BOSTON – Kyrie Irving calmly answered questions from the media for 12 minutes on Saturday.
It wasn’t nearly as tough as any of the four quarters he played on Thursday in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Try as they might, media members could not rattle Irving. He was calm and thoughtful and defused any attempts to get him into a running commentary that might agitate Boston fans or derail his focus from the Mavericks’ No. 1 task, which is winning Game 2 of the Finals on Sunday to even the series before it switches to Dallas for Games 3 and 4.