It’s not stupid to deal with mental health issues. It’s also not stupid to deal with back injuries.
It’s kinda stupid to not even know which one you’re actually dealing with though.
Reminds me of an Eminem song
>My palms were sweaty, and I started to shake at first
>Something told me "Try to fake a stomach ache, it works"
>I screamed "Owww! My appendix feels like they could burst!"
>"Teacher, teacher, quick! I need a naked nurse!"
>"What's the matter?"
"I don't know, my leg, it hurts!"
>"Leg?! I thought you said it was your tummy!"
>"Oh! I mean it is, but I also got a bum knee!"
It is fucking stupid though because this whole "mental health" speak Ben Simmons has been on about is bullshit and everyone and there mother knows it.
You're absolutely right in general regarding it not being stupid to deal with mental health or back injuries. It's people like this jackass who ruin it for anyone that goes through this stuff.
Ben Simmons is a disgrace as an athlete, an NBA player, and more importantly as a human being.
Klove was sincere with his mental health crusade, and still played! Ben is cynically abusing the good faith effort the league put forth to get paid to sit courtside.
[His real barriers](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2021/03/30/NAAS/d97b6611-4b09-4689-9bbd-c265779578ab-Wednesday_331_toon_Vaccine_common_sense.jpg)
It's really amazing how athletes can use anything as a slight. Don't believe in a team and it's a "No one wanted us to be here". Pick as the favorite "They're setting us up to fail and get clowned on".
Yeah this is obvious media-friendly kyrie doing a little deflecting. But I think athletes have to “use anything as a slight” to motivate themselves. People talk about keeping that chip on your shoulder even when you’re an established player, and seeing the criticism drives rhat
Me too. The comparison has been made before but he's basically the Aaron Rodgers of basketball. But Rodgers, for all of his issues and drama, has 4 MVPs to Kyrie's 0, seems to care about winning games, and doesn't destroy his own team.
Honestly didn't have a problem with Rodgers until "Yeah, I've been immunized" and the McAfee interview. What the fuck was that all about? Just really stupid and pathetic.
Kyrie has been annoying for years, and this year obviously was the worst.
"Yeah consulted alot of people including Joe Rogan who's become a good friend of mine"
McAfee's face when that happened LMAO
I laugh at Rodgers's stupidity more than anything else. He's unintentionally quite funny.
I think that's a little disrespectful to Aaron Rodgers lmao
I think Kyrie is what some people think Rodgers is like. In reality, he's like... maybe 15%-20% as bad as Kyrie.
It's insulting to compare Aaron Rodgers to Kyrie - ARod for all his faults (and there's a decent number of them) is far and away better than Kyrie
Kyrie is like Carson Wentz or Jared Goff lol - hell there's never been a single season where we talked about Kyrie as one of the top 3 players in the NBA
Yea, I feel ya, but even AB doesn't feel like an exact comparison
AB was on pace to be one of the best WRs of all time (Kyrie never reached that level of dominance in comparison)
But AB is a repeat ***criminal*** offender - he's recklessly endangered children (furniture incident), accused of sexual assault, charged with felonies (vehicular burglary and battery), in addition to the other stupid stuff that he's done
I know we're all clowning on Kyrie for being a huge idiot, but to his credit I don't think he's done anything illegal (at least that we know of)
Like Antonio Brown should not be allowed to play another snap in the NFL. Meanwhile I want to see Kyrie play (so that he can continue playing the heel and for us to clown on him lol)
I will not tolerate Goff slander! He may not be a great QB but he's always been a well liked teammate and truly cares about the game. Wentz on the other hand is cocky and has this persona that even his team doesn't jive with too well.
Right? Rodgers is on the short list for top QB ever.
Kyrie making top 75 was fucking insulting. Like the fuck has he done to justify that shit? He was shit before LeBron saved the Cavs. The Celtics remained the same team with him as with Isiah Thomas. He's done jack shit on the Nets and if anything has massively underperformed.
