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It’s quite telling that neither team has gotten any real contributions from the original members of last summer’s blockbuster trade in the Eastern Conference finals, yet one side can laugh its head off at the other.
The team laughing is the Celtics. The team wondering what they’ll do with the eighth overall pick they got for Kyrie freaking Irving is the Cavaliers.
(Flashback: August 23rd, 2017)
Somehow, brand new Cavs GM Koby Altman and the front office orchestrated a deal to replace Irving with an All-NBA point guard, a top-of-the-line 3-and-D guy, a young big man with potential and — perhaps most impressively — an unprotected first-round pick that well could wind up in the top five of the 2018 draft, if not No.