for the medal. He was the best player on a team full of very good team play players that happened to win.
1:39 but the Nets organization isn't the toxic party here. KD had a toxic influence on the Warriors culture when he left. Aside from that, it was Kyrie who refused to play, Kyrie's behavior that encouraged Harden to leave, and Kyrie now who is choosing to leave because he's behavior wasn't tolerated by the organization. It was Kevin who brought Kyrie and tolerated Kyrie's behavior. The nets have given KD everything he wanted. And Kevin still has a decent squad. Rather than give the organization a chance to re-up for next season, he tucks tail and leaves. Edit: and about blaming the franchises for giving players this kind of power and influence... There's some truth to that but that's the state of the association right now. A product of the early 2010's bargaining agreement. The decisions and consequences of old regimes currents one are now inherenting. Like what else could the Nets have done and what does that have to do with KD's inability to be content and happy on ANY team. Plus Windy is right, the man signed a 4 years contract with no option despite everything. These were all decisions HE made, not Nets. There's no defending KD at this point. 💯
GMs and VPs get paid to run the franchise, not players. They allowed themselves to be controlled by the players because they thought they would get some chips, and now they're here looking stupid
The blame begins and ends with KD. The Nets fired their coach, traded their players, signed Kyrie, traded for Harden, then for Simmons, hired Nash, and played DJ for KD. He got everything he wanted and is still unhappy. How can you blame Kyrie for being Kyrie ( it's not like he changed who he was overnight, he was the same person in Cleveland and Boston) or the nets for working with their superstar?
Key sticking up for kyrie and KD throughout all this is bs. Im all for player empowerment when they are being treated poorly and not listened to (especially when they are superstars). They tried it KDs way, they were patient with Kyrie, and IT DIDNT WORK. So now do it the Team’s way. Youre way didnt work; lets try ours, honor your contract, and lets give it a shot
The "team's way" just blew up the whole team and destroyed any semblance of fan support for the near future. All because they didn't want to give Kyrie the max. What an utter failure
@@cashjerseyblock2890 would you give a pay raise to someone who does what they want when they want and had only played a average of 38 games per season the last three seasons and he wasn’t injured smh
@@cashjerseyblock2890 yep, all the important pieces signed with other teams. Brooklyn don’t even got roster to be Top 10 team next year if kyrie also gets traded this year
Team jumping is really killing the NBA, this is why u don't give NBA players any power,they are like spoiled fcking overpaid children and it's passing me off.
1:40 It's funny she should use that term "toxic" because when those two first signed to Brooklyn, that's how I labeled them, "The Toxic Twins". This was based upon Kyrie's flat-earth, conspiracy spouting BS and KD's 10+ burner accounts just to retweet his own soc-media posts to boost his 'likes' and ego. Looking at the personalities which do things like that, you KNEW this was going to implode sooner rather than later. 1: Basketball talent doesn't make you a leader. Kawhi, KD and Kyrie are all perfect examples of AMAZING players whose personalities simply don't allow for leadership talents... and that's OK. The media has led us to believe that the most talented players should be the front man, the leader of the team but that's just not the case. 2: The best teams have great coaches. KD and Kyrie believed they didn't need a coach, they thought they had enough talent and experience to work it out on the fly like they're playing rec-league. 3: The front office can't just capitulate to 1-2 players and sacrifice the overall team. You see the results of this in LA and Brooklyn, at least LA got a banner out of it but their entire roster is older than my dead father's jokes.
I don't blame Kevin Durant at all requesting a trade. KD was doing as much as he could for the Brooklyn Nets under the circumstances. I think Ben Simmons deciding not to play the elimination game against the Celtics when the team needed him the most made KD look at the big picture. I wouldn't want to play with another fellow superstar when he picks and chooses when he wants to play. I hope KD lands somewhere good.
Why are they acting like KD isn’t a problem himself? He has no leadership. Completely bereft of any capacity to face adversity. Runs when at the slightest sign of difficulty. Never built a successful winning culture. KD always wants the perfect environment to just show up and hoop successfully but also wants credit for the environment. Yet he never wants to do the actual work of making his environment conducive to him being successful. If you just want to hoop, don’t leave Golden State. If you want credit for a winning culture, lead it through adversity. What do you want, KD?
