CLEVELAND, Ohio -- So Kyrie Irving thinks his new home is all that and more. Why would he say any different?
"[Boston is] a really major city," Irving told the Charlotte Observer during a stop there last week.
"Coming from Cleveland, the Midwest, where the culture is different. And then you move to the East Coast -- into Boston -- and it's so real [and] alive. An ongoing, thriving city."
The honeymoon for Irving is just beginning. So it's hardly surprising he's talking up Boston.
Let's put this in perspective.
Irving's take was hardly Joakim Noah ripping Cleveland.