Kyrie Irving

Almost six months has passed since the Cleveland Cavaliers shipped Kyrie Irving to the Boston Celtics after he requested a trade. And yet, even after all that time, details contextualizing his departure continue to trickle out. The latest has him getting word of a draft-night discussion about his future in Cleveland among the Cavaliers front [...]

Thursday night turned out to be a bittersweet one for the Boston Celtics and Kyrie Irving. On the one hand, the point guard was named as an All-Star starter, validating both himself and the team’s direction. On the other, he was unable to go for a nationally televised tilt with the Philadelphia 76ers—which Boston lost—due [...]

And now, we bring you more anecdotal evidence that the Cleveland Cavaliers are in a psychological slump. At 2-8 since Christmas, with a bottom-10 offense, bottom-three defense and bottom-three net rating, the Cavaliers are feeling the weight of their own expectations being undermined by their inadequately built roster. And at times like these, they can [...]

More and more keeps trickling out about the most controversial off-season in quite some time in which a team that was coming off an NBA Finals appearance and a year removed from an NBA title, traded their 25-year-old star point guard and dealt with rumors all summer that the best player in the league would [...]

ESPN’s veteran reporter Jackie MacMullen unveiled a long form piece on Wednesday about Kyrie Irving’s journey as a player thus far in his NBA career, his controversial exit in Cleveland and his motivations and goals in Boston. As you can guess the most interesting and topical portion of the piece (especially with the Cavaliers and [...]

Come get your man, Boston Celtics fans. Shortly after the dudes in green fell to the New York Knicks on Thursday, flat-earth truther and woke-as-hell Kyrie Irving was asked, rather innocuously, how it felt to be playing on Christmas Day (Monday, Dec. 25) against the Washington Wizards. His response, in a nutshell: Christmas, to him, [...]

Mike Krzyzewski was not at all surprised when Kyrie Irving requested a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers over the summer, and he’s most definitely not surprised to see the point guard thriving with the Boston Celtics. Krzyzewski, who coached Irving while he was at Duke, told The Boston Globe he could always sense that there was more [...]

The Cavaliers took a shot to the gut this off-season when their 25-year-old superstar point guard Kyrie Irving, made known his request to be traded. After losing all leverage when the report became public and scrambling to make a deal happen before training to prevent any disruption to the team harmony entering the 2017-18 season, [...]

One benefit to Kyrie Irving’s departure from the Cleveland Cavaliers: We get to see a more aggressive LeBron James down the stretch. Not that James has been particularly passive late in games through years past. He’s always struck a nice balance. His first inclination is too pass, so he often does, and he’s spent the [...]

So many things are behind the Boston Celtics’ sweltering defensive start. Better defensive rebounding. The ability to dissuade shots at the rim. Scores of similarly sized wings who are able to switch across almost every position with each other. Al Horford doing a ton of switching himself. Marcus Smart’s capacity to, as a point guard, [...]