Kyrie Irving talks the Finals loss, FULL Postgame Interview 🎤

Kyrie Irving talks the Finals loss, FULL Postgame Interview 🎤

Kyrie Joey mrea with clutch points um obviously a difficult loss tonight and that goes without saying but I want to ask you about the future you guys have built a great core you and Luca a lot of guys around you how confident are you in this team’s future uh very confident I mean that’s what’s uh uh you know a positive note that we can take from this series uh just how far we made it and um you know how how proud of it I am of the guys and um you know we answered a lot of questions this year on on what we were capable of doing and uh now it’s just about being consistent I think you know probably in the last week I said that you know I wanted to be remembered as one of the best teams of this era you know the last few Champions have have been a new one each each and every year so um I see an opportunity for us to really build our future in a positive manner where um you know this is almost like a regular thing for us and um we’re competing for championships and um you know that I think uh from a spiritual standpoint I think I enjoyed this journey more than any other season uh just because of the Redemption Arc and and being able to learn as much as I did uh about myself and my teammates and the organization and the people that I’m around it’s a lot of good people here so uh it makes coming to work a lot of fun and uh when you have that type of environment I think uh you know it’s easy to achieve goals that are bigger than yourself because everyone’s really dialed in and having a good sense of Joy about them second row the left 10 Tim K the athletic Kyrie over the past week Luca has talked about um you know failure being something to learn from to to grow from um as a as a 12- year veteran or 32y old veteran um you know how do you how do you actually take failure and and take those lessons and grow from them and not just let it become a a cliche that’s kind of said in the situations uh I mean it starts in the summertime it starts you know early in preseason uh when you’re developing your habits and uh I think we went 0 and four in preseason to start which wasn’t the best start uh but we got off to a pretty decent start to the season and uh there were some injuries and some uncontrollable things that happened but I think if you look at the overall big picture Luke was right and I’ve been saying it too just failure it can inspire you beyond measure and uh we started off as a fifth seat in it started on the road in every series and we were able to accomplish this and we were able to grow as as teammates and as a Brotherhood here a Sisterhood here uh where we can really take that as a positive no into the summer uh so yeah failing at this stage definitely sucks it’s it’s a bitter feeling um because you want to keep playing and you and you feel like your best game is coming up next and the shots that you shoot next game are coming up and now we got to wait I think what two and a half months three and a half months to the new Champion um you know gets a chance yeah so uh I’m grateful for the opportunity to be able to grow with these guys in this locker room um all everybody across our organization um you know we’ve been able to um celebrate our our wins but also learn how to celebrate our losses too and how to grow from that so that that’s a difficult part of Being Human when you really love something you really want to win and it doesn’t happen um how do you respond from that so I think that’s where we are now um but I think I could tell you I’m pretty confident that we’ll we’ll be back in the gym pretty soon and getting ready for next year on the right Tim Tim McMahon ESPN uh before you checked out for the last time you know you go you hug a lot of the your old teammates the other guys on the Celtics as you’re walking back to the bench there what what’s going through your mind and you obviously at the end what was a pretty emotional series for you yeah it was it was emotional anyway I mean every series was emotional um just because I was just uncertain on how it was going to go and and how we were going to respond to a little bit of adversity uh we finally ran into a team where um you know they beat us fair and square and we weren’t able to respond to a lot of their runs and we weren’t able to uh execute at a high level so uh when I was shaking everybody’s hands that was more of a sign of respect uh for their Journey they’ve been through an incredible 5year span of going to game sevens or losing in the finals uh so they they know what this bitter feeling feels like being up here and answering questions about what this next year hold and I think they used everything as motivation uh they were healthy and uh they really kept their head down and weren’t paying attention to any of the personal accolades or individual accolades I think they just came together as a team and were okay with each person being great in their role and um selflessly putting their best foot forward so so I think we learned uh more than anything from this series on uh what it takes to not only get back to this level but win at this level and um you know the Celtics are the perfect example for us um this season because of how much they’ve had to deal with in the past few years so it’s admirable you know and and to see did JB win finals MVP yeah that was that was big time to see that trophy in his hands I I think him and JT should have split it but um you know those two guys in particular have um you know almost been like students and as well now becoming teachers in their own right so to see them accomplish see them accomplish that I’m really proud um you know and also extremely motivated to get back to this position in the next few years uh with my guys and be able to win this thing Mike Curtis Mike Curtis Dallas Morning News Kyrie you talked about wanting to play well against the Celtics team um You’re motivated obviously but when it comes to how you perform was it more of them defensively they’re pressing a lot or was it you had a lot shot that went in came out those uncharacteristic um just shots what what do you attribute it to most I mean basketball