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NBA Mailbag: Next for Kyrie? Thibs on the Hot Seat?

Opening up the Mailbag while wondering whether this is the beginning of the end of Utah’s Cinderella story …

What’s going to happen with Kyrie? —Sam, Richmond

We are now seven games into the Kyrie Irving suspension and there’s no clarity from Brooklyn as to when it will be over. The closest thing to a real update came over the weekend when Nets owner Joe Tsai told a New York Post reporter in Los Angeles that Irving “still has work to do” before he can return. That drew a strong rebuke from Celtics guard Jaylen Brown—an NBPA vice president—who told reporters this week that “our society has more work to do, including Joe Tsai.