Stephen A. sounds off on Kyrie Irving: 'It is SHAMEFUL! It's EMBARASSING!' | First Take 

His most favorite topic wherever show he is. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Tbh I do believe him about his anger stemming from the fact these 2 idiots will mess up the money for the future generations.

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Lol I honestly don't think Ben will play a single game for the Nets. Nets will probably start to fine him next year then it will be 76ers saga all over again with Ben.

I have a feeling Ben Simmons will delay his “Nets Debut” several times for the beginning of the season, then force a trade to the Lakers so he can be Mr.Celebrity with Day to Day Davis and LeGM

The trilogy will be complete

Racist like you are enjoying other black men humiliate each other huh? Just helps with those stereotypes even more

hey those be the ones on the low, I hate he compared it to Ben Simmons

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@J Coop Yessur!

Giggity!

The fact that they don’t hold him accountable the way they do Giannis, Lebron, Steph, Kobe, etc shows me that they don’t actually believe he’s the best player in the world or on that level….if they really believed that they would hold him accountable properly

When has Lebron ever been held accountable? Especially by ESPN? It’s always been “he has no help”. This season all the blame went to Vogul and Westbrook. Cleveland it was Love. Miami it was Bosh. It’s never been his fault.

KD has held himself accountable in the post match conferences tbf to him. Just acted like a moron on social media after Charles Barkley's comments.

@@firstname2022 Lebron receives more criticism than any player in the NBA. Only if you hold a bias against him could you believe the things you wrote to be true.

@@firstname2022 2011, 2014, 2019, and 2021…and every single time that he is compared unfavorably to MJ.

Bro kyrie never plays. If it wasn’t for vaccines it would be something else that kept him out

Kyrie fans will always act like Stephen A just started critiquing Kyrie and his lack of a work ethic when this goes back to his days in Boston. Kyrie loyalists will ignore that.

On god 😭😭😭

No one with a right mind is a “kyrie loyalist” lol

@@studio3js196 all imma say is you black men and Stephen A are all traitors for turning on your own brother like this its always been about rhe vaccination lets be real racist like you hate to see a black man think for himself

Hey carried this mediocre team the whole year while Kyrie n Ben sat out most of the season n when harden was there he hurt

@@bigz1384 TALK ABOUT THE SERIES. He was getting swallowed up, all the talk of ‘he can shoot over everyone and doesn’t need switches’ got proved to be a lie. Play up on him, throw doubles at him and he’s timid.

@@bigz1384 keep the same energy you people always have for Lebron dammit! If Lebron played like this in a series he would get crushed and be the headline, keep the same energy!

@@juyahmad Lebron this, Lebron that, stfu

He said KD didn’t show up but this a team effort. That Boston team is legit and KD can’t do it alone. If Kyrie shows up then Harden would of never left. They would of never been a bottom seed.

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@Ashesh Sharma 🤣🤣🤣

2 people can’t beat 15 players 😂😂

bring mark as coach

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You absolutely right about kd choosing kyrie but he’s not wrong for letting him miss games bc at the end of the day kd can’t control what he does

Bro what? If you using that logic then yes it Bron fault cause guess who he wanted as a teammate Russell Westbrook

@@Nick-sr4fe I think he’s using others logic.. like Stephen A .

Kd was worst than kyrie in this series

@@Nick-sr4fe missed the point my guy

Underrated comment

Blame him for what? Celtics earned each and every one of those wins.

@@brendanbloom3366 not to discredit KD but when you're being compared all time being swept ain't a good look.

@@narz7573 well basketball is a team sport so teams win or lose as a team. It's not just about 1 player. Some of the best players of all time have been a part of teams being swept. Shaq, Wilt, Kobe, LeBron, MJ, bird, Duncan, Magic, ect... Lots of legends have been on teams that have been swept.

@@brendanbloom3366 yeah it's team sport but all these players got their lion's share of the praise and they'd got their blame. It's a team sport correct. But when your salary & game plays such a huge factor in the teams identity & performance it falls on the "best " player. Giving him such high praise as great means we hold him accountable because greatness has thin margins of error. But that's how I see it.

