A mere four months and three games into his tenure in Brooklyn and Kyrie Irving has the Nets brass walking on eggshells.
Jackie MacMullan unveiled their concerns in a whopper of a story that reinforces the perception (reality?) that Irving doesn’t play well with others.
When the Nets gently urged him to participate [in a biometric data exercise], he didn’t mince words: “I’m not doing it.” It created an awkward moment, team sources say, for incumbent players who had benefited from the performance staff and ingrained that input into their routine.
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Yet Irving’s infamous mood swings, confirmed by his ex-teammates, which followed him from Cleveland to Boston to Brooklyn, are the unspoken concern that makes Nets officials queasy.