By Zaheer Clarke
Published November 20, 2017
Kyrie Irving and his new team, the Boston Celtics, seems set to dethrone the last two NBA champions: the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors.
Kyrie Irving and LeBron James won an NBA championship together. A year later Irving wanted out of the Cleveland.
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Earlier this summer when rumours swirled that Kyrie Irving wanted to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers, the question everyone asked was why. Why would Irving want to leave a team that went to NBA Finals three years in a row? Why would Irving want to stop playing with arguably the best basketball player in the world right now, or possibly the second best player of all-time, LeBron James? Why? Why? Why?
Somehow, the Boston Celtics eventually enticed the Cavaliers in a dance and trade that saw Celtics’ Isaiah Thomas and Cavaliers’ Irving switching teams. The Cavaliers got other pieces, but the Thomas-Irving switch was the eye-catching part of the swap. We then learned that Thomas was injured and wouldn’t start for the Cavaliers until possibly 2018. Irving was healthy and rearing to go for the Celtics, who also acquired former Utah Jazz star Gordon Hayward. Continue reading