Not every NBA player goes to Cancún once the season is over. Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is apparently enjoying the comfort of his own casa since being swept, recently broadcasting himself playing video games with some very colorful commentary to assist the visuals.
Never shy about sharing his thoughts and feelings, Irving had some choice words for two sets of NBA fans during a couple of streams that hit the internet in the last two days. In the first, during a stream of Grand Theft Auto, he mocked the trolls eager to dunk on him for being eliminated from the playoffs, calling them cockroaches while doing his best impression of how they sound.
“‘Go back to Cleveland, oh my God, Boston hates you, oh my God.' That’s how y’all sound to me, cockroaches.”
Kyrie sounds off on his trolls during a GTA Twitch stream
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— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 10, 2022
This is hilarious. I didn’t know Irving had this type of levity, but he wasn’t even done there. Later on, during a stream of NBA 2K, he took aim at the sports bettors who have the nerve to approach him about his part in their failed parlays.
“When I hear the conversations about people’s ticket, and it’s on my Twitter, it’s on my feed or something like that…y’all literally live in a fantasy world. Y’all literally watch the stats and think that players are robots,” Irving said.
Kyrie does NOT care about your parlays 😂
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— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) May 11, 2022
I mean, he has a point. Landry Shamet expressed a similar sentiment about parlays in December. It’s called gambling for a reason. Nothing is guaranteed, especially not “22.5” points when there’s another team out there whose job it is to stop him from scoring at all. It’s fine to bet, but bothering someone because your bet didn’t pay out, that’s never OK.
Either way, we hope Kyrie keeps the streams coming. Hearing him address his trolls is a lot more fun than hearing him defend his decision not to get vaccinated.