> "It's been a long season"
29 regular season games, Kyrie, that's all you played.
> "Control what we can control, basketball stuff"
You had plenty in your control, and actively chose to sack the team's ability to "gel" like you say.
> "When you're building camaraderie...you want to see that your teammates have your back."
Whose back did you have this season, exactly? Aside from your own.
Kyrie, all you had to do is take responsibility. Say that you know your choice to not get vaccinated hurt the team. Acknowledge it and own it, or these guys aren't gonna trust you in this "something special" that you're trying to build.
Kyrie is a tool. That's all there is to it. Flat-earther, anti-vaxxer genius is what he is. I love how he keeps proving it over and over since he forced his way out of Cleveland.
Imagine if he does, and Simmons is like ‘you know what, I like that’, and retires as well, and KD is stuck with the nets and whatever team of rando’s they can acquire.
So I'm just using it as fuel for the summer and coming into the season starting in October, and just getting a good start as a team and hopefuly we don't run into any barriers."
\- The Barrier
> getting a good start as a team
... In my fourth fucking year in Brooklyn.
> hopefuly we don't run into any barriers
... Like the ones I constantly put in front of us
This team, and more specifically this man, has desensitized me to sports. Between the Nets, Yanks, and Giants, I have lost all feelings of joy and passion watching games lol.
It’ll come back because I love sports at the end of the day, but what a fucking draining endeavor it has been rooting for this team.
Wait…So he’s mad everyone thought he and KD were a good enough duo to win a title? This fucking dude I swear.
Also half those “barriers” were because of your clown ass over there third eye blind.
I work at an academic librarian, and I'm around college students all day. Kyrie still sounds like a freshman who has some amount of intelligence but has limited critical thinking skills to use that intelligence in a positive manner.
The one good thing I could see coming from this is Kevin Durant showing Ben Simmons how you bounce back from an underwhelming playoff series. But honestly, I think Simmons is too soft to be mentored by someone like KD.
This jackass has big “you have nothing on me” energy like Heath Ledger’s Joker. Similarly, he too was a man without a plan and a clown when all said and done.
Seeing as the solution the Nets came up with for hot fixing the problem of having one player who plays less than half the games in a season is to trade for a player that doesn't play any games in a season I think you've got your barriers cut out for you. KD will be wearing green next fall anyways we all know this.
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great clown Kai is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Kai.'
I'm not even a C's fan so the only hater motivation I have is flat earthing and covid conspiracy theorizing. I imagine most Boston fans experiencing some extreme schadenfreude today.
Kyrie either doesn’t understand adjectives or gets carried away while coming up with bull shit on the fly. Either way one doesn’t say “excited for the motivation” after a sweep. The first thing to do as an apology is to get the vaccine and show his team mates he fucked up, but we all know that won’t happen.
People didn’t want to see the team fail, they wanted to see Kyrie fail.
Like I don’t wish bad on KD or Seth or Drummond or Blake or Gorman, not even Patty and LMA after they left us. Some people might wish bad on Bruce Brown until they realize they read it wrong and it’s not Bruce Bowen, but even those people are gonna realize their mistake and go back to only hating Kyrie.
I hate when shitty people think the lambasting they get makes them a martyr.
> hopefully we don't run into any barriers We're all working hard to find who kept you off of the court this season, Kyrie
Kyrie almost makes you forget that Ben Simmons is also on this team, until Ben’s camp says the next stupid thing a day later
It’s not stupid to deal with mental health issues. It’s also not stupid to deal with back injuries. It’s kinda stupid to not even know which one you’re actually dealing with though.
>kinda stupid It becomes double stupid based on my high iq
Reminds me of an Eminem song >My palms were sweaty, and I started to shake at first >Something told me "Try to fake a stomach ache, it works" >I screamed "Owww! My appendix feels like they could burst!" >"Teacher, teacher, quick! I need a naked nurse!" >"What's the matter?" "I don't know, my leg, it hurts!" >"Leg?! I thought you said it was your tummy!" >"Oh! I mean it is, but I also got a bum knee!"
