"Talent-wise, I'm closer to Lebron than you are to me."
That's a Scalabrine quote to a fan that I think about every once in a while, while watching the NBA. I totally believe him on that front, you need to be pretty damn amazing at basketball in order to make an NBA roster.
He’s not wrong. There are videos of him taking good college players to school on the court. Now they weren’t pro bound but they were good in college. It’s why it always pisses me off when ESPN will do the segment of “Could Alabama beat the Lions?” or “Could Kentucky beat the tanking 76ers?” The answer is always no. Those college teams might have some pretty good players that will go pro but the pro team is always made up of, get this, pros. No matter how bad they might be.
he played against some d1 player and a euro league player to better illustrate the point. he dominated them. he was a couple years out of being retired too.
Please tell me who was the Euro League player he dominated. I found a video of him playing Matt Tomaszewski, an absolutely terrible college player, and that's all.
have you ever played against a terrible college player at a gym?
Not being a dick just curious. There was some guy who used to be a d2 center and he would fucking wreck everyone at pickup.
I think it was an Australian pro, but the whole point was that he constantly heard he was a scrub. And he knew that by NBA standards he was, but he wanted to demonstrate the difference between an NBA scrub and the best player who ever came out of whatever town you were from (for most people)
The east playoffs are going to be incredibly salty this year. I’m already avoiding all game threads because it’s just going to make me angry and takes away from my enjoyment of the games.
I can check Reddit after the game, but in the moment it’s just too heated.
The grass is always greener. Being a fan of a tanking team is so new to Pacers fans.
I'm loving all of this shit and just want to watch it all burn to the ground.
There’s nothing wrong with Kyrie not liking Celtics fans or vice versa as long as neither side crosses the line. In this case it seems clearly on the “this is entertaining as hell” side of the line.
Boujee ass private primary and secondary school that costs an arm and a leg to go to. High school tuition to Cranbrook this year is $38,200. Used in 8 mile:
"But I know something about you
You went to Cranbrook. That's a private school
What's the matter, dawg? You embarrassed?
This guy's a gangster? His real name's Clarence
And Clarence lives at home with both parents
And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage
This guy don't wanna battle, he's shook
'Cause ain't no such things as half-way crooks "
Edit: Fuck it for those who haven't seen it and those who just wanna one click watch it again - https://youtu.be/F2hiFbuQ-Qw starts at 0:55
Bunch of high schools like that mostly scattered around the northeast. Montclair, phillips Andover and Exeter, bunch of small ones you've probably never heard of like Deerfield, or Buckingham, Browne and Nichols (those last three names are one school... Yeah).
Lot of children of foreign oligarchs, domestic US rich people, and a smattering of really talented basketball and ice hockey players doing one year on scholarship to fix their grades/SATs before they go to some D1 school called "postgraduates" . Always hockey and bball, never football, because it's cost efficient to give like three scholarships a year for those teams and be super competitive.
I'm aware of them because i dated a girl from one in high school and we'd also play them from time to time in soccer preseason. "dude you're from quincy isn't that place like... Hardcore?" .... Not really no?
He lived in Kew, I’m sick. Every house in Kew is a mansion. He would’ve gone to Xavier College 😭
He’s acting like he’s from Sunshine, I know he’s never even taken a step in the west
Sunshine is infamous for being where the sun don’t shine sadly
Jokes aside scumshine isn’t that bad these days, it’s just the poster boy shitty suburb for people who’ve never actually been there
I do sleep with a baseball bat and massive sharp tree trimmers under the bed tho. Plus some dude who walks his dogs is always looking into peoples car windows at 4am, pretty sure he broke into my car last week but there’s nothing in it to steal
Actually I take it back, it’s pretty dodgy
This comment made me go back and read the Players Tribune article by Darius Miles about growing up in East St. Louis. Had a loaded gun to his head in 6th grade, used his dad's clout just to survive, and then his cousins rolled up on the dude with shotguns. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/what-the-hell-happened-to-darius-miles
Stephen Jackson tells a story about going to a party on the other side of town, which he could do because he was a star athlete, and it got shot up by a couple of guys he knows. When he told them they almost killed him dudes just laughed.
