You can read whatever reports you want, but most of them aren’t pretty, indicating everything from Kyrie wants out of Brooklyn and the Nets are willing to help to KD might want to leave if Kyrie does, and any permutation in between.
Well, ask one admittedly not-Nets fan – let’s call that fan, uh, Meg Miannotti – and the end result is going to be none of that.
“I feel like the Nets are going to end up caving with Kyrie Irving and giving him whatever he wants, because they’re too scared that Kevin Durant is going to leave,” Gio said on Monday’s Boomer & Gio Show.
Boomer wondered if maybe firing head coach Steve Nash might be a work-around?
“That could be something too, and that’s how they gain some control back,” Gio said, “but I think they’re going to cave and say this is the bed they’ve made, they have to lie in it now and deal with this for the next couple years.”
The era of player empowerment is real in the NBA, and Boomer, for one, doesn’t like it.
“Sooner or later you have to draw a line and say, ‘hey man, we’re paying you, you signed a four-year contract extension,” Boomer said of Kyrie. “NBA owners have to start doing something, because with the amount of money they’re investing in these players, you just can’t have these players just absolutely uprooting these franchises.”
Booms noted it has happened in other sports – a ‘couple times in the NFL’ he thinks – but Gio agreed:
“Somebody just has to put their foot down and say, ‘we’re not going to trade you.’”
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