 it has become official just moments ago the Nets and the Kyrie era is over Kyrie headed to Dallas we're going to take a look at the statement right now from Sean Marks now that the trade is official the Nets acquiring Spencer Dinwiddy Dorian Finney Smith and draft compensation for Irving we're excited to add Spencer and Dorian to our roster while also securing draft compensation that will increase our flexibility moving forward Spencer is a dynamic multi-talented guard we are very familiar with from his previous stint in Brooklyn Marks continues Dorian is an experienced wing who brings perimeter shooting and defensive versatility to our group together the two players will fit seamlessly with our roster and provide the team with proven veteran talent now Frank there is so much to get into so many layers to this and we certainly are going to dive into the impact of those two players and what they might bring to Brooklyn also interesting that there was no part of the statement that thanked Kyrie for his time nor should there have been but sometimes there is in these circumstances but let's start with Kyrie Irving Frank because this has obviously been a tumultuous era it is officially over just your thoughts on it finally coming to an end and it's really been an incredible I think it's about 76 hours the news came down about two o'clock on Friday then of course they played the next night and we sat here on Saturday and you were doing the game and you really thought from everything that you had heard and doing some research yourself that you know what he probably was had played his last game for the Brooklyn Nets and of course the trade becomes final today went down yesterday I think for the Brooklyn Nets so many things that happened over the course of Kyrie's tenure and Ryan you know how it works Kyrie Irving has been great the last two months he has played as well as any player in the league so I get it from his standpoint going to the team and saying all right I've proven I could be a great player pay me and the Brooklyn Nets saying well hold on a second what about the three the three previous years and I think the big numbers here are games played and the games missed I think it's 156 games or seven games played 142 missed that's a lot and I think with Kyrie Irving I think the one thing everyone could agree on two things unbelievably talented there's no question about it but with Kyrie there was always something and what did that something lead to missing games the reason you're getting paid the money you're getting paid the reason they brought you here to Brooklyn was to play and try to win a championship for me he just missed too many games I think the Nets said you know what enough is enough he doesn't want to be here anymore let's move on the interesting thing to Frank is we've heard a lot of people say like well you know for those who would defend Kyrie in this circumstance it's a business decision I don't see how this is still a good business decision for Kyrie Irving it felt like and we saw he was building his value back up right because the Nets got a whole lot more right now than they would have got for him in the summer or earlier this year when he was suspended but it really felt like the best way for him to maximize his dollars was going to be to continue to play great basketball to be on his best behavior instead while he's playing great while the team's winning while they're a contender he pulls the rug out underneath the season and by the way can't even get the contract that he supposedly wanted with the Nets he legitimately logistically cannot get it he could sign a two-year extension that's it it looks like Dallas is going to wait till the off season anyway so that's what I'm confused about Frank wouldn't everything that's transpired here make teams even more reticent to give Kyrie a long-term deal I think you've nailed it and I think if you go back to last June when he was going to opt into his contract or not sign the contract and he understood the market that no one was going to give him the big money after what had happened the previous season so he opts into his contract and I think all along if he wasn't going to play for the Brooklyn Nets I think he wanted to go to the Lakers and maybe here he thought the Lakers would make a run at him and perhaps they did but the Brooklyn Nets have to look out for themselves and by the way the plan I know we're going to get into this the players I got back are going to help and they get a first round draft pick back so if I'm Kyrie Irving and I don't go to the Lakers or LA or maybe even Phoenix the team that I wanted to go to and now I'm leaving my hometown from West Orange New Jersey he grew up a net fan he's got his whole family here now you're going to be getting on a plane you're going to be playing with the Dallas Mavericks to your point without the assurances that you're getting a long-term contract I really think he overplayed his hand and the other part about it is and this was the thing that really struck me he was great the last two months the game that he had against Utah the 48 points and you know two nights later he goes for 38 against the Golden State Warriors and Steph Curry the best player in the court that night he looked happy you saw him at games his family was around he's going to press conferences son is on his lap it's a durable thing for the first time since I can remember there was a sustained period of Kyrie Irving where all we were talking about was Kyrie Irving the basketball player and how well he was playing and then what happened things might have been something going too smoothly and all of a sudden he wanted to be out he's out now to a team which I don't care anybody says that would this was not number one on his list by any stretch of imagination maybe it was honestly on his list but further down I don't think he got what he wanted I don't know if he's going to get what he wants in terms of a long-term contract see that's what's so amazing is I think you know he had been playing so well and the team had been playing so well that you start to think like okay maybe in the offseason this this is something you should seriously think about another extension with him keeping him here and then the way this goes down reminds you exactly why that would have been a massive mistake because when everything's quiet when everything's going well that's when Kyrie Irving strikes that's when something has to go wrong and look human beings are complicated Kyrie Irving does a lot of incredible charitable things he has changed so many people's lives in the best way as possible but he also has been remarkably destructive to multiple NBA franchises including this one and Frank if you look at when people talk about all the mess of the last few years his fingerprints are on every move that's gone wrong somehow was the derivative of Kyrie Irving's behavior and if you remember too he and Kevin Durant only played 74 games together and everyone knew that first year Kevin Durant was not going to be available Kyrie only played 20 that year and when all is said and done it was one playoff series victory that year I did think they were the best team in the league obviously injuries were part of it but injuries are always a part of it for a lot of teams it was a problem last year for the Milwaukee Bucks just like it was for the Brooklyn Nets the thing about Kyrie is you know there were some games this year the game that he had against Phoenix where he wasn't betting a stats at the end he brought them back they were down by a lot and he made it a one possession game then they go to Utah he has the unbelievable performance there was a game last weekend's Philadelphia he was getting it done on the defensive end and he led them in a comeback the following night he's playing a back-to-back game and it never looked like the Nets were going to have a chance to win that game he played all but 41 seconds in the second half and I'm thinking myself this guy is a different guy I know why he's doing it yeah I know he wants to get a contract he wants to prove hang on a second everyone in this league is getting paid what about me but I think he had to take a step back and I think the advice he needed to get was yes that's your point of view you have to look at it from the Nets point of view what's gone on here you just haven't played enough game so two months has been fantastic 12 game winning streak they look like a championship contender once they get Kevin Durant back but yeah he I think maybe feelings were hurt he was insulted but I don't think he was being fair when he looked at it from the Nets standpoint yeah and and so after you know the tantalizing talent and and some really great play over the last couple of months the Kyrie Irving era in Brooklyn is officially over plenty more on this throughout the show as far as the Kyrie angle goes now