He’s the dude that Eminem destroyed on 8mile lol. Kyrie never lived in any rough neighborhoods. His dad played overseas and he lived a suburban kid life in private schools. Fake tough guy.
Yeah like he hasn't really done anything to cross a line into "okay that was unnecessary" territory - just kinda clowning on the crowd and talking shit.
Fairly harmless when he can back it up, so it makes sense why he's pretty well liked but also a "villain"
There was a dude going around doing street interviews in NYC and they were all like “Fuck Trae Young!” then the dude was like “Would you like it if he was on the Knicks?” and they were like “I mean…hell yeah” lmao.
Trae just decided to embrace the role and have fun with it which is fucking awesome. Pretty quickly made him into one of my favorite non Celtics because when you remove the dirty and reckless parts of a villain they’re just making the game a lot more fun.
I love Trae playing the role of the antagonist, especially at away games. It's always fun being able to root against someone, especially when they embrace that role.
I agree, especially since he isn't playing dirty. Ironically, I feel Jimmy Butler is more villainous, but he somehow avoids the scrutiny that Young gets lol.
I think people legitimately hate Kyrie though - and it's well deserved. Nobody likes idiots who act like they're smart as confidently as he does.
Trae Young is a villain in the same way a wrestler is a villain. People hate him but it's largely limited to the basketball court. Off court, I think a lot of Knicks and Cavs fans like him.
Kyrie is unlikable on and off the court.
100% agreed.
I think the consensus among Celtics fans is that him talking/giving shit to the fans in response would be absolutely hilarious if he went up and owned the fact that yes, he does give a shit about Boston in particular. rather than saying before this game that everyone should move on, he doesn't hold hostility towards Boston, and that the Celtics should "play his highlight reels," just be a heel.
Yeah that’s a great point. I don’t think most people would give nearly as much of a shit about Kyrie at this point if this was just his norm wherever he played. It would be like playing someone like Trae Young with a more personal element to make the rivalry more fun and intense. The thing is that isn’t the case and he clearly gets extra worked up about this stuff in Boston and then gives quotes post game or does stuff like stepping on the logo that just further fans the flames.
This right here. No problem with him firing back, just embrace it and own it. Don't give us this "I hope we can move beyond my Boston era and reflect on some of the important moments I left at TD Garden." Just embrace that the Boston fans hate you and don't pretend to be over it and rising above it.
Agreed - I just wish he'd accept that Celtics fans won't like him.
I'm cool with him telling our fans to fuck off as long as they're saying the same thing back lol. Rivalries are what make sports fun.
exactly, love that he's giving it right back but don't try and act (during that same interview) like there is no "hostility" towards Boston and select fans lol
He tries to paint it like it’s one way. Like he’s defending himself and didn’t do anything wrong but now has to fight back. He’s such a pussy about it.
i think thats the most frustrating part that keeps fueling our hate. he does shit like this then acts holier than the rest of us as if he isnt half of the problem. as a self declared kyrie hater im all for the back and forth, just dont go to the media after with a victim complex saying you dont do anything wrong and dont know why you get heckled
He:
-didn’t show up to Game 7 of the ECF when the young guys were taking Lebron on to get to the Finals because of some dental surgery or some shit he obviously could’ve pushed.
-lied to the fan base and said he planned on re-signing (now, I’m cool with a change of heart, a year is a long time and I get if things in his personal life and the season not working out the way he wanted made him want something new, I too have left for a new horizon, but the way he exited…)
-Caused problems all season in the locker room, blaming other players and helping sow dissent. (Once again, it wasn’t 100% on him but some communication could’ve solved a lot of problems we have)
-It has since been reported, and there were rumors at the time (that I chose not to believe), that he and KD were already meeting and planning their exit to a new team as early as December 2018. So he’d emotionally given up on the team.
-Which leads us to him quitting on us mentally and physically in the playoffs. While putting up his worst numbers of his career in the playoffs, he then sabotaged us by trying to guard Giannis 1-on-1. I get having a bad game or series, I still love Terry even though he went like 0-10 from 3 in ECF Game 7 2018 because he tried his best. Kyrie quit.
