Now he's a Celtic and hopefully he does well there as I've been watching his career since the start ever since all the hate he got when he was drafted by the Knicks and I want him to succeed over there in Boston now.
KP is a great ambassador of the game, and a testament of how the game has evolved to have a productive 7.3 player with all around skills. Kudos to KP and the sports broadcast crew for the inspirational presentation.
Most bigs start playing basketball bacause they're big. As KP said, he started as a guard and just happened to grow this big. That's why he's the unicorn.
Coming from this small country named Latvia, seeing KP with legends talking about the game just warms my heart and makes me so proud to be a Latvian. Anything is possible.
I’m genuinely curious what is life like living in Latvia? I imagine it being pretty similar to many countries in Eastern Europe; former USSR states. Is Latvia similar to the other Baltic countries? And What is rural life like in Latvia compared to living in the capital Riga?
@@beaucaspar3990 Living in the capital is shit obviously, the roads are bad and narrow, wild drivers, and too many women behind the the wheel 😂 A lot of road construction so hopefully its gonna be magical in 10 years 😅
Welcome to Boston 🦄 🍀 this aged well mentioning Marcus Smart locking him up. Also mentioning he will be in his prime this summer. You can't make this stuff up! Marcus will forever be loved in Boston we will miss him.
As a Knicks fan it's great to see KP evolving into what we all thought he could be. Hope he continues to pop off in the same way he has been KEEP IT UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“What we all thought he could be” this is why the Knicks have been a bum team for decades. Can’t just admit that you didn’t deserve him, calling him a bust, booing him on the biggest night of his life. Glad my Celtics have him now.
cap everyone who was in New York or a Knicks fan hated him the minute he got drafted and said he would be a bust lmaoo, it’s only after he started carrying the bum ass Knicks yall started giving him respect
@@501jaylee actually real knicks fans knew he would be special the only question was his fragility, which has been proven right up until the last year or two.
happy for dude, sounds like he's really looked at himself and how to polish his game. Lot of big skinny guys like him get thrown off their spot just by smaller guys crowding their spot and putting a forearm into their stomach. Don't fade away, just bump em back, rise up and drain the shot or drive past them and teach em not to press you like that.
@@kwaaito3688 it was a joke. In my country there's this joke (might be a real story) of an ad for a missing person fluent in polish, which was translated as nagellak (nailpolish, in Dutch)
Glad to see he’s doing well. He always seemed like a cool dude and really amicable during his time with Dallas. Just didn’t work out here, wish him the best.
I love hearing retired players talk basketball with the current NBA guys they know the game on such a deeper level than normal commentators and journalist and can relate and bring up their own person stories and experiences.
@@frank-ko6de That`s not Luka... That`s Cuban... At some point you pull Luka in and ask him if directly if he wants to be Lebron James or James Harden? End the conversation there.
@@trainerrob1622 Cuban is not the one dribbling the ball or having to interact with 4 other players on the floor, it's Like. But, keep spouting your nonsense.👍👍👍😊😊😊😊
So skilled so fuckin skilled it’s eshame not everyone’s body is built to withstand nba basketball we all know what would have happened if he was healthy his entire career gianess Embiid luka jokic kd and kp woulda been right there with them
I’m a Knicks fan and i always liked kp I never understood why alot of knicks fans hated him he is a good player I’m happy to see him doing good and i hope he gets a ring in the future he deserves it
KP seems like a legitimately nice person like I mean you nvr really know but some ppl jus come off as good hearted like he seem like if he sees something happening to someone he gon step in asap
Having watched the NBA since the 70s, it’s amazing how international the game has become, probably influenced by the ‘92 dream team. Last time I checked, I think 3 of the top 4 scorers in the NBA were born abroad. Pretty amazing, couldn’t have imagined it 40 years ago…
It has nothing to do with the 92 Dream Team. All that happened then was that FIBA allowed professional players to complete in Olympic basketball beginning in 1992. Part of the reason for more international players is because the NBA started realizing there's a world outside the US which likely coincided with overseas TV deals, and partly because the Cold War ended and players from ex-Communist countries in Europe could partake in professional basketball overseas instead of just representing their nations countries at the Olympics and other multi-sport events and the FIBA world championships. It's the same dynamic when we're talking about professional boxing. Eastern Europe and Central Asia always had great boxers but they just weren't competing for professional belts but they did dominate the Olympics and other multi-sport events and the IBA amateur boxing world championships.
^ In other words, the fall of Communism and the increase in globalization through TV deals and cultural awareness is why there's more international players in the NBA. Most of the players are from Communist countries that fell in the 1990s, and even Spain was a right-wing Francoist country that was heavily isolated from the world until the 1980s, while Turkiye and Greece were also run by military juntas into the 1980s.
@@poppinc8145 Nice analysis. Agree with it but I think you’re minimizing the effect of the Dream Team. Prior to that time, US college all stars would quickly form a team, and still dominate most professional teams from other countries (except’72, though that outcome is controversial), whose players had already been playing for years together and developed chemistry. Jordan, Bird, Magic and co. were like rock stars at the ‘92 olympics, and helped usher in cultural awareness (and TV markets) to a lot of the world. The kids of that time grew into the talented international stars in the NBA now, and many of them speak of idolizing and emulating the dream team. The sociopolitical forces you mention were critical, but I think having such a dominant star studded US team in the Olympic Games was highly influential in raising the caliber of international basketball. There’s no way a US college team now could dominate international teams as they did in the past.
