Kyrie Irving has new philosophy for handling the media.
“If you ask me about basketball, I will talk all day,” the Celtics point guard said. “If you ask me about spacing at the 3:33 mark of the second quarter, I will gladly explain it. I’ll tell you what plays worked, about adjustments we make. But when it comes to personal things, or comparing myself to my NBA brothers, like, ‘Do you think you are better than this guy?’ I’m out.”
Irving was in for a deep-dive ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan conducted into Boston’s roller-coaster regular-season. She examined the impact Irving had on the team’s chemistry early in the year, as well as the players’ shift in mentality when the playoffs began.