Why are all of you assuming that Brooklyn wasn’t trying to trade kyrie, KD finds out, and THEN requests to be traded too….what’s so hard to understand about that? Sean Marks literally told you in that interview a few weeks ago “we can’t do anything until kyrie makes his decision!!!!” That was GM speak for, we wanna trade the guy, can’t trade the guy because his future is in the balance and we can’t shop him to a team with his future in the balance. BUT once he opts in, that will allow us the leverage that we need to move him.
Y’all saying you can’t blame him for leaving when he made the choice to go somewhere toxic like Brooklyn. No one wants to play for Brooklyn the only team anyone knows that from New York are the knicks
I love how everyone has a negative outlook on other peoples decision. No one knows what it was like to walk in that man's shoes. I've always said that if I'm not happy with my job I will resign and find another one. Why should sports be any different at the end of the day it's a JOB!!!!! You're entitled to happy, life is too short to live for other peoples opinions and what they think you should do! This is my own personal opinion! Always choose you first!!!
Man please just come on home to the Wizards. That would be a automatic championship team. Just imagine porzingis, Bradley Beal, Caldwell Pope, Johnny Davis, Kuzma and Durant on the same team. Come on man put your city on bro!!!!
Look at Old Media making money off the back of Kyrie's name. What's the biggest topic in sports this morning??? Damion Jones signing with the lakers🤣🤣🤣🤣 No. It's Kyrie.
Brooklyn Nets front office gets the biggest L here. Traded for garden and gave away all the players that helped build the culture, KD and kyrie wanted to go to Brooklyn because they seen the culture they were building. KD and kyrie didn’t kill it. The nets trading for harden did
Any team acquiring KD can expect a version of what is happening with the Nets to happen to that team. You can't win with players who say "my way or the highway" because you can't build a team with them no matter how talented or skilled they are because in the end basketball is a team sport.
KD cannot be blamed for wanting to leave. The only thing that KD can be blamed for is being a little naive in trusting that Kyrie would actually do what he promised, and that's show up. KD joined to play with Kyrie, Harden joined BK to play with KD and Kyrie. Both KD and Harden got stiffed by Kyrie And neither deserve any negative press for leaving, or asking to leave, because neither got what they signed up for.. and what they signed up for was to play with Kyrie Irving on the Brooklyn Nets
The stuff the Nets had to put up with would have never happened in Miami. Pat Riley has a culture in Miami that not even LeBron could change in his 4 years there.
Why doesn't Brooklyn just keep Durant. In 2007 Kobe publicly requested a trade and LA said, No! They went out and got Pau Gasal and Kobe won like, two more rings, right? He's under contract, why not just say, No?
If I was running the Nets, I would play hard ball with KD and not trade him. The only player the Nets need to get rid of is that selfish leech Kyrie. Remember the Lakers played hard ball with Kobe and ultimately convinced him to stay after they got Gasol.
@@Itsjustlikemagic maybe but I honestly would want to try the Kyrie-KD-Simmons core because that could be a game changer. But who would we trade Kyrie for?
@@Marcello2005 yeah, honestly I have no clue. I feel like we’re probably getting Ayton some other young talent and draft picks. It’s going to worse before it gets better though.
@@Itsjustlikemagic I feel like it couldn’t hurt to have a crisis talk with KD, just ask him what he realistically expects from Brooklyn and try and come to a compromise. Seems unlikely though.
Nets front office paid KD and gave him extension knowing that he was not available for first year duue to his achilles injury. And they took the chance on him even with a serious injury. And this is what nets got from him is trade request middle of his contract. And nets gave everything KD and Kyrie wanted including getting James Harden. Both KD and Kyrie have screwed nets big time. As a NBA fan, there should be a rule that players if they request for a trade they give them back at least 1 year of compensation which they got paid.
why is the narrative that KD wanted to leave because he was fed up with Kyrie? Its pretty clear he left to punish the nets for not giving Kyrie the max. There are already reports that ideally they want to play together somewhere else. I dunno why ESPN is running with this assumption before getting the facts straight because its clearly wrong
It's real simple. KD is not the superstar everybody thinks he is. A superstar is not just the best player on the team, but the leader of the team and the one who holds the rest of the team accountable. KD is the best player on the team but he is not a leader nor does he care to hold anybody accountable. If KD had the respect of his peers, RW would not have challenged him in OKC. Kyrie would not have challenged him in BKN. KD would have had enough pull to tell Kyrie what to do, "for the greater good". But he doesn't because Kyrie sees himself as equals with KD. KD has alpha skills with a beta mindset. Thats why he clashed with RW and Kyrie, both alpha mentalities with beta skills compared to KD.
