He's always had those quips

*fucking career 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣whole day

Classic Russillo 😂

Hakeem did it in the 90s and won 2 championships

@@MJ-yf2zz I was gonna say! He even said he played better

@@MJ-yf2zz Amen. Not saying it is an easy thing but you got to change up the routine and make the adjustments.

Depends on the individual. I wouldn’t recommend fasting all day to most people.

@@deifiedtitan not at all lol. I would never.

No real coach can deal with 3 head cases like this. Simmons may quite basketball altogether

@@d3vp131 I don't think Kevin's a headcase. Or at least compared to Simmons and Kyrie. Those 2 are on a whole other level.

@@coldwinter5428 Yeah this is unfair to KD. I think KD ran into father time and a great defensive squad this series. I think Kyrie is a head case and Simmons an even bigger one. I know, hot take there.

@@David-iv6je exactly. Bill Simmons I think is right. Kevin's in year 15 and has been injured quite a bit for a 7ft guy. Like you're saying I think Father time along with playing to many minutes hit him in the face this series. Kyrie at least wants to play basketball. Simmons appears to want to just collect paychecks. Kyries a headcase and theres not even a word to describe Simmons.

@@coldwinter5428 For a long time now I've been amazed that a guy as thin as KD can not get hurt more than he has been. And is an athlete ever the same after an Achilles tear? At 15 years? What's truly amazing is how elite KD was last year (and playing in the Olympics). If he's running down no judgement from me!

Great point - goes to show that you shouldn’t mix business with friendships

Good point. I had forgotten about Kenny Atkinson. was a good coach that got rudely fired after having a good record building up the Nets.

This was always gonna be a disaster. Don't know why people ever thought differently

@@bmon85ify Yep! I remember one of the first press conferences when they were asked why they picked the Nets and they couldn’t offer any explanation. Then they chose Nash, someone with no coaching experience, and the excuse was that they don’t need a coach. It’s USA Basketball from the mid-2000s all over again, thinking if you just get a bunch of talent guys, it will automatically translate to winning.

this is an overlooked point. They traded all their grit character guys for divas, that has to fall on Marks or whoever the GM pulling the string is!

I always thought the harden trade was overkill they had Kyrie KD and an amazing team around them. I was especially mad when Kyrie got Kenny Atkinson fired which NOBODY talks about

But Kyrie wasn't the one asking to be traded, Harden was.

KD would’ve vetoed that potential trade though. Not only is Kyrie like his basketball best friend but I don’t think he’s even nearly as cool with Harden so I think there’s very little chance he would’ve been okay with that trade. And the last thing the Nets want is to have KD be unhappy, unless they want to blow it up.

Every bit of it is contrived and manipulation. Klutch Sports baby LeBron must be coaching him personally because nobody does contrived and manipulation like he does

okc won't trade for him now

And then the Nets will be a lotto team for the next 5+ years. They wont do that. But they do nees to do better business if their goal is to win it all

Smh... so true lol

Denied!

Embarrassed on your yacht and G6?

I don’t think you realize how much these owners are making. They don’t give a damn about none of that stuff, as long as they selling out arenas every night

@@Geeandrezzi You might be right, I don't know. It might depend on the person and how they value their franchise as a property. It's kinda like having the dirtiest mansion on the block. I don't think Balmer or Cuban would want to allow their franchise to have these issues. I could be wrong though.

These "owners" get HALF of ALL the basketball related revenue that these players generate, and they don't do ANYTHING that actually drives ANY of this revenue. They have NOTHING to do with ticket sales, NOTHING to do with the day to day operations of the arenas, NOTHING to do with scouting talent, and NOTHING to do with coaching players on the court. They split BILLIONS of dollars of the entertainment revenue generated by the players yet have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the actual entertainment that is being created and performed.

It won’t. Hope you can sleep at night. And now it’s developing in the NFL.

