Kyrie Irving is the type of point guard that could lure a king from a palace in paradise to an ice-cold throne in his homeland. That’s how it happened for the Cleveland Cavaliers anyways.
Very few people know that LeBron James has known Irving since the latter was a freshman in high school and doing things like this:
In Irving’s lone college season, one in which he only played 11 games as he sat out with a toe injury, James talked to Irving every week according to Tom Reed, a former beat writer for the Plain Dealer.