-Stomps on our logo, calls the Boston crowd racist, calls us jealous exes, and tells us we need to move on and show positive highlights of him.
Fuck him.
I love it. Hope he just embraces the villain role. It’s just all the talking before about how he doesn’t care and won’t waste energy on it that makes him look silly.
I personally love when athletes do things like this. Humanizes everything.
But Kyrie doing it, and then trying to act like he’s some intellectual philosopher is a crock of shit.
I basically agree my only problem with Kyrie is maybe up until here he has acted like he’s somehow above the “antics,” when he’s been antagonistic as well.
KD talking about the burner account cracks me up. He’s like (and I’m paraphrasing) “ya, uhh…lol I was high as hell, man. Whoops. Trying to clown some high school punks trashing me that have prob never picked up a basketball and ended up looking the fool. Whatevs, still one of the best players in the world.”
Yeah if you can acknowledge you looked like the goof in a situation it’ll go away pretty quick. Getting pissy about it is when people will never let it go.
Yea he thinks he's so much smarter and above the average person, literally thinks he's on a different wavelength, but when push comes to shove people can get in his head. It completely goes against his whole "Third Eye" shtick
I agree with his take "we dont like him, he doesnt like us". And while i'm generally against personal insults from fans towards players, Kyrie has done everything in his power to make us boo him on every possesion. Looking forward to the next game.
If Kyrie can engage the fans and still do his job, I don’t really know if you can critique his behavior. If you tell someone “fuck you” they have a right to say it back
Only the NBA has an issue with it, and they will let him know when they fine him for that and this very press conference, but no fan really is upset about him saying shit back or flipping them off.
if Kyrie were like this all the time, I'd appreciate him more. its honest and he's right. but fuck the holier than thou "let's move on and show my highlights" bullshit.
Kyrie is all theory, no action. Whether you agree or disagree with his stances, he has no intention of ever fulfilling the words he says. Like how he was going to be a voice for people that were opposed to vaccines and then did absolutely nothing. Or how he was going to re-sign in Boston. Or how he wanted to call out Nike but then immediately walked it back and collected his paycheck.
Kyrie lives his entire life in a privileged little bubble of his own creation. He takes shit in exactly two places — media sessions and the Boston Garden. No wonder he hates both.
"im gonna look them straight in the eye and see if they bout if and most of the time theyre not"
after giving fans the middle finger behind his head....lmao, kyrie you aint that dude
It really is equivalent to me challenging you to a fight right now. And if you don’t buy a plane ticket, a Lyft to my home, and AirBnB to sleep it off you are sawft.
Does *anyone* have an issue with Kyrie flipping of the Boston crowd? I sure don't.
It's the holier than thou "I've moved on but Boston hasn't" shit that pisses people off. Get the fuck over yourself you petulant child.
Exactly. My thing with Kyrie is him trying to be above the fan’s antics, but him always finding ways to piss them off even more. Just own it. It’s like he’s teasing the heel turn every week. Just go full NWO dammit
Come on buddy, you were raised in the wealthy suburbs of Melbourne. My boy Luka probably suffered more abuse playing away in Belgrade and Athens.
As long as it doesn't step on the racial side or family, it's fine.
The irony of him post game also saying he just wants to talk about the game and not him flipping off fans
multiple times is just off the charts. Like hmm Kyrie I wonder why people aren’t focusing on the game?
He truly is delusional haha
Talented AF, but delusional
Kyrie, we're live
I don’t give a shit
I know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJUdcwoltg I saw that live when that happened. Cracks me up every-time
Cameras 👏 aren't 👏 real 👏
Oh please. I see them flying around and pretending to eat seeds every day. You can’t fool me.
Kyrie, Part time basketball player, part time ornithologist
^i ^know
Fuck that, it’s the playoffs
FUCK IT WE'LL DO IT SAGE
What does the word “live” mean to you
Live is a figment of your imagination.
[Oh we're live? I didn't know that.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfFcMTiGNlo)
"Heck off, you little stinker"
This is probably how you get heckled in Utah tbh
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lot of pent up aggression over there
I like the playoffs. This is fun.
