Kyrie Irving has been in the middle of team chemistry issues dating back to his time with the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, but this was common knowledge for the Brooklyn Nets.
“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,” writes Jackie MacMullan of ESPN.
The story is about much more than the mood swings of Irving, but that was the line that seemed to garner the most attention, unsurprisingly.
However, after the article dropped, the Nets pushed back forcefully against the notion that Irving is making the organization “queasy.