Former Blue Devil Kyrie Irving is one of the most brilliant players in the NBA and has been since he arrived. At times though, he’s been hard to figure out. He wanted out of Cleveland and got traded to Boston. He got tired of Boston and then landed in Brooklyn. He has adopted multiple identities, wondered if the earth is flat and caused something of an uproar last season when he refused to get the Covid vaccine, which greatly limited his availability.
He played as a part-timer for too much of last season and at times it seemed like he and the Nets were tired of each other.