Kyrie Irving reacts to KD and Steve Nash talking about what happened in Brooklyn

Kyrie Irving reacts to KD and Steve Nash talking about what happened in Brooklyn

When you think back to our time in Brooklyn, what do you think of? I had just signed that deal. You had just signed a deal. But I feel like we were secure, but everything else around us was going Mhm. Not in a bad way. We got We got GMs going to other teams. We got coaches going to other teams. We got players forcing trades. We got bring in Ben Simmons. He’s back. Like, it was just so much. I had just signed that deal. you had just signed a deal. Clarity here. All right. But I feel like we were secure, but everything else around us was going. So when he says, not in a bad way. We got and and it’s obviously again, I didn’t take this personally. Everything else around us was So when he says this, I’m not I’m I’m not taking that personally. It was a lot going on around all of us, right? But how Steve ended up becoming our head coach. I’ll let Kay answer that, right, when he’s ready. But I already had my own thoughts on how the coaching situation was going to go, right? I felt like there were other candidates out there that could have definitely been our head coach that had championship experience. I think Steve had championship experience in his own way and his role that he played in Golden State. But in terms of being a head coach, I had my own thoughts, right? And I’ll get into that later in my documentary, but I’m just saying I had my own thoughts. And when Steve became our head coach, he even admitted to me that he had his own reserves on coaching me and I had my reserves on and him being coached by him. So, we had already hashed that out. But I’m not going to sit here and pretend like, yeah, it was all easy around just everything in Brooklyn. We’re one of the most watched teams now because we have all star MVPs on the team. We are in New York City in the media capital of the world. you just got to walk a little bit different. And I wasn’t ready to walk that walk. And and I don’t know if I I can’t speak for them, but it was a lot going on. Just not within the team, but just Brooklyn in general, the Nets going, you know, I didn’t feel like it was I didn’t feel like it was going to But I felt like there was just a lot of structural change happening that was very quick. And he’s coming off an Achilles tear. You know what I’m saying? He he’s coming off an Achilles tear, right? and he’s trying to get back into who he is and I’m like I’m ready now. This was a season I had my 50490 where Steve is head coach. You know what I’m saying? We’re having a great season but at the same time everything is just pretty much like easy, right? Everything’s pretty much easy. Like everything’s easy, everything’s going for James and everything starts, you know, improving and things of that nature. But during that some during that season, I had a breakdown where I went through some things at home, went through some family stuff that I had to address, right? And I ended up not going into work for a certain amount of time and I got killed for that, right? And everybody was like, “Yo, where’s Kai at? Where’s Kyle?” And in between that time, Caris, Jared Allen got traded and others got traded. Torian got traded for James. Not for James, excuse me, for um we ended up trading Caris Jared. And then we got James, right? And then it kind of just started like think about it. Think about when you get James, Kyrie, Katie on one team and then you add in all the other complimentary pieces. It just your for your first year, your second year, that’s impressive. You know what I’m saying? That’s impressive. No, I again when I had my 50 40 90 season, did I want to leave the team the way I did? Hell no. But again, I take my accountability for not being in the greatest space mentally, physically, emotionally, you know? So, I didn’t know how to even express that to them at the time, like, yo, this how I was feeling. This what I’m dealing with. It was just kind of like me isolated, being reclused, like, y’ don’t really understand what’s going on. So, I get it. We got on other teams. We got coaches going other teams. Yep. And he’s talking about coaches going to team. Eay Udoka literally went to the Boston Celtics after coaching with us. That was crazy, bro. You know, that was crazy. We had M Udoka literally go to Boston the next year. Like you had coaches leaving other teams. And it wasn’t anybody’s fault. It’s just opportunity. But we’re in the same division. Can you imagine going against the coach that literally saw all of our strengths and weaknesses and now we’re playing against them? You know what I’m saying? So Boston was ready for us. Eay had them ready. He had the Celtics ready, dog. When we played them in the 2022 playoffs, got wild. got wild, y’all. For sure. got wild. So, we we had a lot going on. Katie is right. That’s what I’m saying. I’m going to When I said I’m going to address this on stream, it literally was just about doing this and having fun with it and letting people know. Okay. Um, you know, letting people know. Just letting people know like what it is. That’s all. We got Claire’s forcing trades. We got bring in Ben