Kyrie Irving's first season with his hometown and childhood favorite Brooklyn Nets hasn't gone as planned.
Shams Charania of The Athletic reported on Thursday afternoon that the former Blue Devil would undergo season-ending shoulder surgery.
Irving had already missed 26 games with the shoulder injury earlier in the year, and the Nets are looking at the bigger picture as this was not the year the team would compete for an NBA Championship.
Kyrie first returned from the shoulder injury on January 12 after getting a cortisone shot, but he only played nine games after that before spraining his right knee in February and was limited to just 20 games this season.