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I'm at peace. So this past summer, when Kyrie Irving demanded his trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers, I made a series of videos pertaining to the reasons behind why I thought Cleveland decided to trade him, and why Kyrie would demand it, rate, and how he demanded it in such a way that would establish to the Cleveland management that the relationship between the team and Kyrie, and also between Kyrie and LeBron, was something that could not be salvaged.
I stated that, in my view, he must have told them that he was gonna retire. Why else would a team trade a talent like that, who was only 24, 25 years old and still had two years left on his contract? I got a lot of people in my comments saying, "Oh, whoa, how do you know that? Blah, blah, blah." It's not that difficult to figure out that he said something severe, either that he was going to retire or something along those lines.
Now, it's being reported that Kyrie threatened knee surgery on himself if the Cavs didn't trade him. Now, is that actually what he did? Who knows? I'm sure that he's going to be asked about it, and he'll either confirm or deny, or more, or more likely than not, knowing Kyrie, he'll say, "I'm not going to comment on that." But that just goes to show you the the lengths that he went to try to convey the severity in which he felt like the relationship between him and the team, or him and and the management, had deteriorated, and he was desperate to do anything to get out. So let's see what they have to say.
Also put out a report saying that Cape Kyrie Irving threatened to have a knee surgery and not a training camp if the Cavs didn't trade him. Now, I have been saying on the show since, okay, Kyrie was traded in August, the Cavaliers did not have to trade Kyrie out at all, just because he made a demand to be treated. And I would still say, even if he threatened us, because I ask you a question, Paul, as an athlete who has sponsorship deals with big companies like Nike and other corporations, do you think all your sponsors should pay you lots of money would allow you to have what would be, I guess, unnecessary knee surgery socially without it?
Now, others, well, you don't know how necessary or unnecessary the proposed surgery would have been had he decided to go through with it. Beyond that, the corporations cannot tell him what he can do with his body. At the end of the day, as long as he's able to to verify or determine that there is enough structural damage to a certain body part that he can get surgery. And let's say this, there's no doubt in my mind that for 90% of professional athletes that are participating in their sport for an excessive amount of time and and minutes per say per game or per outing, they can go to any doctor and and receive justification that they should get a surgery. Nike is not going to be able to tell Kyrie Irving, "No, you can't get that surgery."
So that's just Rachel Nichols trying to pull something out of her ass, because once again, she's exhibiting the normal Caucasian Jew liberal trait of [ __ ] you gonna do what I tell you to do, which is the same trait that all so-called Caucasian liberals have when they're pushed or once they see that a so-called black man is not going to follow their instructions. So I don't see any relation between Kyrie's threat, and I put that threat in quotes because it has not been confirmed, and her assertion that the corporations that sponsor him would try to pull that contract. Even if they did pull their contract, when he comes back four or five months later and shows these, once again, a dominant player, noting that what happened is that he would sign another contract with another organization, and it would be Nike's loss.
And once again, Kyrie does not strike me as as a person who was going to be intimidated by threats from a corporation. I just don't see that from him. I mean, his track record shows that he's going to tell you what he really thinks, and he's going to follow through on what he says. They're playing a certain amount of games, you know, if you're playing only 30% of the games, then a lot of these off the court contracts, you lose a lot of money from. I wonder how Paul Pierce would know that. No disrespect to Paul, I love for the brother, but he's never been a major corporate, a corporate asset. Nothing against him.
So you mean to tell me that when Kevin Durant went down with the Jones fracture a few years ago, that Nike told him that, "We're gonna pull your contract because you're not on the floor"? I'm not saying that there are not stipulations in the contract between the asset and the nd company that is sponsoring them. I'm not stating that at all. I'm sure that there are various stipulations and corollaries within these contracts where an athlete has to live up to their end of the bargain, they have to perform well, or that that sponsorship, once it reaches its its termination period and will be ended, it won't it won't be renewed. I'm not doubting that at all.
But the state that if Kyrie Irving had to get a knee surgery, that Nike would certainly pull their sponsorship from him or the endorsement deal that they have with him, no, I'm not buying that, especially if he can verify why he would need the surgery. Nonsense. As a matter of fact, the more imaginative corporations would actually work the injury into many of their advertisements. We saw that when RG3 went down, they tried to develop a whole campaign around him. Many times we see athletes that go down with debilitating injuries, and if the corporation, if that athlete sponsor believes that is worth it, they'll develop a whole rehabilitation campaign, a series of commercials based around what the athlete is going through.
