The fact that they don’t hold him accountable the way they do Giannis, Lebron, Steph, Kobe, etc shows me that they don’t actually believe he’s the best player in the world or on that level….if they really believed that they would hold him accountable properly
When has Lebron ever been held accountable? Especially by ESPN? It’s always been “he has no help”. This season all the blame went to Vogul and Westbrook. Cleveland it was Love. Miami it was Bosh. It’s never been his fault.
@@firstname2022 Lebron receives more criticism than any player in the NBA. Only if you hold a bias against him could you believe the things you wrote to be true.
Lol I honestly don't think Ben will play a single game for the Nets. Nets will probably start to fine him next year then it will be 76ers saga all over again with Ben.
I have a feeling Ben Simmons will delay his “Nets Debut” several times for the beginning of the season, then force a trade to the Lakers so he can be Mr.Celebrity with Day to Day Davis and LeGM
My biggest problem with Kyrie loyalists is that they act like Kyrie deserves ZERO blame whatsoever. Stephen A's beef with Kyrie was NEVER about the vaccine yet Kyrie stans kept bringing it up. Kyrie is never available. End of discussion. Kyrie fans can't defend that fact no matter how hard they try.
Kyrie fans will always act like Stephen A just started critiquing Kyrie and his lack of a work ethic when this goes back to his days in Boston. Kyrie loyalists will ignore that.
@@studio3js196 all imma say is you black men and Stephen A are all traitors for turning on your own brother like this its always been about rhe vaccination lets be real racist like you hate to see a black man think for himself
Completely absolved KD of any blame, after all the talk of ‘KD is the best player’ ‘needs to leave GSW to prove he can win’ here they are crucifying the Robin of the duo.
@@bigz1384 TALK ABOUT THE SERIES. He was getting swallowed up, all the talk of ‘he can shoot over everyone and doesn’t need switches’ got proved to be a lie. Play up on him, throw doubles at him and he’s timid.
@@bigz1384 keep the same energy you people always have for Lebron dammit! If Lebron played like this in a series he would get crushed and be the headline, keep the same energy!
He said KD didn’t show up but this a team effort. That Boston team is legit and KD can’t do it alone. If Kyrie shows up then Harden would of never left. They would of never been a bottom seed.
Wasn’t it Lebrons faults for AD being hurt, Russ jacking up shots and putting the whole team together? It’s KD’s fault for having Kyrie as his teammate and allowing him to miss games.
@@narz7573 well basketball is a team sport so teams win or lose as a team. It's not just about 1 player. Some of the best players of all time have been a part of teams being swept. Shaq, Wilt, Kobe, LeBron, MJ, bird, Duncan, Magic, ect... Lots of legends have been on teams that have been swept.
@@brendanbloom3366 yeah it's team sport but all these players got their lion's share of the praise and they'd got their blame. It's a team sport correct. But when your salary & game plays such a huge factor in the teams identity & performance it falls on the "best " player. Giving him such high praise as great means we hold him accountable because greatness has thin margins of error. But that's how I see it.
kyrie ain’t “the best player in the world” so don’t try to disperse the blame. address what actually needs to be addressed with the same energy you’ll give anybody else
KD showed up for the elimination game. Kyrie had a great game 1 and was mediocre the rest of the way. Both had 3 bad games but timings is everything. If Kyrie had a bad first 3 games and showed up game 4, there’d be a game 5
@@Christian-eq6pq and if kd showed up game 1, it would boost morale and the series could've went a whole other way. Your argument is just pointless because as it stands kd is to take most of the blame
Kyrie didn't take the vaccine. That's his stance. But what did he do for Brooklyn when he was fully available in the playoffs? He should've picked up Durant with those fresh legs if KD was struggling like he was.
@C any commoner who views/plays sports knows Kyrie is tops in the world; I'm comparing him based on his current status among his NBA peers, can't you C?...
@C they have no good point guard. Celtics was good, but when you dont have a pg to control the pace for you, its no wonder the opposing team would look like they have an elite level defense.
@@amanialsoquar5073 word, and that was the Celtics problem for years too. How much POETIC JUSTICE is it that the same guys (Tatum, Brown, Smart) who Kyrie touted as hard to coach & made an apology to LeBron CAME BACK and swept him out of the playoffs.... Mm!
@C C, I didn't have too much time to go way back in order for you to understand, because you sound "new" to this... You're evaluating Kyrie based on this one series; I'm evaluating him every since he been in the league AND how he severed ties with both LeBron and with Boston. To me, even though Kyrie can score & sauce-em-up with the very best of them (EVERY SINCE HE BEEN IN THE LEAGUE), you're fooling yourself (and other people are fooling themselves) if you believe that Kyrie is a guy who can LEAD A TEAM TO GREAT PLAYOFF SUCCESS. I mean Johnson97 is correct in his assertion on this thread, and all true basketball fans that paid attention KNOW that Kyrie isn't really that serious about winning championships, especially once he broke away from LeBron. You don't do that after winning with one of the greatest players in history... If anything, for his NBA wins success, he left Cleveland too soon. He needed to grow up a bit more (but what u gonna tell a man who any team will give guaranteed money to?) NOW he wants to talk about how his situation might have been a distraction, blah blah blah... Get out of here! And all that MISMANAGEMENT that happened this year, the Nets gave him "full-command" over his situation to come & go as he please.... and look at the results??? He mismanaged, the Nets mismanaged, KD don't want to lose a basketball friend, so he won't challenge Kyrie publicly, and Steve Nash himself is gonna have to come off the bench to play PG next year in order to give this emotionally-unstable team a chance!