@@DrPhill96 just wait until the next cba

This is the epitome of "(can't)have your cake and eat it too". It used to be (and still is everywhere else) that the money was the compensation and the "price" of you taking orders, even if sometimes those orders were garbage and you didn't like doing them. But now the players want the money and want to give the orders. By the way, the money is the most it's ever been by a huge degree. I remember in the mid 2000s for example, that the "max contract" type of players would make in the high teens (in millions) at the beginning of a deal and low 20s by the end. Like, starting at $17.5 million and four years later it's $21 million. That's how much the decent starter makes now! Bench players are making $15 mil a year! And then you have the supreme divas like Simmons, Harden and Kyrie making $40+ mil a year, and they want even more! Not just in terms of cash but in "say so". Sorry, but the money *is* the compensation; not more power in decision making. And these players run the risk of alienating *everyone* if they whine at the next CBA, talking about not being properly compensated. I love the NBA, but I absolutely hate "stars" like Harden, Simmons, Kyrie, Westbrook who feel as if no rules apply to them and get offended and angry about things in their job description like answering reporters after games and, I dunno, actually playing!

@@Jon.A.Scholt Agreed. For a long time now I've been saying that these players get paid too much. Even the superstars get paid too much. What on earth does a professional basketball player do that warrants giving them $40+ million in one year?! It's insanity.

@@rayquaza1245 - Collectively, both sides will still WIN. Guaranteed money means the players can hold out. In the NFL, the players fold. In the NBA, NHL and MLB - they don’t. 😏

Lebron also wanted AD, 1 ring, he also wanted Love, 1 ring 4 consecutive finals, and he called Wade and Bosh to join force, 2 rings 4 consecutive finals .. You can say what you want about Lebron, you don’t win every year, but he won a ring with every team he made. If he had that power before 2010 it would have been scary, imagine Lebron with just an old but experienced points guard like Jason Kidd, a beast like KG or just a good big like Stoudemire, young Bron was scary, it would have been over for the league, just like in the 2010´s.

@@Anthonydu01630 Pat Riley was still in charge in Miami, so that doesn't apply. Riley isn't doing something equivalent to the Westbrook deal to appease LeBron, the biggest thing he did was drafting Napier with the 24th pick. In LA he wanted Davis, but so did the Lakers, now LeBron helped that happen of course, but let's not pretend the Lakers weren't already thinking about him. When stars go full GM mode and start picking the roster is fails _way_ more than it works, we have way more evidence of this than it succeeding.

@@andrewshandle I don't like players playing GM but you are wrong about the AD trade, the only reason AD is in LA is because Lebron/Klutch

Right I’m waiting for the day he does something with a fan and I can just chop it up with the guy😂

Boston let Kyrie walk and look at them now lmao. Hopefully this series sets a leaguewide precedent to end the superteam era that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

kd will try to get himself traded if you trade kyrie

@@chay770 Good riddance then. Get as much as you can and send him on his way.

Kyrie threatened in the past that he would retire if the nets trade him. So other franchises are also reluctant because they don't know if he would even suit up for them.

@@suppenwerfboi4111 Which is why they should never give him another contract, unless they want to be stupid.

Never stuck team can always just buy out 😂 if he doesn’t play the first game next season he might as well retire he got more then enough money to survive on

Some here man. Though I am DEFINITELY an old guy.

Blame is inexperienced coach for allowing him to be on the sideline and having the organization to speak about it.

he is not picking his dress. designers and producers pay him money to wear their shit. You don't sound old, you sound out of touch. Basically you don't understand what's happening yet have a silly opinion.

@@Musa-al-Khwarazmi Ah, the assumptions baked into this judgemental comment. For example, you see no problem with this guy strutting around like a gaudy clothes horse on the bench with a team he has never played with? That screams tone deaf to me. Yeah, we get he has made himself into a billboard like actresses on the Oscars red carpet. Thanks for explaining the obvious. It is equally obvious that the guy thinks more about his brand and revenue streams than he does about the opinion of the league and the public. He is doubling down on his narcissistic image.

Muslim athletes who have been practicing the religion and fasting their entire lives don’t seem to have a problem. Karim Benzema had a hat trick the other day during Ramadan. At age 30, Kyrie chose this year, of all years, to begin practicing Islam. Kyrie also had all of those days off during the regular season, where he was ineligible for refusing to take the vaccine, to experiment with how fasting would effect his energy level and stamina. The guy is toxic. Kyrie weaponizes wokeness and uses religion and identity politics as a body shield so he can be a selfish prick. I’m honestly sick of his sh*t and I wish more ppl would call him out.

