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July 7, 2025 11 mins
“What does Kyrie Irving really mean when he says, ‘Don’t hold your breath’?”In this thought-provoking episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray—dives headfirst into a whirlwind of sports speculation.The segment kicks off with a deep dive into Kyrie Irving’s cryptic livestream, where his comment about not rushing back for the playoffs sends Mavs fans into a frenzy. Is it a setback? A misstep? Or just classic Kyrie-speak? The crew breaks it down with insight, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
Dot net is the place to go and donate. Right now.
It's time for this kill. The thing's big.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
There was a little Man's News over the weekend as well.
Kyrie Irving has been doing a lot of streams, uh
just live streaming, interacting with the chat during his rehab
and this clip.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Thank you for the content. Kyrie.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, this clip is taking off here and started a
bit of a storm.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Will you be back by playoffs? Don't hold your breath
on that, You know what I'm saying. It doesn't mean
that I won't be back, it's just don't I don't
want to make any predictions on when I'm gonna be back.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I just want to be.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Back one hundred and fifty thousand percent better. So I'm
taking my time right now to really get healthy. I'm
taking my time to really get my body right, other
parts of porches of my body right, and and really
just enjoy this this recovery process.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Man, it's it's it's not pretty. Yes, it is a
beautiful struggle.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
But I go through kind of the mental roller coaster
ride of every you know, every day, just want to
be back out there.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Obviously, when you say don't hold your breath, that's what
takes off and people are like freaking out about it.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I just thought it was a bad question.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I'm like, I could see asking about the All Star Game,
are you gonna be back by January February? But by
the playoffs That's like I'm like, wait what, And so
I think I don't think he's revealing, Hey, no, this
injury is way worse than anyone thought. I'm actually going
to be out the longest anyone's ever been out. He's
probably just saying, let's not put anything any limits or

(02:21):
expectations or.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Any dates on this, right.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's kind of how I read it, And I think
like he's got a Kyrie code that he talks in.
You know, he answers most questions a certain way, and
I think he very much answered that question in that way,
except for the part that you said, don't hold your
breath that has a negative connotation to most people. He

(02:46):
may be thinking about it in a way of communicating, hey,
don't spend time thinking about when I'm going to be back.
I'll be back when I'm ready. But that's not the
way people perceived it, no doubt, and so it led
to a big, gigantic thing. And that's the other thing too,
about just taking questions and riffing. You know, it's not

(03:07):
a prepared it's not a prepared environment. You don't know
what's coming at you. And maybe you say things in
a way that I wish I'd worded that differently, or
maybe there is a setback and he's not telling us
about it, or maybe this entire time Kyrie has a
different timetable than what happens is is there's an injury,

(03:27):
and then people look at a time frame and then
they compare it to other injuries, and so most acls
are eleven months, and so then everyone goes, Okay, he's
going to be back at the beginning of February. But
if you're gonna come back at the beginning of February,
you might as well wait till after the All Star breaks.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I think it's going to be after the All Star break.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
And I suspect he was just saying, hey, let's not
put a timetable on this, but instead he said, don't
hold your breath. And so everyone's like, oh my god,
what has happened.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
There's a lot can happen. In the West is highly
competitive too. They're over under. Is that interesting? This has
come out in the last couple of days, Mavericks over
I don't if you've seen this? Can I guess? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Forty four and a half. How many do they win
last year?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Thirty nine?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Uh? The West just keeps getting better and better and better.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Man. I think I think you factor that in if
they were in the East, you'd be like, Yep, they're
gonna win fifty five games or something stupid. You know, Uh,
I'm gonna say this is Vegas, right.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, I mean it's yeah, it's it's probably Bovada's one.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, it's one. Good, it's you know, they can find
some places that have it a little different. But forty seven, no,
thirty eight and a half.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh giveing.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
They think they're gonna have a worse year than they
had last year. I don't, but you know they do.
But keep in mind what they're doing though, Ben, this
is in July. They're trying to get action. So what
they want is they want to They think they're gonna
get a lot of people saying over and then they
start adjusting the line on them.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Uh huh yeah, like the cow boy thing too. At
seven and a half.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I definitely would take the over by the way, I man,
all I watch on social media now and this is
probably good news for you guys. There's two things I watch.
One is a movie called Mac and Me. It was
it made fun of or it didn't make fun of.
It was like an ET. It was another meverchon of ET.
It came out like seven or eight years later. Yeah,
and the movie looks terrible. It looks to be one
of the worst movies ever made. I remember this movie,