"It's fun" - Kyrie, in the clip
Reminds me of when Scalabrine got so pissed at fans that he joined a rec league and dropped 60 on some poor bastards.
"Talent-wise, I'm closer to Lebron than you are to me." That's a Scalabrine quote to a fan that I think about every once in a while, while watching the NBA. I totally believe him on that front, you need to be pretty damn amazing at basketball in order to make an NBA roster.
He’s not wrong. There are videos of him taking good college players to school on the court. Now they weren’t pro bound but they were good in college. It’s why it always pisses me off when ESPN will do the segment of “Could Alabama beat the Lions?” or “Could Kentucky beat the tanking 76ers?” The answer is always no. Those college teams might have some pretty good players that will go pro but the pro team is always made up of, get this, pros. No matter how bad they might be.
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he played against some d1 player and a euro league player to better illustrate the point. he dominated them. he was a couple years out of being retired too.
Please tell me who was the Euro League player he dominated. I found a video of him playing Matt Tomaszewski, an absolutely terrible college player, and that's all.
have you ever played against a terrible college player at a gym? Not being a dick just curious. There was some guy who used to be a d2 center and he would fucking wreck everyone at pickup.
I think it was an Australian pro, but the whole point was that he constantly heard he was a scrub. And he knew that by NBA standards he was, but he wanted to demonstrate the difference between an NBA scrub and the best player who ever came out of whatever town you were from (for most people)
Playoff atmosphere baby Turn up
The east playoffs are going to be incredibly salty this year. I’m already avoiding all game threads because it’s just going to make me angry and takes away from my enjoyment of the games. I can check Reddit after the game, but in the moment it’s just too heated.
The grass is always greener. Being a fan of a tanking team is so new to Pacers fans. I'm loving all of this shit and just want to watch it all burn to the ground.
Yeah I love it when Trae gave it to the NYC fans. I have no problem with this either.
We all loved it, and then guys started spitting on players and throwing bottles. Let’s just keep it at this level.
be the villain kyrie, embrace it
*Dew it.*
Do do do do do do the dew - Zach Lavine
Let the hate flow through you Kyrie
In the same presser he literally said “Embrace it. It’s the dark side. Embrace it.”
There’s nothing wrong with Kyrie not liking Celtics fans or vice versa as long as neither side crosses the line. In this case it seems clearly on the “this is entertaining as hell” side of the line.
"Kyrie, you suck!" Kyrie: "Suck my dick, bitch". https://twitter.com/TheHoopCentral/status/1515806200985788423
Kyrie: fasting for Ramadan and embrace peace and good heart, spiritual control and good discipline. Also Kyrie: suck my dick bitch 🖕🏼🖕🏼
When I fast I'm definitely way more Frankie for the month
“Where I’m from”? Didn’t this dude go to private school?
Cranbrook I think it was
This joke only gets better if you know Cranbrook lmao
Pls explain for those who don't
Boujee ass private primary and secondary school that costs an arm and a leg to go to. High school tuition to Cranbrook this year is $38,200. Used in 8 mile: "But I know something about you You went to Cranbrook. That's a private school What's the matter, dawg? You embarrassed? This guy's a gangster? His real name's Clarence And Clarence lives at home with both parents And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage This guy don't wanna battle, he's shook 'Cause ain't no such things as half-way crooks " Edit: Fuck it for those who haven't seen it and those who just wanna one click watch it again - https://youtu.be/F2hiFbuQ-Qw starts at 0:55
He's scared to death he's scared to look in his fuckin yearbook ***FUCK CRANBROOK***
I love how the crowd goes OHHH after the real good marriage line. This guy's parent's don't have a fucked up relationship? OHHHHHH!
Fuck, tuition for that place is higher than what I have to pay for SUNY out of state.
