The Brooklyn Nets have been a less than stable team through the first month of the season. Their head coach has been fired, one of their star players shared an anti-Semitic film on his social media accounts, and its best player said he wished the team would have kept quiet about it. Co-host of The Michael Kay Show Don La Greca said the team’s television play-by-play announcer, Ian Eagle, deserves a better situation.
“You don’t feel bad for Ian?,” La Greca asked Kay.
“Feel bad for Ian? Ian prints money,” Kay responded.
“So that’s how you keep score?,” La Greca asked.
“Of course!,” admitted Kay. “How else would I keep score?! Why would I feel bad for Ian?”
“Because I’d feel bad for you,” La Greca said.
Kay then said he was lost in the conversation, so La Greca turned his attention to Peter Rosenberg to help Kay understand. La Greca then said imagine if Kay were the Yankees announcer in the early 90s when the team wasn’t good.
“So you feel bad that they’re doing a bad team?,” Kay asked.
“A bad team and a controversial team. It stinks,” said La Greca. “It stinks real bad over there.”
“They’re also announcing one of the greatest players who ever lived,” Kay said of Kevin Durant.
“Alright. So you disagree with me. You always talk about the Mona Lisa in the garage. I think Ian is as good as it gets. And I think (he) deserves better than a 4-7 team that’s drenched in controversy. And it’s not like they can sit there and have long conversations like we do about Kyrie and what happened. They’re about the basketball and calling the game! They deserve to be calling a championship caliber team that wins.”
At the conclusion of the discussion, Kay agreed that Eagle deserves better, saying he’s “in lockstep” with La Greca’s sentiment.
