Kendrick Perkins recycles bizarre bird-brain analogy
"They have two Joe Mazzullas."
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Kyrie Irving believes ‘chaos and noise’ from media led to Nets exit
“I think my criticism is fair, as long as you keep it on the court and judge me off the success of our team and don’t try to dig too deep into who I am as a person."
Kyrie Irving questions ESPN for labeling James Harden ‘disgruntled’
"Is he Disgruntled Adrian??"
Kyrie Irving blasts Bill Simmons’ Mavericks ridicule: ‘I see you couldn’t help yourself with this one.’
"Just wanna say I appreciate you and continue to be the person you are. My Tribe says hello."
Stephen A. Smith tells Kyrie Irving to ‘quit’ basketball if he hates media coverage
“Respectfully, to Kyrie Irving, who doesn’t want us talking about him: Don’t play basketball.”
Kyrie Irving blasts media who ‘mix sports with politics’ for spreading rumors about his future
"When they speak on my name and they’re talking about potential teams I’m going to, can you all please stop paying attention to that?"
Doug Gottlieb blasts Stephen A. Smith’s weird Kawhi Leonard injury take
"I just have to ask, what in the actual f*ck is he talking about."
Jay Williams isn’t intimidated by Stephen A. Smith, but knows ESPN’s pecking order
"Things may get heated, we may yell at each other, we had an awkward as hell moment the other day when I felt like he was giving personal takes on Kyrie."
Kyrie Irving blames media for ‘overload of judgement’ on Ja Morant
"Especially with the media being attracted to just keeping up with what we’re doing, or what’s the next kind of grab or story."
Stephen A. Smith was ‘genuinely pissed’ at Jay Williams for First Take bout over Kyrie Irving
"I don’t know what the hell happened that he would come at me in such a personal manner just because I was giving constructive criticism with Kyrie."
Kyrie Irving criticizes media for calling him antisemitic: ‘I have Jewish members of my family’
"Did the media know that beforehand when they called me that word ‘antisemitic?’ No. Did they know anything about me family? No."
Stephen A. Smith and Jay Williams get personal during contentious Kyrie Irving debate: ‘I’m always triggered.’
"You’re the one saying I’m being sensitive, moaning and whining, but you’re the one that seems very emotional right now."
Stephen A. Smith ‘applauds’ LeBron for blasting media’s lack of Jerry Jones questions: He was asked about Trump
"Trump says something, they ask LeBron about it…LeBron James has been subjected to question after question after question, but suddenly when it came to Jerry Jones, you didn’t ask?"
LeBron James ‘disappointed’ media asked him about Kyrie Irving, but not Jerry Jones
"It seems like to me that the whole Jerry Jones situation photo...it’s just been buried"
Joe Rogan questions why Kyrie Irving is punished for antisemitic film, but not Amazon: ‘All he did was post a link’
"Isn’t that video for sale on Amazon? That’s the craziest thing ever. Kyrie is getting in trouble and Amazon’s not?"
Charles Barkley claims freedom of speech excuse has gotten out of hand: ‘I hate the term cancel culture.’
"This thing with free speech has really gotten out of hand. I mean, you just can’t go around insulting people and think it’s OK just because it’s freedom of speech."
Stephen A. Smith blasts Jeff Bezos for continuing to sell antisemitic film on Amazon: ‘It’s sickening’
"You’re just providing validation to the level of frustration Black people in America feel time and time again."
Undisputed’s Shannon Sharpe fired up about Kyrie Irving double standard
“They cancel us, no questions asked!”
The danger of Kyrie Irving’s flat-Eartherism was ignored by the media in 2017
The idea that anyone could seriously believe that the Earth was flat was seen as so preposterous that, if anything, people found it amusing that he was actually saying it.
Howard Stern rips ‘douchebag’ and ‘f*cking moron’ Kyrie Irving for antisemitic tweet
"He’s a f*cking moron."
Four years ago, Michael Wilbon & Tony Kornheiser saw the looming danger of athlete conspiracy theories
"It is a very small step to becoming a Holocaust or slavery denier."
NFL Today’s James Brown offers stirring monologue on hate and antisemitism
"Words do matter. Especially coming from highly visible people."
Kyrie Irving finally addresses media on promoting antisemitic film: ‘I’m not the one who made the documentary’
"You guys asked me the same questions over and over again, but this is not gonna turn into a spin around cycle, questions upon questions."
NBA reporter apologizes for claiming media backlash to Kyrie Irving’s antisemitic controversy is in ‘poor taste’
"While doing live TV, I was thinking fast on my feet. Regrettably I made some offensive inferences which were not my intent at all."
Stephen A. Smith responds to Kanye West, says ‘I am not in the same boat’ as Kyrie Irving and Herschel Walker
"He put me in the same sentence as Herschel Walker, who's running for the Senate seat in Georgia, and Kyrie Irving. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not gonna disrespect anybody. Let me just say to you, that couldn’t be further from the truth."
