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Stephen A. & Shannon Sharpe APPLAUD Kyrie Irving 👏 'A MAGICIAN ON THE COURT!' | First Take

Stephen A. Smith & Shannon Sharpe discuss the Phoenix Suns falling to the Milwaukee Bucks without Giannis Antetokounmpo before speaking on Kyrie Irving's greatness and the Dallas Mavericks contending with Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. 0:00 Dame Time overwhelms Phoenix Suns 1:47 Kyrie Irving's buzzer-beater 6:21 Luka-Kyrie duo or Jokic-Murray? ✔️ Subscribe to ESPN+ http://espnplus.com/youtube ✔️ Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn ✔️ Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ✔️ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoNBAonESPN ✔️ Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://es.pn/YouTubeTV

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time for a quick take with Giannis out versus the Suns it was Dame time Lillard went off with 31 points 16 assists to beat the Suns with KD Devon Booker and Bradley Beal playing Stephen A was this more about the bucks or the Suns to me it was more about the Suns Shannon uh they can't stop a Cod and when you got Frank vogle who's the head coach you're head coach in the NBA because of your defensive prowess in Indiana years ago ultimately with the Lakers when they won a championship in the bubble
now you're in Phoenix Kevin Durant scoring 11 points everybody's making a big deal about it that's an aberration 35 years of the age of Brothers averaging 28 a game Let's pump the braks it's an off day for him an off night Grayson Allen had it going on Bradley Bill had it going on to a lesser degree Devon Booker had it going on the issue was you couldn't stop Dame time you couldn't stop uh the Milwaukee Bucks I'm looking at Dame he had 31 I'm looking at midon he had 22 in his game in his first g
ame Bobby Porters had 31 you couldn't stop anybody that's the problem with the Phoenix Suns that's why we don't have have high hopes for them yeah I that you're absolutely right Stephen A this was more about the Suns you cannot lose a game when the one one of the two best players in all of basketball isn't on the court you got to beat Milwaukee with Giannis and you let Dame get go crazy 31- 16 you let Bobby Porter have a double double with 31 points and I think 13 rebounds that is unacceptable y
ou've got to win this game and this is why it looks like the Lakers the Warriors and the sons will all be in the play in amen that's what it is and by the way Shannon you know what that means it's possible that they could be out you're talking about you're you're literally talking about two of those three going to be out whether it's LeBron I mean think about it it's possible elsewhere in the association guys how about Kyrie Irving he called game last night Kai scored 24 points nine assists with
the two most important points at the buzzer to hand the nuggets the loss LCA donic had 3 s and 10 but after the game gave all the praise to Kyrie saying that guy is special Dame Lillard agrees and decided to pay some respect to Kyrie and a post saying Kyrie is the most skilled ever Shannon what's your opinion on this do you feel like Kyrie is one of the most skilled players you've ever seen yeah when you look at his ability he's a 50 4090 guy can shoot 50% from the floor 40% from the three 90%
from the free throw line you look at his handles we've had some guys that can handle the ball from strickling to Isaiah Thomas uh to uh uh Williams Jason Williams nobody can have Pat The Rock like he can and when you look at his ability to finish at the rim with either hand the way he can kiss the ball off the glass he can spin it like this or he can spin it like that the Up and Under the fancy what people don't realize is that Kyrie Irving the only thing he does right-handed is shoot a basketba
ll he's left-handed but the mere fact that he shot this shot like this and he's going through Ramadan which he's not allowed to eat eat or drink anything from sun up to sun down and to play that count of minute and to keep his mind sharp I can put it to you like this we've all been in situation where we've been thirsty or we've been hungry and we know how irritable we get we know how frustrated and how uh folus we lose focus now imagine trying to go play an NBA basketball game against the greate
st of the greats and you have to maintain your focus and you have to go out and do what we're asking you to do on a normal day Kudos the KY Urban but I've never seen anything like kyri a guy that can create a shot at any angle that can shoot the mid-range can shoot the three great at the free throw line and finishing at The Rim tell me somebody that's ever been better than Kyrie Irving finishing at The Rim right or left-handed I have nothing to add to that Kyrie Irving is a magician on the baske
tball caught on the offive floor what can he not do and you just look at him I mean when I think about people they they constantly have brought up Allen Iverson the answer I covered him for the first 10 years of his career we know how material he was a miniature Dynamo going into the land of Giants and handling his business like the warrior he is he'd even concede he didn't have this kind of skill set he couldn't shoot the ball from the perimeter like Kyrie IR he damn sure couldn't handle the ba
ll like Kyrie Irving and Allen obson was a marvelous basketball a ball handler okay Kyrie Irving is nothing short of spectacular it's beautiful to see us talking about his greatness on the basketball court rather than other stuff by the way we've been Maring so much at Luca who spent some parts of this season averaging a 35 Point triple double Kyrie Irving ladies and gentlemen is averaging 25.4 points per game on 49% shooting from the field 41 a half% shooting from from three-point range 90% fro
m the free throw line this is who he is this is what he brings to the table and when you look at him I can't help but fantasize about him in the postseason him healthy Luca healthy with the Mavericks now having a bit of size at their disposal all right with GFF acquiring him before the trading deadline and what have you you're looking at that Shannon yesterday against Denver they outrebounded Denver 60- 37 they had 22 offensive rebounds maybe that's an aberration because we certainly don't expec
t to see that happen against the Denver Nuggets but I got news for you if Dallas can do that in terms of rebounding and making sure they can play Big in terms of offsetting teams having a rebounding advantage against them look out look out because offensively you know what these brothers can do Stephen A this is why Golden State went out and recruited Kevin Durant because that Kyrie Irving we had started to see that Kyrie Irving in Cleveland and you pair him with a seven eight year younger LeBro
n James than what he is right now they weren't gonna see them no more because remember the F the first championship Kyrie got hurt in that first overtime of game one Kevin Love did not even play that's right that's right that's your Absolut absolutely right and we got to remember it ain't just about starting to see him Kyrie closed the deal by hitting the three over step to win the championship so that's when they went out and got Kevin Durant because they knew you got Kyrie with Kevin Love with
LeBron in Cleveland and you don't go out and get Kevin Durant like Isaiah Thomas told Draymond that dynasty it would have had a different narrative y'all wouldn't have won those next two titles ESS let me ask you this who's the scarier Duo right now is it Luca and Kyrie or Jo CH Murray I'm going to go with Kyrie and Luca the scariest on say better I know yic and Murray are better but Kyrie and Luca when you consider what they're capable of doing Shannon how the explosion that is that that evide
nt is imminent from game to Dame game to game there should be nothing that's more scarier than that because when those two get rolling you can't stop them there's no defensive scheme there's no answer for them what they bring to the table it's the epitome of looking going like this this is what separates the superstars from everybody else

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