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I'm at peace, so in the aftermath of the mutual agreement by the Cleveland Cavaliers and their unofficial general manager, LeBron James, to liquidate the entire Cleveland Cavaliers roster, it has forced a certain amount of reflection by many of the more dim-witted sports analysts and the mainstream liberal sports media to finally understand how intelligent Kyrie Irving was to make the decision that he made when he made it. Like always, tell brothers, you have to be a three-dimensional thinker. Meaning, what a three-dimensional thinker looks at the Titanic while it's import and says, "That ship is gonna sink if it gets into such-and-such condition or if it hits such-and-such glacier." A two-dimensional thinker just gets on the ship and says, "Let's go." Understand, basically, you see things happen before they happen. That's what it means to be a three-dimensional thinker, and Kyrie Irving is that. And that is why I constantly stayed on this channel. Eagle cannot make an ant understand its perspective. All it can do is explain it, and you either get it or you don't. That's it.
So, let's see what they have to say. Of course, I'm gonna chime in, especially on two. One earlier, to keep pace with Boston. You know, I remember when I was a little kid, now, I used to watch SportsCenter. They would have the female sports anchors on the show. When they would have little sport blazer on with the collared shirt, you know, able to try to look professional. It would look a little butch, like, but at least they tried to look professional. These broads, not a bit. Look like they go into the club. Like, "Can you be my guinea?" Deeper than that. "Owe me any deeper?" I almost see the stretch marks, and you still may come in. Goddamn.
The action. Boston. The fourth quarter. We go stuff. It's down. Surrey with twelve point eight seconds play. Kyrie Irving gets the ball and gets fouled by Markieff Morris. Take a look at this. Morris, he gets earthing with some contact. Horse can't believe it. Why these NBA players? It's so stupid. And he's not even stupid because of the foul. He's stupid because they blatantly foul someone and then complain to the referee about it. And when they run back to replay it, it's so obvious that it was a blatant foul that they lose all credibility in the future. And that's not even just in sports, just in life. When you lie about things that it's obvious that you did, you lose so much credibility. And it's very revelatory about a person who will lie about something that they obviously did.
But Kyrie Irving's gonna show you right here why he is the most clutch player in the NBA and why he's definitely one of the top 10 players in the NBA with a bullet. Dana Brown hits the three-pointer at the end of the shot clock. The Celtics go on to win this one, 110 to 104 in overtime. Games like this are good for the Wizards to put things a little bit better perspective for them to show them that, yes, we do need John Wall. We might not like John Wall, but, you know, as Jack Nicholson said in a few good men, "You want me on that wall?" "You need me on that wall." They're gonna need John Wall if they have a chance to beat the Boston Celtics in the playoffs. Because I do believe that the woods is match up well with them, and they're gonna need John Wall in the playoffs. And Bradley Beal is terrible in the clutch. That's gonna be the worst downfall. They have no one on their team that can make a clutch shot because as soon as it gets to a clutch moment, Bradley Beal chokes up. And we all know John Wall, I mean, he can't hit. He can't shoot the ball into the ocean. Come on. Five of six and state game ahead of the Raptors for the 1 seed in the East. There's a big drop-off after those two. Nuala cats are sitting in third, seven and a half games behind the Celtics with less than 30 games remaining.
After the game, Kyrie was asked about his former team. What did you think of? "To think we wasn't waste today." He looked like some dude who found out that the chick he broke up with is having problems with her new man. You say, "Hey, I'm on to the next one. I don't got time for that." Impact on the Cavs season has been noticeable. The Cavs have almost completely changed the roster at the trade deadline, while Kyrie Celtics are 24 games above 500 and tops in the East. Will came back with us, hi. Will, I'm gonna start with Stephen A. on this one. How does Kyrie look after all this? It looks like a genius. Like everyone with foresight looks when they're proven correct. And once again, brothers, is not that difficult to figure out what it's going to transpire. All you have to do is open your eyes, open your ears, your eyes, the senses that you've been given, and pay attention. Most people don't even understand that they leave a spiritual thumbprint everyday. Every action that they commit, every motion that they make, they leave a spiritual thumbprint where you can prognosticate what they're going to do in the future.
