KD Talks Retirement and Game Plan in All-Star Interview

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00:00KD, uh, has, uh, did an interview, uh,

00:03after the All-Star game.

00:04Uh, he thinks about retirement all the time,

00:07knows it's a young man's game,

00:09but is going to take it, Scotty,

00:11uh, as they all like to say,

00:13uh, year by year, game by game, uh, KD.

00:17He's not making any grand predictions,

00:20uh, of when he's gonna hang them up.

00:22Not yet, at least.

00:24I don't think he shows his cards about anything.

00:27About does he want to, uh, move to a different team?

00:31Does he want to leave Phoenix?

00:34Uh, does he like Phoenix?

00:36Uh, he said the reason he didn't want to go

00:39to the Warriors had nothing to do with anyone there at all.

00:44It had to do with moving, uh, you know,

00:46halfway through the season.

00:48Uh, he said he wanted to finish, uh,

00:50with his teammates and see what they could do.

00:53He admitted that they've underachieved.

00:56He's been on teams like that before, uh, in Brooklyn

00:59and here in Phoenix, same result.

01:02Uh, you know, they had three stars on both of those teams

01:05and they didn't get it done. It's that simple.

01:07Just because you have, uh, three stars, two stars,

01:10doesn't mean you're gonna win in the NBA anymore.

01:13You have to have a team.

01:15You have to have a bench.

01:17You have to have all the parts.

01:19You have to have coaching as well.

01:21And that doesn't mean just some figurehead head coach.

01:23It means, you know, assistants that actually do coach.

01:27Uh, these head coaches get way too much credit

01:29and way too much blame for everything in the NBA.

01:33But I'll say this about him.

01:34His game is still clean.

01:36He can, um, get his shot off on anyone in the NBA.

01:42Literally, there is not one person that can stop him.

01:45He also, uh, still has the Spider-Man, um, handle.

01:52I mean, this guy can really, uh, break ankles still.

01:55He can, you know, shake and bake and go right, left,

01:59and sidestep and drop step and straight up jump shot

02:04his way, uh, past anyone.

02:07He can get past anyone.

02:09He can drive on anyone.

02:10He can shoot on anyone.

02:13The problem is, uh, there's no stopping a guy

02:17that can still do all that.

02:19Uh, guys retire when they can't do it anymore.

02:23When they don't have the step, the move, the sidestep,

02:27the backstep, the drop step, the, you know, uh,

02:31the jig and go, you know, just all of it.

02:34He's got all of it still.

02:36And so I don't care how old he is.

02:38When you still have it, he's not retiring.

02:40That guy's not retiring anytime soon.

02:42He's still got too much game.

02:45Like, he can flat out, like, whether you like him or not

02:47is irrelevant, because I watch a guy, every night,

02:51he gets his 30 like it's nothing.

02:53It's like, like, he's just getting out of bed,

02:55putting on his slippers.

02:56It's so easy for him to go off.

02:59It's not even funny.

03:00And he gets his 20 shots every night without fail.

03:05So there has been no decline at all in my view of his game.

03:11He is not retiring.

03:14That guy is just too good still.

03:16He's just way too good.

03:17And he's also one of only, you know, Jordan, Kobe, LeBron,

03:23and him that have done it all.

03:25The championships, the MVPs, the final MVPs,

03:28and the gold medals.

03:29He's one of four guys that have done it all.

03:33And he still wants to ball.

03:35He's a real baller.

03:36He just wants to ball.

03:37He wants to play ball.

03:39And he loves being on the floor playing.

03:41And he loves, frankly, teammates and being in the room

03:45and going out and playing pro ball every night

03:48and making tons of money.

03:49It's obvious to me that he has no plans to retire.

03:52Whatever he's saying now is just bullshack.

03:55He's not quitting.

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