Irving’s trying to play chess while ignoring useful pieces – The Athletic

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Of all the lessons LeBron James tried to teach Kyrie Irving during their time together in Cleveland, the one that probably never came up is the one that could be most helpful today: Either you control the narrative or the narrative controls you.

I know Irving as well as any reporter can because I was with him longer than anyone. Thats not to say I know him well. Irving keeps everyone on the outside at a distance. Thats his right. But I was one of a select few media members who witnessed the lottery drawing the night the Cavs won it in 2011 to draft him first overall. I was the first one to ask him, that same night, about following LeBron as the face of the franchise in Cleveland (he always hated that line of thinking/questioning).

I was with him in Indiana when he missed a potential game-winning shot his rookie year and was visibly shaken, not because he missed the shot, but by all of the grown men standing around his locker waiting to talk to him while...

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