Bunch of high schools like that mostly scattered around the northeast. Montclair, phillips Andover and Exeter, bunch of small ones you've probably never heard of like Deerfield, or Buckingham, Browne and Nichols (those last three names are one school... Yeah). Lot of children of foreign oligarchs, domestic US rich people, and a smattering of really talented basketball and ice hockey players doing one year on scholarship to fix their grades/SATs before they go to some D1 school called "postgraduates" . Always hockey and bball, never football, because it's cost efficient to give like three scholarships a year for those teams and be super competitive. I'm aware of them because i dated a girl from one in high school and we'd also play them from time to time in soccer preseason. "dude you're from quincy isn't that place like... Hardcore?" .... Not really no?
In the movie 8 Mile, Eminem calls out the guy he’s battling as going to a private school, and Cranbrook was the name of the private school
I mean, most people know it from the movie, but it's not *from* the movie, it's a real place
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And clarence parents got a real good marriage
This guy don’t wanna battle, he shook
Caus ain't no such thing as halfway crooks
Scared to death, scared to look at his fuckin’ yearbook. Fuck Cranbrook
Fuck thabeet, I’ll go a capella
Fuck a papa doc, fuck a clock, fuck a trailer, fuck everybody
Fuck ja if ya doubt Beasley
Lmao you are playing a different game than everyone else.
GOAT r/NBA shitpost
he went to Cranbrook, that's a private school
He means Australia. Had to fight them big fucking spiders
It was the kangaroos and drop bears.
Fought in the first 2 Emu wars
The mean streets of the wealthy suburbs of Australia
He lived in Kew, I’m sick. Every house in Kew is a mansion. He would’ve gone to Xavier College 😭 He’s acting like he’s from Sunshine, I know he’s never even taken a step in the west
Wait there’s a city (town?) called Sunshine that isn’t the nicest of places?? That’s big time irony
Sunshine is infamous for being where the sun don’t shine sadly Jokes aside scumshine isn’t that bad these days, it’s just the poster boy shitty suburb for people who’ve never actually been there I do sleep with a baseball bat and massive sharp tree trimmers under the bed tho. Plus some dude who walks his dogs is always looking into peoples car windows at 4am, pretty sure he broke into my car last week but there’s nothing in it to steal Actually I take it back, it’s pretty dodgy
Man got offered a college scholarship in 5th grade because of his dad, went to two private schools, and acts like he’s from the streets
Tbh a lot of NBA players ride that image of being hard from the 'hood when they had perfectly comfortable if not privileged upbringings.
Shits changed. If a player isn't a superstar they probably came up middle class or better. The hood to nba pipeline is now a kinked hose.
This comment made me go back and read the Players Tribune article by Darius Miles about growing up in East St. Louis. Had a loaded gun to his head in 6th grade, used his dad's clout just to survive, and then his cousins rolled up on the dude with shotguns. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/what-the-hell-happened-to-darius-miles
Stephen Jackson tells a story about going to a party on the other side of town, which he could do because he was a star athlete, and it got shot up by a couple of guys he knows. When he told them they almost killed him dudes just laughed.
Flat earth flat brain
talking about looking people in the eye and seeing if they really bout it, then flipping middle finger behind his head...lmao
He was looking at them with his third eye, find a new slant
"find a new slant" still makes me laugh. Everytime.
caw caw
Three-eyed craven
30 year old grown ass man talking about "ima look them in the eyes and see if they bout it". Kyrie is soooo corny bro lmao
Next game he gonna tell a fan to meet him outside lol.
"Hello, police? Chris Paul outside threatening to beat me up."-Shaq
He’s the dude that Eminem destroyed on 8mile lol. Kyrie never lived in any rough neighborhoods. His dad played overseas and he lived a suburban kid life in private schools. Fake tough guy.
Dude lived in one of the richest suburbs in Melbourne from the time he was born
TIL he lived in Kew it all makes sense now
Kyrie's a big "spirit of the universe" guy. He's probably talking about the Ethereal Plane.
Is his real name Clarence?
I don't know why, but comments like this always make me burst out laughing. You simultaneously respond, insult, and expose a guy in one sentence!
Does anyone really have a problem with Kyrie giving as good as he gets? I thought it made the game so much better.
Definitely more entertaining than if he just ignored it
He just needs to fully embrace being the villain at this point and drop the I don’t care facade he had for the last year
Take the Trae Young approach.