is a game of centers man sometimes interest so when the ball’s flying off your hand sometimes it’s going to feel good sometimes it isn’t and uh yeah that’s the maturity aspect you got to be able to move on to the next thing and I’ve been talking about that and uh whether I’m playing well specifically uh scoring wise or I’m not there’s a team aspect here that we’re becoming more jelled into or t dialed into you know I can score 25 points but if I don’t then we got to be able to pick each other up and I think that’s what we’re learning about each other now where they’re going to be games where the shooting is not going to go well particularly for me or someone else on the team and that’s where we have to Galvanize as a group and other players make plays and opportunities created for one another um I’ve been at the point of attack through most of my drives going against the Celtics one-on-one or um you know coming off screen so uh that’s what the summer is for is just continuing to work on those things that I saw this year the physicality being able to adjust to it and you know by next year be in a better position Howard in the back Howard back from the ringer Kyrie uh two quick thoughts uh one is just the this is a team that’s still pretty new to each other pieces that just came in in February a lot of Youth as well is the next step of evolution just simply guys being together longer getting that experience and then uh second kind of separate thought but you’ve been through this before both the loss and and the win at this level level Luca has not he seemed pretty down when he was in here you have a sense of what he’s going through right now yeah what was your first question just about about the time together Youth and a lot of new guys I I would agree with that yeah just time together uh means a lot and uh failing together is uh not the ideal situation but uh from a leadership standpoint going through situations like that sometimes it it will it’ll motivate you beyond things that you could imagine and um you know when I was a little bit younger and and I was injured in 200 15 and we lost it was a team loss it wasn’t just I was injured and we could have done this or that so that went on my finals record I was on one and then the next year we came back and won in in a 3-1 comeback and then the following year we lost against the Warriors and I haven’t been back since so um you know I look at it as uh you know opportunity for us to observe what we did well this year as a group and how me and Lucan could be better as the leaders of the team one of you know few of the leaders on the team and really just enjoy um you know the ups and downs of what’s coming because now we know what to expect so this this past year was a lot of newness it was a lot of people being in new positions in terms of just the success um success could be new for a lot of people too but when you fail um at the finals it’s it’s not something that uh you you want to carry the disappointment forever or on to next season we worked extremely hard to be one of the final two teams um we didn’t achieve our goal but we achieved most of our goals so um this is just the last step that we have to get back to and we know it’s not going to be easy we’re going to go against a lot of young teams that are emerging um but we’re going to get better as well and I think this experience will carry us forth um in the in the following series that we play next year God willing we make it back to the playoffs and and get the chance to play our best basketball last question fourth row on the right Kyrie toz Arley with clutch points um you were here when when when Jaylen started his career here with Tatum as well um when they’re going through you know what they’re going through playoff failures and all that uh everyone’s saying break them up can they do it um just how have you seen them grow um from day one when you were here uh all the way to to who they are now um well they don’t really care if one’s better than the other considered and they they just want to win yeah I mean it’s easy to get to that point when um you know you have no other choice but to look at your partner or your teammates and say that we’re going to do this and and we’re going to accomplish it no matter what anyone says um the hardest thing I would say one of the most difficult things not the hardest thing but one of the most difficult things in this industry is is um you know as I’ve been in for 12 years is um dealing with a lot of the relationship with um you know sort of say social media fans and media and then us as players and wanting to achieve a a golden Legacy sort of say you know everybody looks at MJ as the prototypical guy he was 6 and 0 then you go down the list to Bill Russell and and you know other great guys that have come through this Le I I can name a myriad of names but uh for those guys in particular uh I think they have had the same trajectory or career path to some of the greatest to play the game where they’ve lost early in their career and now they’re at the the top of the mountain because they’ve earned their way there and they’ve been able to learn so again I’m I’m nothing short of proud of those guys um but I think uh this was a message to my teammates as well um that when we get this opportunity you know God willing we get this opportunity again we work hard um it’s going to be more than just our talent that’s going to get us over the edge and it’s going to be more than just somebody scoring 30 it’s going to be it’s going to take more than just um scoring it’s going to take everything from you and um you know that that’s what makes this thing beautiful too is when you get to the top of that mountain how do you stay motivated there and now that they’re there I think those are questions they’re going to have to answer for themselves but for us we got to the top of mountain and we failed so now we have to start at the bottom and uh that should be inspiring so um grateful that I love what I do grateful that I get to do it with people that love what they do too so um be a long summer but uh looking forward to the start of next season now thank you Kyrie

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