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He is entering his prime now...i can smell that we will see some magic from him in near future. HE IS TOP 5 CENTER in NBA, and will stay probably most of his career that way (if health allows). with some extras (7'3 guy with unlimited shooting range) Just like Unicorns, he shines where he feels the best, so i hope that Wizards will understand this.
@@XBeat. kat is injured so he can’t be that guy Bam is tuff but he’s inconsistent that’s why the heat can’t win the rely only on jimmy and that’s why they lose when they play good it’s when the entire team is locked in but that’s a rare occurrence Top 5 center is Jokic embiid Rudy bam kristaps
Man this makes me wish he stayed in dallas. Cause they would need that defense so much now. But the injuries were too much. Can you imagine luka, brunson how he was in last years playoffs or not and kp actually being healthy qnd therefore being in a rhythm. A dangerous team not to mention finney smith and all the others would still be on that team
The reason that Kp did poor was the team not injuries, the team forced him to play as a pick and popper and didn’t allow him the ball outside the catch and shoot often the other time he got the ball was in a pick and roll, he didn’t get given the ball too often in the post though he was taller than the defenders and they didn’t let him work with the ball, largely you could blame Luka for being so ball dominant, he’s more ball dominant than mj and lebron, even if he’s a good playmaker all the players need the ball to gain a rhythm which the way that team was relying on Luka simply wasn’t going to happen
@@nikkrelj471 brah...so Dallas team wasn't/ isn't bad, it was just KP, and we can hope to see a championship soon? With a superstar like Luka you'd think there are just a few more pieces to get in order to win it all.
@@janismuzikants9320 brah really? Just a few more? You must ve delusional. Look at the lack of help luka has had his 5 years in dallas. You say with a player like luka you would expect just a few little pieces to get the job done like other superstars win the chip like that, while these other superstars literally play with 2 or 3 all star caliber players next to them. Luka is literally the best at doing the most with the least. No one is taking that team to the wcf other than luka
He could have done more in Dallas if only he was not always injured his best version was in the bubble before he got injured and got the mcl surgery after that he was never the same
KP needs to looking back at Larry and watch his game. He didn't put up the number of 3s as they do now, but he used the 3 as a great weapon to put the dagger into the opposing teams heart.
I remember when Stephen A ripped him to shreds when the knicks drafted him. I know he’s had injury troubles but it’s always been pretty obvious he’s a legit talent
We all remember that. Man, i bet they erase all rhose videos of Stephen completely roasting Knicks for drafting kristaps. Completely as you said ripped him to shreds and then took it back when he was doing very well on the knicksn until getting injured and traded
To his credit, Stephan A did later extend an on-the-air apology to Kristaps that he had misjudged how good this skinny 7.3 Latvian kid was. It didn't take long for many fans to start seeing KP as the next NY Knicks franchise player also.
@@EMILFEIKMAN existing lithuanian and latvian names. not sure about others. the names are surely shared between lithuania and latvia, for men and women. kristupas is kristaps. andris is andrius, aivars is aivaras, edgars is edgaras and so on. for women a lot of ievas in both countries and many others as well. these are the traditional latvian and lithuanian names. did you mean anything else by latvian versions of existing names?
@@gameimprovements4347 Christoph, Kristov or Kristoff or Christopher its just the Latvian version of a European name like: Andrei, André, Andreas, Andrew
@@area11_t36 i'm not saying he could shut him down. But how many 7 footers are there with decent lateral quickness and are comfortable defending outside the paint?
Glad to have him on the wizards, even with our "mid-three" haha, but aye man shoutout to KP, his english has gotten so much better that I hardly even hear the accent anymore
I’m happy he’s playing great like I’ve known he can, I just wish he could have been healthy and playing like this on the mavs. It pains me seeing him and Brunson ball out knowing we could still have both of them.
Mav front office is pretty good on trades/sign up😂😂😂super heavy on back court and ignore the D😂😂😂 glad that KP is happy now and balling, wish him keep staying healthy.
this is so crazy I read years bac he was a 6'3'' guard and really good one in his youth but a one foot growth spurt? That is stupid. Some guys are 7 feet by their senior year like the Lopez brothers (and 240 lbs), other like Rodman at 18 went from 5'8" to 6'7" in a summer (which is also crazy). So I wasn't surprised he played like a natural guard at that height because so many have been since childhood and stuck with it.
Euro all get drilled on threes. That and fundamentals. There definitely is more talent in the US, but the toptalent that comes out of Euro is actually better than the best college in the US right now. I follow FIBA and there's another batch of ridiculously talented youngsters lining up
I always wondered how is it that most of Europe and European players have been catching up to the U.S in terms of basketball talent for the last 20 or so yrs that an All Star European/Euroleague Team will soon be on the same level with an American All Star (not there yet but its eventually going to happen) but American soccer(futbol) hasn't been able to compete with the best European teams in the EPL, Bundesliga, La Liga, etc. This despite the MLS pumping large amounts of money into American soccer... Wonder if you have any insight into that..