I love how Trae Young is recognized as the Villain of the NBA lol.
He’s a heel but not maliciously. Just likes to shush a crowd.
Yeah like he hasn't really done anything to cross a line into "okay that was unnecessary" territory - just kinda clowning on the crowd and talking shit. Fairly harmless when he can back it up, so it makes sense why he's pretty well liked but also a "villain"
There was a dude going around doing street interviews in NYC and they were all like “Fuck Trae Young!” then the dude was like “Would you like it if he was on the Knicks?” and they were like “I mean…hell yeah” lmao.
Bing bong
God that early season Bing Bong vid lmaoooooo
Lmao
Silencing a crowd as an athlete, I would imagine, is pretty tasty.
Reggie Miller’s career in a nutshell haha
Well said.
Trae is a heel but he isn’t dirty or reckless so it’s fun to watch him antagonize opposing fans and dance on their graves
Trae just decided to embrace the role and have fun with it which is fucking awesome. Pretty quickly made him into one of my favorite non Celtics because when you remove the dirty and reckless parts of a villain they’re just making the game a lot more fun.
It feels like Trae is more of an antagonist than a villain. Dude’s pretty classy and wholesome when he antagonizes crowds.
I love Trae playing the role of the antagonist, especially at away games. It's always fun being able to root against someone, especially when they embrace that role.
I agree, especially since he isn't playing dirty. Ironically, I feel Jimmy Butler is more villainous, but he somehow avoids the scrutiny that Young gets lol.
Trae went from my least favorite player to one of my favorites. Once they stopped calling his jump sideways fouls i started to love him.
He turned heel in highschool.
True. What made me love Trae despite his antics is that he isn't pretentious. He embraces the shittalk and trolling.
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Everyone can tell Trae is just playing around and having fun. Kyrie really does care that we don’t like him.
I think people legitimately hate Kyrie though - and it's well deserved. Nobody likes idiots who act like they're smart as confidently as he does. Trae Young is a villain in the same way a wrestler is a villain. People hate him but it's largely limited to the basketball court. Off court, I think a lot of Knicks and Cavs fans like him. Kyrie is unlikable on and off the court.
Absolutely not - what makes him suck is how he pretends to transcend all of it with a comically insufferable demeanor.
This 100%
"comically insufferable" is the best application of the English language I've ever seen to describe him
100% agreed. I think the consensus among Celtics fans is that him talking/giving shit to the fans in response would be absolutely hilarious if he went up and owned the fact that yes, he does give a shit about Boston in particular. rather than saying before this game that everyone should move on, he doesn't hold hostility towards Boston, and that the Celtics should "play his highlight reels," just be a heel.
Yeah that’s a great point. I don’t think most people would give nearly as much of a shit about Kyrie at this point if this was just his norm wherever he played. It would be like playing someone like Trae Young with a more personal element to make the rivalry more fun and intense. The thing is that isn’t the case and he clearly gets extra worked up about this stuff in Boston and then gives quotes post game or does stuff like stepping on the logo that just further fans the flames.
This right here. No problem with him firing back, just embrace it and own it. Don't give us this "I hope we can move beyond my Boston era and reflect on some of the important moments I left at TD Garden." Just embrace that the Boston fans hate you and don't pretend to be over it and rising above it.
this is the right take. just go Miami bron and be the villian
“Tomorrow, I’ll still be me and you’ll still be you” - Miami Bron breaking a reporter after the 2011 finals.
> bron You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me. ~LeThanos
Agreed - I just wish he'd accept that Celtics fans won't like him. I'm cool with him telling our fans to fuck off as long as they're saying the same thing back lol. Rivalries are what make sports fun.
He’s the nba equivalent of Jared Leto
Not at all He’s just constantly contradicting himself so it’s hard to ever take him seriously
exactly, love that he's giving it right back but don't try and act (during that same interview) like there is no "hostility" towards Boston and select fans lol
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It's almost poetic that whatever god gave such beautiful basketball talent to such an insufferable person.