(05:23):
but there's a scene from it where this kid becomes
a giant and he's in his room and this lady
walks in with these scientists and I'll bring the audio
one day.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
She walks in and goes it somewhere. She goes, it's me.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
I send it to everyone. It's my favorite thing in
the world. And they walk in with some scientists. This
lady goes, I would like you to meet such and such.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
He's a doctor.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
And the kid walks in and his sweatsuit doesn't fit
him because he's grown so much. He's like in his
ducking down. So is that doesn't hit the ceiling? He goes,
I'd like to ask you to get the f out
of my room. He goes, get out in my room.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
You actually have it. It has a bleep. Yeah, is
that kid cuss?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
You sent it to me and I pulled it and
then we forgot about it. I didn't forget which happens time.
Are you ready?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I want you to meet my colleague, doctor Hamilton, and I'll.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Like you to get the guy here here. Okay, he's huge. Okay,
we need to find this on the fly.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Okay, because that kid has the exact same voice as
the g I Joe, Remember.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
The g I Joe essays and the one who cussed.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
We're not gonna be able to do this on.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
The Okay, I'm gonna find it. We'll play it tomorrow's
wand is it in though I can try. I think
it's the one the sandwich the pork chopped sandwiches. There's
a lot of cussing in that one, is there. Yeah,
he's like cussing because he started a fire. Okay, okay,
hold on, so just listen to that part.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Listen the beginning part, and then listen to the.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Kid when the guys start careful. Yeah, go back to
the very beginning and play that he said thank you
that Okay, stop, Now listen to the kid and the
Mac and Me.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Okay, I want you to meet my colleague, doctor Hamilton,
and I'll like you to get there.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
The haunting music in the background. So there's two things
I watch and that kick in.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
I watched that Mac and Me scene and it looks
to be the worst movie ever. Like a bet payoffs
should be to have to watch that movie. It was
like eight years after eighteen. It's just a total knockoff.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I'm watching it, Is that right?

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Okay, thank each other it so? Is that right? Okay?
I really did it.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
To a clip of his new show and Paul right
say he snuck it in on.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I didn't know that was even a thing. I didn't
even know the movie was a thing. I missed it
and we were growing up. But that scene from it
is my favorite thing in life, and so the only
things I watch on social media now, especially since Liver
King has unraveled so much, is I watch that yeah
cooking that scene. And I watched Cooper Flag highlights. He's
cooking and it's so amazing, and I've you know, just

(08:19):
I've seen all these things now, just constantly watching Cooper
Flag highlights on a basketball court. And I saw a
unique comparison. And I don't remember the specifics about this
one player, but when I watched a highlight montage of
Cooper Flag and this player, somebody else was like, this
is a good comp for Cooper Flag, And I want
to ask your basketball brain skin it was Grant Hill.

(08:40):
Oh yeah, that's actually the comp that I think Mike
Krzyzewski gave wow, yeah, and he was talking about the
fact that had Grant Hill not been a freshman when
Bobby Hurley and Christian Lahner were there, that they would
have he would have had a different role. It would
have been his team from the jump, just like it
was Cooper Flags. But he's like, you don't get that

(09:01):
when Christian Christian Latner is arguably the greatest college basketball
player of all time, not pro but college basketball, his
career was unmatched and they were perennial champs and all that,
and then Grant Hill got there. But I think the
Grant Hill comparison is excellent, although I think Cooper Flagg
will end up being stronger. PROBB with Grant Hill is
he got misdiagnosed on an ankle injury and never recovered.

(09:24):
He was a top five player in the league in
his second year. I was watching highlights and I was like, Yeah,
these look just like the Cooper Flags highlights, and they're
the same size, same size and just punishing the rim
and able to spin around and playing great defense. And
Grant Hill was spectacular. He just had an ankle injury
and he got making misdiagnosed and you can go look
and see the drop off. And in fact, I believe

(09:45):
he went to Orlando to go pair with Tracy McGrady
if I remember that right?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Does that sound right? Kat? I don't know what was
he was.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
He a two to three three that they ran the
ball through like a point three kind of thing, But yeah,
that I think that's a I think that's a great comparison.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
You're not cooking, yeah, not cook in.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
I think it's real funny that everyone that you know
says the Mavericks are aren't good or whatever. They go, yeah,
they just don't have enough ball handling, and then they
all want to make the Rockets the second best team
in the West. And I'm like, you might want to
pull up their ball handlers and show me who they are.
They have Fred van Vliet and who cause I mean,

(10:23):
same thing, there's no difference. Maybe the coach can dribble
it up. Yeah, no, it's it's gonna be just like
Cooper Flagg. They're gonna have Kevin Durant bring them up point.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah. That was my foret Like, I'm not cooking all right, man? KT,
Are you familiar with all those g I Joe PSA's
hundred times.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
I don't think he has. Uh, that's gonna do it
for us. Thank you for hanging out with us today.
We will be back tomorrow and again. Uh, if you
would like to donate Community foundation dot net that is
a great place to help out on the Kerr County
flood relief fund. All right, we'll be back tomorrow. I'll
never forget the time KT looked Cooper Flagg dead in

(11:04):
the eye and he.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Said, do you suck on my toe?

Speaker 1 (11:07):
And that did not welcome him to the Metroplex. Christina,
you gonna stick around, play some music and sounds good.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
There you going well, I want to get my sock back. Dude,
A great summer, that's your
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