People keep deflecting the blame on KD. We already established that KD is not the best player in the world. But KYRIE is the reason this team failed for 3 years. Its just not this year. Last year he barely played and 2020 he didnt want to play in the bubble. If Kyrie played this season, the Nets wouldnt have even played the Celtics first round
All you said is cetltics is a better team and nets should've avoided them Sure Kylie didn't play enough games to help in the REGULAR season but this is playoffs where was Kd the first 3 games
He only played 20 games in his first season in Brooklyn because of a shoulder injury, which was also a big reason why he didn't play in the bubble. He missed the last 3 games against Milwaukee last year because of a sprained ankle. The only reason he didn't much of this season is because of his vaccine status and NY vaccine mandate not allowing to play home games.
@@bubbarachi9122 doing well without them? Gs missed the playoffs the last 2 years and Lakers missed the playoffs twice. Gs wouldn't be able to pay everybody if kd stayed and lebron was already going to leave for LA most likely.
You can't put Durant and Irving in the same level of Kobe Lebron and Mj.. Those guys not just show up everytime at work but they always put it on them win or lose..
FOH Keep that same energy with KD that you have with LeBron. Kyrie definitely deserves the same amount of blame but Kd is "The Best Player" according to y'all. LeBron injured. Ad injured. Westbrook being "Westbrook" but y'all say no excuses Lebron should be in the post-season. Smh KEEP THAT ENERGY. STEPHEN A
Kyrie deserves all the push back - he didn’t back up all the talk and that’s the real issue, he was too vocal off the court and failed to win ONE playoff game ... call him out
Stephen A, two things can be true. Kyrie can have the desire to win another championship and is disappointed in the outcome of the season. AND at the same time, Kyrie understands this is just a game & there’s more to life plus he’s proud of his former Boston teammates and enjoys seeing how far they’ve come.
Proud of his former team while pointing middle fingers in TD garden and stepping on Celtics logo?? U don’t possibly think that’s genuine right? Not to mention how many locker room chemistry this dude has destroyed lol
@@swaggypq2429 are you serious? His former teammates have nothing to do with what the notorious Boston Garden fans say or do. His reaction to them are irrelevant.
Proud of former teammates is one thing but if you have testosterone, you know better than to play subpar at your craft &get swept, then hug up the dudes that swept you WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE LIKE ALL IS WELL
The team was originally built around him and KD. You take him out of that, you have to figure out a new system that can work. He's only been back consistently for the past few months due to NYC lifting the vaccine mandate
I knew SAS was gonna find someone else to blame for the Nets getting swept. We just watched the so called "best player in the world" have a complete meltdown, committing turnovers, not taking shots, hiding in the corner, missing freethrows, etc. All due to the pressure of leading his OWN team to a championship for the first time rather than riding someone else's coattails for 2 straight years.
Some dude, his name doesn't rhyme with kyrie, said KEEP THE SAME ENERGY or something like that flipping the bird... and then disappeared the next 3 games🤣🤣🤣 where was that dude at
Just give Boston credit, there defense were awesome...the best player didn't even make the playoff...stop crying and just give credit where credit is due. Boston were a better team, defensively and offensively..
Same as KD, the way KD showed love to Tatum was like he wanted him to win anyway. I feel like after KD won those championships and he didn't get the love he desired so he restrained from trying.
Kylie Irving since Game 1 15.3 PPG on 37.2 FG% A very skilled bricklayer. Not better than Jalen Brunson who’s been averaging 29.8 PPG on 50.6 FG% since Game 1.
1️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses not to play, Nets keep on losing... ....Nets make the playoffs as a low seed team 2️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses again not to play, Nets keep on losing... ...Harden gets frustrated and asks for a trade 3️⃣Kyrie coming up with stuff not to play complete games on playoffs... ...Nets lose and get eliminated ⚠️Kyrie is a little childish drama queen⚠️
Had Kyrie Irving been full time, I’d like to think James Harden may have stayed. Even with KD’s injury, which was inevitable. I only say that because that’s something we cannot fore-seek. However what can be controlled is, showing up to work.
Not when work demands you go against your own ethics due to the government being tyrannical. But you're young, presumably very stupid, and if not then definitely incredibly ignorant and ill-experienced. Maybe you'll figure it out one day. That would be good for you.
@@BigBoss-kl5yn Now he just backtracked in this video and said KD is still the best player in the league. SAS has zero credibility. He loves great scorers, especially lethal ISO scorers like, MJ, Kobe, KD, that’s why SAS is always biased towards them more so than well-rounded all-around players.
SAS is actually unbelievable this man is claiming all the outside drama with kyrie and ben simmons is why the nets got swept not the celtics defense r u serious??? Same with perk saying Tatum is the best two way player in the game over Giannis?? And KD isn’t blamed in the slightest for his terrible 3 game stretch?? Media is a sucker for nets oml
Stephen A. is just mad because he went all-in on the Brooklyn Nets just like Rob Parker, Chris Broussard,,, Brandon Marshall, and others that had already crowned the Nets as 🏆 champions.
@@brandonrobinson4897 He's a Knick fan, but he and others just knew that no one could beat the Kyrie/Durant duo. These guys like Chris Broussard, Rob Parker, Brandon Marshall, and Steven A. go all out saying that the Nets are practically unbeatable! I am a huge Lakers fan, but I never talk as though you can bet the house on any team.
1. Kyrie Irving is Strike #1 for the Nets 2. Betting his future on Kyrie is Strike #1 for KD 3. KD, not admitting he was wrong for betting on Kyrie is Strike #2 for him and the Nets 4. Snowflake Simmons is Strike #3 for the Nets and KD. Three strikes and I'm out!