Hell, when Michael Jordan left the Bulls, he was receiving less visibility, he was playing for the Birmingham Barons in minor league baseball. And what did Nike do? Did they develop a whole campaign around that? That's what you do when your job is to commandeer a corporation, a situation, you have to be imagine and see if you have to think of ways to remarket that asset. So I'm sorry, Paul, I'm not buying what you sell them. Better let me say that that's a bit of a better point. It's possible that Kyrie was bluffing, but he may have been in such a stressed-out state. Who knows what he was at at that point?
Kyrie strikes me as someone who says what he means and who means what he says. And who knows, maybe Mr. Dan Gilbert was tired of the whole charade. We're outsiders looking in. People like Dan Gilbert and the and his management team are aware of far more issues that were blown long within that locker room where they probably decided that, you know what, it's probably best that we part ways. LeBron James is unwilling to commit to our organization. Kyrie no longer wants to be here. Let's see what we can flip for him because LeBron is most likely leaving at the end of the season anyway, because trying to get him to sign to sign an extension, it's like trying to pull a tooth. So you know what, let's see what we can get for Kyrie.
Yes, and at the same time, I think there's two things. First of all, I still think they got a good deal because in terms of insuring themselves, if you have to look yourself for the future, is keeping LeBron James. Well, how could, well, how could you say that that's insuring yourself with a future when you can't even get the man to sign an extension? That's why is your job to sit on TV with two layers of makeup on your face and you cannot run a team because you're doing what you do best, which is sitting on TV and talking [ __ ] preferably with a couple of black men around you to make you to make yourself feel like the lady of the manor.
In reality, if Dan Gilbert cannot get LeBron to sign an extension, he must go to plan B, C, D, and E. He is a businessman. That's how they think. That's how they operate. Dan Gilbert did not become a billionaire waiting for other people to help him decide what he's going to do. If LeBron does not get back to him expeditiously, he has to move on. He has to consider what he needs to do now. Quoting Steve and a Smith, Dan Gilbert is thinking about selling the team, and it makes sense because he's already, he's already done what he stated that he was going to do. He's brought a championship back to the city of Cleveland. Exactly.
Here, I knew that he already knows LeBron not staying. And if LeBron does Dave's only because he surveys the landscape and he comes to the realization that there's no other place, there's no other scenario that is as advantageous for me business-wise in the years to come than to stay here in Cleveland, especially if he has long-range plans to buy the Cleveland Cavaliers, which I believe LeBron does plan to do, and I've stated that along for a long time. That was the week they let go of David Griffin or parted ways of David Griffin. David Griffin's working on a trade for Paul George, and he let him go. He was holding Kyrie and LeBron together.
And oh, that's all [ __ ] that's all revisionist history, true to protect LeBron. David Griffin, after he got fired, he went around on many of these talk shows and basically took Kyrie's side in the whole situation. As has already been reported by more than one journalist, Rob Parker, as well as other Jackie McMullen, it's on record that LeBron James was told that, "We can make the trade happen for Paul George as well as Eric Bledsoe, three-team trade, Kyrie will end up in Phoenix. All you have to do is sign the extension." So this deal is incumbent upon you signing the extension. He decided that he did not want to do that.
So now this new story that David Griffin was was burning the midnight oil trying to get this deal finalized, and that he got fired. That's the media. That's the liberal sports media making [ __ ] up to protect LeBron, as usual, saying that, "Hey, Kyrie says I'm gonna go under surgery if you don't trade me." Dad, no bomb shot, not a bombshell to me. As a bombshell to you guys, why the hell knows what they have traded him if he did not say something drastic? And still, he has not confirmed that that's what he said. I'm sure that he says something along those lines, but I know that he had to have said something drastic. I would never have guessed that he said that he was going to get knee surgery, but I know they had to say something that was off the wall and to look them in the face and look like he meant it for them to say, you know what, we don't need this [ __ ], let's just trade it.
A little less, maybe more seriously than they should. Since everybody's sitting on the set could tell you the owner, forget the owner, don't let, don't let LeBron James off the hook because you got to changing your story now. You don't even listen to your own reporters. Jackie McMullen not only works for ESPN, but she also sits in on this show. She's the one who broke the story last week, a couple of weeks ago, where she stated that Kyrie did not like Tyronn Lue, and also the story about Eric Bledsoe and Paul George being included in a trade for Kyrie with Kyrie going to Phoenix, and all LeBron James had to do was agree to an extension.
Now, all of a sudden, they come into the concocting is this new scenario where is because David Griffin got fired by Dan Gilbert, this is why Cleveland's is suffering right now. This sounds like something that has been put out by LeBron James's team to cover up for the fact that he did not think that the team would be struggling this much without Kyrie. So more [ __ ] as usual.
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And Michael Jordan was 35 years old. There that was his last year in Chicago. All right, but anyway, peace.