I agree 💯. KD is a beta mentally now when he goes to Phoenix will CP3 with an alpha mentality will he step up to him and tell him what needs to be done. Or he sit back and let CP3 be the leader. If he does go to the suns.
Cmon brian. KD wants his own team to win a team for his legacy, a jersey to wear in hof. He can’t have that on his past teams and certainly can’t have it with lebron or kawai. I hope he just return to okc and try to win there, that would be his team.
ESPN tear down one player at a time . They use to tear kd down. No they find someone else to tear down. We all seen Jordan slapping the shot out of players and none of u guys even had problems with that. Grow up guys.
Nets 6'11 all-star with history of injuries that's healthy now, LA 6'11 all-star with history of injuries that's healthy now. Nets 6'2 all-star they don't want, LA 6'3 all-star they don't want (makes all-star sense). Their contracts match up perfectly (makes financial sense). Bron is the only player to lead Kyrie to a championship (makes leadership/chemistry sense). KD doesn't want to see GS collect more rings. AD goes on a "I'm not frail tour" and Westbrook goes on a "F**K the world tour". AND Neither KD, Kyrie, nor Bron won a playoff game last year, makes revenge sense!
Brooklyn management should have did their homework on Ben Simmons. He basically quit on them last year and KD don’t have confidence in him. It’s Ben Simmons not Kyrie
then wouldn’t it make sense that KD would tell them to trade simmons instead of him requesting a trade? he been wanted to leave because the nets put their foot down and didn’t want to sign kyrie if he wasn’t going to play 50% of the games
@@jordandiaz7605 well it’s a chance that he said that and Brooklyn basically cut him off . That’s why he asked for a trade . Brooklyn no longer wanted to do what he said
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. This is why you can't give a damned what anyone thinks of you because you can't please everyone.
Im sorry I dont know these peoples name but that Girl commentator is 100% right this is on the Nets Organization, they gave way too much power to Headaches and let them run that organization to the ground. Kyrie and KD are great singular talents but the NBA is a Team Game and this Nets GM put individuals above the team and this was the result
Leaves okc to go to a 73-9 team that beat him when he was up 3-1.. leaves to go prove his self on the nets and is quitting his way out, requesting a trade to the number 1 seed in both conferences (suns) (heat).. unbelievable -Barkley was right
Yep KDs career is a joke can’t even put him as a top 15 greatest tbh what a cupcake no competitive bone in his body he just wants to sit corner and shoot 3s
@@kxdn7327 and what's wrong with that. This nba is completely different nowadays. Deal with it. Stop complaining.
And maybe he would of stayed had kyrie just gotten vaccinated.
KD is soft as fuq
@@chrisbarbera4121 bro, there's a diff between complaining and critiquing someone
if someone is a punk, by golly, i'm gonna call them a punk lol
Lebron honored his contract in Cleveland despite the team not wanting to build around him, he left to the 10th seed Heat and won 2 rings, he then rejoined the Cavs that was a tanking team for 4 straight years and broke the curse to win a ring, then he joined the Lakers that was a joke of the league for a decade of not making playoff and tanking an won a ring so far.
KD joined a 72-10 team that beat him and won a ring already and now demanding a trade to either Miami or Phoenix who were both number 1 seed in the conference last season....
i don't wanna hear the KD vs Lebron argument anymore.
Good points, but none of that means Lebron's a better player. Leader YES, player not necessarily.
@@antwoinne15 lebron is not better than KD? I dont see Kd in top 10 all time
@@khoado123 Larry Legend! Don't make em like that anymore
@@khoado123 Curry is top 10
@@princetigerbeatz9316 are we talking about Curry here?
He should leave because it’s a toxic environment? He made it toxic! He demanded power and didn’t know how to use it, he demanded they trade a great player for his friend, he demanded they trade every draft pick for the next 5 years for his other friend Harden, he demanded they trade Harden for Simmons and the one time the team pushes back and doesn’t give him what he wants (a max deal for Kyrie) he wants out. You can’t blame the Nets for the situation when the one time they didn’t bow to Durant’s insane whims he demands a trade! If they held their ground earlier this would have happened earlier!
