Kyrie Irving

[Cavsengland]

1]Now you know why Kyrie hasn't played 110% on defense in meaningless games over the last few years[/B]. I may have even read his lips saying something along those lines.

KD and Rose especially distressed. Your heart has to go out to PG.

I love kyrie but I'm sure that's not the reason.

 

[Simon]

Time to get Kyrie and fly him back to Cleveland.

 

[bornjoke]

Kyrie related: He's looking fresh out there. You can tell he has a little pep in his step knowing what's to come fore the Cavs.

PG related: I feel sick to my stomach whenever I see bad injuries like that. I've always wondered if it was possible to extend the 'arm' of the hoop so that the base is backed up 3 or 5 feet. We have to have the technology to make that a stable thing right? I've had many friends injure themselves, albeit not that serious, on the base of the hoop. If I was a player and saw that live, it'd take me awhile to get my legs back under me. Thoughts go out to him.

 

[Cavsengland]

Time to get Kyrie and fly him back to Cleveland.

Feel really bad for Paul George.

But I don't want kyrie getting picked and I want him to say home until October.

 

[NorthCoastBias]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>All you need to know about the seriousness of Paul George's injury is that I'm looking at Kyrie Irving sobbing,crying in his Dads arms.</p>&mdash; MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkJonesESPN/statuses/495408190683500545">August 2, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Damn

 

[3 Da Hard Way]

I refused to watch the Kevin Ware injury. I cringe on most rolled ankles. Saw this one live and it made me sick to my stomach.

Horrible

 

[Cavsengland]

This would be a step backwards not forward. Kyrie should always be pushing 22ppg+. Stephen Curry had 24/8.5.. That is ideal, IMO.

I agree that kyrie should be pushing higher than 17/10 but you got to remember he's going to be playing with lebron and possibly kevin love so averaging what steph averaged last year is a bit unrealistic not because he can't do it but because he's no longer the main man on offense.

 

[JSS2306]

Get Kyrie Irving's ass home now.

 

[dark2332]

Get Kyrie Irving's ass home now.

It was a freak injury--it could just as easily happen in training camp. Stop flipping out people. USA basketball is still a great venue for our young talent to get better rapidly.

 

[JSS2306]

It was a freak injury--it could just as easily happen in training camp. Stop flipping out people. USA basketball is still a great venue for our young talent to get better rapidly.

Whether the injury itself is freaky or not is irrelevant.

Kyrie Irving is prone to injury and he's playing for USA basketball in a time when LeBron is returning and Kevin Love is on the clock to join Cleveland for a title run. A title that Cleveland hasn't experienced in 50 years. USA basketball will dominate with or without Kyrie. It's not worth it.

The experience to play alongside Kevin and LeBron James is once (possibly more) in a lifetime. If he's going to injure himself, he had better damn well do it while playing his heart out for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

We don't read all the articles of every Joe Schmo in peewee, high school, or even AAU who suffered horrific injuries. The fact is most horrific injuries occur without bone fractures or gruesome pictures to show for it.

Let's not test injury fate because it happens close to every single night during the regular season of the NBA. The more time you spend on the floor as a professional, the more likely you are to suffer an injury. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.

 

[Cashius X]

Whether the injury itself is freaky or not is irrelevant.

Kyrie Irving is prone to injury and he's playing for USA basketball in a time when LeBron is returning and Kevin Love is on the clock to join Cleveland for a title run. A title that Cleveland hasn't experienced in 50 years. USA basketball will dominate with or without Kyrie. It's not worth it.

The experience to play alongside Kevin and LeBron James is once (possibly more) in a lifetime. If he's going to injure himself, he had better damn well do it while playing his heart out for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

We don't read all the articles of every Joe Schmo in AAU who suffered horrific injuries. The fact is most horrific injures occur without bone fractures or gruesome pictures to show for it.

Let's not test injury fate because it happens close to every single night during the regular season of the NBA. The more time you spend on the floor as a professional, the more likely you are to suffer an injury.

While we're at it let's also bar Kyrie from playing at Pro-Am games too. No Drew League. No pickup games either. More time playing basketball translates to more potential that he could get hurt. He's injury prone after all....

See how ridiculous this sounds? Shit happens man. Injury is a risk whenever guys play at any level.

