Stephen A. questions why the Mavericks got Kyrie Irving 🤨 | First Take
Stephen A. Smith weighs in on the state of the Dallas Mavericks with Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic.
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The Mavs got rid of draft picks and they have no money to sign good free agents. They are stuck with a roster with WAYYYY overpaid players like Reggie Bullock, Tim Hardaway jr., Davis Bertans, and Dwight Powell who is the only one with an expiring contract of those 4. The GM should be fired.
I honestly don’t believe jalen Brunson would’ve stayed no matter what they did. He heart was in NY with his pops
I honestly don’t believe jalen Brunson would’ve stayed no matter what they did. He heart was in NY with his pops
Defense wins game I think they forgot. Need to go watch 2018 Lebron finals game
Cuban got kyrie because didn't want Lakers to, not specifically for a need for him
Is Russo giving Steven the zoolander blue steel look?
I wanted to watch this and then saw it was mad dog day
..I just can't. I find the guy just so annoyingly awful….no views from me.
Doggy"s face when he's listening to Stephen A, makes me laugh every time!!! lolololo Priceless
Love how we got Pat Bev for defensive reasoning and soon as we got him out we became the number 1 defense in the league .. scary part is d Lo hasn’t even got a chance to start cooking .. maybe not this year but next year this team could be very scary but that being said this season currently I wouldn’t be shocked if 4 weeks from now the lakes were in the Western Conf Finals that’s how impressive this team is now
Guy on the right looks like a vampire that hasn’t fed in a while
Kyrie went to Boston that made WCF the year before and he made it worse. Kyrie then went to the Nets, and before KD played, the Nets won less than when they were led by Dinwiddie. Now he goes to the Mavs and they went from 5th to out of the playoffs. Nets and Boston had championship depth and talent and Kyrie has had the most talented team mates yet still loses. At some point, y'all got to stop getting bamboozled by pretty dribbles.
REMEBER WHEN THEY TRADED RONDO TO DALLAS? OR PORZINGIS? ITS WHERE TEAM CANCERS/WASTES OF TIME GET DUMPED OFF.
Bad move after bad move they let Jalen Brunson walk cause apparently Mark Cuban believed it was a contract year just not learning from his past mistakes.
A million excuses for Kyrie Irving buy ZERO excuses for Bron in year 20? 😑 Stephen A a real 🤡
Everyone said it was a dumb move when it happened. This isn't really even news or worth the 1:41.
Don't forget Jaylen Brunson got the Knicks in the playoff hunt currently in 5th place in the East and with a 4 game winning streak…let that sink in for a minute…
Luka had health issues before Kyrie got there. He was missing a lot of games because he was getting injured too often.
The NBA is not a rotisserie league, these are real life human beings. Perhaps they could be successful next year but I doubt Kyrie will be around that long.
He look dead. 💀 on the right
Mavs have always been missing that two way wing player that ever championship caliber team needs. They've never been elite at that position in their entire franchise history that I can recall.
We just not going to talk about stephen a smith mustache that he just needs to shave
Im not a basketball genius or anything. But it seems to me that your two best players shouldn’t play the same position.
Becuaee they have a shoe salesman as the GM. Dudes made the team worse with every single decision since he’s been there. Sad what’s happening around Luka.
Teams got so desperate and star struck, they end up losing in the long run. There’s no short cut to winning. Just ask the Nets, Minnesota and Dallas. Golden state, Milwaukee and Boston are the role models that teams should look up to right now. Their success is by trusting the process of developing their homegrown talents. Dallas should’ve kept Jalen Brunson
Mavs future is bright if we keep Ky. Build around them in the offseason let’s go Mavs
"Why" is obvious, to make the team better. "Did it work?" so far, no.
Stephen A. 100% right about Mavs letting jalen brunson go
Mad Dog looks like Zoolander 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤣🤣🤣💯
thats it? gtfoh
This trade is a direct reflection management and owner.
This duo was never gonna work this isn’t just about offensive pieces they should’ve got defensive pieces.
All facts by Stephen A Smith.
That's a dumb question…. we've been making horrible decisions for a while. The only things we did right was draft day trade for Dirk and Luka.
Teams don’t want Kylie, over involved owners do. They guy should be nicknamed “ the black plague “. Every where he plays the teams die.
Everyone when Kyrie went to Mavs: AWESOME TRADE!!!
Everyone when Mavs start losing: TERRIBLE TRADE!!!!
stfu all yall
The media keeps blaming the Mavs for not retaining Jalen brunson but to my understanding he was going to leave anyways and that's why the NBA fined the Knicks because they were in trade talks when it wasnt supposed to happen and then hired the father, gave JB a dope house and a fat contract. I think this off-season they should try and get rid of everyone and only keep Luka and kyrie everyone else sucks. Inconsistent players on offense with terrible defense and even worse rebounding.
“ImporDant”
SAS is going to say the same to NYK If they trade everything for Donovan Mitchell 😂
Luka gets most of the blame
Mad Dog looking like a vampire
When kyrie came to Mavs, there was a lot of hype and how mavs could be the championship contender. When they announced the trade, I was skeptical about how it would play out. Yea sure…. kyrie and Luka together on the same team the dynamic duo that they can be and its all looks on paper, but I still don't know what is wrong with this team. Yea you have two good offense players but wheres the defense tho?? This is where I felt skeptical about the trade from the beginning. Now if the mavs don't make the playoff…. I know for a fact Kyrie would leave after this season and possibly headed to the lakers. Now since I'm a Laker fan, tbh I don't really feel like the necessary to add kyrie to the Lakers roster anyway. Our team has becoming a totally different team since the trade deadline, we talking about defense ranking went up to 2nd, we got rid of Russell Westbrook problem, and Pat bev. Our PG DLo is a solid decent point guard who can shoot and move and handle the ball compare to westbrook, we also got AR-15 whos been balling out and stepping up and got good basketball IQ, we got Vando, Mo Bamba for great defense. Overall, the lakers team has been solid, and it would just be a plus or "nice to have" if kyrie comes to Lakers. What we really are just shooters.
I hope he watched the game today
Kyrie Irving fans worse than Kanye fans yall defend that man even if he set the world on fire
lol… Kyrie going to an All white Team 🤍 was for KYRIE to get HANG …..NOPE …IT DIDN'T HAPPEN…The REAL Blacs stand United we…knows our brother Kyrie 'being BLACK BALLED 🖤'' by the NBA ..sowing SEEMs LIKE KYRIE '' SABATOGE '' LUKA 🤣…well GUESS WHAT …'' LUKA ACTUALLY LOST FANS '' BECAUSE '' THE KYRIE BLACK BALL '' TRADE 🎱🎱
I'm sure somebody made a Zoolander reference already BUT… "Le Tigre."
Poor Luka😢😢😢
I guess a better version of Brunson ? Idk …Kyrie ain’t mentally stable
Kyrie is not the problem. Leave him alone.