“Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving Need to Respect Steve Nash More!”: Skip Bayless Makes a Case About the Nets’ HC Not Getting Over the Chaotic Offseason
Summarizing what happened in Brooklyn Nets camp last season, Skip Bayless doesn’t think Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Steve Nash can co-exist.
It looks like Kevin Durant is stuck with the Brooklyn Nets. After surprisingly asking for a trade at the start of the 2022 offseason, there was plenty of speculation about the 2014 MVP’s future.
Fast-forward a few months, KD is forced to honor the 4-year, $194 million contract extension he had signed with the New York-based franchise.
after scolding steve nash All summer long, seeing each other in training camp must have been absolutely awkward. However, the head coach was calm and revealed that everything was behind him.
“We’re fine,” Nash said, according to ESPN. “It was as if nothing had changed. i have a long history with kevin [Durant]. I love the boy. Families have problems. We had a moment and he is behind us. That is what happens. It’s a common situation in the league.”
While the two sides claim that there is no bad blood between them, several basketball analysts around the world do not think so. Skip Bayless is just one of many who don’t see Nash, KD and Kyrie Irving co-existing.
“Sorry for Steve Nash”: Skip Bayless on the Kevin Durant fiasco
In a recent episode of “INDISPUTABLE”, Bayless initially gave a brief summary of what happened in Brooklyn. Skip later stated that Nash deserved more respect from The Durantula and Kai.
“This is what really happened during the offseason: Kevin Durant said ‘get me out of here’ because he was sick and tired of all the Kyrie Irving nonsense. He made a mistake, he followed the wrong guy into Brooklyn.
He wants to get out, he has to get out because the environment is no longer stable enough to produce a championship, says Kevin Durant.
Then Kevin Durant was cornered by Joe Tsai, who just said ‘Kevin, I just gave you 4 more years. You owe me 4 more years, I’m not going to give you away.
I am sorry’. So Kevin gets more and more desperate and says ‘uh-oh, I have to go with an ultimatum’. I have to say publicly that either you fire Steve Nash and Sean Marks or you let me go.
Because he thought maybe that would be enough.
I feel sorry for Steve Nash because, from the beginning, Kyrie says ‘we don’t even need a coach’. That’s when I really start to feel sorry for a guy…
Steve Nash won 2 MVP’s before. Consecutive MVPs.
He deserves more respect than these guys are giving him. For me personally, if I were in Steve Nash’s shoes, I don’t think I could top this.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiCyNYsxFIs
Skip is not bad at all. At some point in the season, this issue is sure to come up and bother either Kevin or Nash.
It will be interesting to see how the Nets front office handles the situation as the season kicks off in just a few weeks.
