Stephen A. Smith warned Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving he’d be in a world of trouble come Friday morning, and sure enough the TV personality did not disappoint, ripping into Irving over his Thursday Twitter rant. If you haven’t seen the Twitter outburst, Irving went off on the media’s coverage of modern day athletes, calling out the “puppet masters” for disparaging athletes.

Kyrie has always been a nutcase. But you’d think even he would be smart enough to just stay quiet and lie low till next season after getting swept in the playoffs. But his ego wouldn’t let him do the bright thing and now he’s going to get all the pushback he deserves for his ass-backwards Twitter rants.

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