‘P***sed’ Brooklyn Nets hold dressing room inquest after fourth straight loss

The Brooklyn Nets team held a locker room search for players late Saturday night after suffering a fourth straight loss in the 125-116 loss to Indiana Pacers.

Nets coach Steve Nash and star players Kevin Durant and Ben Simmons all spoke out in blunt honesty about the state of the team after the latest defeat that gives them a 1-5 record.

According to ESPNNash was late to his post-game press conference because of the meeting, and the Nets locker room “was shut down long after Nash’s conference ended.”

The Nets were defeated by the Indiana Pacers 125-116 on Saturday and are 1-5 for the season

But it was Durant who sounded the most upset after the final defeat.

It was a night,’ he said. “Excuse my language, it was a bad night. We’re p***ed. We enjoy basketball.

“However, we like to win, so if we lose the games, it will of course be a gloomy mood in the dressing room. But it will change once we start playing good basketball. We still have a lot of basketball to play.”

Coach Nash, meanwhile, called the defeat “a disaster.”

‘How else do you say it? I didn’t see the will, I didn’t see the desire, or the connectivity needed to get stops and rebounds.

“We just have to make a bigger commitment and it has to mean more and we have to care more about it.

“We have to look deep. Deep within ourselves and what we want to do. What do we want to achieve? Do we want to give up because it’s been difficult early on or do we want to stay on track and start building something?’

Under pressure, coach Steve Kerr said the latest loss is a ‘disaster’ for the Nets team

Ben Simmons said the Nets are ‘holding each other accountable’ as they try to save the season

Ben Simmons, meanwhile, declined to be open about what the team discussed, but underlined his belief that the Nets will soon rediscover their form.

“It was fair,” the Australian said. ‘We’ve had a conversation. I’m not going to talk about it, of course, but it was fair.

“That’s what winning teams do. Hold each other accountable, be open and talk to your teammates, respect that and be men.’

The Nets will face the Pacers again on Monday night at the Barclays Center. On top of the lack of form, another star man in Kyrie Irving is embroiled in an anti-Semitism row.

He had a verbal altercation with a reporter over a controversial tweet of his, which contained links to a film based on a book “of anti-Semitic misinformation.”

The guard drew attention earlier this week for publishing the 2018 movie “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” ​​on social media with a link to the Amazon page.

Magazine rolling stone has labeled the book of the same name, released in 2015, on which the film is based, as “toxicly anti-Semitic.”

Kyrie Irving became embroiled in a verbal altercation over a report on his controversial tweet

The publication pointed out that in Ronald Dalton Jr.’s book. it is noted that “many famous high-ranking Jews” have “conceded”[ing] Satan or Lucifer.’ And when a reporter started asking about the “promotion” of the film and book, Irving sparked off a spirited exchange.

“Can you please not call it a promotion?” said Irving. ‘What am I promoting?’

The reporter then began to explain that Irving had shared it on his platform, but the guard quickly cut him off and asked, “But do you see me promoting it? Yes, I put it there, just like you put things there, right? You put things there for a living, right? Great, so let’s move on.’

The reporter tried to intervene again, but Irving kept talking over him and said, “Let’s move on. Don’t dehumanize me here. I am a different person. I can post whatever I want. So say that and close it and move on to the next question’