If it wasn't for LeBron going back to Cleveland, Kyrie would have a career similar to John Wall. Kyrie is NOT a winner and as skilled as he is, he doesn't play winning basketball without a dominant number 1. KD and Kyrie are ballers but are not leaders. They need a Draymond on that team to direct them in the right direction but the nonsense that Kyrie says would ruin that dynamic.
And KD need *TWO* once in a generation type talent/shooter dudes to do anything. And he been in that situation *THREE* times. And he's gotten something done from it *ONCE*
Breaking News: I love to see talk about Kyrie Irving. See, I don't like Mr. I can't show up and play Irving myself but I can't articulate my thoughts like Stephen A. He is our black genius
I’d say it’s both with maybe slightly more of the blame going to Kyrie. Dude just wasn’t there and had the tendency to act like he’s the smartest person in the room
I hope the next cba screws these type of players so bad. Players like Kyrie need to understand that one you sign a contract with a team, you are their PROPERTY. He needs to sit up, dribble and say yes masta to the coach
"What appals me is I have to sit up here and talk about another brother"..No you don't. lol You literally go out of your way in every way possible to talk about Kyrie irving. I'm starting to think they had a personal beef at some point.
Ok people let’s move on to another topic and get off kd and Kyrie meat. Let discuss the fact that the 76ers potential being the first team ever to blow a 3-0 lead in sports
It might seem like the world is ending for the Nets but they have one more chance to make it right. They’ll get Simmons back and Joe Harris back next year. Those are huge additions. A couple FA signings and they’ll be really good. I bet they’ll open the season as the favorites to come out of the East.
If I was the Nets I would just rebuild at this point, trade both. - KD has proved over and over again that he's not that guy, dude is a good scorer but he's a horrible leader and can't lead a team to a chip. - Kyrie is just not worth the trouble. He's never available and brings so many issues. - Not to mention that none of them have that drive to win, they just don't care, specially Kyrie I hope this and last year's playoffs serve to show who was the actual best player and leader in GSW. KD needed Steph and Klay, not the other way around.
1️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses not to play, Nets keep on losing... ....Nets make the playoffs as a low seed team 2️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses again not to play, Nets keep on losing... ...Harden gets frustrated and asks for a trade 3️⃣Kyrie coming up with stuff not to play complete games on playoffs... ...Nets lose and get eliminated ⚠️Kyrie is a little childish drama queen⚠️
😂😂😂😂 man this is crazy how he’s going in on Kyrie but not KD everyone knew Kyrie wasn’t playing before the vaccine . Even last night KD went 13-31 , the game before that 4-17 or something like that 😂😂 keep that same energy y’all give Bron crazy how KD and others get A pass so much but yet they wanna call him the best player he couldn’t even get 1 game ..
@@kyreegarrett1669 I guess we did. Of course there were switches. But when Marcus Smart guarded him, he either passed or took a bad shot that usually missed.
Who blamed Westbrook or AD for not making the playoffs? The blame was on a 37 year old Lebron who has already given the lakers a championship ring.. when it comes to KD, his teammates get attacked
Come on Stephen A you mad at Kyrie for being happy for the young Celtics he groomed, but had no problem with Durant laughing and joking with Tatum down 2-0 on route to getting blown out during the series on the court 🤦🏽♂️
One thing is for sure: The Kyrie/KD "Most-Skilled-Duo" debate is officially over, and it seems utterly laughable now that a couple of weeks ago it was a legit topic.
Says you? Lmao Actual HoF players made that statement, and lebron and wade cosigned lol. An opinion of some random nobody I'm sure has zero weight in that conversation 🤣💀
@@trellmills2963 again some nobody stating this means nothing. The greats and their peers have spoken lol. Your just bitter, but thats not my problem lol🤷♂️
Imagine if unvaxed, selfish, buffoon, Kyrie Irving had gotten vaxed, the nets would've been a high seed and would've gone to nba finals. Now, the nets are eliminated😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
The EARTH is TRIANGLE!!! ●KD from OKC to GSW to Nets ●Harden from Houston to Brooklyn to Philadelphia ●Kyrie from Cleveland to Boston to Brooklyn Last 3 season: 1st season = 1st round exit 2nd season = 2nd round exit 3rd season = 1st round exit > KD + Harden = No Kyrie > KD + Kyrie = No Harden, Simmons > Kyrie + Harden = No KD 1st season = KD injured for entire season 2nd season = Spencer Dinwiddie injured for entire season 3rd season = Joe Harris injured for entire season Kendall Jenner from Blake Griffin to Ben Simmons to Devin Booker
Only owner and GM can say “manage the franchise”. Players, no matter how great they are, are employed by the franchise to work FOR franchise, not manage. Try going to work next morning telling your boss “you will manage the franchise” and see what they say.
Celtics fans and the media aren’t acknowledging they been missing Joe Harris since the beginning of the season (better shooting percentage then Patty Mills, beat Curry in the 3pt contest) and the fact Aldridge was a big part of the team but his heart murmur slowed him down way too much
Between Kyrie and Ben Simmons, Stephen A been itching to come to work 😂😂😂
His most favorite topic wherever show he is. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@captainmil631 p
Tbh I do believe him about his anger stemming from the fact these 2 idiots will mess up the money for the future generations.
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Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Ben Simmons is like that pretty girl who smokes cigarettes” Perk be in his bag 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Racist like you are enjoying other black men humiliate each other huh? Just helps with those stereotypes even more
hey those be the ones on the low, I hate he compared it to Ben Simmons
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@J Coop Yessur!
Giggity!