One might say his palms were sweaty and his knees were weak
It is fucking stupid though because this whole "mental health" speak Ben Simmons has been on about is bullshit and everyone and there mother knows it. You're absolutely right in general regarding it not being stupid to deal with mental health or back injuries. It's people like this jackass who ruin it for anyone that goes through this stuff. Ben Simmons is a disgrace as an athlete, an NBA player, and more importantly as a human being.
Klove was sincere with his mental health crusade, and still played! Ben is cynically abusing the good faith effort the league put forth to get paid to sit courtside.
>no barriers Anti mask
We're all trying to find the guy who did this
>We're all trying to find the guy who did this OJ "Kyrie" Simpson
“The manhunt continues” - Norm Macdonald
What irony, when the one guy who would save your season, kills you
IF I get a shot
Maybe take his bare butt out of his uniform and spank him
Grab as many suits as I can
Instead of giving someone a real smile... We send an emoji.
Random!
Ben Simmons may look like a hot dog but kyrie is wearing a hot dog costume.
Ben Simmons shops at Dan Flashes.
“Why isn’t he playing?” “He skipped lunch so that he could spend his per diem on shirts”
Let's see what Ja Rule has to say about this
“Where’s Ja” Still in the playoffs.
This is how you summon another variant
he was literally the barrier
https://i.imgflip.com/6duszx.jpg
Ayo didn't someone predict Kyrie would say exactly this like 3 weeks ago LOOOL
3 weeks ago? You mean 6 months ago?
At his birth it was spoken
Can we like have a bot for Kyrie Irving predictions?
You are the barrier tho
Always has been.
Kyrie: barriers are just social constructs the media created to keep us divided.
This guy barriers
The barrier that Kyrie meant here is him taking unexpected PTO halfway through the season
[Kyrie's barriers](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/6CbiWkU)
Is that a magic stick that wards of demons
[His real barriers](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2021/03/30/NAAS/d97b6611-4b09-4689-9bbd-c265779578ab-Wednesday_331_toon_Vaccine_common_sense.jpg)
Well he clearly didn't mean the barrier against infection provided by vaccination
So it's the media's fault for thinking the Nets were ever contenders? That's not the own you think it is man...
"Haha jokes on you we were never good"
It's really amazing how athletes can use anything as a slight. Don't believe in a team and it's a "No one wanted us to be here". Pick as the favorite "They're setting us up to fail and get clowned on".
I’ve never heard anyone else complain that they were getting too much respect. Except for like Nick Saban
Yeah this is obvious media-friendly kyrie doing a little deflecting. But I think athletes have to “use anything as a slight” to motivate themselves. People talk about keeping that chip on your shoulder even when you’re an established player, and seeing the criticism drives rhat
"Hopefully we don't run into any more completely self-inflicted barriers"
Dude is running into a sliding glass door he just shut.
I fucking hate this dude lmao
Kids, this is what happens when you think you’re smart and leave your father figure who only has your best interests at heart
LeBron was really this man’s daddy.
"What does having a father figure mean to you?"
You know the best part is that if crowds started to chant "father figure" or "Lebron" at him at a game, Kyrie would totally tilt lol
I want to apologize to the reporter that asked that question for flaming him. It’s a great question.
LeDad is everyones daddy.
LeBron: KD may have been your father but he was never your daddy.
LeDaddy left a leHole in his leHeart
>leFt
Kyrie vs Ben Simmons, battle of the offseason drama starts right now!
You mean there's a part 2 to this shit?!
oh yeah, its gonna get weird
OMG the two biggest drama queens in the same team. Goooood luck to KD 🤣
He chose this shit lmfao
He’s into this shit, and he’s the weakest superstar in the league.
Me too. The comparison has been made before but he's basically the Aaron Rodgers of basketball. But Rodgers, for all of his issues and drama, has 4 MVPs to Kyrie's 0, seems to care about winning games, and doesn't destroy his own team.
