In an interview with Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson, former NBA star Rod Strickland talked about why his godson, Kyrie Irving is so often criticized. Irving, he said, “thinks different” from other NBA players ... and that’s a good thing. That “different” thinking is a big part of his creativity on the court, he argued. You can’t have one without the other.
Strickland, who knows Irving’s father, Drederick, well, helped raise Irving after his mother passed away.
“I know his family and I know where he’s from,” Strickland told Robinson on the “Heavy Live With Scoop B Show.