 Dallas also the net players at the net Scott from Dallas had a press conference in Brooklyn, but let's listen to Kyrie He said that he felt disrespected at times in Brooklyn Hardwood I do no one ever talks about my work ethic though everyone talks about what I'm doing off the floor So I just want to change that narrative write my own story and just continue to prepare the gym And now that I'm Dallas just focus on what I can control like I said You know always gonna be close with those guys in Brooklyn just like I'm close with guys in Boston It's like close to guys in Cleveland. I don't even I don't even want to break down what he says anymore because I think he's full of it Listen, they don't respect my work. I think you played half the games when you were there They're at the games. There's exactly There's exactly One thing he can be referring to in any real way The only thing he can be referring to is that supposed list that they gave him The things he had to do in order to sort of bend the knee to the organization, right? That to me is the only ground that I believe He could stand on Realistically where I could say you know what that was a bit much. It was heavy-handed didn't look good for the Nets We all said that at the time we all thought that looked bad and wasn't the play beyond that how the Nets could have Disrespected him. I don't understand. It's the joke. I say about Michael You know if you're not bowing at the older Michael you're disrespected him and I think that's where he's at Where if you're not celebrating him agreeing with him 100% for everything that he stands for and everything he does Then you don't get it. You're disrespecting him and Even if you were on board, let's say you're a general manager of an MBA team and you 100% supported Him for the vaccine and you 100% supported him walking away because of social justice and backed him and Believed him that he didn't mean to retweet the book Don't you look at it and say I can't completely get behind a guy that's gonna play 50% of the games That's all it really comes down to right so Kyrie you have a work ethic We've said it nauseam how talented a player you are but you played in 55% of the games Isn't that what it's about? Availability Here he is. He was it was followed up by a reporter. Well, how did the nets disrespect you? I think that's another day where I could really go into detail about it I'm not the person to really speak on names and go to someone behind their back and try to leak stuff to the media That's never been me Now I've been an audience member watching people say things about me That ultimately just fall off my shoulder really in a place I'm grateful that I got to grow I got to grow into Over the last year and a half two years spending time away from the back of the basketball court gave me time to really appreciate life in the way and I just know I need healthy boundaries, especially in this entertainment business There's a lot of disrespect that goes on with people's families with their names and I'm just not with it So it's not personal against any of those guys against in the front office. It's just what I'm willing to accept And I took a chance and luckily, unfortunately the house mavericks picking me up So it's just all what I can control. He just talks in verbal stews Yeah, he's because he throws as many words out there that don't make any sense when they're put together And he want he he wants to be mysterious because he's smarter than us and that's exactly what he's doing Well, and he's also I think He's so nebulous on it all right, so let's say you're a fan of Kyra You can go wow the Nets must have really disrespected them They disrespected his family, but he didn't mention any names. We don't know if it's true or not That I think he was talking about the media disrespecting his family and his How did the Nets Well because it's because his stepmom's his agent Well, you know what the way that a lot of athletes way respect is whether or not you pay them He wanted four years a hundred and ninety five million and then that said no That's what it comes down to but unfortunately that can't be the reason Michael because the public narrative wouldn't support him It was just about the money so he's got to throw out how he was Disrespected and leave little hints like his family was disrespected. I'm not gonna name names So maybe somebody specifically in that organization Disrespected him beyond the contract or we don't know if any of it's true or not But it's stuff that fans of Kyrie can gobble up yeah as evidence To support him and say boy the Brooklyn Nets did him wrong the Brooklyn Nets did everything for this guy They they didn't let him I mean the Brooklyn Nets made a big mistake when they laid down when when there was the vaccine rule in New York City They said well We're not gonna have to play half the games and then when they didn't get off to a good start They capitulated and let them play games on the road. That was stupid They didn't handle that well, and it's not the Brooklyn Nets fall It was a it was a New York City ordinance not a Brooklyn Nets ordinance. So what did he want the Brooklyn Nets to do? He is always the victim Always he never does anything wrong. It will end poorly in Dallas. He'll go to the Lakers It'll end poorly there. This guy is not a happy ending guy It's always going to be a situation where something went wrong, and he was the victim He's always the victim. He's never the reason Everybody else is wrong. He's never wrong because he's smarter