Will Cain goes off over Kyrie Irving interview responses | First Take | ESPN

So obviously you look at this as an innocent bystander and everything that happened, what was your reaction to his appearance. Well

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of all amazing, get a good job, it was amazing television and I respect the fact that Kyrie opened up on this forum. To these questions from you two and from Molly as well, you know that I don't consider it my job in any sense. In fact, I don't want to criticize anyone, it's just not what I want to do, but it's not my job either. I hope these guys like it, I'm trying to foster friendship between these girls, well, I've failed, if that's your case, right?

No, it's my job to tell the truth and the fact of the matter is that the truth of the matter is Kyrie Irving yesterday. He pulled out a wheelbarrow full of nonsense, took out a shovel and threw it on this table and waited for the three of you to eat it with a smile. He looked at them all condescendingly, especially you, Max, and suggested that he is somehow above doubt about the last clip he played. just respect your decision as a man, we know well that what we do is analyze, sometimes criticize and do everything possible to understand a pseudo-philosophical and cryptic behavior of evasion that you brought here to evade every difficult question that you left aside and that apparently consider yourself a kind of philosopher. king, that can work, we have word salads around every question you asked, he contradicted himself in a matter of multiple questions Stephen, at one point you asked him, he said it was so painful that he was on his trip to China and his fear of work rest um comes out and you pushed and you said hurtful why whose and he said who cares are you kidding you care you're hurt yeah you care Kyrie that's what's very clear here but still so you look down with your eyes half closed and you act like you somehow told us some philosophy, you talked about being a team player and it's bigger than one man and yet at the same time you say no, He didn't have to tell Brawn mu, I mean, a lot of people point out that LeBron didn't do it.

I don't do that for Dwayne Wade, so what two wrongs make a right? Kyrie constantly contradicted himself. The truth of the matter is that there were more insights and there was more ultimate honesty in his anger toward you than anything else in that entire

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. that he's so mad at you, maximum, I think it reveals everything that motivates Kyrie, he's clearly heard your criticism, criticism of him for the way he knows what the second banana means, another condescending, one bell, oh well, Do you think so? He believes that the world is flat. Do you know his floor?

Are you sure he knows what second plantain I make? I'm pretty sure he knows max means you know one second claims he's done two claims the earth isn't round and he doesn't know which second banana leaves I'm just saying you're right and I'm not here to criticize Kyrie, so I'll leave out the flat earth thing. I'm just telling the truth as it is, he knows what the ultimate second banana is and that's his motivation for leaving LeBron, the truth is, the thing is, he's heard people like you call him second banana, he's heard people like you call him one-dimensional ISO player and you're tired of it and maybe that's legit, maybe you want to hone your personal craft. so big is a more complete player and believes he can lead Boston to a championship, but don't sit here at Ave jus Stephen a and patronize your max trying to understand simple questions about whether you wanted to or not Stay away from LeBron, state your legitimate and honest reasons, if you are angry at people like Max Kellerman, your professional desire is to prove them wrong, then just say it.

I'll be honest, one of the condescending things he said I felt was if you're a basketball enthusiast, you know there are deeper things than this, he wants to be a point guard because of the way your talents are used, etc. At

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I defended him because he was a big Kyrie fan and I thought he was underrated watching the playoffs closely. I started to think a little bit that maybe I had overrated him a little bit because I thought he was the equivalent of Westbrook or Harden or any of those guys where you and I had debates where you defended him and I said I'd

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Isiah.

Thomas or Kyrie was on a defender because LeBron James evaluates a group of guys and figures out how to optimize their chances of winning and he probably felt correctly. I would correctly assume that Kyrie would serve the team better off the ball many times. The times and with LeBron on the ball and you know, and Kyrie agreed with that, well for him and Kyrie I thought he pointed it out, so I think as the main ball player he

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be overrated because he

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put up huge numbers, but He is a tremendous talent. I've given him credit for the fact that he doesn't play defense most of the time.

I also pointed out that this is what I think happened yesterday: we decided like in the media and the fans decided we decided what. It should be important for the player and what we have decided is to win championships, that should be important. Sometimes there are some mitigating factors. If you leave the team you're on to win a championship, sometimes we don't like that, but certainly if leaving your team should only be in pursuit of a championship you shouldn't let your team force quote unquote selfish reasons so think about this Kyrie is sitting there thinking I want to optimize my potential as a player in my career and my own happiness as a person and I feel like I can do that somewhere else and I asked him yes, but that doesn't really diminish your chances of winning a championship and He can't answer that question because if he honestly says yes, I care more about my own personal happiness and seeing how great a basketball player I can be, we're all going to kill him, all the media is going to be on him and the alternative is to say look. , I had a personal problem with LeBron James and I don't want to talk about it, but I support him and I tried to tell him, but I guess one time, if he says that and that's true, people will haunt him until the end of time to tell him that reveal the details of that problem, so I guess. that's what happened and that's why he responded the way he did cryptically passive-aggressive and not to the point