LeBron James cannot help being who he is. And it takes a special type of person to be with him. When you look at his career, he had success when he had Dwyane Wade, who, who acted as a mental support for him while Dwayne was still relatively in his prime as a player. And he has success when he had Kyrie Irving, a player who was definitely in tune with his own mental acuity and balance. That's why he's able to be so successful in clutch situations. He does not allow external stimuli to disrupt him. But after a while, even Kyrie had to say, "I have to get out of this environment because it's toxic." And he looks like the grown-up in this entire equation. True. Agreed. Because what a grown-up does, you don't go back and forth with a fool, right? I get people who come on my channel trying to argue with me all the time. I'm not going back and forth with you. I welcome disagreement unless you list your facts. As many cats that have come on my channel and said, "I disagree, and here's why." Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I respect that, and I'll respond to those people. I say, "You make valid points. You make a valid argument." I like that because that's how I learn. I learn from people who have a factual-based argument, empirical data, not people who come when they're trying to argue like a whole with their emotional nonsense. I don't have time for that. And Kyrie is the same way. So good for him.
Or they got the Tupac song, "Staring at the world of my rearview." More than anything else, he literally looks like a clump. Emotionally, mentally, he looks like a clone of Kobe Bryant. That's exactly something that Kobe Bryant would say. Obviously, he looks up to Kobe. He has talked to Kobe. He talked to Kobe even before demanding the trade from Boston. Yeah, I stated that in the videos that I made in the aftermath of the trade. Like it was clear to me that Kobe was his spin guy, was his guru, was his advisor, and, and he gave him the correct advice. I'm sure without a doubt, Kobe told him, "Kyrie, look, well, if you want to know what LeBron is going to do in the future, just look at what he's done in the past. He left his, he left his original team in Cleveland in the lurch. He left one of his best friends, Dwyane Wade, in the lurch. What do you think he's gonna do to you? You leave first. You be the initiator. You don't base your moves off of what someone else does. You base your moves off of what's best for you." We all know Kobe, an assassin, incredibly confident, and no matter what the obstacle is, he believes, you know, he'll bet on himself any day of the week and twice on Sunday. And Kobe is all about controlling what you do and controlling your own destiny. Other your own destiny.
Kyrie Irving is looking at himself in Boston and he's like, "This is my team. All right? And I'm not anybody's little brother, and I deserve to be a number one option, and I deserve to be seen as a franchise caliber player." And by the way, in the midst of all of that, I don't need to wait until somebody hands it to me. I can go get it myself. Because if you recall, the brawl was talking about how he wanted to give him the keys and, you know, he just wanted to be ready and all that. Talking about, "I was ready to give him the keys." What, what was it? The car we had when he made that game-winning three in Game Seven? Seemed like I both had keys to the car at that point. Because when he was out there dribbling, gone through his legs, making Steph Curry look silly, he was out there on the wing, patiently waiting and hoping for him to take that shot and make it because you knew who he was. You see what Molly says? She said that a LeBron son, Kyrie? Yeah, he tried to. And Kyrie wasn't having it. He wasn't happening because Kyrie knows his worth. That is why he forced a trade. And people said, "My wall didn't have to train him." Yes, they did. Because he was going to tank that entire season. At the very least, they have not threatened retirement. I still believed that he was going to threaten retirement if they had kept him. I don't doubt that at all. Kyrie comes off as that person who will give it all up if someone tries to oppress who he is. That's just what I see. Now, they claim Cleveland claimed that he threatened surgery. Whatever it was, it was severe enough for them to take his threat seriously. We all know what that means. What I'm saying to you is that that was the stuff emanating out of Kyrie's camp. And I'm not talking about Kyrie. I'm not talking about his agent. I'm talking about people in his old neighborhood. I'm talking about his daddy and his daddy's old neighborhood. I'm talking about friends from Rocks Willoughby, y'all guys that I know that know his family, that know him. They were all saying he has some little brother, some sidekick. He doesn't want to be sons. Which is something that I said back when it happened. And, you know, he has shown that he deserves what he wanted. And in the end, taking control of his own destiny. Absolutely. Absolutely. Like the Emperor said at the end of Return of the Jedi, "Only now, at the end, do you understand."