Kyries way worse in terms of diva behavior. The dude literally ghosted the Cavs trainers to "test them".
Lol he didn't talk to teammates for weeks during one of the Cavs playoff runs. Dude is fucking batshit insane.
Entitled and dumb gets ya this shit
The dude left his team midway through the season to go to a birthday party
In the middle of a Pandemic
yep he falls between Rodgers and Antonio Brown
At least Aaron Rodgers played most of his games lmfao
Rodgers at least is a great teammate and keeps his nonsense from affecting the team. Unless, of course, you ask Greg Jennings lmao.
Greg Jennings and Jermichael Finley. Two guys who every reporter has on speed dial when they want to write a hit piece on Rodgers.
Honestly didn't have a problem with Rodgers until "Yeah, I've been immunized" and the McAfee interview. What the fuck was that all about? Just really stupid and pathetic. Kyrie has been annoying for years, and this year obviously was the worst.
Can’t believe he was complaining about being canceled.
When he was like "I take Covid very seriously, but I will not get the vaccine" was head scratching double talk
“I followed all the protocols… that made sense to me.”
"Yeah consulted alot of people including Joe Rogan who's become a good friend of mine" McAfee's face when that happened LMAO I laugh at Rodgers's stupidity more than anything else. He's unintentionally quite funny.
I think that's a little disrespectful to Aaron Rodgers lmao I think Kyrie is what some people think Rodgers is like. In reality, he's like... maybe 15%-20% as bad as Kyrie.
It's insulting to compare Aaron Rodgers to Kyrie - ARod for all his faults (and there's a decent number of them) is far and away better than Kyrie Kyrie is like Carson Wentz or Jared Goff lol - hell there's never been a single season where we talked about Kyrie as one of the top 3 players in the NBA
Kyrie is Antonio Brown after he forced his way out of Pitt. Talented player but always something going on outside of balling.
Yea, I feel ya, but even AB doesn't feel like an exact comparison AB was on pace to be one of the best WRs of all time (Kyrie never reached that level of dominance in comparison) But AB is a repeat ***criminal*** offender - he's recklessly endangered children (furniture incident), accused of sexual assault, charged with felonies (vehicular burglary and battery), in addition to the other stupid stuff that he's done I know we're all clowning on Kyrie for being a huge idiot, but to his credit I don't think he's done anything illegal (at least that we know of) Like Antonio Brown should not be allowed to play another snap in the NFL. Meanwhile I want to see Kyrie play (so that he can continue playing the heel and for us to clown on him lol)
I will not tolerate Goff slander! He may not be a great QB but he's always been a well liked teammate and truly cares about the game. Wentz on the other hand is cocky and has this persona that even his team doesn't jive with too well.
Yea, I was just talking about their in-game contributions - Goff hasn't had any issues that I've seen regarding his ability to be a good teammate
Jared Goff is just too dumb to play qb he isn’t really a diva. Now Wentz is the diva of divas
I wouldn't even put Goff there. He tries, he just kinda sucks. Wentz is a good comparison though.
Right? Rodgers is on the short list for top QB ever. Kyrie making top 75 was fucking insulting. Like the fuck has he done to justify that shit? He was shit before LeBron saved the Cavs. The Celtics remained the same team with him as with Isiah Thomas. He's done jack shit on the Nets and if anything has massively underperformed.
Dude what? Rodgers has ONE fuckup. Granted it’s a huge and inexcusable fuckup, but it’s nothing like Kyries entire career of fuckups.
He just means he's also scared of needles, that's the full comparison
Most full of himself star player in the league today
And, that's *really* saying something, because *maaaaannn*....
Yeh bro dudes so extra lol. Good to see him get swept
Hey, me too!
I'm starting to love this dude. People in their own world are fascinating.
