BOSTON — Walk the streets of Beantown and you’ll see posters calling Nets guard Kyrie Irving a coward and posters portraying him as the Cowardly Lion from “The Wizard of Oz.” Inside TD Garden on Wednesday, the vibe was even worse, if not unexpected.
Though Irving was injured and absent for what would’ve been his return to Boston, it didn’t stop fans from spewing venom at him or prevent former Celtic Kendrick Perkins from tweeting the guard “planned” his injury to avoid facing his old team.
Even Celtics coach Brad Stevens is not a fan of that kind of outsized negative attention.