{"id":1911750,"date":"2023-04-08T08:13:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T12:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nba-star-tim-hardaway-sr-blasts-sons-mavericks-teammates-luka-doncic-kyrie-irving-missing-a-leader\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T08:16:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T12:16:47","slug":"former-nba-star-tim-hardaway-sr-blasts-sons-mavericks-teammates-luka-doncic-kyrie-irving-missing-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nba-star-tim-hardaway-sr-blasts-sons-mavericks-teammates-luka-doncic-kyrie-irving-missing-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA Star Tim Hardaway SR. Blasts Son\u2019s Mavericks Teammates Luka Doncic &amp; Kyrie Irving: \u201cMissing a Leader\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-nba-star-tim-hardaway-sr-blasts-sons-mavericks-teammates-luka-doncic-kyrie-irving-missing-a-leader%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1911750&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks locker room is about to get even more awkward.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks are 8-16 since they <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/05\/kyrie-irving-traded-to-mavericks-to-end-wild-nets-saga\/\">acquired Kyrie Irving from the Nets in early February<\/a> (7-13 in games in which Irving has played), and are now a half-game behind the Thunder for the 10th seed in the Western Conference and final spot in the postseason play-in round. <\/p>\n<p>Tim Hardaway Sr., the former NBA All-Star and the father of Mavs guard Tim Hardaway Jr., went on \u201cThe Carton Show\u201d on FS1 Wednesday morning and said that his son\u2019s teammates lack leadership skills. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re missing a leader out there,\u201d Hardaway Sr. said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuka is not a leader. Kyrie is not a leader. [For] me personally, that trade wasn\u2019t for them. I think I would have kept what I had because I was in the fourth or fifth spot [in the Western Conference]. What is not broken does not need to be fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hardaway Sr. also said Dallas misses the defensive tenacity of the players they shipped to the Nets in the deal. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tim Hardaway on the Mavericks\u2019 struggles \ud83d\udc40 #NBA #Mavericks #Shorts\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvNlfyM1aBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen id=\"youtube-8614436\" data-rhp=\"1\" data-original-client-width=\"760\" data-original-client-height=\"428\" data-yt-skip=\"1\" data-rh-vid=\"1\" data-embed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvNlfyM1aBE?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1479223364.jpg\"> <\/a><figcaption>Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving have not gelled together since Irving was traded to Dallas.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSpencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith were your defense anchors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey helped play defense, especially Dorian Finney-Smith. He was out there and he could switch [to cover] one through five.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irving has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/30\/kyrie-irving-has-harsh-comment-about-mavs-in-clusterfk\/\">acknowledged that things have not been going as planned<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1437144955.jpg\"> <\/a><figcaption>Tim Hardaway Jr. high-fives Luka Doncic.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-171761356.jpg\"> <\/a><figcaption>Tim Hardaway Sr. and Jr. after the latter was drafted by the Knicks in 2013.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat does our future look like?\u201d\u00a0Irving said\u00a0last week after the team lost a game to the Sixers. \u201cI think that now, again, just where we are in the season, and where other teams are positioned already, it kind of looks like a bit of a clusterf\u2013k, to be honest with you.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vividseats.com\/brooklyn-nets-tickets--sports-nba-basketball\/performer\/29773?utm_source=nypost.com&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=article-reusable-block&#038;wsUser=1006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Want to catch a game? The Nets schedule with links to buy tickets can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cBecause we\u2019re 37-40, and we\u2019re trying to get into the play-in game. It\u2019s not the expectations I don\u2019t think any of us had in that locker room and me getting traded midseason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since those remarks, the Mavericks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/05\/luka-doncic-really-misses-jalen-brunson-as-mavericks-swoon\/\">have lost two consecutive games<\/a>, to the Heat and Hawks. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/Kyrie-Irving-2-copy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks locker room is about to get even more awkward. The Mavericks are 8-16 since they acquired Kyrie Irving from the Nets in early February (7-13 in games in which Irving has played), and are now a half-game behind the Thunder for the 10th seed in the Western Conference and final spot in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1911751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3675,23832,23829,7592,7590,3939,23830,6114,10255,7873,12564,23831,5229,12249,8301],"class_list":["post-1911750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-blasts","tag-doncic","tag-hardaway","tag-irving","tag-kyrie","tag-leader","tag-luka","tag-mavericks","tag-missing","tag-nba","tag-sons","tag-sr","tag-star","tag-teammates","tag-tim"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}