Talk to em

He showed up for work. He picked up kryie’s slack and james harden slack.

@@nazzyt KD GOT SWEPT IF IT WAS LBJ BOY SAS WOULD HAVE A FIELD DAY

@@destroyer345hemi5 well thats because LBJ crowned himself the goat basically, so he gets the pressure of a GOAT. KD doesnt act like he’s the best.

@@destroyer345hemi5 facts

@@nazzyt "KD doesn't act like he's the best" you must not be hearing what KD been saying these past years

SAS: "Hey, Perk?" Aslo SAS: Proceeds to answer questions for him! Lol

Oh, he'd almost never made the playoffs; he still LIVING off of those LeBron days, trust me (got er'body fooled).....

@C any commoner who views/plays sports knows Kyrie is tops in the world; I'm comparing him based on his current status among his NBA peers, can't you C?...

@C they have no good point guard. Celtics was good, but when you dont have a pg to control the pace for you, its no wonder the opposing team would look like they have an elite level defense.

@@amanialsoquar5073 word, and that was the Celtics problem for years too. How much POETIC JUSTICE is it that the same guys (Tatum, Brown, Smart) who Kyrie touted as hard to coach & made an apology to LeBron CAME BACK and swept him out of the playoffs.... Mm!

@C C, I didn't have too much time to go way back in order for you to understand, because you sound "new" to this... You're evaluating Kyrie based on this one series; I'm evaluating him every since he been in the league AND how he severed ties with both LeBron and with Boston. To me, even though Kyrie can score & sauce-em-up with the very best of them (EVERY SINCE HE BEEN IN THE LEAGUE), you're fooling yourself (and other people are fooling themselves) if you believe that Kyrie is a guy who can LEAD A TEAM TO GREAT PLAYOFF SUCCESS. I mean Johnson97 is correct in his assertion on this thread, and all true basketball fans that paid attention KNOW that Kyrie isn't really that serious about winning championships, especially once he broke away from LeBron. You don't do that after winning with one of the greatest players in history... If anything, for his NBA wins success, he left Cleveland too soon. He needed to grow up a bit more (but what u gonna tell a man who any team will give guaranteed money to?) NOW he wants to talk about how his situation might have been a distraction, blah blah blah... Get out of here! And all that MISMANAGEMENT that happened this year, the Nets gave him "full-command" over his situation to come & go as he please.... and look at the results??? He mismanaged, the Nets mismanaged, KD don't want to lose a basketball friend, so he won't challenge Kyrie publicly, and Steve Nash himself is gonna have to come off the bench to play PG next year in order to give this emotionally-unstable team a chance!

Kyrie is the reason this team failed for 3 years

KD showed up for the elimination game. Kyrie had a great game 1 and was mediocre the rest of the way. Both had 3 bad games but timings is everything. If Kyrie had a bad first 3 games and showed up game 4, there’d be a game 5

@@Christian-eq6pq and if kd showed up game 1, it would boost morale and the series could've went a whole other way. Your argument is just pointless because as it stands kd is to take most of the blame

They are basically saying nash and KD aint $hit without Kyrie.....How you have KD on your team, and a 7th seed lol?

@@luny2nez281 you're obsessed with Kyrie. You'd trade your shitty life for his. Your family would trade you for him.

They didn’t have to deal with covid this is an ignorant statement delete it💀

KD and Kyrie call the best Skill Duo of ALL-TIME... that isn't work?!?! lol

@@theboy7323 obviously they aint getting swept in the first round after finals runs lol

Lebron doesn't belong on the same level as MJ and Kobe. Kyrie and KD do belong on the same level as LeBron.

@@Minolla if you don't know anything about basketball, just don't comment. can you people just stop lying for once it's annoying.

Facts both are crazy for leaving lebron and golden state who have been doing well with out them

Joell Embiid and Ben Simmons might have something to say about that

@@bubbarachi9122 doing well without them? Gs missed the playoffs the last 2 years and Lakers missed the playoffs twice. Gs wouldn't be able to pay everybody if kd stayed and lebron was already going to leave for LA most likely.