All these excuses being made for KD is sickening! If he’s “the best player in the league”, hold him accountable like you do Lebron, Steph, Giannis etc
The fact that they don’t hold him accountable the way they do Giannis, Lebron, Steph, Kobe, etc shows me that they don’t actually believe he’s the best player in the world or on that level….if they really believed that they would hold him accountable properly
When has Lebron ever been held accountable? Especially by ESPN? It’s always been “he has no help”. This season all the blame went to Vogul and Westbrook. Cleveland it was Love. Miami it was Bosh. It’s never been his fault.
KD has held himself accountable in the post match conferences tbf to him. Just acted like a moron on social media after Charles Barkley's comments.
@@firstname2022 Lebron receives more criticism than any player in the NBA. Only if you hold a bias against him could you believe the things you wrote to be true.
@@firstname2022 2011, 2014, 2019, and 2021…and every single time that he is compared unfavorably to MJ.
If you think the Nets part 2 was fun just wait next Season for The Nets part 3 Ben Simmons edition 😂
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🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴😂😂😂😂😂
Lol I honestly don't think Ben will play a single game for the Nets. Nets will probably start to fine him next year then it will be 76ers saga all over again with Ben.
I have a feeling Ben Simmons will delay his “Nets Debut” several times for the beginning of the season, then force a trade to the Lakers so he can be Mr.Celebrity with Day to Day Davis and LeGM
The trilogy will be complete
My biggest problem with Kyrie loyalists is that they act like Kyrie deserves ZERO blame whatsoever. Stephen A's beef with Kyrie was NEVER about the vaccine yet Kyrie stans kept bringing it up. Kyrie is never available. End of discussion. Kyrie fans can't defend that fact no matter how hard they try.
Bro kyrie never plays. If it wasn’t for vaccines it would be something else that kept him out
Kyrie fans will always act like Stephen A just started critiquing Kyrie and his lack of a work ethic when this goes back to his days in Boston. Kyrie loyalists will ignore that.
On god 😭😭😭
No one with a right mind is a “kyrie loyalist” lol
@@studio3js196 all imma say is you black men and Stephen A are all traitors for turning on your own brother like this its always been about rhe vaccination lets be real racist like you hate to see a black man think for himself
Completely absolved KD of any blame, after all the talk of ‘KD is the best player’ ‘needs to leave GSW to prove he can win’ here they are crucifying the Robin of the duo.
Hey carried this mediocre team the whole year while Kyrie n Ben sat out most of the season n when harden was there he hurt
@@bigz1384 TALK ABOUT THE SERIES. He was getting swallowed up, all the talk of ‘he can shoot over everyone and doesn’t need switches’ got proved to be a lie. Play up on him, throw doubles at him and he’s timid.
@@bigz1384 keep the same energy you people always have for Lebron dammit! If Lebron played like this in a series he would get crushed and be the headline, keep the same energy!
@@juyahmad Lebron this, Lebron that, stfu
He said KD didn’t show up but this a team effort. That Boston team is legit and KD can’t do it alone. If Kyrie shows up then Harden would of never left. They would of never been a bottom seed.
The Nets have 2 of the best part time players of all time, next year is gonna be crazy!
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@Ashesh Sharma 🤣🤣🤣
2 people can’t beat 15 players 😂😂
bring mark as coach
lol
Wasn’t it Lebrons faults for AD being hurt, Russ jacking up shots and putting the whole team together? It’s KD’s fault for having Kyrie as his teammate and allowing him to miss games.
You absolutely right about kd choosing kyrie but he’s not wrong for letting him miss games bc at the end of the day kd can’t control what he does
Bro what? If you using that logic then yes it Bron fault cause guess who he wanted as a teammate Russell Westbrook
@@Nick-sr4fe I think he’s using others logic.. like Stephen A .
Kd was worst than kyrie in this series
@@Nick-sr4fe missed the point my guy
KD mom must have put a hit out on Stephen A he never blame this dude for nothing lmaoo
Underrated comment
Blame him for what? Celtics earned each and every one of those wins.
@@brendanbloom3366 not to discredit KD but when you're being compared all time being swept ain't a good look.
@@narz7573 well basketball is a team sport so teams win or lose as a team. It's not just about 1 player. Some of the best players of all time have been a part of teams being swept. Shaq, Wilt, Kobe, LeBron, MJ, bird, Duncan, Magic, ect... Lots of legends have been on teams that have been swept.
@@brendanbloom3366 yeah it's team sport but all these players got their lion's share of the praise and they'd got their blame. It's a team sport correct. But when your salary & game plays such a huge factor in the teams identity & performance it falls on the "best " player. Giving him such high praise as great means we hold him accountable because greatness has thin margins of error. But that's how I see it.
Why does KD ALWAYS escape blame. Same thing used to happen in okc. Russ got all the blame for BOTH their shortcomings
He showed up for work. He picked up kryie’s slack and james harden slack.
@@nazzyt KD GOT SWEPT IF IT WAS LBJ BOY SAS WOULD HAVE A FIELD DAY
@@destroyer345hemi5 well thats because LBJ crowned himself the goat basically, so he gets the pressure of a GOAT. KD doesnt act like he’s the best.
@@destroyer345hemi5 facts
@@nazzyt "KD doesn't act like he's the best" you must not be hearing what KD been saying these past years
kyrie ain’t “the best player in the world” so don’t try to disperse the blame. address what actually needs to be addressed with the same energy you’ll give anybody else
Kyrie is the reason this team failed for 3 years
KD showed up for the elimination game. Kyrie had a great game 1 and was mediocre the rest of the way. Both had 3 bad games but timings is everything. If Kyrie had a bad first 3 games and showed up game 4, there’d be a game 5
@@Christian-eq6pq and if kd showed up game 1, it would boost morale and the series could've went a whole other way.
