How to Cover Kyrie Irving
The Athletic NBA Daily
The Athletic
4.1 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Tim Cato, Alex Schiffer and Jay King gather together to have a conversation between NBA beat writers on what it is like to cover Kyrie Irving. They discuss his time with the Celtics and Nets, the good and the bad of him off the court, how mesmerizing he is on the court and more.
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| 0:51.1 | Hello, this is a special episode of the Athletic NBA show, here to talk about Kyrie Irving |
| 0:56.6 | and his trade to the Dallas Mavericks from a media member's perspective. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm Tim Kato. I'm the Dallas Mavericks beatwriter for the athletic, and we've got Alex Schiffer, |
| 1:06.3 | who covers the Brooklyn Nets, also for the athletic, as you can probably guess here. |
| 1:12.0 | And we're just going to go through the trade you've probably heard a half dozen you know |
| 1:17.3 | maybe two dozen podcast already breaking down every specific dynamic of Kyrie Irving |
| 1:24.0 | going to the Dallas Mavericks from Brooklyn. What we're going to do is go through |
| 1:28.8 | it from our perspective, how we handle the news, how we approach even the hours after |
| 1:36.7 | Kyrie is traded to the Mavericks, what that means for both teams, and how we go about |
| 1:41.9 | figuring out what the motive is and what the meaning |
| 1:46.2 | behind these moves are. Also, I just absolutely need Alex to tell me what the hell it's like |
| 1:53.0 | trying to cover Kyrie Irving. I need some tips. I need some advice. Alex, how are you? I'm good, |
| 1:58.9 | man. I, uh, it's weird. I feel like I'm, there's like the forecast had a storm a couple days ago and there's another one to come and this is like the sunny day, but you never know when the cloud is going to come in just because there's still trade rumors swirling around the nets and I'm fully prepared. It's funny when our producer sent me the Zoom link, I thought for a minute, another trade |
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