Things Are Off To A Great Start In Brooklyn With Kyrie Irving Skipping Media Day
Well, Year 2 of the Kyrie Irving experiment is off to a hot start! As a leader of the team, nothing tells your teammates and fans you're committed to showing up to work every day like skipping work. That's Day 1 stuff and if you disagree with that you're just a hater and are jealous Kyrie isn't on your favorite team. I mean what, now one of the franchise cornerstones should be expected to talk to the media on media day ahead of a highly anticipated season? Grow up.
The best part of this has to be the fact that media day is nothing but fluff. It's all positive! It helps pump up interest and gets everyone excited for the season. Kyrie isn't going to be grilled or anything like that. Why is it so hard for him to do what basically every other player/star player is doing? How can anything you say at media day get twisted if it's ya know….your own words? So weird.
Now I know there will be Nets fans that are going to be very defensive about this. Quick to call you out for being jealous. I know, because I lived that life. I had to spinzone shit like this and why it's not a big deal and anyone who thinks it's fucked up is just hating. Because you WANT to believe that things will be different because Kyrie is on YOUR team. But this is the forumula. It's pretty simple.
Step 1: Do something that is totally unnessecary and will only cause drama and noise when it all could have been avoided
Step 2: Get mad at the media and fans for creating "narratives" and "drama"
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Repeat Steps 1 & 2 several more times throughout the season.
Is it the end of the world that Kyrie skipped media day? Of course not. Is it only going to cause an unnecessary shit storm? You betcha. Why is it so hard to just fufill your obligations, I'll never understand it. I will say I am happy I don't have to do the mental gymnastics to spinzone this. Sure, the point guard on my favorite team barely has a functioning knee that could very well be a disaster, but at least he shows up. At least he answers questions about it.
We have no idea how things will work in Brooklyn this season, either it's going to gel perfectly and they'll be a Finals contender, or it's going to be a complete disaster. Given this start, would it shock anyone if it was the latter?