Perhaps it's a bit ironic coming from someone who is famously rumored to have made a not-so-public trade request before the assembling of the so-called "Big Three" era of the Boston Celtics, but Paul Pierce thinks Kyrie Irving's trade request becoming public knowledge was ultimately in his best interest.
I have to say I agree, though it seems to me the tendency for everyone but Paul to try and blame LeBron James for his decampment seems to be missing the point I am getting from what Irving is - and more importantly, is not - saying.