Kyrie Irving's Struggles and Ambitions with the Celtics

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00:00This guy Irving, what, are they going to boo him?

00:05You think he gives a rat's ass what those people in Boston think of him?

00:10He thinks he's Jesus Christ himself.

00:13Yeah, look, I understood all the stuff with him in Boston before the series started.

00:20It was clearly a story.

00:22It was clearly something that needed to be talked about because of his history there.

00:27We're four games into the series now.

00:31There's really no reason to still be talking about Kyrie Irving's history with the Boston

00:37Celtics.

00:38But, Scotty, they're going to keep harping on it, so Kyrie gave him a little bit of what

00:41they wanted yesterday.

00:42Here he is explaining his struggles with the Celtics' cult, as he says.

00:47Man, by just thinking about the goal that we have in front of us as best we can and

00:52trying not to get tired of everyone talking about the history that has not been made.

00:57You know, I've said it over the past 48 hours, just putting our best foot forward and just

01:03simplifying it.

01:04It's basketball.

01:05This is what they're going to do to keep the series going.

01:06We'll play the other one next week.

01:07You know, win or lose, that's all that can happen.

01:08So you just want to be as prepared as you can for whatever the environment's going to

01:12be like in terms of what's expected from you.

01:16But I think what I'm sharing with my teammates now is just enjoy the moment and we've got

01:20a chance to accomplish one of our goals, which is to make it back to Boston.

01:23So we have another goal in front of us, and that's to make it back to Dallas.

01:26Yeah, you shooting like nine for 45 in two games there.

01:32Let's get some more of that.

01:33Stay focused together.

01:34Stay focused.

01:35Yeah, sure.

01:36Stay focused.

01:37Here's the cult.

01:38This guy, honestly, so full of Shaq.

01:41I think that's what I struggled with initially, was figuring out how I'm going to be a great

01:45player here while winning championships, while also leading a team, and selflessly

01:49joining the Celtics organization or the cult that they have here.

01:54You know, and that's what they expect you to do as a player.

01:57They expect you to seamlessly buy into the Celtics pride, buy into everything Celtics.

02:02And if you don't, then you'll be outed.

02:04And I'm one of the people that's on the outs.

02:06I'm perfectly fine with that.

02:09I mean, I did it to myself.

02:12They don't welcome me in with warm embrace.

02:14You know, I know a lot of people in the organization, and my friends still here, some of them.

02:18No, they don't.

02:19But yeah, it was just a doing to myself, and that's what I was talking about in terms of

02:22accepting the choices.

02:23But looking back on it, definitely would have showed my respect and had more of a counsel

02:27around me from some of the Boston Celtics that had came before me to explain what the

02:31pressure is like, so.

02:33Well that's because he's so cocky.

02:36His whole career, when he was younger, he was so cocky.

02:39He thought he was better than, remember, LeBron James, because he hit the shot and wanted

02:43to be on his own team, to lead his own team.

02:46So then he went there, and he didn't knob him.

02:49He wasn't going to be the guy, you know, going out to lunch with the leprechaun.

02:54And they didn't like that.

02:55You either are all in there, and you're one of us, or you won't last there.

03:01Listen, if this guy was playing for Red Auerbach, they would have never let him play a second

03:05year.

03:06I mean, honestly, like, you either are, you know, a part of that.

03:10He's right, it is a cult.

03:12It is bigger than, frankly, people can even understand.

03:17I mean, these are the two, I've said this before, the Lakers and Celtics are really,

03:22at the end of the day, and I know it sounds crazy, because there's been the Spurs, and

03:27there's been the Dubs, and there's been other teams, the Bulls, and the Heat, and everything.

03:33At the end of the day, the only thing that matters in the NBA are the Lakers and the

03:37Celtics.

03:39No one wants to admit it, but it's true.

03:41I live there.

03:42It's true.

03:43I've done it.

03:44It's true.

03:45That's all that matters.

03:46There's nothing the NBA wants more.

03:48Can you imagine when the Celtics and Lakers aren't good?

03:51You know how bad business is in the NBA?

03:53I mean, it's probably their down years.

03:55That's when they don't make any money.

03:57They have to have those two teams good, or their whole league collapses fiscally.

04:02That's just all there is to it.

04:04No one cares about the Oklahoma City Thunder.

04:06They're the most exciting team in the league, and no one gives a rat's ass.

04:11And I'm right.

04:12No one cares about Denver either.

04:14At all.

04:15More people care about Mayo and Ashford and getting laid than watching the Denver Nuggets.

04:20I'll tell you another thing.

04:22More people care about the Broncos if they win three games than all of the teams in Denver

04:29combined.

04:30Finally, here's Luka for you.

