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Hello, how are you doing this Friday morning? I'm doing well. Now in the interest of full disclosure, we recorded a podcast late Thursday night, but not late enough because as of the time of recording the Brooklyn net had announced they were suspending Kyrie Irving for a minimum of five games and that he there were gonna be different requests that they had to record.

And that they had made that he was going to have to meet and just kind of left it open ended and said he was unfit to represent their franchise.

And then by last evening, Kyrie Irving sent out a big apology. Now again, in the interest of full disclosure, when we recorded, you and I both had a feeling like, man, who knows if he ever

plays for the Brooklyn Nets again, who knows what this means for his NBA career? Like if you're really gonna dig your heels in on this and it seemed as if given his media availability yesterday that that was the case.

And then he knew Brooklyn was not going to be happy with what he said inside media availability. So it looked like, hey, this guy is very prideful. This guy is gonna dig his heels in and he's really gonna die on this hill.

And the idea that he would apologize and so contrition at that point, seeing a little far fetch. So in the original recording of this pod, we kind of find like, man, what happens to this guy?

Like really? You're just gonna throw it all away because you won't say you're not anti-Semitic. I mean, it was as simple as that for a quick rundown for those unaware.

Guy reposted a documentary, which any reasonable person would take as a recommendation upon seeing said documentary. There's people that are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is messed up.

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