Your argument is just pointless because as it stands kd is to take most of the blame
They are basically saying nash and KD aint $hit without Kyrie.....How you have KD on your team, and a 7th seed lol?
@@luny2nez281 you're obsessed with Kyrie. You'd trade your shitty life for his. Your family would trade you for him.
Kyrie didn't take the vaccine. That's his stance.
But what did he do for Brooklyn when he was fully available in the playoffs? He should've picked up Durant with those fresh legs if KD was struggling like he was.
Bro Durant was injured for like 30 games, they shoulda both had fresh legs
@@LilAlShabooti Which is even more sad imo, lol.
Lol he chose to be selfish, and now that looks even worse since they’ve gotten swept. Nothing to show for it.
@@jamirbingham4101 I love it here, lol. That’s BIG karma.
@@kingsax01 😂😂😂
People have *girlfriend* memory when LeBron fails, and *grandma* memory when KD fails.
Talk to em
Imagine Kyrie’s career if he never played with LeBron? Would probably never win a ring as a #2 with anyone else
Oh, he'd almost never made the playoffs; he still LIVING off of those LeBron days, trust me (got er'body fooled).....
@C any commoner who views/plays sports knows Kyrie is tops in the world; I'm comparing him based on his current status among his NBA peers, can't you C?...
@C they have no good point guard. Celtics was good, but when you dont have a pg to control the pace for you, its no wonder the opposing team would look like they have an elite level defense.
@@amanialsoquar5073 word, and that was the Celtics problem for years too. How much POETIC JUSTICE is it that the same guys (Tatum, Brown, Smart) who Kyrie touted as hard to coach & made an apology to LeBron CAME BACK and swept him out of the playoffs.... Mm!
@C C, I didn't have too much time to go way back in order for you to understand, because you sound "new" to this... You're evaluating Kyrie based on this one series; I'm evaluating him every since he been in the league AND how he severed ties with both LeBron and with Boston. To me, even though Kyrie can score & sauce-em-up with the very best of them (EVERY SINCE HE BEEN IN THE LEAGUE), you're fooling yourself (and other people are fooling themselves) if you believe that Kyrie is a guy who can LEAD A TEAM TO GREAT PLAYOFF SUCCESS. I mean Johnson97 is correct in his assertion on this thread, and all true basketball fans that paid attention KNOW that Kyrie isn't really that serious about winning championships, especially once he broke away from LeBron. You don't do that after winning with one of the greatest players in history... If anything, for his NBA wins success, he left Cleveland too soon. He needed to grow up a bit more (but what u gonna tell a man who any team will give guaranteed money to?)
NOW he wants to talk about how his situation might have been a distraction, blah blah blah... Get out of here!
And all that MISMANAGEMENT that happened this year, the Nets gave him "full-command" over his situation to come & go as he please.... and look at the results??? He mismanaged, the Nets mismanaged, KD don't want to lose a basketball friend, so he won't challenge Kyrie publicly, and Steve Nash himself is gonna have to come off the bench to play PG next year in order to give this emotionally-unstable team a chance!
People keep deflecting the blame on KD. We already established that KD is not the best player in the world. But KYRIE is the reason this team failed for 3 years. Its just not this year. Last year he barely played and 2020 he didnt want to play in the bubble. If Kyrie played this season, the Nets wouldnt have even played the Celtics first round
All you said is cetltics is a better team and nets should've avoided them
Sure Kylie didn't play enough games to help in the REGULAR season but this is playoffs where was Kd the first 3 games
He only played 20 games in his first season in Brooklyn because of a shoulder injury, which was also a big reason why he didn't play in the bubble. He missed the last 3 games against Milwaukee last year because of a sprained ankle. The only reason he didn't much of this season is because of his vaccine status and NY vaccine mandate not allowing to play home games.
Who’s the better than KD?
@@zayzuess7120 don’t even try that argument rn. I love KD but we down bad.
Lol bro who is the star player kd or kyrie I need to know kd shot the ball 31 times the guy is inefficient af throw his whole career away
The most embarrassing duo of all time
Facts both are crazy for leaving lebron and golden state who have been doing well with out them
Joell Embiid and Ben Simmons might have something to say about that
@@bubbarachi9122 doing well without them? Gs missed the playoffs the last 2 years and Lakers missed the playoffs twice. Gs wouldn't be able to pay everybody if kd stayed and lebron was already going to leave for LA most likely.
This just shows that people who supported kyrie were wrong. Now lebron looks like a Saint for being able to keep this team poison in check.
@@brendanbloom3366 No Lebron wasn’t going to leave had Kyrie stayed they were in the Finals literally every season played together
You can't put Durant and Irving in the same level of Kobe Lebron and Mj.. Those guys not just show up everytime at work but they always put it on them win or lose..
They didn’t have to deal with covid this is an ignorant statement delete it💀
KD and Kyrie call the best Skill Duo of ALL-TIME... that isn't work?!?! lol
@@theboy7323 obviously they aint getting swept in the first round after finals runs lol
Lebron doesn't belong on the same level as MJ and Kobe. Kyrie and KD do belong on the same level as LeBron.
@@Minolla if you don't know anything about basketball, just don't comment. can you people just stop lying for once it's annoying.
Kyire’s the one that said “I don’t need no coach” now look at him lol
he needs a mental coach
“Kyrie got time off…surprise surprise surprise” 😂😂
SAS: "Hey, Perk?"
