 February 9th, 2023 the deadline has been hit three o'clock you can't trade anybody after this if a deal was put into the NBA offices it can certainly be announced later on but no more discussions put your pencils down the test is over and there have been some major moves obviously but the biggest one is while you were sleeping Kevin Durant was traded to the Phoenix Suns and that stops and caps a five-year period in that's history that really never existed think about it Durant Irving Harden three of the greatest players in NBA history and they got one playoff series win out of it they are right back to where they were before the big two came and then before Harden was acquired in a trade from the Rockets that's it they have a lot of draft picks they got it they have a good young team don't think the Nets have hit rock bottom they're not getting won by Anna they're not doing that they're not going to miss out on the playoffs they'll probably be a play-in team they've got a decent team but they are right back to where they were before all of this started when they had a decent team and they were 42 and 40 and Kenny Atkinson was the coach that's it this five-year period will be a laughing stock in all of sports history when they look at what the Nets did and the quality of players that they brought in and now they have nothing they let two guys completely demolished five years of their existence think about it two guys two guys and I think the biggest laughing stock in all of this and I've been listening to all the shows today and this has not come up the biggest laughing stock to me is Kevin Durant Kevin Durant was led by his nose by Kyrie Irving who completely single-handedly demolished the Brooklyn Nets and everything they stand for and Kevin Durant went along for the ride like a little lamb when he could have stayed in Golden State and picked up we know at least one more championship probably two or three and his reason for coming to Brooklyn he and Kyrie wanted to do something special together well you know what he wanted to go to Phoenix and now he's gonna join another team with a lot of stars and he left the team with better stars and better players to do something that never happened and Kyrie Irving made him look like a complete fool a complete fool he might win a championship in Phoenix but what happened five years of his career one because of an injury the other four years completely wiped away because he followed a guy down the primrose path and what did that guy do the guy did nothing but really submarine everything that the Nets tried to do including the hardened situation the reason harden demanded a trade was because of Kyrie Irving and and you know what Kevin Durant stood back and let it happen he was so docile throughout all of this he never said anything publicly and the second they traded Kyrie he obviously told Nets management I want to go as well laughing stock laughing stock he's a laughing stock and the Nets where the way this was mishandled and I think they've recovered nicely guys because I don't think it's a terrible trade that they made with Phoenix but they have no chance to win a championship and they probably won't have a chance to win a championship until they take some of the draft picks they got and trade for big-time player which is where it starts all over again five years ago it's stunning it will be studied in classes in all sports on what not to do and how not to give the players that much power when you already acquire them now did they get it wrong trying to build the super team no did they just get the wrong players I think they got the wrong players I think they just got the wrong players now listen you want to do it the right way whatever the right way may be but it just seems like you draft well you make true trades and you build a championship team you try to take the easy way out and usually get slapped but the thing that keeps circling back to is is that they just got the wrong players you know Kyrie's an issue and KD it's just I don't know if I can come up with another comparable this is one of the top five players in the NBA this is one of the greats of all time and he's being led by by a lesser player so like I don't understand how you you you're not the alpha male in the relationship you're not the alpha male on the team people should be wanting to play with Kevin Durant following him around instead he seems to follow everybody else I'll go to Golden State and I'll win oh I'll go hitch my wagon to Kyrie never at least publicly never criticize the guy never went public to say how he ruined your chances of winning a championship in Brooklyn you know and then slinks out the Phoenix and we'll see how it ends up going from there but God what an alpha dog on the court but just not much leadership or really any kind of resolve at all from Durant really soft yeah I don't even know what to say at this point it's the whole thing is so disappointing and embarrassing I suppose there's a world I'm sure we'll hear from someone today at least someone will call up and defend this and say that the you know we don't understand and the nets were horrible and all of this and I'm not saying the nets were perfect because I think they made some mistakes along the way but by and large it truly is one of the great disappointments of all time and man when you think about the the the years wasted on Durant's career for like you're right Michael like when when we one day when he goes to the Hall of Fame is a first bowed Hall of Famer because Don this is a guy and Kevin Durant he could be a top 10 player whoever lived okay we when we're looking at his ledger when he goes into the Hall of Fame five years after the the day of his last game we will look at this period and go what was that again oh yeah that nonsense and you're gonna skip over it and man most people aren't LeBron James they don't play for 20 years you can't afford to miss four years with nonsense that's what happened here it is exactly what happened he frittered away five years of his prime now the Achilles is nothing he could do Golden State wanted him back so he decided to hitch his wagon to a lesser player a guy who obviously has issues which he never it seems addressed with him and he let the team be systematically destroyed by one man and I don't think you could blame Sean Marks as Don said how could you blame anybody any GM or owner of an NBA team would have taken a swing with Durant and Kyrie Irving now I think where Sean Marks made the mistake was that was a James Harden situation and James Harden was a really he was painted as the really bad guy who wanted out of Houston and then all of a sudden wanted out of Brooklyn but you know what he got it he wasn't going to put up the nonsense like Durant he got it that Kyrie was really the guy behind systematically destroying what they were trying to build he wanted out right away he knew I'm not gonna stand here and be led by this lesser player I'm not gonna do it so now in retrospect to me Harden doesn't like a bad guy hard looks like a guy with some foresight and some intestinal fortitude which Kevin Durant never had Harden said get me out of here now Kevin Durant continued continued to like bow down to Kyrie Irving it's ridiculous I'll never understand it and he cost himself two or three rings he could have easily survived and thrived in Golden State with better players and a guy like Steph Curry who is complete opposite of Kyrie Irving and then Kyrie Irving yesterday he scores 24 points when Dallas beats the Clippers in LA and after the game after the I'm so glad for Durant to get out of there shut up Kyrie and he also said now they were both in the West Conference we'll get a chance to see each other see each other you play together you could have seen each other every single day God if you didn't know any better you just think that like KD owed Kyrie a favor or something like just it's just weird like what's the backstory of not only following this guy to Brooklyn but just like never showing any leadership whatsoever during any of the stuff that was going on at least publicly and I don't think anything was happening privately either very weird and just a shame now Brooklyn goes back to what they were very good general manager they're both a good team you know they may not be as relevant as they were during this whole thing but really the relevance it was all just knocking them and making fun of them and not living up to expectations so the go go back to obscurity but you know what I think at the end of the day they'll probably have a better chance to win now as crazy as that is to say all fans want is a little honesty from Durant stop singing the praises of Kyrie Kyrie was the guy who destroyed this so the big three that they got they had three of the best players think about that in NBA history on the team I believe they played 16 games together 16 games were all three are on the court they were 13 and 3 they're 13 and 3 so it could have worked oh yeah except for the egos and the strangeness of Kyrie Irving hard and recognize it and Durant was the supplicant here he just laid back and said well whatever you want to do you're like you're the boss you're the boss you're the great one of the greatest prayers of all time you're gonna fit a second to LeBron and point scored in NBA history and you're letting this guy lead you down the primrose path it's amazing to me