Exactly
It’s because of Ben Simmons dude . KD don’t trust him
Idk why, but it’s so funny to me to get on RUclips, and see that there are people who really type as much as you on here hahahaha
Stupid how is he toxic when he’s the only one whose been carrying the team? You stupid if there’s anyone toxic it’s Irving whose been nothing but drama since the beginning. You clown
Imagine defending Kyrie 🤡
When Ben said "feeling Incredible", he meant he's feeling incredible pain in his back
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bruh just refuses to play 😭😂
And his face said it all
Title says First Take but all I see is Third Take
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Harpo who these people 🙄😂😂😩😩
KD has owned July 1 offseason like 3 of the past 6 years LOL
He’s addicted to the attention
KD tried to be Batman and failed miserably. Now it's back to being someone's Robin.
Bus rider 🚌
Not really, he'll be Batman almost anywhere. Just because he is a new guy on a team doesn't mean he can't be the Batman.
@@Goatlikeitornot you were the batman in okc, Russ 😂
@DrDoge lolol nightwing? Naw kd more like Jason Todd
KD will save his legacy and team up with Embiid
Freddie Coleman is as smooth as a piece of fresh glass. So glad he is finally on TV because he has been awesome on ESPN radio for years
Right 🎯. Speaking straight facts
Nets ain’t learn from Houston about giving your star player power over the franchise smh … a star player that didn’t even win you a championship yet
Houston had to do that
They can salvage this.
@@Albert_Sarpong no we didn’t 🤡
Some star players can make that work tho, Curry and Lebron especially
@@Nandoswitharando “some players” some don’t even want that responsibility think about Kobe they would ask him what players he wanted them to get he said that’s the Gm job. Not every player wants that responsibility & speaking of Steph I’m sure he doesn’t have power but if you’d like to think he does then I’m pretty sure he didn’t get that till AFTER HE WON A CHIP. LeBron runs franchises now but his first 7 years in Cleveland he didn’t cause he would’ve had the help he needed.
Kyrie and KD reportedly want to still play together but Kyrie wants to play in LA and there's no team that is going to gut their team to rent Kyrie for a year.
Lakers want everyone every year look who they got it was a bluff noway he wants to be with LeBron just wants the money .... his a joke of a human a sook and a role model that should retire and just give up.. LeBron is a joke he gets kyrie and then wins a 5th chip noway he deserves to be in my rankings his had a elite 3 in every team Gianni is better
@@danielframe9659 so kyrie can’t play with Bron like that’s not his duo teammate he was drafted too meanwhile he could go team with anyone else? 😂😂
Rent🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Is he an apartment or some 😭
@@danieleyimin8559 no he's a commodity valued at $36 million next year
@@jayjonah83 fair enough 🤣
Thank you Nets! Your allowing KD and Kyrie hijack the franchise is what brought Atkinson to the Warriors AND convinced him to stay as an assistant over taking a HC job in a different organization.
I think the issue is that KD and Kyrie didn't know how have a winning culture or know how to control/build a team because they've either played for established organizations that already had a strong culture (Golden state and Boston) or were too young to have true control (OKC and Cleveland)
They Ain’t Lebron Kobe Mj😈
Some people are never capable of that.
The nets don't know how to have a winning culture. You don't get two players like that and pair them with a coach with no experience and give rust bucket DeAndre Jordan 40 mil.
they played like no games together😂
Super Facts bro
KD is a superstar; however, he isn’t a leader. Look at his time in OKC vice GSW and look at his body language. His time with the GSW was what he always wanted and he left.
This whole situation on the nets 😂😂💯
You're a clown
Facts!
KD & Kyrie both divas.
I don't even watch NBA anymore but I love popping in on the offseason to see the drama 😂
They need a new name for this group cuz this ain’t first take 🤣🤣
First Mistake 😂
@@odisbennett6607 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
More like Third Take
@@odisbennett6607 lmfaooo this needs 1k likes
@@odisbennett6607 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
No way he called the Warriors the guardians of the galaxy😂
Is he wrong
@@TheMan750 it’s just random
Someone on the commentary bench is finally making the most of their minutes!
They used to be referred to as the avengers on these shows when Kd was in the team.
Nothing new
@@theconnected7234 the big comedian getting 0 likes
I'm thinking here. Is KD trying to get away from the Nets or From Kyrie? Arent they supposed to get along well? Some say they want to play together somewhere else. If so, then the issue is the Nets? Just happy to see Bun Simmons stay alone sitting on the bench like king. lol
I believe this comes down to ego. KD gonna be remembered for switches. Not swishes.
Leaving your team in free agency is one thing, at least you played out your contract.