[Laughter] Part of that mess that has existed in Cleveland. Not only did he show himself to be the grown-up because of that reality, but it's because of the reality of what we've learned about the Cleveland Cavaliers as a franchise. Kobe Altman and Dan Gilbert made a move yesterday to alter the culture that had existed in Cleveland. And by the way, it all came to light the second Kyrie departed. So think about that. Absolutely. That shows you that what he was, the person who was keeping the sanity relatively in check. He was most likely the person that many of the other Cavaliers came to and confided in whenever LeBron pissed him off. And when he left, everybody else pretty much just went haywire because they were like, "Aw man, we got to deal with this guy." Because Kyrie, live, was most likely the person who provided the masculine energy counter to all of LeBron's feminine energy. And once Kyrie left, it was like a household being ran by some hood rat single mother. Everybody was like, "Oh no, I can't deal with this." That's why they had to clean house. What's the line from The Wire? When Proposition Joe is about to get murdered by Marlo, remember Marlo is going to take over the maggots, and Proposition Joe says, "I treated you just like a son." And Marlo said, "I'm not what it say. I'm not the type to be son." Or "I'm not the son type." Right? That's kind of what's going on here. And not that nothing LeBron treated him like a son, exactly, buddy. But exactly. But did "sun" him in another manner of slack? In another matter? Well, he tried to. Lamanna, Kyrie wasn't having it. Look, and I believe if what they claimed when all was true with LeBron supposedly sleeping with Kyrie's woman, allegedly, he may have done that as an attempt to try to demean or diminish Kyrie. And I brought this out when I did the movie breakdown of Mo' Better Blues. Many times, people who are jealous of you will try to do things like that. Try to take one of your women or lay down with that woman in an attempt to show you through that woman, after the taking of that woman, that, "Look, I'm more of a man than you," or "I have the domination over you." And that truly is bordering on a homosexual infatuation. I believe that LeBron is jealous of the energy that Kyrie has, the masculine energy that he has, and he was trying to show him that, "I'm the alpha male. I get the first pick of all the women that come around here." Because that's how they look at it. You know, when Cleveland beat Minnesota last Saturday and LeBron at the game-winner, he was even trying to shoot his shot at Cassidy Hubbarth in the postgame interview, talking about, "We need to have you around more often. You're good luck charm because we won tonight." I said, "Look at this guy." The postgame interview on national TV, he tried to shoot this shot at this broad. And I believe that that was the, the real genesis of why LeBron may have done that, if the rumors are true, which I believe that that will eventually come out that he did something along those lines. I've been saying that for a while now, just going off of Stephen A.'s sniff, some of his implied commentary in regards to what may be the source of some of the antipathy between Kyrie and LeBron, that LeBron allegedly slept with one of Kyrie's women or his main chick or whatever. But we're gonna put a most part. When a dude tries to do something like that, that's the manifestation of his envy. It's not even necessarily surly that he's just trying to get a nut off. That's just a manifestation of his envy and him indirectly trying to show that man that, "I'm just as much of a man as you."
