{"id":439541,"date":"2022-04-29T19:52:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stephen-a-smith-fed-up-with-kyrie-irving-in-6-minute-rant\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T19:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:52:21","slug":"stephen-a-smith-fed-up-with-kyrie-irving-in-6-minute-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephen-a-smith-fed-up-with-kyrie-irving-in-6-minute-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stephen A. Smith fed up with Kyrie Irving in 6-minute rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b5035bd2d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b5035bd2d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephen-a-smith-fed-up-with-kyrie-irving-in-6-minute-rant\/#%E2%80%9CStephen_A_Smith_fed_up_with_Kyrie_Irving_in_6-minute_rant%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Stephen A. Smith fed up with Kyrie Irving in 6-minute rant&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CStephen_A_Smith_fed_up_with_Kyrie_Irving_in_6-minute_rant%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Stephen A. Smith fed up with Kyrie Irving in 6-minute rant&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Stephen A. Smith provided 24 hours\u2019 notice that he was going to deliver a rant for the ages about Kyrie Irving, and the man fulfilled his promise. <\/p>\n<p>Smith, who promised a response to Irving\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of tweets Thursday that ripped the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> as puppets for a racist society, spoke on ESPN\u2019s \u201cFirst Take\u201d on Friday and called Irving \u201cone of the most delusional athletes in American history.\u201d He said the Nets point guard \u2014 who missed chunks of the season while not complying with a vaccination mandate and underwhelmed in the team\u2019s first-round sweep by the Celtics \u2014 was \u201cslick\u201d in \u201ctrying to get away with something that I\u2019m not gonna let him get away with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can try to paint this issue, Kyrie, as anything you want to,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWhat it comes down to is you don\u2019t want to show up to work. You want to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, how you want to do it, while you got your hand out for someone else\u2019s money. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then when you get called on it, we\u2019re the peons. We\u2019re the ones who are puppets. So before you excoriated us. Now you\u2019re pitying us. Because you want to highlight the puppet masters who <em>you<\/em> are worth billions to. You\u2019re not worth billions, bro. Millions, yes. Billions, no. That\u2019s delusional. You gave that up years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/stephen-a-smith-kyrie-irving-rant.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"stephen a smith eviscerated kyrie irving on espn's first take\" class=\"wp-image-22084739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/stephen-a-smith-kyrie-irving-rant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/stephen-a-smith-kyrie-irving-rant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/stephen-a-smith-kyrie-irving-rant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Stephen A. Smith lacerated Kyrie Irving as someone who doesn\u2019t want to go to work.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ESPN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/kyrie-irving-media-tweets.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kyrie Irving #11 of the Brooklyn Nets is greeted by a teammate\" class=\"wp-image-22084766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/kyrie-irving-media-tweets.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/kyrie-irving-media-tweets.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/kyrie-irving-media-tweets.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kyrie Irving went after sports media in a series of tweets on Thursday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Irving had posted a number of tweets criticizing the sports media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see my name or my brothers\/sisters names getting spun through the media, I refer to all my research about who they are,\u201d the Nets guard <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyrieIrving\/status\/1519675110193606657\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cTheir job is to CONTROL PUBLIC PERCEPTION, all while profiting off discussing, discrediting, and disrespecting people\u2019s lives for entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI send shots at the puppet masters, not the puppets,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyrieIrving\/status\/1519676087109890048\">continued<\/a>. \u201cAll puppets do is run around society, trying to gain popularity and state opinions. What a life! [Shrug emoji.] My name is worth billions to these media corporations. My brothers and sisters who deal with this know exactly what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I send shots at the puppet masters, not the puppets. All puppets do is run around society, trying to gain popularity and state opinions.  What a life! \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>My name is worth billions to these media corporations. My brothers and sisters who deal with this know exactly what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 A11Even (@KyrieIrving) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyrieIrving\/status\/1519676087109890048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Smith called Irving \u201carguably the most spectacular talent in the NBA,\u201d but pointed to all the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s he has missed over the years. He brought up a time Irving dropped 60 points, and NBA legend Isiah Thomas, a longtime Irving backer, gloated about it to Smith. However, Smith said, this was an example of what he was talking about \u2014 a splendid talent who did not fulfill his natural gifts on a consistent basis. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyrie actually looks down on us because we want to see him play,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n<p>Smith brought up that Irving missed about 60 games in his first season with the Nets and more than 50 this year. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stephen A. rants about Kyrie Irving&#039;s latest tweets critiquing the media | First Take\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxJDlNsXYZI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cKyrie Irving is one of the greatest professionals at missing work,\u201d he continued, pointing out that the NBA offseason is six months \u2014 \u201con top of the 53 games he missed!\u201d \u2014 after getting paid $30 million. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere you are, you don\u2019t want to work, unless you want to do it when you want to do it,\u201d Smith ranted. \u201cYou come back from the [vaccine] mandate, and even though you had spectacular games, there were other games that you struggled. And literally he went on the record that he didn\u2019t have his legs. That he was tired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, what the hell were you doing all that time off?? It\u2019s beyond the pale to ask that question? And then you go out on a Twitter rant and you go and spew this stuff. Why? Because the media that gets paid to cover the sport is asking you about the sport you voluntarily signed up to play, getting paid an exorbitant amount <em>to<\/em> play. Half the time you don\u2019t show up to work. They point it out. They point out the load that you put on your teammates <em>because<\/em> of your absence, and talk about how that may very well be the reason you got <em>swept<\/em> out of the first round. And that is on us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith found it \u201cweak\u201d and \u201csad\u201d that Irving was portraying himself as a victim.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, Smith spoke for nearly six minutes uninterrupted in his takedown of Irving.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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