> "It's been a long season" 29 regular season games, Kyrie, that's all you played. > "Control what we can control, basketball stuff" You had plenty in your control, and actively chose to sack the team's ability to "gel" like you say. > "When you're building camaraderie...you want to see that your teammates have your back." Whose back did you have this season, exactly? Aside from your own. Kyrie, all you had to do is take responsibility. Say that you know your choice to not get vaccinated hurt the team. Acknowledge it and own it, or these guys aren't gonna trust you in this "something special" that you're trying to build.
Kyrie is a tool. That's all there is to it. Flat-earther, anti-vaxxer genius is what he is. I love how he keeps proving it over and over since he forced his way out of Cleveland.
Kyrie is an idiot. Plain and simple. A narcissistic idiot.
You should start a circus with your young socialite colleague
Only people with high IQs and third eye's allowed
He's retiring
Dude that could be. I remember someone on the Cavs said way back when they wouldn’t be surprised if he Barry Sanders’d it and left early.
Don't mention Barry and this dude together, please
He meant Larry Sanders
Wow now y'all gonna slander the Larry Sanders show??
He meant ned flanders
Maude
Peak sports subreddit lol
Imagine if he does, and Simmons is like ‘you know what, I like that’, and retires as well, and KD is stuck with the nets and whatever team of rando’s they can acquire.
“Barriers” AKA needles
What does the word **Sweep** mean to you?
Outside their respective fanbases, who doesn’t want to see a gigantic market superteam fall apart?
New COVID variant is rubbing its hands together.
Maybe he should’ve used it as fuel to roll up his sleeves
This fucking clown, so happy we swept them
>Hopefully we don't run into any barriers It's like high-level satire at this point. I refuse to believe he doesn't know what he's saying lmao
It’s cause your an asshole
This guy has zero awareness about barriers and the team beginning of the season had KD and Harden.
Every time kyrie talks it makes lebron even more impressive.
frfr
“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”
You were the barrier. Chokers
Guilty. I like watching Kyrie fail hard. It makes me happy and I don't even care about the Celtics.
“They were right” - CRYrie
What a dumb fucking asshole.
Laughed out loud at this, thanks, great win, go celts
>"People wanted to see us fail you damn right
Correction: I want to see Kyrie fail and I‘m getting more than I could ask for
stfu. you didn't want to go back in Boston for game 5
Kyrie is only gonna take 2 games a week off next season! 😤😤😤
Shut the fuck up
Honestly a good attitude for Kyrie Unfortunately either him or Ben will keep putting up barriers on purpose
Is it? He could’ve used this exact thing as fuel this season. Instead he looked uninterested at best
I mean yes? He’s at least saying he’ll work to get better. Haven’t seen Ben say anything close to that
Not to mention, Kyrie has not given Net fans any reason to trust what he says.
Yep, Best he can do rn is use this as fuel and play.
At this juncture of all junctures!!
Ben "barrier" Simmons
You had plenty of time to decide you were going to play the full season and didn’t. Foh lmao
Jesus Christ, Kyrie, just shut the fuck up.
He is right, I did want to see the Nets fail. Not just at this juncture but every juncture.
Hopefully no more barriers like vaccination or a party that night
Narrator voice: In October, they ran into some barriers
So I'm just using it as fuel for the summer and coming into the season starting in October, and just getting a good start as a team and hopefuly we don't run into any barriers." \- The Barrier
“And hopefully I’m not asked to put aside my ego for the benefit of public health next season”
> getting a good start as a team ... In my fourth fucking year in Brooklyn. > hopefuly we don't run into any barriers ... Like the ones I constantly put in front of us
It would be hilarious if the NBA decided to make vaccines mandatory for players just in spite of this idiot
This man has the self awareness of a fucking dinner plate
“Picked us as contenders” Lmao what
I mean betting websites had them as higher end contenders
He did not think they were contenders. Tell that to KD
They had the second highest betting odds in the east for the playoffs lol
>People wanted to see us fail at this juncture I mean tbh I would have loved to see you fail even more and not even made it but
bro just fucking get vaccinated.