But requesting or forcing a trade when you’re one year into a four or five year deal is weak man Lol Brooklyn was Kevin Durant’s chance to solidify his legacy and he only made it worse by doing this (The Warriors winning a championship this year certainly didn’t help either)
Not the first weak move he’s done…not even surprised…where ever he goes and they fail…he’ll probably request a trade again
1st Take Analyst have an Off-season too. Putting the Summer League Team in from the bench.
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Freddie Coleman can definitely hold his own. Stephen a Smith is nice but don't sleep on Freddie hes been doing this for decades and it's very good
We need Stephen A back on that table ASAP!
Mannn
Not really
No hey hey ho ho Stephen A has got to go no justice no peace
It’s gets too calm after a while without SAS . the cast needs more energy . they seem to relaxed on these topics
@@prussianprincess1284 lmfaoooo
and this is why Dame Lillard won’t leave Portland.
Freddie the GOAT ifyyk
need stephen a on this segment
He weighed in on Thursday. Of course he layed most of it at the feet of Kyrie.
I swear bro
Asap 💯💯💯💯
We really really really need the real First Take back. I can't keep watching this
i’d rather watch freddie than screamin a smith
More of these 4 please dope dynamic
Shes absolutely right about that DeAndre Jordan thing. Firing your coach for wanting to start the better player so that their stars could make their friend a starter was ridiculous.
That franchise is nothing without kd and Kyrie so why shouldn’t they be able to do that ?
@@artificialintelligence7988 Bro are you Serious 😅
Y’all stop hating on the subs they are not saying nothing different from the starters they not cutting each other off or yelling
KD should go to the Raptors. He can play ball, no drama, win games, win a chip
Durant best player in the world. Them together could have easily been the best offensive duo in the world. They really should of given it another decent try. They both needed it in they’re careers to stamp themselves in the history books as the best duo of the twenties. It could of easily happened it just didn’t work out in brooklyn such a fkn shame. Kd without golden state Kyrie without Lebron winning the chip would of truly proved them, would of been the ultimate F U.
Not that either of them have much else to prove. They’re among the greats. Too good unbelievable talent. It’s totally okay to respond to your own comments
Kyrie is never happy anywhere he goes. Eventually it all goes down burning in flames because of some bs with him. Imagine leaving curry to play with kyrie and he tries to leave you alone holding the bag 1week ago.
Nobody ever say KD is better then Bron bc everywhere Bron went he delivered and he never asked to be traded.
Courtney is a G. Give her more airtime
That’s what separates LeBron from KD, the cerebral side of LeBron and his leadership is unmatched. He’ll again be Batman to Kyrie’s Robin
Lechoke has been carried all his career. lmao
@@juniordexter3214 so why couldn’t Kyrie carry KD then? Since Lebrons been “carried” how come Kevin Love, or D Wade aren’t carrying any teams? Oh yeah that’s right. Wade retired. He was done after the heat run. K love is washed.
I agree he’s one of the greatest leaders but I wouldn’t want Kyrie anywhere near him.
LeBron will be 38 next season and he deserves to finish his career with the least drama possible.
Kyrie is too unreliable and injury prone, pairing him with an injury prone AD is just a disaster waiting to happen.
This is why players should not have power in ANY sport. If you were a good GM........you'd be a GM.
He signed the extension because the Nets gave their word that they would max him and Kyrie out together and then they went against their word. So now he wants out. Simple. The Nets failed.
Kyrie didn't fulfill his contract,tf u talking about?
Exactly. People were praising the Nets for “standing firm” against Kyrie. But they knew what would happen if they did it, so the only one to blame is Brooklyn.
@@cybertutorials5609 The Nets are the big winners. They can get back some good young assets they gave up to get KD and Kyrie. 4 years with them has produced 2 missed playoffs, Harden leaving and a 1st round sweep. Too much drama and too little winning.
KD tied his boat to a 200,000 pound anchor and he wants to blame everyone else
@@cybertutorials5609 10% blame goes to nets,80% blame goes to kyrie
When does free agency end? Wanna see how long I have to wait to see how all this plays out lol
Who tf are these people bruh cmon where Stephen a at???
Vacation.. somewhere we need to be 😆😆 mbn
Keep KD there is no good trade out there.
I’ll blame 60% on Kyrie , 30% on NBA/NYC with their policy on Covid, 10% on Brooklyn Nets itself.
I wish Inside The NBA was currently on the air, all of this would have been awesome content for them.