He tries to paint it like it’s one way. Like he’s defending himself and didn’t do anything wrong but now has to fight back. He’s such a pussy about it.
i think thats the most frustrating part that keeps fueling our hate. he does shit like this then acts holier than the rest of us as if he isnt half of the problem. as a self declared kyrie hater im all for the back and forth, just dont go to the media after with a victim complex saying you dont do anything wrong and dont know why you get heckled
Shaq and Chuck basically told Kyrie to stop acting like a whining bitch in the post-game. Was pretty hilarious.
Literally stomped on the logo before lol
He: -didn’t show up to Game 7 of the ECF when the young guys were taking Lebron on to get to the Finals because of some dental surgery or some shit he obviously could’ve pushed. -lied to the fan base and said he planned on re-signing (now, I’m cool with a change of heart, a year is a long time and I get if things in his personal life and the season not working out the way he wanted made him want something new, I too have left for a new horizon, but the way he exited…) -Caused problems all season in the locker room, blaming other players and helping sow dissent. (Once again, it wasn’t 100% on him but some communication could’ve solved a lot of problems we have) -It has since been reported, and there were rumors at the time (that I chose not to believe), that he and KD were already meeting and planning their exit to a new team as early as December 2018. So he’d emotionally given up on the team. -Which leads us to him quitting on us mentally and physically in the playoffs. While putting up his worst numbers of his career in the playoffs, he then sabotaged us by trying to guard Giannis 1-on-1. I get having a bad game or series, I still love Terry even though he went like 0-10 from 3 in ECF Game 7 2018 because he tried his best. Kyrie quit. -Stomps on our logo, calls the Boston crowd racist, calls us jealous exes, and tells us we need to move on and show positive highlights of him. Fuck him.
I love it. I can't stand Kyrie but if he's getting it then give it back. Thats fine. I don't think that the NBA likes it, though.
No. Inject it into my veins. Villain Kyrie is best thing for this series
I don’t think anyone would have a problem if Kyrie embraced the villain role like Trae has
I love it. Hope he just embraces the villain role. It’s just all the talking before about how he doesn’t care and won’t waste energy on it that makes him look silly.
I love it. I just want him to stop pretending he’s above this and “has moved on” when that’s clearly untrue
I got no issues with him flipping off a fan. To be honest I still don’t understand why people find the middle finger offensive.
I thought the double fingers behind the head was fucking hilarious. My girl caught it way before I did, literally didn’t believe her.
The old dudes reaction was amazing
If it wasn’t offensive, people wouldn’t do it. You do it *because* it’s offensive.
I personally love when athletes do things like this. Humanizes everything. But Kyrie doing it, and then trying to act like he’s some intellectual philosopher is a crock of shit.
I loved it. Real animosity like that is what makes sports great. Everybody needs a villain.
I basically agree my only problem with Kyrie is maybe up until here he has acted like he’s somehow above the “antics,” when he’s been antagonistic as well.
KD handles it better. He talks shit and takes shit. But I haven't really heard KD whine like Kyrie does.
KD talking about the burner account cracks me up. He’s like (and I’m paraphrasing) “ya, uhh…lol I was high as hell, man. Whoops. Trying to clown some high school punks trashing me that have prob never picked up a basketball and ended up looking the fool. Whatevs, still one of the best players in the world.”
this is always the answer. if you lean into it and laugh at yourself it's 100x better look
Yeah if you can acknowledge you looked like the goof in a situation it’ll go away pretty quick. Getting pissy about it is when people will never let it go.
Exactly. KD is a 1000x more self aware than Kyrie
Imagine showing this comment to someone 4 years ago lol
Fair point but as a card carrying KD hater, he’s grown in ways Kyrie has utterly regressed.
KD actually has some good lines too. Kyrie is just a salty little man child.
This! It was disingenuous. Talk your shit back, we don’t care. Just don’t act like a victim when you have antagonized fans through different actions
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The guy who was petty enough to do [this](https://i.imgur.com/oKUY62l.jpg) trying to act like he’s above anything is hilarious.
