In The Nation, the progressive journal of all places, a writer tried to encapsule just who Kyrie Irving is. The description, by Jeremy Gordon, seems both fair and accurate.
“Irving’s rebelliousness often does not seem political, but rather the contrarianism of a dorm room debater who is just asking questions, all of the time.”
He’s not the first writer to try the task. In his book, “Can’t Knock the Hustle,” Matt Sullivan said this of the public Kyrie: he “does whatever is in his soul…. It’s not as meticulously planned, but it’s who he is—it’s outrageously authentic, and it’s supremely Kyrie.