Kyrie Irving got his wish and escape from Brooklyn, 360 days after James Harden disrupted his way out of the borough.
To bring it full circle, the last man standing shouldn’t be. Kevin Durant should be next to complete the extermination of the experiment gone wrong that began with so much potential but also the probability of combustibility.
What’s probable has now finally occurred, with Irving being Dallas’ problem. On one side, the musical chairs in the Western Conference just got interesting — maybe — with that sneaky caveat labeled “defense” keeping the Mavericks from leaping to the front of the line.