This just shows that people who supported kyrie were wrong. Now lebron looks like a Saint for being able to keep this team poison in check.

@@brendanbloom3366 No Lebron wasn’t going to leave had Kyrie stayed they were in the Finals literally every season played together

All you said is cetltics is a better team and nets should've avoided them Sure Kylie didn't play enough games to help in the REGULAR season but this is playoffs where was Kd the first 3 games

He only played 20 games in his first season in Brooklyn because of a shoulder injury, which was also a big reason why he didn't play in the bubble. He missed the last 3 games against Milwaukee last year because of a sprained ankle. The only reason he didn't much of this season is because of his vaccine status and NY vaccine mandate not allowing to play home games.

Who’s the better than KD?

@@zayzuess7120 don’t even try that argument rn. I love KD but we down bad.

Lol bro who is the star player kd or kyrie I need to know kd shot the ball 31 times the guy is inefficient af throw his whole career away

Bro Durant was injured for like 30 games, they shoulda both had fresh legs

@@LilAlShabooti Which is even more sad imo, lol.

Lol he chose to be selfish, and now that looks even worse since they’ve gotten swept. Nothing to show for it.

@@jamirbingham4101 I love it here, lol. That’s BIG karma.

@@kingsax01 😂😂😂

He was fasting for Ramadan

He been on KD all week bruh

@@BigBoss-kl5yn no he hasn’t. He’s been on kyrie. He loves to defend his lover

He said KD can’t be viewed as the best in the world, he didn’t show up, his performances were terrible.

@@BigBoss-kl5yn Now he just backtracked in this video and said KD is still the best player in the league. SAS has zero credibility. He loves great scorers, especially lethal ISO scorers like, MJ, Kobe, KD, that’s why SAS is always biased towards them more so than well-rounded all-around players.

Some dude, his name doesn't rhyme with kyrie, said KEEP THE SAME ENERGY or something like that flipping the bird... and then disappeared the next 3 games🤣🤣🤣 where was that dude at

That’s Stephen A for you

Just give Boston credit, there defense were awesome...the best player didn't even make the playoff...stop crying and just give credit where credit is due. Boston were a better team, defensively and offensively..

He loves to defend his husband

@@juyahmad 🤣

Proud of his former team while pointing middle fingers in TD garden and stepping on Celtics logo?? U don’t possibly think that’s genuine right? Not to mention how many locker room chemistry this dude has destroyed lol

@@swaggypq2429 are you serious? His former teammates have nothing to do with what the notorious Boston Garden fans say or do. His reaction to them are irrelevant.

Proud of former teammates is one thing but if you have testosterone, you know better than to play subpar at your craft &get swept, then hug up the dudes that swept you WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE LIKE ALL IS WELL

@@ps4ap_ballin672 “know better?” Yeah, you’re just like Stephen A. These are grown men. Who cares if he’s smiling.

Not when work demands you go against your own ethics due to the government being tyrannical. But you're young, presumably very stupid, and if not then definitely incredibly ignorant and ill-experienced. Maybe you'll figure it out one day. That would be good for you.

Careful; the Kyrie fan club might raid you with “bUt hE cAn ScoRe oN yOu tHough😡” comments soon

Learn how to spell

Nets winning it all next year and don't get on their side then

nice cherry-picked stats.

1️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses not to play, Nets keep on losing... ....Nets make the playoffs as a low seed team 2️⃣Kyrie coming up with excuses again not to play, Nets keep on losing... ...Harden gets frustrated and asks for a trade 3️⃣Kyrie coming up with stuff not to play complete games on playoffs... ...Nets lose and get eliminated ⚠️Kyrie is a little childish drama queen⚠️

I’d say it’s both with maybe slightly more of the blame going to Kyrie. Dude just wasn’t there and had the tendency to act like he’s the smartest person in the room

Excuse.

Truth & Harden wouldve stayed

@@RTrainingSAL 🤣 I'm the furthest thing from a Brooklyn Fan. I'm saying Kyrie should be blamed for ending their season

Thank you. There's enough blame to go around.

