Colin Sheridan: Kyrie Irving on the precipice of a self-inflicted abyss
APOLOGY: Kyrie Irving. Pic: Dustin Satloff/Getty Images
If you’re from Ahascragh or Annascaul, the name Kyrie Irving may mean little or nothing to you, but it might mean something to your basketball obsessed teenage son or daughter. To them, he is perhaps a genius player for the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA, a generational talent who seemed half way to fulfilling his ridiculous promise until recent events amplified cracks in dubious facade.
Irving long seemed destined for greatness - number 1 pick in the draft. Rookie of the Year. Championship winning shot in a LeBron-led team. He even had his own Nike shoe, all by the notional midpoint of his career. Such riches were justifiably earned, for Irving is an alchemist with a basketball.