Simmons. He’s back. like it was. All right. So, I’m not going to lie to you. So, when we traded James for Ben, right, that whole Nets big three era, by the way, Nets World, um, you you probably won’t give me any credit, but Nets World, that’s definitely something that I came up with, but it’s okay. Netsworld probably was existence before I came up with that’s fine, too. But when I started calling Nets World, everything like that started start going up. All right. So, when James got traded for Ben, I don’t think we knew the the landscape of where Ben was at, right? I don’t think we knew where Ben was at. So, when that trade happened, it shocked a lot of people. It shocked me. I I was talking to James one day. I’m like, “Shit, bro. We about to go with these championships.” And it was like a day later, asked for a trade. I was like, “Oh, shoot. Okay.” like that now. Okay. I can’t be mad. I’m not going to ever be mad at someone doing what’s best for them, right? And shout out to James, right? And I’ve had my conversation with James and I told him, I said, “Bro, I understood completely. I understood completely what you were doing, man. I understood like you’re in the middle of the season. You’re unsure about what I got going on. You know, you don’t know what the next portion of your career is going to look like. You know, things are going on. So, you have your questions. You know, what contract you gonna get because we’re all max deal players at that point. Me, James, and Kay are all Max Steel players. We are all worth whatever we’re about to get paid, right? I’m gonna say that out loud. But when that happened and we got Ben, a lot more pressure started to come in on our franchise because now, not only do we have this going on, but also we have a situation that Ben is dealing with where everybody is micro trying to micromanage the spun narrative like he doing this, he’s doing that. So, it it wasn’t a fair trade at the at the outset, right? It was not at all. I didn’t feel like that was a fair trade, but at the same time, when it happened, he went to our division. He went to Philly. Like, he went to Philly. So, not only did we lose MA Udoka and then we lost one of our our assistant GMs, but we lost James to Philly. So, we’re in the same division with our with our brothers, you know, and they know everything that we got going on. So, when you spend a season or two with somebody, you going to know their habits. You’re going to know their strengths and weaknesses, you know, that. And I just I’m like I’m grateful that all of this stuff is is just it’s just business, you guys. Basketball is not meant to be this harmful, violent, you know, like he said, she said type of eventful space, bro. This is not Love Island, y’all. This ain’t this is not real world. This is not the shore. This is the basketball of like the NBA drama space. This is not real drama, you guys. It’s not. I’m here to tell you that. Now, it may seem like guys don’t get along because guys may be misunderstanding people’s moves or what they do or, you know, something. Of course, some some certain situations are different. They’re serious. But I’m saying the basketball drama that’s created, like, look at them going against each other. Look at them. It looks like they don’t like each other. It’s like, bro, in competition, if you’re my brother and you were just with me, rocking with me and we were supposed to win championships together. We had these high expectations. Of course, I’mma try to knock your block off. I’m human. You know what I’m saying? It’s a business at the end of the day, but it’s entertainment, dog. It’s like NBA. Maybe that equal like that little equal sign to WWE sometimes, bro. Like people get it messed up in their minds be living out these characters and these nicknames. It’s just not it. It’s not it. I don’t live like that. You know what I’m saying? So, I’m able to talk about these things in a in a very uh I won’t say in a very friendly manner cuz in business ain’t friendly, but you know, these are my brothers at the end of the day, you guys. The these are people I care about. I care about their families. I care about them succeeding. I care about them as as black men. I care about them as young men, our older men as well, like in terms of just how we have made it out of we we made it out of nowhere, damn near. You know what I’m saying? And we’ve been part of the renaissance of the league worth being worth billions of dollars. So, of course, like we gonna have our spats, we going to have our But this when things like this occur, just so much stuff going on. It’s all good, y’all. Around us, I feel like, by the way, and and mind you, I’m aware that they’ve had a few drinks as well. Um, you know, so I’m not judging this too hard. Like I’ve drunk wine before. This this podcast I feel like Bob Braun is meant to be more casual and and everybody else kind of, you know, this is kind of everybody just feeling comfortable speaking on things. But hey, it’s always time and place. And I You were locked in on the same page and understanding like, well, we trying to do something special here. But and I felt like your hands were tied a lot because you had to as a coach, you got to deal with so