Kyrie Irving's Struggles and Ambitions with the Celtics
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00:00This guy Irving, what, are they going to boo him?
00:05You think he gives a rat's ass what those people in Boston think of him?
00:10He thinks he's Jesus Christ himself.
00:13Yeah, look, I understood all the stuff with him in Boston before the series started.
00:20It was clearly a story.
00:22It was clearly something that needed to be talked about because of his history there.
00:27We're four games into the series now.
00:31There's really no reason to still be talking about Kyrie Irving's history with the Boston
00:37Celtics.
00:38But, Scotty, they're going to keep harping on it, so Kyrie gave him a little bit of what
00:41they wanted yesterday.
00:42Here he is explaining his struggles with the Celtics' cult, as he says.
00:47Man, by just thinking about the goal that we have in front of us as best we can and
00:52trying not to get tired of everyone talking about the history that has not been made.
00:57You know, I've said it over the past 48 hours, just putting our best foot forward and just
01:03simplifying it.
01:04It's basketball.
01:05This is what they're going to do to keep the series going.
01:06We'll play the other one next week.
01:07You know, win or lose, that's all that can happen.
01:08So you just want to be as prepared as you can for whatever the environment's going to
01:12be like in terms of what's expected from you.
01:16But I think what I'm sharing with my teammates now is just enjoy the moment and we've got
01:20a chance to accomplish one of our goals, which is to make it back to Boston.
01:23So we have another goal in front of us, and that's to make it back to Dallas.
01:26Yeah, you shooting like nine for 45 in two games there.
01:32Let's get some more of that.
01:33Stay focused together.
01:34Stay focused.
01:35Yeah, sure.
01:36Stay focused.
01:37Here's the cult.
01:38This guy, honestly, so full of Shaq.
01:41I think that's what I struggled with initially, was figuring out how I'm going to be a great
01:45player here while winning championships, while also leading a team, and selflessly
01:49joining the Celtics organization or the cult that they have here.
01:54You know, and that's what they expect you to do as a player.
01:57They expect you to seamlessly buy into the Celtics pride, buy into everything Celtics.
02:02And if you don't, then you'll be outed.
02:04And I'm one of the people that's on the outs.
02:06I'm perfectly fine with that.
02:09I mean, I did it to myself.
02:12They don't welcome me in with warm embrace.
02:14You know, I know a lot of people in the organization, and my friends still here, some of them.
02:18No, they don't.
02:19But yeah, it was just a doing to myself, and that's what I was talking about in terms of
02:22accepting the choices.
02:23But looking back on it, definitely would have showed my respect and had more of a counsel
02:27around me from some of the Boston Celtics that had came before me to explain what the
02:31pressure is like, so.
02:33Well that's because he's so cocky.
02:36His whole career, when he was younger, he was so cocky.
02:39He thought he was better than, remember, LeBron James, because he hit the shot and wanted
02:43to be on his own team, to lead his own team.
02:46So then he went there, and he didn't knob him.
02:49He wasn't going to be the guy, you know, going out to lunch with the leprechaun.
02:54And they didn't like that.
02:55You either are all in there, and you're one of us, or you won't last there.
03:01Listen, if this guy was playing for Red Auerbach, they would have never let him play a second
03:05year.
03:06I mean, honestly, like, you either are, you know, a part of that.
03:10He's right, it is a cult.
03:12It is bigger than, frankly, people can even understand.
03:17I mean, these are the two, I've said this before, the Lakers and Celtics are really,
03:22at the end of the day, and I know it sounds crazy, because there's been the Spurs, and
03:27there's been the Dubs, and there's been other teams, the Bulls, and the Heat, and everything.
03:33At the end of the day, the only thing that matters in the NBA are the Lakers and the
03:37Celtics.
03:39No one wants to admit it, but it's true.
03:41I live there.
03:42It's true.
03:43I've done it.
03:44It's true.
03:45That's all that matters.
03:46There's nothing the NBA wants more.
03:48Can you imagine when the Celtics and Lakers aren't good?
03:51You know how bad business is in the NBA?
03:53I mean, it's probably their down years.
03:55That's when they don't make any money.
03:57They have to have those two teams good, or their whole league collapses fiscally.
04:02That's just all there is to it.
04:04No one cares about the Oklahoma City Thunder.
04:06They're the most exciting team in the league, and no one gives a rat's ass.
04:11And I'm right.
04:12No one cares about Denver either.
04:14At all.
04:15More people care about Mayo and Ashford and getting laid than watching the Denver Nuggets.
04:20I'll tell you another thing.
04:22More people care about the Broncos if they win three games than all of the teams in Denver
04:29combined.
04:30Finally, here's Luka for you.