Aslo SAS: Proceeds to answer questions for him! Lol
One of the rare times I agree with Stephen a
FOH Keep that same energy with KD that you have with LeBron. Kyrie definitely deserves the same amount of blame but Kd is "The Best Player" according to y'all. LeBron injured. Ad injured. Westbrook being "Westbrook" but y'all say no excuses Lebron should be in the post-season. Smh KEEP THAT ENERGY. STEPHEN A
Kyrie deserves all the push back - he didn’t back up all the talk and that’s the real issue, he was too vocal off the court and failed to win ONE playoff game ... call him out
Stephen A, two things can be true. Kyrie can have the desire to win another championship and is disappointed in the outcome of the season. AND at the same time, Kyrie understands this is just a game & there’s more to life plus he’s proud of his former Boston teammates and enjoys seeing how far they’ve come.
Proud of his former team while pointing middle fingers in TD garden and stepping on Celtics logo?? U don’t possibly think that’s genuine right? Not to mention how many locker room chemistry this dude has destroyed lol
@@swaggypq2429 are you serious? His former teammates have nothing to do with what the notorious Boston Garden fans say or do. His reaction to them are irrelevant.
Proud of former teammates is one thing but if you have testosterone, you know better than to play subpar at your craft &get swept, then hug up the dudes that swept you WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE LIKE ALL IS WELL
@@ps4ap_ballin672 “know better?” Yeah, you’re just like Stephen A. These are grown men. Who cares if he’s smiling.
All year Kyrie is a hero lmaoooo what a joke man swept
Everywhere Kyrie goes he’s the problem
He was fasting for Ramadan
He makes a good point 💯
There should be a drinking game where you have to take a shot every time SAS says: "KYRIE IS BOX OFFICE..."
These clips of Stephen A giving his takes are so much better when you fast forward to when the co host starts talking
Not saying Kyrie doesn’t deserve any blame but I feel like blaming him for everything wrong on this team is unfair
Thank you. There's enough blame to go around.
KD and steve need to be blame as well due to their mediocry during this playoff series.
He need to stop taking all that full time money then
The team was originally built around him and KD. You take him out of that, you have to figure out a new system that can work. He's only been back consistently for the past few months due to NYC lifting the vaccine mandate
Dude said he didn’t need a coach and played less then half the games this year for max money. 100% his fault.
I knew SAS was gonna find someone else to blame for the Nets getting swept. We just watched the so called "best player in the world" have a complete meltdown, committing turnovers, not taking shots, hiding in the corner, missing freethrows, etc. All due to the pressure of leading his OWN team to a championship for the first time rather than riding someone else's coattails for 2 straight years.
Some dude, his name doesn't rhyme with kyrie, said KEEP THE SAME ENERGY or something like that flipping the bird... and then disappeared the next 3 games🤣🤣🤣 where was that dude at
That’s Stephen A for you
Just give Boston credit, there defense were awesome...the best player didn't even make the playoff...stop crying and just give credit where credit is due. Boston were a better team, defensively and offensively..
He loves to defend his husband
@@juyahmad 🤣
Same as KD, the way KD showed love to Tatum was like he wanted him to win anyway. I feel like after KD won those championships and he didn't get the love he desired so he restrained from trying.
Kylie Irving since Game 1
15.3 PPG on 37.2 FG%
A very skilled bricklayer.
Not better than Jalen Brunson who’s been averaging 29.8 PPG on 50.6 FG% since Game 1.
Careful; the Kyrie fan club might raid you with “bUt hE cAn ScoRe oN yOu tHough😡” comments soon
Learn how to spell
Nets winning it all next year and don't get on their side then
nice cherry-picked stats.
1️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses not to play, Nets keep on losing...
....Nets make the playoffs as a low seed team
2️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses again not to play, Nets keep on losing...
...Harden gets frustrated and asks for a trade
3️⃣Kyrie coming up with stuff not to play complete games on playoffs...
...Nets lose and get eliminated
⚠️Kyrie is a little childish drama queen⚠️
Had Kyrie Irving been full time, I’d like to think James Harden may have stayed. Even with KD’s injury, which was inevitable. I only say that because that’s something we cannot fore-seek. However what can be controlled is, showing up to work.
Not when work demands you go against your own ethics due to the government being tyrannical. But you're young, presumably very stupid, and if not then definitely incredibly ignorant and ill-experienced. Maybe you'll figure it out one day. That would be good for you.
So SAS has a kyrie rant but not a KD rant for his performance in this series?? Always defending his husband KD
He been on KD all week bruh
@@BigBoss-kl5yn no he hasn’t. He’s been on kyrie. He loves to defend his lover
He said KD can’t be viewed as the best in the world, he didn’t show up, his performances were terrible.
@@BigBoss-kl5yn Now he just backtracked in this video and said KD is still the best player in the league. SAS has zero credibility. He loves great scorers, especially lethal ISO scorers like, MJ, Kobe, KD, that’s why SAS is always biased towards them more so than well-rounded all-around players.
SAS is actually unbelievable this man is claiming all the outside drama with kyrie and ben simmons is why the nets got swept not the celtics defense r u serious??? Same with perk saying Tatum is the best two way player in the game over Giannis?? And KD isn’t blamed in the slightest for his terrible 3 game stretch?? Media is a sucker for nets oml
Tatum clamped KD. KD put 50 against the bucks. Not saying Tatum is a better two way player but there are arguments that can be made for both sides
The media doesn't actually watch basketball. Giannis is clearly the best player in the game.
So we are just supposed to let the Nets off the hook and just praise the Celtics? HECK NO!
@@Nick-sr4fe Giannis has a dpoy and when on kd kd has his lowest fg%
@@Nick-sr4fe 49*
Pop would of coached this same Nets team to over 55 wins and at the least an eastern conference finals trip!
Stephen A. is just mad because he went all-in on the Brooklyn Nets just like Rob Parker, Chris Broussard,,, Brandon Marshall, and others that had already crowned the Nets as 🏆 champions.