What's happening with my favorite thing in sports right now? Because I questioned why he did this. I questioned whether he'd be successful. And more than questioned, if someone said, "Okay, fine, you're questioning, but what's your guess?" I was doubtful. Yes, you were questioning and you were doubtful because you're an idolatry of LeBron James. So due to that haze being over your mind, it was hard for you to evaluate the forest through the trees. Now, when you approach these assessments, what I try to do is to be as objective as possible. That's what allows me to see things very clearly. And the most interesting thing in sports occurs when you have questions about something you don't think the answer is yes, and someone proves you wrong. It says, "Note, the world is not exactly the way you think it is." What I thought about Kyrie, Stephen A., was when you are deployed as a weapon by LeBron James and not allowed to play to your full potential, you're not gonna have the stats that Russell Westbrook has or James Harden has. But I didn't think those guys were better than Kyrie in terms of being able to put up those numbers. And so I thought, what Kyrie would do when he got to the Celtics was put up crazy numbers like Westbrook or Harden. But I questioned whether and doubted whether that would be in the service of a powerful winning team that could make a playoff run.
Whoa. When Kyrie decided to go to Boston, I was, you know, I was a little quizzical in regards to how he would play without. I understood that he's intelligent enough to know that it would behoove him to not play how his detractors would believe he would play, which is just to try to go out and jack up 30 shots. He stated on-air while on First Take that he wanted to be the point guard. So that showed me that if he was indeed sincere, that he was going to, that he was going to convey or show a more well-rounded approach to the game. The way that he spoke in regards to Brad Stevens also showed me that he's someone who's thirsty for knowledge, not just in life, but particularly in basketball. And he did not believe that Tyronn Lue could take him to another level of understanding. So that's why I was very interested in how he would play. And I'm always an advocate and a supporter of any so-called black who decides to take over his own life. And many so-called black men are scared to take over their own life, and it manifests itself in various ways. Max Kellerman is just another liberal Caucasian Jew who thinks that he can all think everyone and talk circles around everyone, and oftentimes he only ends up entangling himself. He got frustrated with Kyrie because Kyrie would not succumb to the conversational paradigm that he was trying to initiate by trying to create arguments that Kyrie would step into and therefore validate a notion or a theory that doesn't even really have any substance. That is that Kyrie was running from LeBron because he wanted to have his own squad and be and and and run his own and and because he was jealous of LeBron. And that basically was the narrative that was put forth and promoted by many of LeBron's more ardent supporters in the liberal sports media, people like Max Kellerman and Nick Wright. And they have systematically been forced to acquiesce to the fact that not only is Kyrie a far better player and greater player than they thought, but that LeBron may actually not be deserving of the percentage of credit that they were giving him for the success that Cleveland had.
What he's actually done is try to stop the stat sheet. He's not averaging more points than he's ever averaged. It's not about that. He's playing a winning brand of basketball. And more than that, he's leading a winning brand of basketball. And he's the coach on the floor, which speaks not only to him but also to his coach. Because when you're a coach on the floor as a point guard and your team is successful, that means that not only are you a great leader on the floor, but that your coach is a great leader from the sideline. And it gives a leader on the floor a great deal of comfort when he knows that he can look at the coach on the sideline as a resource for information and as someone who is going to maintain stability mentally for that leader on the floor. And that energy can be transmuted over to everyone else on this. Oh, proving my doubts wrong and doing something surprising and excellent. He looks like a million bucks right now. And I mean that back when that was a lot of money for someone like, for normal people, maybe I should say a billion dollars. He looks like a billion dollars right now and has kind of through his behavior indeed has proven himself right.
Well, yes, sir. Which Max, he told us exactly what he was gonna do. He told us why he was leaving Cleveland. He told us what kind of basketball he wanted to play. And look, you guys are talking about seeing Kyrie through the prism of not wanting to be sonned and taking the keys to the kingdom himself, as you put it, Stephen A. I want to add a different word. I want you to hear this. What I see about Curry now, looking to the rearview mirror, I see unselfishness and a truth-teller. Now, first on the truth-teller side, Max, you and I both had troubles with the way he came on First Take. Yeah, because both of you were, we're living in the LeBron James haze. Once again, when you're living in the haze of man worship, it is difficult to understand 3-dimensional thought process. And I try to explain that over and over and over again. Once you let go of the worship and the veneration of a man, that's why I tell cats, it's not a fan channel. A lot of people got upset with a video that I did about Muhammad Ali when I stated a certain issue that a former paramour of his recited, recited. And I let people know, this is not a fan channel. When I make videos about Muhammad Ali or Martin Luther King or whoever else that I make videos about, I'm not going to leave out the warts to help promote some fake quote-unquote pro-black narrative. And that's what I like about Kyrie Irving. He's not scared to face the future warts and all. And that's what life and success is all about. So good for him.
