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A look back at the Kyrie Irving-Isaiah Thomas trade

It was all so quick. After brief hints about a Kyrie-to-Boston deal brewing over the first couple of weeks in August, things suddenly picked up. Shams reported that Boston and Cleveland were closing in on a deal for Kyrie Irving, Woj made the official report, we waited for a few days as the teams jostled over the Isaiah Thomas medical report and then it was done. Kyrie Irving was a Celtic, Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic, and the prized Brooklyn Nets pick were now in Cleveland.