After a year here, do you consider yourself a Clevelander?
Irving: I do. I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say my home is Cleveland.
I have a house in New Jersey. Where I’m from is New Jersey. But where I live is Cleveland. I’m a Clevelander now.
You can click through for questions about Dion Waiters, Irving’s relationship with Byron Scott, etc. It’s worth a perusal.
The kid is just too good to be true, man…
He’s goofy. Huge departure from LeBron and all the other robots who was always sound SO SCRIPTED whenever they have an interview or anything. I like it
Man we got a good one here in CLE
He’s sure saying all the right things. And good work to Coach Scott for drilling into Kyrie’s head that he has to earn the right to be treated like a superstar, because that attitude combined with a star who believes in that idea will go a lot farther than a jerk who thinks he just deserves to be treated like a demigod.
How can anyone not be impressed by that interview? One of the most impressive personalities we’ve seen in Cleveland sports…and he can play too!
*whispers* CLEVELAND SUCKS!!!!
really, the comment monster can’t eat that?? I thought its appetite was insatiable
I do love this Kyrie kid, but the more I hear about him, its obvious that he doesn’t have any strong ties or love for cleveland. Which is fine, it at least wipes out the illusion that he’ll stay without good management. So the pressure is on Grant to make sure that Kyrie thinks he can win with the roster going forward from 2015 on. Makes me nervous for Dion to bust… I mean, I don’t think its gonna happen, but its very important that it doesn’t as well.
Also, I’m kind of jealous about New Orleans. Damn can Davis play, and I hate to say it, but the kids ceiling is higher than Kyrie’s. Dude is gonna be dwight howard with range. Even as a 19 year old Olympian every time he gets on the court he is quite productive. Pairing him with Gordon and Ryan Anderson and they might have leapfrogged us in rebuilding, damn that coin flip! Hopefully kyrie proves me wrong and becomes absolutely otherworldly, but even with all the talk about how “its point gaurd’s league” what is the last championship team where the point gaurd was even the second best player? Detroit? Maybe San Antonio depending how you rank Manu/Parker during those years? And even so, they certainly haven’t been the top dog on a championship team in any year I can remember (admittedly only goes back to 2000)
@Matt: The more you hear about him, its obvious that he doesn’t have any love for Cleveland? Where do you come up with that? Seems to me he’s been as proud an ambassador of the city as anyone could have hoped, from making sure the photographer displayed the “Cleveland” on his jersey at All-Star weekend to repeatedly referring to the city as his home.
Not that his opinions on the city really matter anyway as long as he’s a good ballplayer, I just thought that was a weird assumption.
Man if we build around Kyrie were gonna be real GOOD.