I never heard Kareem using Ramadan as an excuse in his 20 years of playoffs. And he went to the Finals 10 times.

Olajuwon won two chips and he was devout. I guess it’s more than that.

They desperately want Kyrie to shut up. These mfs always talk money and business to remove a person.

@@Musa-al-Khwarazmi Who wants Kyrie to shush? Kyrie is the reason he gets clap back off what he says and does. Lol nobody trying to cancel the dude but teams will question how much they can invest in him the more he publicly blasts his own shoe etc and continues to make everything about him. Selfish and narcissistic is where he stays. His choice but lets not try to twist it into some big conspiracy against the man

Kardashians are undefeated in destroying NBA players.

Include Dragic to the list who shit on Raptors and was unwilling to play because apparently playing for Raptors was beneath him.

Irving is not going to pick up his option. He wants a bigger contract and someone will give it to him; if not the Net owner/GM then some other fools.

They still do it. It’s on bill’s pod

Don’t play with my emotions like that..

Sixers really gonna loose 4 in a row and I’m not happy

Ultimate chaos 😎

@@ryanmctear5606 we won’t, chill.

@@k_hack9441 I hope your right I’m tryna remain positive but fuck they make it’s tough

KD is not a coward. That’s silly. He’s a great player who picked the wrong guy to team with. Kyrie, who is the most selfish athlete today. Simmons may never play again. If he’s that scared to not even show up for last game on the bench….

KD's a coward? Nah. Dude got old. Chuck had it right: he's only got energy to be great every other game in the playoffs and was being guarded by a young stud like Tatum. I actually feel sorry for KD: he got betrayed not once but twice. Most reports have Harden leaving because he was sick of Kyrie not showing up. Hey, it's one thing if your teammate is injured, but.... Let's take the positive: this year's playoffs is Tatum's coming out party as an elite player. Not just an all star, but one of the best few in the league.

@@d3vp131 when I first read it I thought you said that Durant is silly. You didn't but it still nailed it on the head. Durant is not a coward. He is fucking silly.

@@d3vp131 KD ran from OKC because he couldn't get it done. KD joined a 70 win team because he is scared of competition. KD tried to team up with 2 other over rated cowards in NJ. KD just got punked and dismantled by a young bull named Tatum. COWARD.

@@NoName-cn3cp he left OKC because he was sick of playing with Westbrook and his horrible in-game decision-making.

what a take

@@barryg9367 An awful, vanilla one at that.

Yea. true but they had too many things go wrong. Simmons didnt play at all. Kerr didnt use Cam or Kessler much against two great wing players and KD looks normal. Kyrie looked checked out

@@alxfonso4924 I was hoping Aldridge would’ve played too. I thought he could’ve made a bigger impact over Drummond

@@alxfonso4924 Kyrie fasting for 1r hours and eating a banana definitely played a part in how he looked out there. The original comment kind of negates most of what you said because if the team is rolling then the Harden trade likely doesn't happen and the team doesn't need shot creation (Cam) and probably keeps James Johnson or Bembry so don't need Kessler.

That was an absolute spot on assessment you delivered there sir, SALUTE!!!!!!

If you doing nonsense moves like that you may as well trade KD and start fresh.

That won’t happen it’s a collective bargaining agreement which means the players actually have to agree to it for it to even go into affect

@@thehottamale2910 these players know some of them not playing and getting paid purposely don’t make sense

I think such a clause will be very hard to write and even harder to enforce. But it's worth a try. BTW: This didn't start with Harden; it started with Anthony Davis.

@@JustAguy25548 again, the scale is high, but they're still employed by the owner of the team.

no the superstars are business partners for sure. Because of how much money they make. Kd being in Brooklyn or Lebron being in LA makes the team substantially more money than just being a regular basketbal team player would.

they are employed by the NBA.....

@@ballinwithkicks8436 they sign a contract with a team and are paid by the owner

@@alxfonso4924 their interests might sometimes align, but they still arent partners.

The Nets waived the physical I believe (so he didn't pass a physical.)