No philosophical dad often said weird stuff, but at the same time, he told you, "I want to be a complete basketball player. I want to be well-rounded. I want to do everything that I know I'm capable of doing on a basketball court." I never begrudge him those reasons. I never grudged him wanting to become a full basketball player. And he's doing that. And he's also showing this is where the unselfishness comes. Now, how hard that was to do in Cleveland. Now, I'm gonna ask the question that everybody has taken his gospel. Does LeBron James really make everyone around him better? We used to assume that's the truth. It's been written and it's like in scripture. That everyone is hoping that everyone is not soaking. Well, I have not been assuming that for a very long time. I've been stating that LeBron James' effect on many of these other players is overrated. And don't get me wrong, LeBron James is a phenomenal player, but he has to be a phenomenal player his way. He does not know how to play any other style other than his way. And he will literally have a mental breakdown if he is not allowed to fully manifest his style of play. We saw that in the 2011 Finals against the Dallas Mavericks, where he basically had a mental breakdown in the finals because he was so unsure of how to play unless he was playing in the LeBron James system. That is why D. Wade had to divest control of the team over to LeBron at the end of that season to alleviate a lot of the consternation that LeBron had. Kyrie has shown, due to the fact that he is a little bit more cerebral than even LeBron, due to the mental energy that he has, that he's able to be more malleable when it comes to different to various styles of play. He's able to adapt. He can play off the ball. He could play with the ball. He can play in the system. He could run off picks. These are all things that LeBron James doesn't do. LeBron James can't run off picks. You know, he's not gonna run the baseline. He's not out there setting picks for other people. He has operated at the top of the key, survey the floor, dribble to his legs, and either step back to his left and take a fadeaway three or make a rim run. That's how he plays. And because he's an unbelievable athlete, he can get away with it. Don't get me wrong, there's diversity to LeBron's game, but in comparison of understanding of how to play within a system, various systems, and adjust, Kyrie has ahead of LeBron. Yes, he is.
Okay, Stephen A. Never. I think a lot of people do. I would also spread that a little differently that would illuminate what people mean by that, but go ahead. Will. Okay. Well, look, Chris Bosh, better before or after LeBron James? Kevin Love, better before or after? I.T. Jae Crowder, Mo Williams, better before or after LeBron James? Kyrie, this is where selfishness comes. He found his game. He found that style of play under LeBron James' shadow in a way that not many guys have been able to do. And that is a testament to his mental fortitude. You see Stephen A. starting to wake up from the LeBron James haze. For who he was then, and clarify one thing about making everyone better. And I think this is where the disconnect comes in and wait and and and why you can see this from a couple different points of view. It's nothing makes every individual player better or allows them to fully blossom to their full potential as an individual player in terms of stats, right? Before the eyeball test, if that you can take a group of guys and optimize the results of the group, frequently that means happens in baseball when a guy gets platooned on. Which World Series do you accept your role? If you accept your role, and that's what a winning team does. There are plenty of players throughout history, including a black brother, Chris Bosh, with Miami. How many arguments I had with people who were telling me Kevin Love in Minnesota was better than Chris Bosh when he was in Miami? Well, those were a lot of people who don't understand basketball. And I used to get into a little back-and-forth with people back in the day about Kevin Love. Kevin Love, to me, was a guy. You look at his stats, he's averaging 25 and 13 or 14 rebounds. But all I had to do is look at his shooting percentage, and I could tell what it was. The guy was shooting 44% from the field. So he was a player who had very poor shot selection. That means that he was taking shots away from players who could, who would have had a better chance of making the shot. Beyond that, it also showed me that he had to take a lot of long-range shots because he had no lift down in the low post. So Kevin Love is a person who's a good player, but he was able to win a championship with LeBron because he plugged