Nets' KD-Kyrie situation, Should LeBron return to Cleveland? + Hakeem vs. Shaq on Nick's Top Players list

First Things First

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Baseball fans - listen to Flippin’ Bats w/ Ben Verlander: https://listen.foxaud.io/FlippinBats?sid=ftfnew 00:00 How much responsibility should the Nets take for the KD-Kyrie situation? 10:42 Should Hakeem be ahead of Shaq on Nick’s Top Players of the Last 50 Years list? 21:42 Should LeBron return to Cleveland? 32:36 Stories to Start Your Morning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to First things first. Oh, are we headed for yet another LeBron in Cleveland reunion? I hope so.
0:11.2	Also on the show, we're breaking down Nick Wright's podcast. Old media meets new media. Who was the better big man, the dream or shack? And then finally, we're back to new media. It's Nick Wright versus Dremont. Dremont's biggest opponent. Tougher than the Celtics. It's Nick Wright's old takes on Andrew Wiggins. Hi, everybody. Jenna's out today. I'm Kevin Wilde. Nicholas. That's Chris Brousard. That's Nick. Nick. Nicholas. What do you think about Draymond's new pod? Was it a new one? Because it was the same material from the one two weeks ago. So I didn't know if he just... He said he had reruns already?
0:55.6	I'm not sure.
0:58.3	It's just the same take on repeat.
1:00.5	New media, old tape.
1:03.8	I mean, come on, buddy.
1:07.5	We're going to start with KD and the Nets.
1:10.4	Logan Murdoch believes KD's frustrated that the Nets front office didn't get to know and understand KD and the Nets. Logan Murdoch believes KD's frustrated that the Nets front office didn't get to know
1:13.5	and understand, Kyrie, like all the rest of us do.
1:19.1	Also thinks KD hasn't talked to the team in weeks
1:21.6	and isn't recruiting free agents to Brooklyn.
1:24.3	Nick, how much blame are you putting on the Nets?
1:29.4	The Nets front office did this to themselves. And I understand that Kyrie Irving is an easy
1:37.6	punching bag. And in a large part, obviously he has been the biggest individual problem.
1:46.1	But the Nets empowered him.
1:47.8	The Nets gave him the ability to burn the franchise down.
1:53.5	And they empowered him from the very beginning.
1:57.0	So right when Katie and Kairi went there, they said you got to bring DeAndre Jordan to, and in fact, we might take a touch less money to make it happen. Okay. So four years, 40 million for DeAndre Jordan. That's one thing. But it's another thing entirely to then demand DeAndre Jordan be played, start. And when Kenny Atkinson didn't want to do that, the Nets front office
2:19.3	fired Kenny Atkinson. Katie and Kyrie maybe wanted him to, but the Nets' front office
2:24.1	empowered them. The Nets' front office then hired Steve Nash because Katie and Kyrie wanted that.
2:30.3	The Nets' front office then traded all their depth and all their picks for James Harden because
2:37.0	Katie and Kyrie wanted them to do that.
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