04:33He believes that the Mavericks can still get it done.

04:36Yeah, we talk about it.

04:38I think the most important thing is to show that we believe.

04:42I think we showed it in game four.

04:44If we wouldn't believe, we probably wouldn't want to play a game.

04:50Obviously the talk is easy to talk about it, but then showing it is another thing, so I

04:54think we showed it.

04:55Yeah, no.

04:56The other team didn't show up, is what he meant to say.

05:01And we were handed a win, and tonight they're going to be handed their lunch.

05:05I mean, you know it's coming, right?

05:07This is not happening tonight.

05:09There's not going to be any Dallas anything tonight.

05:11And let me tell you something else.

05:13They'll go right into the Dallas Cowboys, another flop season for them too.

05:18That's all they ever do is choke.

05:20And this team's going down hard too.

05:22They're going down hard tonight, like bend over city.

05:25It's all happening.

05:26I don't even have to be here tomorrow, community service, they should make me clean the urinals

05:31at that place.

05:32I'll go down to Dallas tonight and clean the urinals if they win that game.

05:35If they win that game tonight, I'll go down and clean their urinals.

05:39You're almost getting the release papers for that too.

05:43Almost over.

05:44The release papers are coming.

05:45Fourteen more days.

05:46Fourteen more days, and you're released from community service.

05:50It's just about there.

05:51It is six and a half, the number for tonight, as you mentioned.

05:56Now the total, two ten and a half.

06:00The lowest that we have seen, I'm going to give you the numbers in a moment, hasn't sniffed

06:03an over yet in this series.

06:06I'll take the under, and I'll lay sixteen and a half.

06:09Ooh, a little alt line tonight, I like that.

06:13Lay the hammer tonight with the sixteen and a half for Scottie.

06:17I mentioned to you, unders, all four games, under, so far, in the NBA Finals, and of course

06:2461% are on the over, which did go up actually from 209 to 210, which is where it is right

06:31now.

06:32You know what?

06:33The under is because the series has been underground.

06:38It's been in a casket in six feet under.

06:41It's been a funeral procession.

06:44It's been the burial of the NBA.

06:47What an atrocity that it's been.

06:50I don't care what anybody says.

06:51I don't have to listen to anybody, because I don't.

06:54It's been boring.

06:55It is so awful.

06:59I would rather pick my nose in my car in a traffic jam and eat my boogers than what

07:05I've watched for four games in the NBA Finals.

07:08The NBA Finals has been an absolute abortion.

07:11I don't care what anybody says.

07:13Simple as that.

07:14And don't even tell me I'm wrong, Carver, because you know it too.

07:17Listen, the US Open on Sunday was 1000% better than the NBA and Stanley Cup Finals combined.

07:28You're not going to get a disagreement from me on that.

07:32It was high drama.

07:34Here are the most bad player props for tonight.

07:37Oh, here we go.

07:38Sam Hauser, under two and a half rebounds.

07:40Peyton Pritchard, under one and a half assists.

07:43Luka, under 32 and a half points.

07:45Josh Green, over two and a half boards.

07:48And Kyrie Irving, under 23 and a half points.

07:52The most bad player props tonight.

07:54I'll take three and five.

07:56Luka and Kyrie Unders in points, because they're going to get their ass beat so bad

08:03that those two guys are going to be sitting with towels over their faces on the end of

08:08the bench, yanked from the game, because the game will be over by halftime.

08:16Very possible that that could be the case.

08:18If you think that the Mavericks can win the next three, that would be 13 to one for you.

08:26Minus 3,000 on the Celtics side of things.

08:29That is for the series.

08:31We just like to, you know, we got to keep everybody updated, Scotty.

08:34That's why we do this.

08:35Hell will freeze over.

08:37Hell will freeze over before you catch that ticket.

08:42Yeah, that's probably the case, I would have to say.

08:46Who's dumb enough to make that bet is what I want to know.

08:49And finally...

08:50I hope none of our viewers...

08:53The NBA Finals MVP, Jalen Brown, is still the favorite to win the MVP of the NBA Finals.

08:59Minus 225 with Tatum at plus 220.

09:03How funny is that?

09:04Luka Doncic, 13 to one, like he's going to win the MVP of what?

09:09Crying to the refs?

09:10What has he won the MVP for?

09:13What has he done to even get mentioned for that award?

09:19He's done absolutely nothing but the same old story.

09:23Crying and complaining and just throwing a temper tantrum.

09:27The little boy that takes his ball and goes home from the sandbox.

09:31Goes home to mommy.

09:32Get out the binky.

09:33He's not winning anything.

09:35That's another bad offering that I just saw on the screen today.

09:39How many bad offerings can you give me today, Carver?

09:41How did he get in top 12?

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