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‘Mad Dog’ Russo blasts Nets’ Kyrie Irving: ‘Shut up and play the game’

Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo has had enough of Kyrie Irving.

Russo teed off on the Nets’ mercurial star Wednesday during his weekly residency on ESPN’s First Take. Irving’s latest controversy — he was fined $50,000 by the NBA after jousting with Celtics fans and flipping them the bird during the Nets’ Game 1 loss at Boston in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs — has drawn the Dog’s ire.

“I’m just tired of Kyrie. There’s always something with Kyrie,” Russo said. “There’s the Jan. 6 thing at the Capitol, he’s got to take the week off.