KD didn’t know how to renovate a home, destroyed the home and the future of that home and can just leave? Absolutely absurd
This peanut head Mrs. Clean hurts my eyes
What’s messed up is Nets had a decent young team before KD and Kyrie got there
Why are the warriors the guardians of the galaxy?
Wow, he would be a great edition to any roster. Would love to see him go so one of the up and comers like the Grizzlies or even Bulls but that probs wont happen. Wont be surprised if he ends up somewhere like the lakers, 76ers or clippers.
Windy has described the Durant conundrum perfectly (3:35)
For the cautionary fact windhorst Kevin Durant did not carry team USA for the medal. He was the best player on a team full of very good team play players that happened to win.
1:39 but the Nets organization isn't the toxic party here. KD had a toxic influence on the Warriors culture when he left. Aside from that, it was Kyrie who refused to play, Kyrie's behavior that encouraged Harden to leave, and Kyrie now who is choosing to leave because he's behavior wasn't tolerated by the organization. It was Kevin who brought Kyrie and tolerated Kyrie's behavior. The nets have given KD everything he wanted. And Kevin still has a decent squad. Rather than give the organization a chance to re-up for next season, he tucks tail and leaves.
Edit: and about blaming the franchises for giving players this kind of power and influence... There's some truth to that but that's the state of the association right now. A product of the early 2010's bargaining agreement. The decisions and consequences of old regimes currents one are now inherenting. Like what else could the Nets have done and what does that have to do with KD's inability to be content and happy on ANY team. Plus Windy is right, the man signed a 4 years contract with no option despite everything. These were all decisions HE made, not Nets. There's no defending KD at this point. 💯
GMs and VPs get paid to run the franchise, not players. They allowed themselves to be controlled by the players because they thought they would get some chips, and now they're here looking stupid
Ky loves Kobe I wish Kobe was here to help guide this young blacc man but as a lakers fan I want ky and I still believe n him no matter what!
The blame begins and ends with KD. The Nets fired their coach, traded their players, signed Kyrie, traded for Harden, then for Simmons, hired Nash, and played DJ for KD. He got everything he wanted and is still unhappy. How can you blame Kyrie for being Kyrie ( it's not like he changed who he was overnight, he was the same person in Cleveland and Boston) or the nets for working with their superstar?
Key sticking up for kyrie and KD throughout all this is bs. Im all for player empowerment when they are being treated poorly and not listened to (especially when they are superstars).
They tried it KDs way, they were patient with Kyrie, and IT DIDNT WORK. So now do it the Team’s way. Youre way didnt work; lets try ours, honor your contract, and lets give it a shot
The "team's way" just blew up the whole team and destroyed any semblance of fan support for the near future. All because they didn't want to give Kyrie the max. What an utter failure
@@cashjerseyblock2890 would you give a pay raise to someone who does what they want when they want and had only played a average of 38 games per season the last three seasons and he wasn’t injured smh
@@cashjerseyblock2890 yep, all the important pieces signed with other teams. Brooklyn don’t even got roster to be Top 10 team next year if kyrie also gets traded this year
@@cashjerseyblock2890 kyrie has not indicated at all he deserves the max since he got there, im not mad at the team
Team jumping is really killing the NBA, this is why u don't give NBA players any power,they are like spoiled fcking overpaid children and it's passing me off.
Nets management is terrible lol
Plz keep these guys and let SAS stay on holiday.
1:40 It's funny she should use that term "toxic" because when those two first signed to Brooklyn, that's how I labeled them, "The Toxic Twins". This was based upon Kyrie's flat-earth, conspiracy spouting BS and KD's 10+ burner accounts just to retweet his own soc-media posts to boost his 'likes' and ego. Looking at the personalities which do things like that, you KNEW this was going to implode sooner rather than later.
1: Basketball talent doesn't make you a leader. Kawhi, KD and Kyrie are all perfect examples of AMAZING players whose personalities simply don't allow for leadership talents... and that's OK. The media has led us to believe that the most talented players should be the front man, the leader of the team but that's just not the case.
2: The best teams have great coaches. KD and Kyrie believed they didn't need a coach, they thought they had enough talent and experience to work it out on the fly like they're playing rec-league.
3: The front office can't just capitulate to 1-2 players and sacrifice the overall team. You see the results of this in LA and Brooklyn, at least LA got a banner out of it but their entire roster is older than my dead father's jokes.
sooooo is this the new First take crew?