much. Nah, he’s not lying about that. I will commend Steve Nash for dealing with all these things as a coach. He did his best, man. Um, he did his best. I I I what, you know what I’m saying? He did his best. I’m going just leave it at that. He did his best. He didn’t get to coach as much as I wanted to. That’s what it was. I didn’t think we didn’t get the full Steve Nash like I wanted like you probably wanted. I just felt like it was just too much too many distractions in a way. And you know, you can’t win that way. And but I felt like we had great intentions though. I felt like we we cared enough. I felt like every day we were trying to push towards winning the champ. It was it was a great vibe, man. It’s one of the best times that first year. That’s why I signed that deal. Yeah. And and that’s what I’m saying. Like I’m glad that he said this is because that first year that we were all together was really special. It was really special. We had veterans, we had young guys, we we had a we we literally breezed through the regular season, you know. It was so easy. And I got to give everybody their flowers that was in that locker room because we really came together at the right time. You know, I I get injured. James gets injured in those playoffs. We don’t know what could have happened, right? We only played a few games together, all three of us, and and we were 13 and three, I believe, right? But it’s just sad when we look at these times and they’re like, “Well, this was a failure without the proper context to how all of this all this ended up happening.” You know, it’s it’s real people involved in this. It’s not it’s not for play, right? I I say it’s entertainment, right? And I’m saying it’s a business, but also tied into that, we’re real human beings dealing with trying to do something very special that comes with sacrifices that no one will appreciate except for the people that you in war with. You know what I’m saying? or you’re going to you’re going to battle it if things happen right those playoffs if Katie’s foot doesn’t you know hit that line or if I don’t get injured or if things don’t work out differently you know maybe we’re sitting here multi-time champions few of us got MVPs you know I got an MVP things work out of course we could play the hypotheticals but dealing with fact it was a tough environment for all of us I will say that it was a tough environment it wasn’t just for them it was for me the first year man most fun ball I had some of the most fun ball I had playing my whole life. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed Brooklyn a lot. I love playing for Brooklyn. But it’s just so much stuff happened around and I pray that one day, right, we all get to sit down and I hope it’s for my documentary then we get to talk about this time more openly because even I think even as I watch Braun sit there, he he knows that all like a lot of this stuff was happening, but also him being in LA, he had his own thing going too. So, this is giving him clarity on what happened, but it’s also coming from just Katie and Steve. And there were a lot of parties involved in this and and some of the other parties that are involved probably won’t ever speak on it, but you know, that way around the guys that were committed to the situation, it felt like we were committed, but only but everybody else wasn’t. It just was weird. I see. So, this was the part where I I honestly looked at it. I was like when he said this emotionally I was like okay we’re we’re all committed to the goal at the end of the day but sometimes not everybody’s going to follow what you want them to do. I wish I had my like my soundboard for this but like not everybody’s going to do what you want them to do. And I’ve had to accept that as a human being and as a leader. Not everybody’s going to do what you want them to do. Not everybody’s going to be committed the way you want them to be committed. Right. And and it’s not like Kay is asking me for this, but it’s like I’m ask I asked for this commitment before I committed to Brooklyn from him, which was a beautiful thing. I’m like, yo, let’s commit to this thing. We could build up Brooklyn. We could really put Brooklyn on the map. You know, nobody’s really thinking about Brooklyn. But when he said that, I’m like, bro, Steve wasn’t even in the play yet, but this is your man’s. This is your man. So, I got to support that. This is your man’s. Cool. You want him? Cool. I You like Steve? I love Steve. You know what I’m saying? Cool. As as a as a younger brother, I’m like, “Okay, I don’t care. That’s fine. You want Steve coach, that’s fine.” But when you’re committed to the same goal and then a year changes things and then things going behind the scenes, like, come on. But everybody else wasn’t. It just was weird. Yeah, it was weird timing, bro. It was weird for everybody. It’s It was It was weird for everybody, y’all. you know, and and that’s what I’m grateful that I’ve I’ve been able to to gather all the information and Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, again, I I gave you guys certain details of what was going on. We watched the clip. That’s all I wanted to address on

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