Stephen A Smith is a Knicks fan. Is this statement towards this season? Or him being “all-in” on BK all year round?
@@brandonrobinson4897 He's a Knick fan, but he and others just knew that no one could beat the Kyrie/Durant duo.
These guys like Chris Broussard, Rob Parker, Brandon Marshall, and Steven A. go all out saying that the Nets are practically unbeatable!
I am a huge Lakers fan, but I never talk as though you can bet the house on any team.
@@brandonrobinson4897 Steven A. being all in this session
Steven A we are listening in Greece as well. You spoke the truth and nothing but the truth.
In Kyrie’s world, he only knows 3 words:
I, Me, And Mine!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Chemistry and time to gel as a team is important come playoff time
If Kyrie played every game, they wouldn't be 7th seed. Simple.
Excuse.
Truth & Harden wouldve stayed
@@RTrainingSAL 🤣 I'm the furthest thing from a Brooklyn Fan. I'm saying Kyrie should be blamed for ending their season
1. Kyrie Irving is Strike #1 for the Nets
2. Betting his future on Kyrie is Strike #1 for KD
3. KD, not admitting he was wrong for betting on Kyrie is Strike #2 for him and the Nets
4. Snowflake Simmons is Strike #3 for the Nets and KD. Three strikes and I'm out!
The fact he didn’t play cause of the “attacks” at the capital is beyond me😂😂😂😂
This series reminded me of a middle-school dodgeball game and all the athletes and jocks were on the same team.
If it wasn't for LeBron going back to Cleveland, Kyrie would have a career similar to John Wall. Kyrie is NOT a winner and as skilled as he is, he doesn't play winning basketball without a dominant number 1. KD and Kyrie are ballers but are not leaders. They need a Draymond on that team to direct them in the right direction but the nonsense that Kyrie says would ruin that dynamic.
Kyrie still was the only player to score a field goal in last 5 minutes of the Finals.
Kyrie isn’t a winner? So tell me how Cleveland wins that championship without him? People love coming up with these dumb takes.
@@amanahmed705 what has he done without LeBron, he rode Lebron's coattail to a ring and the very next year LeBron got back to the Finals without him.
And KD need *TWO* once in a generation type talent/shooter dudes to do anything. And he been in that situation *THREE* times. And he's gotten something done from it *ONCE*
@@williamphillips3035 lebron joins superstars on the regular, so there's that. But yeah KD is a choke artist tho
Breaking News: I love to see talk about Kyrie Irving. See, I don't like Mr. I can't show up and play Irving myself but I can't articulate my thoughts like Stephen A. He is our black genius
Let’s be real here guys, his fault or not this season was ridiculous for this team. Zero team building.
hugging and singing kumbaya!!!😂😂😂
But it’s not Kd fault… this guy is straight clown
I’d say it’s both with maybe slightly more of the blame going to Kyrie. Dude just wasn’t there and had the tendency to act like he’s the smartest person in the room
I love Steven A. After they got their money… love how you clarify that. Earning your money!!! Well said.
The nets have 3 weak minded individuals who are also injury prone. The nets have no shot next year as well.
N the owner has confidence in Nash
Love the way SAS sounds like a professional wrestling manager during a heated interview. 🤣
I hope the next cba screws these type of players so bad. Players like Kyrie need to understand that one you sign a contract with a team, you are their PROPERTY. He needs to sit up, dribble and say yes masta to the coach
Stephen A mad cause he can't take off😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀
If you believe Stephen A Smith, you'll believe anyting. lmao
You’re seen in Cuba too SAS ☺️🔥🔥
KD x Kyrie aka “Robin x Robin” not winning anything
Steven A's energy when talking about Kyrie & Ben Simmons cracks me up man😅😅😅😂
Stephen A. Smith trying his best to backtrack about him picking and predicting the Nets are the favorites to Win it All, now he's talking smack
Exactly!
You’re surprised????
I knew this was going to happen
"What appals me is I have to sit up here and talk about another brother"..No you don't. lol You literally go out of your way in every way possible to talk about Kyrie irving. I'm starting to think they had a personal beef at some point.
He is calling him out because these guys will affect way more ,”brothers” in years to come
Facts, brothers stop playing with these people..y'all don't make y'all own money so respect these owners.
Ok people let’s move on to another topic and get off kd and Kyrie meat. Let discuss the fact that the 76ers potential being the first team ever to blow a 3-0 lead in sports
Nope .. keep that same Energy with Others not getting it done
Nope..they deserve this, they ain't getting a pass
it's 3-2, not 3-3
SAS is funny as heck 😂 😂 his takes are always the best! “The brother is box office” 😂 😂
None of the NBA players are worth "Millions" to watch play a child sport. No sports athletes deserves that
It might seem like the world is ending for the Nets but they have one more chance to make it right. They’ll get Simmons back and Joe Harris back next year. Those are huge additions. A couple FA signings and they’ll be really good. I bet they’ll open the season as the favorites to come out of the East.
KD was also smiling after the game so what's your point , Stephen A Smith?
His point was Kyrie ain’t a winner
@@ohh2752 then keep the same energy with KD..he was also all smiles and hugs with them Boston players
@@pm_thesportsexpert5529 yeah, they both idiots lol. whats YOUR point?
Let’s talk about them pelicans
If I was the Nets I would just rebuild at this point, trade both.
- KD has proved over and over again that he's not that guy, dude is a good scorer but he's a horrible leader and can't lead a team to a chip.
- Kyrie is just not worth the trouble. He's never available and brings so many issues.
