When Kyrie Irving won a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, he went back to the locker room and called Kobe Bryant. He told him, “It worked, what you told me to do worked.”
Kobe was his mentor, his friend. He even said in a recent interview that, “Kyrie is who I’m closest to.”
Irving left Madison Square Garden after hearing word of Bryant’s death Sunday afternoon, a source told NetsDaily. He did not return and would not play vs. the Knicks. A second person replied on Twitter and explained how Kyrie had spent time with Kobe recently — and that the two shared limo drivers when in New York.