than us He went to Duke probably for half a semester, and he's smarter than us We can't understand because he's above us mentally. So I can't I really can't get behind What he's saying because I don't understand him. I'm not that bright Peter. I'm done I'm kind of done dealing with like discussing what he says. It's all such a troll My ire now is turned towards will anyone from this organization who's left here? From Sean Marks to Josiah to any of the players will anyone know step up and be like oh god We're happy to be a done with it because they have the tiptoe around not taking off Durant It was still his still his buddy But Katie's gonna be offended now if someone says hey Hey is the guy who really if he wants to further burnish his reputation should come out and say Kyrie was wrong about a lot of this Stuff but Katie's gonna be on Kyrie's side because they didn't give Kyrie the money Kyrie has some kind of hold over KD. I don't know what it is Believe me rich climbing He could call up if he says I'm wrong. He wanted Durant to play for the Knicks He had a dream of being the next GM rich climbing wanted to be Leon Rose So he wanted Kevin Durant with the Knicks But Kyrie convinced him now. Let's make it happen in Brooklyn. They made it happen. Okay They they almost single-handedly mostly Kyrie brought down a franchise brought down any equity the franchise had With the city with the NBA players with the culture that they were building they they They capitulate to every one of the demands starting with firing Kenny Atkinson following up by bringing in Steve Nash a neophyte as coach to drive a Lamborghini And the first time they showed any guts is when they got rid of Nash But that was something that Durant wanted too Because remember he said I want the GM and the and the coach fired for me to come back Josiah said no But seven games in they did get rid of the coach and they bring in Jack Vaughn who seems like he really has a good feel for this But it says all the right thing But I do think you know getting back to the availability thing Would it be so wrong for the Nets to not kill Kyrie just say listen What were we supposed to do he play 55 of our games? Sorry, we need somebody who's going to be available to us 24 7 we appreciate his talents We appreciate all the things that he contributes financially off the court His heart's in a good place But we're trying to build a champion here and we just can't do it with the guy that's going to play half the game But you know what Kyrie would say I was forced to miss half the games last year because of vaccine That wasn't on me and I'm I wasn't taking the vaccine for anything because who was it yesterday that we had on Jay Williams said that they offered him a fully guaranteed contract. He took the vaccine. He said no So I give him credit for that. Yeah turned out a lot of money. He said no, I'm not going to do it But then he'll say okay, I can play half the game. So that that that brings it up to about 60 percent then I got suspended for eight games because it's something that I thought was not such a terrible thing to do But it was wrong about that. Sorry, but and then he said I walked away because of social Injustice in the country and that's on me all the time. I hurt my shoulder He is an excuse for everything right, but like Peter said so eloquently yesterday If one or two things you can buy it, but it always seems to happen to him Why it's just so many there's just too many things and for whatever the reason good bad or indifferent. I just need you available Yeah, the circumstance of the vaccine for unfortunate the shoulder injury was unfortunate The social justice thing I get the retweet. I don't get well. That's four things right there And that's not all of them and that's not all of them. Absolutely not all of them I'm just like I'm just at a point now where I'm I'm sick after all these months on the air in this market Particularly where we talk about a lot because not only did everyone talk about the story, but it's a local story Like I've given him the benefit of the doubt. I know it sounds like we're hard on him I've actually repeatedly you've bent over backwards to try to be that guy dude. I tried After he literally retweeted a movie That if you watched it for seven minutes Or read the description of it You will be very very It's very clear that it's playing on anti-semitic tropes like really basic anti-semitic tropes There's a a misquoted hitler quote in there. This is not hard stuff. And by the way to be clear he said that he He said that he read the book. I believe and watched the film. Okay, so it's not as if he didn't have any idea I still said hey, he apologized. It's enough. Let's move on And I am not the only jewish person who said that many people were like, you know what? Don't brow beat the guy. Don't try to prove a point. Let's move forward And at every step trying to move forward, he makes it impossible And you realize when you hear him talk and what he's saying right now, it's all nonsense It's all nonsense. You know what it is. It's like a lot of things in this country. It's a grift He's a grifter He goes from one place to the next to suck up the money and move on to the next thing And at the same time martyr himself in each place and there are people good people who somehow buy into it And like oh, I feel for him. Everyone goes after him. You know why people go after him? Because he says ridiculous and offensive things It's unbelievable. It's hard to defend him and we're not even gonna try so