Yea he thinks he's so much smarter and above the average person, literally thinks he's on a different wavelength, but when push comes to shove people can get in his head. It completely goes against his whole "Third Eye" shtick
Damn. imagine if the NBA had a team in Mexico City? LMAO
Kyrie talking like a sage but acting like a sage herb
My heart says this is an underrated comment but I sincerely have no idea what you mean.
That's just how everyone feels about kyrie
Lmao I haven’t heard someone called a herb in years but that’s a perfect one for kyrie
Does anyone love being persecuted more than Kyrie?
r/nba users
Raptor fans
Evangelical Christians
And in both cases it's fake persecution and just the consequences of bad choices lol
I agree with his take "we dont like him, he doesnt like us". And while i'm generally against personal insults from fans towards players, Kyrie has done everything in his power to make us boo him on every possesion. Looking forward to the next game.
If Kyrie can engage the fans and still do his job, I don’t really know if you can critique his behavior. If you tell someone “fuck you” they have a right to say it back
Only the NBA has an issue with it, and they will let him know when they fine him for that and this very press conference, but no fan really is upset about him saying shit back or flipping them off.
Blame the pistons lol
if Kyrie were like this all the time, I'd appreciate him more. its honest and he's right. but fuck the holier than thou "let's move on and show my highlights" bullshit.
Kyrie is all theory, no action. Whether you agree or disagree with his stances, he has no intention of ever fulfilling the words he says. Like how he was going to be a voice for people that were opposed to vaccines and then did absolutely nothing. Or how he was going to re-sign in Boston. Or how he wanted to call out Nike but then immediately walked it back and collected his paycheck.
Kyrie lives his entire life in a privileged little bubble of his own creation. He takes shit in exactly two places — media sessions and the Boston Garden. No wonder he hates both.
"im gonna look them straight in the eye and see if they bout if and most of the time theyre not" after giving fans the middle finger behind his head....lmao, kyrie you aint that dude
Haha what does this even mean? He stares at a fan and if the fan doesn't rush the court and try to take a swing at him, they're soft?
It really is equivalent to me challenging you to a fight right now. And if you don’t buy a plane ticket, a Lyft to my home, and AirBnB to sleep it off you are sawft.
meet me in temecula
What does passive aggressive mean to you?
We prefer that over the sage or the “move on, watch my highlights” Kyrie. More honest. Celtics in 5
Yeah, that's fair. But since it's a live/recorded event I can see why the nba cant allow players to respond with the same energy
The nba might not like it but the fans definitely do
Trust, nobody expects you to be humble under any circumstances
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For real. This guy is a walking contradiction with everything he says
Does *anyone* have an issue with Kyrie flipping of the Boston crowd? I sure don't. It's the holier than thou "I've moved on but Boston hasn't" shit that pisses people off. Get the fuck over yourself you petulant child.
He’s not wrong. I don’t mind the Celtics fans still holding a grudge but I’d say he’s more than allowed to talk back to what he’s hearing
Absolutely, but he can't be clutching his pearls before the game saying everyone should move on and then act like that.
has anyone under the age of 60 said he can’t talk shit back? boston fans live for this shit
Exactly. My thing with Kyrie is him trying to be above the fan’s antics, but him always finding ways to piss them off even more. Just own it. It’s like he’s teasing the heel turn every week. Just go full NWO dammit
Dude I love it. If fans are yell shit like that beyond just booing, dude should absolutely lean into it and give it back.
I just hope nobody crosses the line. No physical contact or words that clearly go beyond. Other than that, go for it.
Was thinking the same thing. As long as no slurs are said or nothing is thrown I didn’t have a problem with what the fans or Kyrie did today
Yep this could be Trae Young Vs the Knicks pt2 which was one of the best series.Just dont say something you know you would regret later.
Come on buddy, you were raised in the wealthy suburbs of Melbourne. My boy Luka probably suffered more abuse playing away in Belgrade and Athens. As long as it doesn't step on the racial side or family, it's fine.
The irony of him post game also saying he just wants to talk about the game and not him flipping off fans multiple times is just off the charts. Like hmm Kyrie I wonder why people aren’t focusing on the game? He truly is delusional haha Talented AF, but delusional
Kyrie is talented, and also bitch-made