Freddie Coleman very well said 🙌🏼u hit that on the nail👏🏽u said that!😘
the fact kyrie is on a 1 year deal and no one wants him for a fair price shows hes pretty much done in the nba.
Expressly said my man as I could not have said it better.
I don't blame Kevin Durant at all requesting a trade. KD was doing as much as he could for the Brooklyn Nets under the circumstances. I think Ben Simmons deciding not to play the elimination game against the Celtics when the team needed him the most made KD look at the big picture. I wouldn't want to play with another fellow superstar when he picks and chooses when he wants to play. I hope KD lands somewhere good.
Why are they acting like KD isn’t a problem himself? He has no leadership. Completely bereft of any capacity to face adversity. Runs when at the slightest sign of difficulty. Never built a successful winning culture. KD always wants the perfect environment to just show up and hoop successfully but also wants credit for the environment. Yet he never wants to do the actual work of making his environment conducive to him being successful. If you just want to hoop, don’t leave Golden State. If you want credit for a winning culture, lead it through adversity. What do you want, KD?
“I don’t hate on Kyrie Irvin” proceeds to hate on Kyrie Irvin 😂😂
Why are all of you assuming that Brooklyn wasn’t trying to trade kyrie, KD finds out, and THEN requests to be traded too….what’s so hard to understand about that? Sean Marks literally told you in that interview a few weeks ago “we can’t do anything until kyrie makes his decision!!!!” That was GM speak for, we wanna trade the guy, can’t trade the guy because his future is in the balance and we can’t shop him to a team with his future in the balance. BUT once he opts in, that will allow us the leverage that we need to move him.
Y’all saying you can’t blame him for leaving when he made the choice to go somewhere toxic like Brooklyn. No one wants to play for Brooklyn the only team anyone knows that from New York are the knicks
Freddie Coleman late night ESPN radio!
I love how everyone has a negative outlook on other peoples decision. No one knows what it was like to walk in that man's shoes. I've always said that if I'm not happy with my job I will resign and find another one. Why should sports be any different at the end of the day it's a JOB!!!!! You're entitled to happy, life is too short to live for other peoples opinions and what they think you should do! This is my own personal opinion! Always choose you first!!!
Man please just come on home to the Wizards. That would be a automatic championship team. Just imagine porzingis, Bradley Beal, Caldwell Pope, Johnny Davis, Kuzma and Durant on the same team. Come on man put your city on bro!!!!
Look at Old Media making money off the back of Kyrie's name.
What's the biggest topic in sports this morning??? Damion Jones signing with the lakers🤣🤣🤣🤣 No. It's Kyrie.
Freddie Coleman is great on first take
Brooklyn Nets front office gets the biggest L here. Traded for garden and gave away all the players that helped build the culture, KD and kyrie wanted to go to Brooklyn because they seen the culture they were building. KD and kyrie didn’t kill it. The nets trading for harden did
If Durant went to Portland? Wow, that would be just huge and I think it could really work.
Any team acquiring KD can expect a version of what is happening with the Nets to happen to that team. You can't win with players who say "my way or the highway" because you can't build a team with them no matter how talented or skilled they are because in the end basketball is a team sport.
KD cannot be blamed for wanting to leave. The only thing that KD can be blamed for is being a little naive in trusting that Kyrie would actually do what he promised, and that's show up. KD joined to play with Kyrie, Harden joined BK to play with KD and Kyrie. Both KD and Harden got stiffed by Kyrie And neither deserve any negative press for leaving, or asking to leave, because neither got what they signed up for.. and what they signed up for was to play with Kyrie Irving on the Brooklyn Nets
The stuff the Nets had to put up with would have never happened in Miami. Pat Riley has a culture in Miami that not even LeBron could change in his 4 years there.
Why doesn't Brooklyn just keep Durant. In 2007 Kobe publicly requested a trade and LA said, No! They went out and got Pau Gasal and Kobe won like, two more rings, right? He's under contract, why not just say, No?
I would’ve loved a KD/Zion trade but I think that’s off the table now
I seriously don’t known who we would get now if KD gets traded. The Nets want 2 all stars and a bunch of picks. Any ideas?
If I was running the Nets, I would play hard ball with KD and not trade him. The only player the Nets need to get rid of is that selfish leech Kyrie. Remember the Lakers played hard ball with Kobe and ultimately convinced him to stay after they got Gasol.
@@Itsjustlikemagic maybe but I honestly would want to try the Kyrie-KD-Simmons core because that could be a game changer. But who would we trade Kyrie for?
