How the Brooklyn Nets Devolved into Chaos

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Since we last talked to Nick Friedell two weeks ago, the Brooklyn Nets’ vibes have gone from great to bad…to worse. Last Thursday, Kyrie Irving tweeted a link to a film littered with antisemitic tropes and later refused to answer questions about it. In addition, the Nets have lost 5 of their last 6 games and are in last place in the Atlantic Division. On Tuesday, head coach Steve Nash and the team parted ways, and now the Nets are reportedly looking to hire Celtics coach Ime Udoka, who just six weeks ago was suspended by Boston for the entire season for engaging in an inappropriate workplace relationship. So Nick fills us in on everything that’s happened in the last week, why things in Brooklyn seem so bleak, and where the team goes next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nick, there are a million places we could start this episode, but I think we just need to start by traveling down memory lane if you're prepared to do that.
0:11.0	Let's go.
0:14.8	So this is what it sounded like when you were on our show on October 19th, it was just two weeks ago.
0:21.8	You were in the opening act of a buddy cop movie with your new BFF, high-rear.
0:27.5	I just want to clarify one more time before we're going to be best friends by the end of the year.
0:33.5	Where do you are?
0:34.5	Me. You think we're best friends right now, but by the end of the year, we're going to be best.
0:39.5	You're going to be a hug. You're going to be like, look, but that wasn't all. There's also this part.
0:44.5	I'm walking out of the press conference room in Park Place.
0:47.5	Kyrie comes out of another door and he looks at me and he is dead serious and he goes,
0:52.5	Hey, man, need to ride home. I'm like, no, Kyrie, I appreciate it, but I've got a ton of work to do still here.
0:59.5	You know, no, no, it's cool. Need to ride home? Seriously, we can take it.
1:04.5	I feel like I'm living a surreal life. Let's need to how quickly things have changed.
1:12.5	You can Pablo, all the good feelings, not only between Kyrie and I, but all the good vibes with Disney, they were legit.
1:19.5	This is what you testified to us about that energy running through the entire Brooklyn Net Organization in that same show.
1:29.5	The one thing I can tell you is as somebody who gets paid to cover this team, how great the vibes are right now, Pablo.
1:36.5	It is stunning. You walk in there. Everybody seems to be in a good mood.
1:40.5	Everybody sees bed sim. It's moving up and down the floor and you see Kevin to read being Kevin to read and Kyrie Irving being on the same page with everybody.
1:48.5	Everybody in a great mood. Everybody is on the same page and everybody feels great for now about where they're at.
2:01.5	I want our listeners to understand now back in the present tense that Nick hearing all of this has been shaking his head, holding his head in his hands.
2:09.5	What are you feeling right now, man, hearing all of this back after the week that is not yet done?
2:16.5	It was all true. That's what I want people to know. It was all true.
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