KD and steve need to be blame as well due to their mediocry during this playoff series.

He need to stop taking all that full time money then

The team was originally built around him and KD. You take him out of that, you have to figure out a new system that can work. He's only been back consistently for the past few months due to NYC lifting the vaccine mandate

Dude said he didn’t need a coach and played less then half the games this year for max money. 100% his fault.

N the owner has confidence in Nash

Tatum clamped KD. KD put 50 against the bucks. Not saying Tatum is a better two way player but there are arguments that can be made for both sides

The media doesn't actually watch basketball. Giannis is clearly the best player in the game.

So we are just supposed to let the Nets off the hook and just praise the Celtics? HECK NO!

@@Nick-sr4fe Giannis has a dpoy and when on kd kd has his lowest fg%

@@Nick-sr4fe 49*

Stephen A Smith is a Knicks fan. Is this statement towards this season? Or him being “all-in” on BK all year round?

@@brandonrobinson4897 He's a Knick fan, but he and others just knew that no one could beat the Kyrie/Durant duo. These guys like Chris Broussard, Rob Parker, Brandon Marshall, and Steven A. go all out saying that the Nets are practically unbeatable! I am a huge Lakers fan, but I never talk as though you can bet the house on any team.

@@brandonrobinson4897 Steven A. being all in this session

Kyrie still was the only player to score a field goal in last 5 minutes of the Finals.

Kyrie isn’t a winner? So tell me how Cleveland wins that championship without him? People love coming up with these dumb takes.

@@amanahmed705 what has he done without LeBron, he rode Lebron's coattail to a ring and the very next year LeBron got back to the Finals without him.

And KD need *TWO* once in a generation type talent/shooter dudes to do anything. And he been in that situation *THREE* times. And he's gotten something done from it *ONCE*

@@williamphillips3035 lebron joins superstars on the regular, so there's that. But yeah KD is a choke artist tho

His point was Kyrie ain’t a winner

@@ohh2752 then keep the same energy with KD..he was also all smiles and hugs with them Boston players

@@pm_thesportsexpert5529 yeah, they both idiots lol. whats YOUR point?

Nope .. keep that same Energy with Others not getting it done

Nope..they deserve this, they ain't getting a pass

it's 3-2, not 3-3

You mean how he dropped 39 on marcus smart then they adjusted defensively to put more help on kd and kyrie?? That marcus smart ?

@@kyreegarrett1669 I mean how Marcus Smart turned on the clamps and the last 3 games Kyrie was a non factor.

@@jaythefifth Kyrie was hungry during the game. Kyrie was fine during game 1 cause that was the only early game they played.

I’m not sure we watching the same game lol multiple switches and doubles on kyrie and kd. Yeah marcus smart really clamped him 😭

@@kyreegarrett1669 I guess we did. Of course there were switches. But when Marcus Smart guarded him, he either passed or took a bad shot that usually missed.

All lies and the celtics exposed him.

They both won nothing since they played together.

@@MrGenexxx What lebron won with and without

@@MrGenexxx keep lying to yourself

@@SSJRome lmaooo what are you talking about Lebron won a chip with the lakers

@@khalilscott3921 i know that it’s the mrgenexxx guy saying they both won nothing

He is calling him out because these guys will affect way more ,”brothers” in years to come

Exactly!

You’re surprised????

Says you? Lmao Actual HoF players made that statement, and lebron and wade cosigned lol. An opinion of some random nobody I'm sure has zero weight in that conversation 🤣💀

Oh shut up, no one cares what you think champ 😂

@@alexsalazar309 the most skilled duo of all time would never get a swept. End of discussion

@@trellmills2963 again some nobody stating this means nothing. The greats and their peers have spoken lol. Your just bitter, but thats not my problem lol🤷‍♂️

That's some dumb shut. 16 million more could do a lot in the real world. Grow up.

if it doesnt mean anything to him he shouldnt be playing

@@moensbruno bye bye tyrant!

Kyrie should retire and be a monk

They pay him to play ball not prove a point.

yes

Not eliminated, swept.