See Kyrie Irving attend a Lakers playoff game? It was enough to fuel speculation around an (improbable) meeting between the playmaker and his former teammate at the Cavs, LeBron James.
Not enough to worry the camp of the Mavs, who had to position themselves on the future of the player in Dallas, and Mark Cuban for all that. ” No, Kyrie loves basketball and going to the games. So no, I wasn’t worried. We brought him in because we wanted him to be a long-term element. », Poses Texas Franchise Owner.
This is the reason why the Mavs, after sending Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith and a number of draft picks to the Nets during the season to afford it, bet big to extend the adventure: three years of more for $126 million.
“He is open, intelligent…”
The big boss of the team thus takes the opportunity to dwell on the personality of the eightfold All-Star who has fueled multiple controversies in recent years. ” I think Kyrie is misunderstood. Everyone picks up all the noise and everything around him, but for talking to him, I appreciate him. He is open, intelligent, he is always looking to learn things. To me, he’s an interesting guy who’s just misunderstood “, describes Cuban.
He was then pointed out that this “misunderstanding” surrounding Kyrie Irving could have played tricks on him in the past, with the Celtics or the Nets with whom he had, on the whole, inconclusive experiences.
” It’s interesting. When I looked at Kyrie before he joined the Mavs, I didn’t pay enough attention to his relationships with other players. Then when he arrived at our house after the trade, it was inevitable after every game, several players would come up and give him a hug, not just a clap in the hand but something deep to say ‘I t ‘enjoy’. And when you talk to our players since he arrived, they say the same thing: they appreciate him “, insists the owner.
So the issue behind this contract extension ” was not a question of relationship with the players. That is why (jason) Kidd and I made the effort to get to know him “, ends Cuban who also knows that this camaraderie must also be declined by good relations in the game to make the Mavs take off again.
