'Kevin Durant just made a huge mistake’ joining Nets with Kyrie — Skip Bayless | NBA | UNDISPUTED

That's why I'm still surprised by this. I still can't figure it out and after I slept through the night, the more I think about it, the worse it gets. I don't understand. In the end it was about

kyrie

and friendship as you say yes but

kevin

is still too young to opt for

just

friendship

kevin

durant

just

made

a big

mistake

with me and I don't understand it because in the end you did tell me a month ago that kevin

durant

and

kyrie

irving would end up signing with the networks I would have said yes and the pigs are going to fly because if I had told you that a month ago before we knew any of this you would have laughed and asked is it impossible what just happened and I'm going to Remember everyone this is for our younger viewers, Kevin Durant's legacy move was obviously go to the Knicks if you're not going to stay with Golden State, which was on the table and you were pushing for it, you thought it would be like that. the opposite, but other than that, if you're going to choose another place to go, it has to be the Knicks because I know that kids right now think of the Knicks as this sad joke of a franchise, this embarrassing laugh. stock this mess of an unlovable loser, that's what the Knicks are in recent memory, yeah or really for like 20 years, it's been like this basically Kevin Durant's life

skip

ped, no remember the mix like you remember me having it, but just for the record, they are the biggest sleeping giant in all of sports, there is nothing like those nicks, you could argue that the cubs used to be the knicks, but these are the knicks , they play in the most sacred stadium in all of sports and it's not even close. true, it's mecca, it's madison square garden, it's entertainment personified because of all the superstars in all forms of entertainment that have played in the palace, i.e. madison square garden, everyone wants to go there, every opponent wants have your best game in madison square. garden, I'll tell you, they have the worst owner in sports, but that's been slightly canceled out by a very good coach and David physically, yeah, I like you for you and if you look at Scott Perry's record, they're pretty new, he's been there twice. years that he is, he has a resume behind him, he helped build the pistons championship team and that run that they have, yeah, okay, so I respect him and I respect what they could be and I don't respect the fact that Kevin He said no to this. and I get it and ESPN reported that they wouldn't offer Kevin Durant the max because of his injury history.

I'm going to get to that in just a minute because you

made

a strong point: he has a history of injuries and he is. he's a pretty big risk right now, he's fine, I understand that part, but it also became clear later in the night that Kevin Durant and Kyrie took less time going to the

nets

so we can get his other friend if we can go. banana boat for those three guys, as far as I know, they haven't actually ridden a banana boat, but they all belong on a banana boat. those three do deandre jordan, who played briefly with the knicks last year, but they had to put him under the limit at 10 million, which is probably more than he's worth right now, but he's his friend, so to dominate him everyone took those two, they took a little less, okay?

That would mitigate the circumstance a little. The Knicks say, well, we can't, Kevin. go all out, well, if I'm Kevin Durant, I don't care how much they pay me because, as you've pointed out many times, he has so many lucrative investments in Silicon Valley that are still in business only because he's now an absentee owner. It doesn't mean anything, he's fine, you can run them from afar and he's made a lot of money in his career, this was a legacy, this is your chance to go there and revive a sleeping giant that hasn't won a championship since 1973.

This era your chance to win another championship with the Knicks that would erase all the criticism you received for leaving Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City to join forces with the guys who had just come back from 3-1 down to beat you, Steph Clay Draymond. It's a chance if you want a couple championships with the Knicks, you'd need Kyrie too, but if they both had picked the Knicks, they could have started arguing that in the end you were the second best player in basketball history to michael jordan, like this how big is the opportunity you just left on the table for what you know what it's for, I think it's just friendship, no, seriously, that's what it is, I think it's what he was never able to connect with in Golden State.

He went there thinking maybe. I'll become friends with Steph and they couldn't become friends, right? But let's talk about that a little bit. We'll talk about that later, but they never clicked and he went there thinking maybe Draymond would become him. my best friend and them had a terrible fight that led to some terrible comments made by Draymond, so he felt like he never had to go his own way last year in Golden State, yeah he was a man on an island and sometimes you could see in the way they played or didn't play well, then he says at this stage of my career I go for Kyrie and Deandre, well here's the surprise for me, I think Kyrie is the alpha here because we keep listening for I don't know a couple of weeks ago it was

nets

nets nets for Kyrie and I kept thinking, Kyrie, are you going to do this alone? because I couldn't imagine Kevin also

joining

the nets.

