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This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowherr on Fox Sports Radio.

Ah, it is a Wednesday. We are stacked. It is great to have you in. It's a lot of stories developing. Live in Los Angeles, this is the herd.

Wherever you may be and however you may be listening. Fox Sports Radio iHeartRadio FS1. The herd brought you by Jersey Mike Sub.

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I eat Jersey Mike's once a week. So this is great. Right by my house today.

Mike's way at yellow mustard delicious lunch. So let's start the show with this. The basketball culture in America is different than the football culture.

There are things I like about the basketball culture and there are things I like about the football culture.

I think I was raised more my parents for more football culture than basketball culture. I did not get my way all the time.

So the Kyrie Irving situation now is a full blown mess in Brooklyn. I never thought it would work, but this is not about me being right or wrong.

He's not shown up for multiple games. He won't be here for the rest of the week. What it really fascinates me is notice Steve Nash, the coach walking on eggshells.

Notice the media walking on eggshells. The Brooklyn general manager, the commissioner walking on eggshells.

There's videos, massless Kyrie last night on a political call. I don't like what happened in the capital either. We all got to go to work.

Walking on eggshells. That of course is the basketball culture. Shoes companies, AAU coaches, the commissioner coddling, worshipping basketball stars. So of course they think they can just take time off and be bad teammates.

Maybe we should stop babying narcissistic behavior. James Harden pointing fingers.

Excuse me. Houston did a marvelous job to build a roster around you three years ago. I thought it was the second best roster in the league. PJ Tucker and Chris ball.

It's James Harden. Clint Kappella. They had a basketball coach built for you in a GM that was like a Ivy League guy.

And James Harden couldn't make any of it work. He didn't want to play defense. He wouldn't change his style.

Nobody ever said anything because he's a basketball star in the NFL. It's different. Antonio Brown was a bad teammate. He got destroyed by the NFL media.

Look at how the Kyrie Irving situation is being handled. Everybody's afraid to call him out. Folks, he's a bad teammate.

What example do you need beyond Boston where the stories are legendary. I made one call last night for three minutes was told the stories in Boston are outrageous.

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