Kyrie Irving Blames One Thing For Not Winning More Championships With Cavs

Back in 2016 Kyrie Irving hit the biggest shot in Cavaliers’ history, it was  an epic  NBA Finals series-winner in Game 7 over Stephen Curry.

By the 2017-18 season, Irving had grown tired of LeBron,  and forced his way out of Cleveland. A year later, LeBron was out of Cleveland and on to Los Angeles.

Irving admitted recently that those Cavaliers would have won more titles had he been more mature at the time, if he had spoken to LeBron rather than being closed off. Irving appeared on the latest “I Am Athlete” episode and opened up.

Via NY Post:

“If I was in the same maturity line and understanding of who I am, and I look back, we definitely, definitely would’ve won more championships, because there would’ve been a better man-to-man understanding about what I’m going through. I didn’t know how to share my emotions,” Irving said. “I didn’t know how to do that. So instead of sharing, I isolated myself.

“I just started pouring myself more into the game — I had one of my better seasons but I wasn’t connecting with everybody as much during the championship year. So 2017, it was a different year for us. We went against Golden State, we went against a great team. When you’re not a great team and not clicking on all cylinders and together, you’re easily defeated. You’re defeated before you can get to the arena.”

A Cavaliers team with LeBron and Irving definitely would have contended for years to come.

Good to see Kyrie reflecting on how immature he was. I’m sure in another ten years he’ll talk about how immature he was handling the whole vaccine thing.

Hard to trust anything a person says who believes the earth is flat.

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