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Jalen Rose has had some crazy NBA takes before, but he might have topped them all on Tuesday on the Jalen and Jacoby Podcast when discussing Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving.
On Monday on NBA Countdown he said that if anyone says that Kyrie Irving wants to win a championship without him, that person is lying.
He built on those thoughts during the podcast and said Kyrie doesn't want the Celtics winning without him, because that's human instinct.
“This is a human instinct. When I’m not a part of this program, I don’t want the ratings to be 10 times better than when I’m on it…. Does Kyrie want to stick it to his former team? He already did. He asked out of town, they traded him for a box of rocks. He won that.”
Jalen Rose also thinks another reason that Irving doesn't want the Celtics to keep winning, is because he will lose some of his power in the locker room. If the Celtics can win without him, why would some of the other guys that were behind him on the depth chart, and stepped up in his absence, take what he has to say seriously.
“You can’t now return to the Boston Celtics, if you’re Kyrie, and be that high-usage player that scored 25+ points, that has five assists, and every time there’s an out-of-bounds play or a big shot they draw up the play for you. Here’s why – the other 14 guys are going to look at the coach and be like ‘hey, what about me?’ I’m Rozier, I’m Tatum, I’m Brown, I’m Horford. I earned the equity last year when he wasn’t out here.'”
It seems like a crazy idea that a player on a team wouldn't want their own team to win a championship, but maybe Jalen Rose is onto something here.