04:33He believes that the Mavericks can still get it done.
04:36Yeah, we talk about it.
04:38I think the most important thing is to show that we believe.
04:42I think we showed it in game four.
04:44If we wouldn't believe, we probably wouldn't want to play a game.
04:50Obviously the talk is easy to talk about it, but then showing it is another thing, so I
04:54think we showed it.
04:55Yeah, no.
04:56The other team didn't show up, is what he meant to say.
05:01And we were handed a win, and tonight they're going to be handed their lunch.
05:05I mean, you know it's coming, right?
05:07This is not happening tonight.
05:09There's not going to be any Dallas anything tonight.
05:11And let me tell you something else.
05:13They'll go right into the Dallas Cowboys, another flop season for them too.
05:18That's all they ever do is choke.
05:20And this team's going down hard too.
05:22They're going down hard tonight, like bend over city.
05:25It's all happening.
05:26I don't even have to be here tomorrow, community service, they should make me clean the urinals
05:31at that place.
05:32I'll go down to Dallas tonight and clean the urinals if they win that game.
05:35If they win that game tonight, I'll go down and clean their urinals.
05:39You're almost getting the release papers for that too.
05:43Almost over.
05:44The release papers are coming.
05:45Fourteen more days.
05:46Fourteen more days, and you're released from community service.
05:50It's just about there.
05:51It is six and a half, the number for tonight, as you mentioned.
05:56Now the total, two ten and a half.
06:00The lowest that we have seen, I'm going to give you the numbers in a moment, hasn't sniffed
06:03an over yet in this series.
06:06I'll take the under, and I'll lay sixteen and a half.
06:09Ooh, a little alt line tonight, I like that.
06:13Lay the hammer tonight with the sixteen and a half for Scottie.
06:17I mentioned to you, unders, all four games, under, so far, in the NBA Finals, and of course
06:2461% are on the over, which did go up actually from 209 to 210, which is where it is right
06:31now.
06:32You know what?
06:33The under is because the series has been underground.
06:38It's been in a casket in six feet under.
06:41It's been a funeral procession.
06:44It's been the burial of the NBA.
06:47What an atrocity that it's been.
06:50I don't care what anybody says.
06:51I don't have to listen to anybody, because I don't.
06:54It's been boring.
06:55It is so awful.
06:59I would rather pick my nose in my car in a traffic jam and eat my boogers than what
07:05I've watched for four games in the NBA Finals.
07:08The NBA Finals has been an absolute abortion.
07:11I don't care what anybody says.
07:13Simple as that.
07:14And don't even tell me I'm wrong, Carver, because you know it too.
07:17Listen, the US Open on Sunday was 1000% better than the NBA and Stanley Cup Finals combined.
07:28You're not going to get a disagreement from me on that.
07:32It was high drama.
07:34Here are the most bad player props for tonight.
07:37Oh, here we go.
07:38Sam Hauser, under two and a half rebounds.
07:40Peyton Pritchard, under one and a half assists.
07:43Luka, under 32 and a half points.
07:45Josh Green, over two and a half boards.
07:48And Kyrie Irving, under 23 and a half points.
07:52The most bad player props tonight.
07:54I'll take three and five.
07:56Luka and Kyrie Unders in points, because they're going to get their ass beat so bad
08:03that those two guys are going to be sitting with towels over their faces on the end of
08:08the bench, yanked from the game, because the game will be over by halftime.
08:16Very possible that that could be the case.
08:18If you think that the Mavericks can win the next three, that would be 13 to one for you.
08:26Minus 3,000 on the Celtics side of things.
08:29That is for the series.
08:31We just like to, you know, we got to keep everybody updated, Scotty.
08:34That's why we do this.
08:35Hell will freeze over.
08:37Hell will freeze over before you catch that ticket.
08:42Yeah, that's probably the case, I would have to say.
08:46Who's dumb enough to make that bet is what I want to know.
08:49And finally...
08:50I hope none of our viewers...
08:53The NBA Finals MVP, Jalen Brown, is still the favorite to win the MVP of the NBA Finals.
08:59Minus 225 with Tatum at plus 220.
09:03How funny is that?
09:04Luka Doncic, 13 to one, like he's going to win the MVP of what?
09:09Crying to the refs?
09:10What has he won the MVP for?
09:13What has he done to even get mentioned for that award?
09:19He's done absolutely nothing but the same old story.
09:23Crying and complaining and just throwing a temper tantrum.
09:27The little boy that takes his ball and goes home from the sandbox.
09:31Goes home to mommy.
09:32Get out the binky.
09:33He's not winning anything.
09:35That's another bad offering that I just saw on the screen today.
09:39How many bad offerings can you give me today, Carver?
09:41How did he get in top 12?
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