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For Irving, All-Star weekend will be all about his daughter

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As he prepares to go to his ninth All-Star Game, Kyrie Irving can’t help but appreciate the symmetry.

It’s why he’s treating the weekend as one big daddy-daughter date.

“She’s nine years old,” Irving said. “I’m a nine-time All-Star.”

So while he’s going to San Francisco for the extravaganza, his heart will be firmly with daughter Azurie Elizabeth.

“Definitely going to take it as it comes,” Irving said of what he expects the weekend to be like. “ But I have daddy-daughter dates planned on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.