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Kyrie Irving says going vegan has improved his play

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Tom Brady and Zdeno Chara aren’t the only Boston athletes maintaining a strict nutrition regimen.

It appears that clean eating has also infiltrated the Celtics locker room.

According to Bleacher Report’s Tom Haberstroh, Boston’s point guard Kyrie Irving has recently adopted a vegan lifestyle. After a preseason game in October, Irving told the NBA Countdown broadcast crew that he has “been on more of a plant-based diet, getting away from the animals and all that.”

“I had to get away from that,” he told the basketball analysts. “So my energy is up.