 

[JSS2306]

While we're at it let's also bar Kyrie from playing at Pro-Am games too. No Drew League. No pickup games either. More time playing basketball translates to more potential that he could get hurt. He's injury prone after all....

See how ridiculous this sounds? Shit happens man. Injury is a risk whenever guys play at any level.

That's exactly right. The more time you spend playing a physical based sport the more you risk injury. I don't care if you're Old School Bob at the Y to Paul George or Kevin Ware in professional basketball. While NBA players are hyped to no end as superhuman forces they are, at the end of the day, human. If I were the owner of a team and I just signed one of my players to a $90 million contract to try and win a championship for my organization/city then I would be pretty skeptical of said player to go out and play against people I don't know.

Kyrie Irving himself just quit a pick up game because some guy tried too foul him hard at a camp. That's just the reality. Know when to quit. Better your chances at success. Nobody is going to look at Irving as a bitch because he was protecting his future. Neither should anyone else.

 

[Cashius X]

That's exactly right. The more time you spend playing a physical based sport the more you risk injury. I don't care if you're Old School Bob at the Y to Paul George or Kevin Ware in professional basketball. While NBA players are hyped to no end as superhuman forces they are, at the end of the day, human. If I were the owner of a team and I just signed one of my players to a $90 million to try and win a championship for my organization/city then I would be pretty skeptical of said player to go out and play against people I don't know.

Kyrie Irving himself just quit a pick up game because some guy tried too foul him hard at a camp. That's just the reality. Know when to quit. Better your chances at success. Nobody is going to look at Irving as a bitch because he was protecting his future. Neither should anyone else.

At least

Many NBA players that have played for Team USA have described the feeling as surreal. Something that eclipses winning an NBA championship. Representing your country is the ultimate goal for these guys and winning a gold medal is the ultimate prize. I don't see that changing just because of this Paul George injury. Owners may push back because of this incident but the players will push back twice as hard when the time comes.

I don't see anything changing and that's how it should be. More basketball = more risk to get hurt but that's life. Just have to deal with it. Can't stop a guy from playing. That's irrational.

 

[DatDudeZ3]

People want him to pull out from team USA? That would be ludicrous... The positives outweigh the negatives. And Kyrie would still be playing basketball somewhere if he didn't play for team USA... He's not going to stop playing basketball for the rest of the summer because of George's injury.

Positives: Kyrie will be around the best players on the world constantly and learning from them and their work ethics rather than playing street ball in a rec center somewhere. Not only can he watch how they play, but how they focus and prepare/trai for games. This will also greatly help him get used to playing with great players who need the ball, like Kevin Durant for example. That will help him adjust a little bit to playing with a guy like LeBron. Playing for team USA will just help him become a better leader and captain on the court when he returns to the Cavs. It should also give him that winning feeling again assuming the are successful in tournament play.

The only negative thing is the possibility of injury, but let's hope that after Paul George's injury, every one else will stay healthy and that will be the only major injury.

 

[JSS2306]

Many NBA players that have played for Team USA have described the feeling as surreal. Something that eclipses winning an NBA championship. Representing your country is the ultimate goal for these guys and winning a gold medal is the ultimate prize. I don't see that changing just because of this Paul George injury. Owners may push back because of this incident but the players will push back twice as hard when the time comes.

I don't see anything changing and that's how it should be. More basketball = more risk to get hurt but that's life. Just have to deal with it. Can't stop a guy from playing. That's irrational.

Most NBA players describe playing professional basketball in anyplace as surreal. Doris Burke described her last orgasm by the lips of Ellen as surreal. I don't GAF where you are playing there's nothing that is going to be more surreal than winning a championship for Cleveland.

The bottom line is that winning a championship here, signing a $90 million contract to the owner here, is a more important obligation than putting your health on the line for a team that does not have an invested interest. Shouldn't the people who pay him the most money have the most say? Shit... that's how it works at my job...

At the end of the day, it's common courtesy for the people who are paying you money that your family can survive on for generations to come to have the most say. I get why these guys want to do it but we are the best and it's not even close. Why put the investors and fans (the ones who make shit happen) at risk by your decision.

I could not give less a fuck that we don't win the USA world cup because I know that we are the basketball mecca of the world and nobody even approaches our stature.

We are the best and the only proof we need is the best of the rest of the world comes here to play. End of story.