I thought it was going to be Kyrie or bust. for the Nets, okay, so help me, I think it was Kyrie who said, Kevin, we have to go to the Nets because of who you are, you're going to the Clippers, right, you're going to a team that was 42 and 40. ...you said they have better pieces and they have a little better pieces, but they're not exactly a championship waiting to happen right now, no, I just think the issue is that it would take the Knicks longer to get them. pieces the next this is, you know, they laid all the eggs that they were going to get Zion, they really thought they were going to get the Zion jump and that didn't happen, so now they created all this cap space, they traded przingas and they got rid of tim. hardaway junior deal to open up all this cap space for basically two, they wanted two of the three guys they wanted, kyrie k.d and kawhi, and we found out

skip

they don't get the number one overall pick in the draft, they don't get kyrie.

They don't understand kawhi, they don't understand kd, they got down to business with the whole case, I guess I think k is in order, so it was a total disaster and now you're giving the boys bobby porters and you're julius Right now I have all that ability, but to me what this tells me about Kevin Durant is that right now I would rather win a title with my friends and because after he won the first time, Remember Skip said this is where he is where is the 100 the margin of 100 100 member marching band where is the orchestra where is everything that comes with this you see what happened in Golden State skip won a title with teammates now he wants to win a title with friends okay , What happened? it's skip in golden state look at this k.d no katie sorry draymond clay and steph grew up together it would have been the equivalent if kd had won in okc with him serge and russ i agree with that and it was never the link It all happened because stepping on it was a different skill when he got there.

Steph was happily married with two children. Katie comes single, yeah, so she was never going to work out, so I guess he and Kyrie are so close that she listened to Kyrie. He said "let's go to the nets" and I guess he listened to Deandre, who remembers that he was with the Knicks last year because he played 19 of 31 games, so he got a taste of the culture of the David Fizz era, right? ? I'm going to guess. andre jordan told kd no not about david fizdale and maybe the whole world i think he likes fizdale i just don't think he liked the organization i think he was a dnp the last seven games it wasn't surprising , but go ahead.

It seems like they were going in a different direction, they wanted to be younger and I'm sure Deandre understood that okay, so this feels a little like Lebron's choice to come to Los Angeles, regardless of whether I have a co-star or No, I want to go to Los Angeles and you can argue with me all day until the cows come home or they don't come home. That Lebron chose the Lakers in part because of Hollywood in part and now, to me, Kevin has made a similar decision at an older age he has been 12 years old this is 12 years he has been in the league for 12 years he made a decision I just want to play with my friends title or non-title I'm not sure the title is their priority right now again Brooklyn is a little better placed to make a run with those two guys but Kevin obviously can't play next year but what did you do What did you tell me all last week?

Kevin Durant will do things that will bring fireworks where you least expect it, Kyrie marches to his own drum his own rhythm they will do the things that you like because everyone thinks they will go to the knicks why not go to the knicks the knicks are so sacred madison square garden the biggest events there why wouldn't you two do it? I want to perform on that stage and say now let's go to Brooklyn, let's make Brooklyn a stage like the Knicks, that's how they think, jump because you know that when you get to that level you have supreme confidence in your ability, in what you can and I can't go back to the next one if I had run with the Knicks, I would have jumped in and offered Kevin Durant the max.

You better believe he would have done it because you just gotta do it, yeah, you just got rid of Porzingis to do this, just do it. Yes, do you have legitimate concerns about that? You better believe so, because what happened to Demarcus's cousins ​​was that he came back after a year, and yet all the warriors said that he never looked good all last year, that he couldn't run in a hurry. side to side of the floor. he couldn't get back to fitness and often complained that his foot hurt on the Achilles side right, we saw flashes of brilliance in the finals right, but it could only have been for four minutes here in five minutes here right right right, yeah, That's going to be the Kevin Durant we'll see in two years.

He may need a whole year back. Yes, to do it right. Oh, I think sure. Okay, thanks for watching. You can subscribe here to get the latest from the show and make sure you see more of the best. clips from

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