- Not to mention that none of them have that drive to win, they just don't care, specially Kyrie
I hope this and last year's playoffs serve to show who was the actual best player and leader in GSW. KD needed Steph and Klay, not the other way around.
Perk looking like a bloated Malcom X
1️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses not to play, Nets keep on losing...
....Nets make the playoffs as a low seed team
2️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses again not to play, Nets keep on losing...
...Harden gets frustrated and asks for a trade
3️⃣Kyrie coming up with stuff not to play complete games on playoffs...
...Nets lose and get eliminated
⚠️Kyrie is a little childish drama queen⚠️
I watch from Africa Stephen A. This is a World Wide show
Don’t get politically correct just do your job and say it like it iz
SAS has been talking that talk the last two days. Not one lie was told.
😂😂😂😂 man this is crazy how he’s going in on Kyrie but not KD everyone knew Kyrie wasn’t playing before the vaccine . Even last night KD went 13-31 , the game before that 4-17 or something like that 😂😂 keep that same energy y’all give Bron crazy how KD and others get A pass so much but yet they wanna call him the best player he couldn’t even get 1 game ..
Poor Nets Smh!!!
Kyrie was exposed. He wanted no part of Marcus Smart. So much for all that skill…
You mean how he dropped 39 on marcus smart then they adjusted defensively to put more help on kd and kyrie?? That marcus smart ?
@@kyreegarrett1669 I mean how Marcus Smart turned on the clamps and the last 3 games Kyrie was a non factor.
@@jaythefifth Kyrie was hungry during the game. Kyrie was fine during game 1 cause that was the only early game they played.
I’m not sure we watching the same game lol multiple switches and doubles on kyrie and kd. Yeah marcus smart really clamped him 😭
@@kyreegarrett1669 I guess we did. Of course there were switches. But when Marcus Smart guarded him, he either passed or took a bad shot that usually missed.
I gotta work soon though Stephen A.!
Who blamed Westbrook or AD for not making the playoffs? The blame was on a 37 year old Lebron who has already given the lakers a championship ring.. when it comes to KD, his teammates get attacked
Man is actually a legend, what a break while making big bucks
Come on Stephen A you mad at Kyrie for being happy for the young Celtics he groomed, but had no problem with Durant laughing and joking with Tatum down 2-0 on route to getting blown out during the series on the court 🤦🏽♂️
Jaimee Foxx called him out
Kyrie down bad since thinking he was better off leaving LeBron…
They both won nothing since they played together.
@@MrGenexxx What lebron won with and without
@@MrGenexxx keep lying to yourself
@@SSJRome lmaooo what are you talking about Lebron won a chip with the lakers
@@khalilscott3921 i know that it’s the mrgenexxx guy saying they both won nothing
Ben and Kyrie don't want to show up to work enough to build a dynasty with kd 😂😂😂
Respect Kyrie for standing up for what he believes in. Basketball don't mean SH** in the real world!
That's some dumb shut. 16 million more could do a lot in the real world. Grow up.
if it doesnt mean anything to him he shouldnt be playing
@@moensbruno bye bye tyrant!
Kyrie should retire and be a monk
They pay him to play ball not prove a point.
So now people can’t even smile? IT’S A GAME STEPHEN A.! My goodness.
One thing is for sure: The Kyrie/KD "Most-Skilled-Duo" debate is officially over, and it seems utterly laughable now that a couple of weeks ago it was a legit topic.
Says you? Lmao Actual HoF players made that statement, and lebron and wade cosigned lol. An opinion of some random nobody I'm sure has zero weight in that conversation 🤣💀
Oh shut up, no one cares what you think champ 😂
@@alexsalazar309 the most skilled duo of all time would never get a swept. End of discussion
@@trellmills2963 again some nobody stating this means nothing. The greats and their peers have spoken lol. Your just bitter, but thats not my problem lol🤷♂️
This is sport man ..
Kyrie became hero for some of the most ignorant people on the non-flat planet. I hope watching Kyrie fail hurts so bad for them
Facts
Imagine if unvaxed, selfish, buffoon, Kyrie Irving had gotten vaxed, the nets would've been a high seed and would've gone to nba finals. Now, the nets are eliminated😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
yes
Not eliminated, swept.
Cleveland A said the series was going 7 games, best not to talk with such certainty if you don’t know the future
The EARTH is TRIANGLE!!!
●KD from OKC to GSW to Nets
●Harden from Houston to Brooklyn to Philadelphia
●Kyrie from Cleveland to Boston to Brooklyn
Last 3 season:
1st season = 1st round exit
2nd season = 2nd round exit
3rd season = 1st round exit
> KD + Harden = No Kyrie
> KD + Kyrie = No Harden, Simmons
> Kyrie + Harden = No KD
1st season = KD injured for entire season
2nd season = Spencer Dinwiddie injured for entire season
3rd season = Joe Harris injured for entire season
Kendall Jenner
from Blake Griffin
to Ben Simmons
to Devin Booker
KD and Kyrie went from being Batman and Robin to Cheech and Chong.
EVERYBODY GOT PAID
Remember when people were saying Kyrie had the Mamba Mentality lol
All lies and the celtics exposed him.
Only owner and GM can say “manage the franchise”. Players, no matter how great they are, are employed by the franchise to work FOR franchise, not manage. Try going to work next morning telling your boss “you will manage the franchise” and see what they say.
kp’s face 😭😭😭😭
Celtics fans and the media aren’t acknowledging they been missing Joe Harris since the beginning of the season (better shooting percentage then Patty Mills, beat Curry in the 3pt contest) and the fact Aldridge was a big part of the team but his heart murmur slowed him down way too much
Isnt that the NBA nowadays though, same with the NFL. Players are basically all friends now and go home with their check and thats it.