in. LeBron's all-time great, top 10 player. But he has to play a particular style. Not to be successful. Terrific. Chris Bosh's better, better play to weight player, plays defense. If it, oh, he's only averaging his 7 rebounds a game and 13 points. That, that's his role on the team. He's a better player. So you're right in terms of the shine the individual gets and the full self-expression as an individual player. But LeBron gets the most out of a unit of people. He elevates the team. That doesn't always help the individual. But use what you speak in a fashion that assumes somebody else couldn't elevate the team and they couldn't elevate LeBron. Ding. Let me say this. Kevin Durant has shown when Steph Curry is out that he can do the same thing that LeBron James does. And this is why, and Stephen is hitting was something that I speak about a lot in regards to LeBron, who's best at playing that style? Russell Westbrook also plays that that similar style, as does a James Harden, as can a Kevin Durant. I'll be interested to see a Kawhi Leonard if fully healthy, putting that style of offense. But he's basically running a 1/4 set and he has the ball in his hands all the time. And watch these stats that he puts up. You know, you just can't look at a LeBron and say, "Well, look at the stats because he's supposed to get big stats." The system that they run, he has the ball all the time. He's supposed to get those. That's what makes LeBron great is the level with which he can display a diversity of skills in the style that he plays. I mean, there's never been another player with his body type, with the diversity of skills that he has, that's what truly sets him apart. We've seen Kyrie during his years in Cleveland in spots put on such a show that LeBron benefited from his excellence. We've seen Jr. Smith and others play a kind of defense that that that offset and negated what deficiencies LeBron was putting forth because we're all a gave himself or whatever the case may be. When you speak about LeBron's greatness and how he uplifts everybody, you act as if he never cost them. And I'm saying, there are times actually because of his greatness and that the team suffers because of it because you have it, you elevate, you haven't elevated them to be ready for being. Well, let me say this in regards to Stephen A.'s statement where Stephen A. is basically just stating is something that I've touched on for a long time, which is that when you played the LeBron James system, when LeBron is not the one with the ball or when he's out, the team is going to suffer because the other players are not accustomed to being put in pressurized situations where they themselves have to make a play because they're basically playing playground basketball with LeBron. And Kyrie touched on that. He didn't know he wanted to run a real offense. He didn't want to be a guy who just got the ball in the wing and went and went to work on his defender. He wanted to be someone who could be a triple threat, no penetrating, shooting, passing. He wanted to display his diversity of skills. That's how you go out in the annals as a player with a high basketball IQ, as you show your diversity of skills. Now, I give LeBron credit for someone who really can only play one way. He's probably the greatest player of all time for someone who is so limited in regards to how he can play. And that doesn't mean that LeBron does not understand other types of offense and systems, etc., but he can only play one way. All right, he's not going to be a Larry Bird playing off the ball in a weak side, why somebody else go to work, run a pick, set a screen. He's not going to do that. All right, he's just not. The closer that he came to becoming a more diversified player was in 2012 and 2013 when he got down to low post, started to pass out of the post, understood how to pace the game better. But he's quickly reverted back to the guy who just wants to run a fast break and act like he's 22 years old. And you can do that when you're 33, when you have the best PEDs on the planet, allegedly. All right, allegedly. And a lot of people are not going to like that, but I say all the time, just check the biogenesis ledger. His name was on it. I have to say that all the time. Appreciate you. Yeah. What mildly said, you have to address the mental games he plays. Why is that? Because that is very taxing. It's very taxing on a team when you have a player who's always playing silly mind games. But this is really only the beginning. I believe on some of the pulling back up the curtain in regards to LeBron. It would be very interesting to see what happens in the playoffs if and when Cleveland and the Boston Celtics match up. By anyway, peace.