@@Marcello2005 yeah, honestly I have no clue. I feel like we’re probably getting Ayton some other young talent and draft picks. It’s going to worse before it gets better though.
@@Itsjustlikemagic I feel like it couldn’t hurt to have a crisis talk with KD, just ask him what he realistically expects from Brooklyn and try and come to a compromise. Seems unlikely though.
My man's called GS the guardians of the galaxy ,yessssss 👀😁👍
Brian talks like he is KD best friend.
NBA off season giving us gifts we don't even need.
Kyrie Irving slowly Turning into Antonio brown
Nets front office paid KD and gave him extension knowing that he was not available for first year duue to his achilles injury. And they took the chance on him even with a serious injury. And this is what nets got from him is trade request middle of his contract. And nets gave everything KD and Kyrie wanted including getting James Harden. Both KD and Kyrie have screwed nets big time. As a NBA fan, there should be a rule that players if they request for a trade they give them back at least 1 year of compensation which they got paid.
She absolutely right on the money
why is the narrative that KD wanted to leave because he was fed up with Kyrie? Its pretty clear he left to punish the nets for not giving Kyrie the max. There are already reports that ideally they want to play together somewhere else. I dunno why ESPN is running with this assumption before getting the facts straight because its clearly wrong
This makes you appreciate how LeBron handled this “kid”
It's real simple. KD is not the superstar everybody thinks he is. A superstar is not just the best player on the team, but the leader of the team and the one who holds the rest of the team accountable. KD is the best player on the team but he is not a leader nor does he care to hold anybody accountable. If KD had the respect of his peers, RW would not have challenged him in OKC. Kyrie would not have challenged him in BKN. KD would have had enough pull to tell Kyrie what to do, "for the greater good". But he doesn't because Kyrie sees himself as equals with KD. KD has alpha skills with a beta mindset. Thats why he clashed with RW and Kyrie, both alpha mentalities with beta skills compared to KD.
I agree 💯. KD is a beta mentally now when he goes to Phoenix will CP3 with an alpha mentality will he step up to him and tell him what needs to be done. Or he sit back and let CP3 be the leader. If he does go to the suns.
Is Courtney Cronin seriously hosting FT!? Just the Minnesota Vikes beat reporter a year ago. Congrats Court!!!
Ol buddy look like the dad from Keenan & Kel
When the camera pans out, I swear I thought the woman on the left was charles barkley 150lbs lighter in drag.
First take C team goes crazy
This The EXACT Reason Chuck Called
Durant A BUS RIDER... An His Rings Don't Count for Nothing.. 😂🤣
Cmon brian. KD wants his own team to win a team for his legacy, a jersey to wear in hof. He can’t have that on his past teams and certainly can’t have it with lebron or kawai. I hope he just return to okc and try to win there, that would be his team.
ESPN tear down one player at a time . They use to tear kd down. No they find someone else to tear down. We all seen Jordan slapping the shot out of players and none of u guys even had problems with that. Grow up guys.
Nets 6'11 all-star with history of injuries that's healthy now, LA 6'11 all-star with history of injuries that's healthy now. Nets 6'2 all-star they don't want, LA 6'3 all-star they don't want (makes all-star sense). Their contracts match up perfectly (makes financial sense). Bron is the only player to lead Kyrie to a championship (makes leadership/chemistry sense). KD doesn't want to see GS collect more rings. AD goes on a "I'm not frail tour" and Westbrook goes on a "F**K the world tour". AND Neither KD, Kyrie, nor Bron won a playoff game last year, makes revenge sense!
Brooklyn management should have did their homework on Ben Simmons. He basically quit on them last year and KD don’t have confidence in him. It’s Ben Simmons not Kyrie
then wouldn’t it make sense that KD would tell them to trade simmons instead of him requesting a trade? he been wanted to leave because the nets put their foot down and didn’t want to sign kyrie if he wasn’t going to play 50% of the games
@@jordandiaz7605 well it’s a chance that he said that and Brooklyn basically cut him off . That’s why he asked for a trade . Brooklyn no longer wanted to do what he said
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. This is why you can't give a damned what anyone thinks of you because you can't please everyone.
Im sorry I dont know these peoples name but that Girl commentator is 100% right this is on the Nets Organization, they gave way too much power to Headaches and let them run that organization to the ground. Kyrie and KD are great singular talents but the NBA is a Team Game and this Nets GM put individuals above the team and this was the result
The Nets were super soft with Kyrie