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Trae Young says he'll never forgive playing it safe on a sprained ankle two games from the finals "If what I know now, I would have played through my sprained ankle. My agents were telling me not to play" "We were two games away to go to the finals,... show more

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phil3 months ago

lol no agent should be able to talk you out of playing in the conference finals you just soft

TJ Skeeter Valentine3 months ago

The competitor feels this way but his agent did him a solid. Two months from signing life changing money. Hard to risk that and end up like Isaiah Thomas

VOID3 months ago

*gets traded to the Wizards*

Zach Dull3 months ago

🤦‍♂️nah dawg you just thought you’d be back. Yall get paid $300M for a couple good seaason and no ring. What a shame.

Andrew3 months ago

He was not healthy when he did come back and didn't play well, so if he came back before that, it would've been even worse

James patterdon3 months ago

Man no shit it’s the conference finals get some fucking Percocet tape that shit up and let’s go

Michael norris3 months ago

Another reason the NBA is a shell of what it was and unwatchable until the playoffs.

FishBurgh3 months ago

lol why is your agent telling you whether you should play or not?

Terfa Tilley-Gyado3 months ago

That’s the thing about sports. You just never know if that opportunity will come round again. Folks saying this Spurs side is young, they will learn from this, they will be back, blah, blah, blah. Who the hell knows for sure? Better players than Wemby have never been to more than one final or won a ring. No guarantees.

Champ3 months ago

Suns would have dropped yall ass off like you going to school brother

I'm The Guy3 months ago

That’s what happens when u take these moments for granted or have sum false sense of entitlement like ur guaranteed to get back to that same spot…every postseason, as u go deeper, u gotta play it like it could be ur last time getting back to that spot

Esss Geee Ayee3 months ago

He got too cocky. I remember him saying the regular season was boring the following season lol

Notz3 months ago

This hurts bro

Lobo Ca$hFlow3 months ago

Trae, bro, if you couldn’t tough it out two wins from the Finals then maybe you just didn’t have that dog in you, plenty of legends played on worse and actually got rings.

Music Marketing Cyph 🇬🇾📈3 months ago

It’s easy to say what he should have done in hindsight but cmon yall calling him soft when other players who have made the decision to keep playing through these injuries have suffered disaster with nothing to show for it.

Sweat Equity3 months ago

You can never come back from that shit. Same way I feel about Luka. To be blunt Luka is a BITCH. Bron tore his groin and missed 5 weeks. Luka had a grade two hamstring missed 5 weeks and 5 days. His game isn’t built off explosiveness like Bron’s who was 34. Bron the GOAT

Potato Kmish3 months ago

Who listens to their agents about playing?

Unnecessary Bluntness Owner/Coach/QB3 months ago

I still blame the ref

SITE NYK 🏆3 months ago

He’s always talking about the past

NegroPolitics3 months ago

I honestly believe the hawks win a title if Trae didn’t get hurt on that run. Ge was unstoppable. Everyone bought into their role and Trae was playing the best ball of his life.

Casper3 months ago

ft. @TheTraeYoung @thepivot

HankBobbyDale3 months ago

It takes a big man for Trae to come out and say this. One thing these young bucks need to realize that you can be all world, but its so hard winning a chip. Keep in mind many of the greats never won a chip including Barkley, Stockton, CP3, etc

brady3 months ago

yeah that’s on you big dog. Giannis returned in that series on a hyperextended knee and went on to win the whole thing.

Andrew Rubenstein3 months ago

“My agents were telling me not to play” yeah that’s when you find new agents brother

Frandy3 months ago

Trae played in 4 of the 6 games that series against Milwaukee. They lost 3 of the 4 games he played in. And he played 35 minutes in game 6 when the Hawks got eliminated. Am I missing something?

Super Hero3 months ago

Bro was the #1 option on his team in the ECF and didn’t love the game enough to tape up his ankle and put on a brace

DFS McNick3 months ago

I wish my Suns played Hawks in the finals. It took Giannis to score 50 points & shoot 90% from the free throw line to beat us. Something he'll never do again

Walter Campbell 🧀🦌🧦3 months ago

You got beat by Khris Middleton and Brook Lopez 😂😂

J P3 months ago

He was terrible in game 6 and changed his style of play completely, and that’s after two games of rest. He wasn’t driving in the paint at all and that is where he had killed all postseason

Fitness Hub3 months ago

This guy has had more quotes this season than he’s played games.

Tralaleo3 months ago

You played in game 6 and shot 17 times

James Bedner3 months ago

Blaming his agent. This dude is the biggest f’n loser.

free3 months ago

Trae go talk to IT - he’ll remind you how blessed you are to have the proper guidance

Cuervo3 months ago

@AuthorRandallB Yeah this nigga soft

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I stay, when the ecstacy is far away. I pray, that it’s coming round again. You say it, but I wish it wasn’t true. I knew someday that one would have to choose, I just thought we had more to lose. MORE TO LOSE. OUT NOW.

I stay, when the ecstacy is far away. I pray, that it’s coming round again. You say it, but I wish it wasn’t true. I knew someday that one would have to choose, I just thought we had more to lose. MORE TO LOSE. OUT NOW.

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