DENVER: Kyrie Irving’s year ended like so many days before it — sitting in the trainer’s room stretched out on a table with his back against the wall.
Only this time he was in Denver, wearing a white dress shirt and black blazer and joking with a handful of Cavaliers teammates following a victory against the Nuggets.
Perhaps it was only fitting that Irving sat out the second night of the back-to-back and spent the postgame on a trainer’s table given how much injury and rehab played into his calendar year. In a lifetime of highs and lows, Irving will remember 2015 as the year that brought some of the most significant changes to his life.