Twenty-six sure isn’t old, but seven NBA seasons wear on anyone’s body. So coming off a season-ending knee injury, former Duke star Kyrie Irving is shaking up his gameday routine.
Irving’s Boston Celtics play the Charlotte Hornets Friday in a preseason exhibition at the Dean Smith Center on North Carolina’s campus. It will be Irvinig’s first game since surgery in March to remove a wire from his left knee that was part of a prior treatment. That wire was causing discomfort to the extent it was affecting his play.
With LeBron James leaving the Eastern Conference for the Los Angeles Lakers, the Celtics look like the favorites to win the East.