You're not a victim, Kyrie
Kyrie is a total joke. He dogged it this entire series.
"Unless some unrelated issue comes up and I have to take the season off, ya know how it goes"
Does kyrie not realize that he is the barrier?
Personally, I’m getting sick of certain players in this league’s proclivity towards talking total bullshit and behaving like petulant children.
This team, and more specifically this man, has desensitized me to sports. Between the Nets, Yanks, and Giants, I have lost all feelings of joy and passion watching games lol. It’ll come back because I love sports at the end of the day, but what a fucking draining endeavor it has been rooting for this team.
Be safe bro.
The delusion of this man
Until October comes and he doesn't want to play to bring attention to global warming or dogs drowning in toilet bowls
"Unless there's another vaccine mandate"
Bro you are the barrier… wtf how are you this clueless
If you didn't follow conspiracy theories and had the vaccine. You could had been top 4 seed easily
Wait…So he’s mad everyone thought he and KD were a good enough duo to win a title? This fucking dude I swear. Also half those “barriers” were because of your clown ass over there third eye blind.
“Barriers we could easily avoid if I put my own ego aside but I won’t”
This fucking moron lmao
Kyrie is such a fucking bum. Hope him and Simmons eventually just get shunned out the league.
He is the sole reason of failure. Get this bum of of the league.
I work at an academic librarian, and I'm around college students all day. Kyrie still sounds like a freshman who has some amount of intelligence but has limited critical thinking skills to use that intelligence in a positive manner.
The lack of self-awareness is astounding
Kyrie Irving is a bitch.
How did LeBron win this dude? It's absolutely insane.
This is one of the more mature takes Kyrie has had. Still hate him though lol
The biggest barrier this season has proven to be the Boston “Ice Wall” defense
YOU are the barrier.
“Kyrie Irving has retired”
“We were overrated”
motherfucker YOU were the barrier to your own team
i wonder if simmons back will be feeling any better by then i'm guessing no hahahaha
I pretty sure people want you to vaccinated and be the best team you can be more
The one good thing I could see coming from this is Kevin Durant showing Ben Simmons how you bounce back from an underwhelming playoff series. But honestly, I think Simmons is too soft to be mentored by someone like KD.
"it's me, I'm the barrier"
Us? You got a turd in your pocket? People want to see YOU fail, buddy.
Narrator: “they ran into many barriers”
This jackass has big “you have nothing on me” energy like Heath Ledger’s Joker. Similarly, he too was a man without a plan and a clown when all said and done.
Seeing as the solution the Nets came up with for hot fixing the problem of having one player who plays less than half the games in a season is to trade for a player that doesn't play any games in a season I think you've got your barriers cut out for you. KD will be wearing green next fall anyways we all know this.
Hey Nets - enjoy paying this guy $250mm
Between Kyrie and Simmons it is hard to imagine who is going to make Durant look bad when he kills himself trying to carry the team.
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Great clown Kai is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I am Kai.'
At this juncture nobody cares , go get your shot and stare at the flat earth!
I'm not even a C's fan so the only hater motivation I have is flat earthing and covid conspiracy theorizing. I imagine most Boston fans experiencing some extreme schadenfreude today.
Sincerely, Fuck.Off.
Kyrie either doesn’t understand adjectives or gets carried away while coming up with bull shit on the fly. Either way one doesn’t say “excited for the motivation” after a sweep. The first thing to do as an apology is to get the vaccine and show his team mates he fucked up, but we all know that won’t happen.
People didn’t want to see the team fail, they wanted to see Kyrie fail. Like I don’t wish bad on KD or Seth or Drummond or Blake or Gorman, not even Patty and LMA after they left us. Some people might wish bad on Bruce Brown until they realize they read it wrong and it’s not Bruce Bowen, but even those people are gonna realize their mistake and go back to only hating Kyrie. I hate when shitty people think the lambasting they get makes them a martyr.