Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving says the media and fans are blowing the video of him talking to Golden State Warriors superstar Kevin Durant at All-Star weekend way out of proportion, and he's not happy about it.
Before the 2019 All-Star game started in Charlotte, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant were captured on video while talking in the hallway. Of course, social media overreacted to the video and started to speculate that Irving and Durant were talking about teaming up next season.
Irving addressed the video on Wednesday when he spoke to local reporters, and Uncle Drew didn't mince words.
Kyrie on video with Durant: “It’s a video of me and one of my best friends talking. And then it turns out to be a dissection of a free agency meeting? Do you get that? Like, do you get that? And then I’m asked questions about that? That’s what disconnects me from all that shit.”
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) February 20, 2019
More Kyrie on that video: "This is the stuff that just doesn’t make the league fun. Like, it doesn’t make the league fun. Nobody helps promote the league even more by doing bullshit like that, of just fictitious putting things on what we’re talking about. It’s just, it’s crazy."
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) February 21, 2019
Irving is dead-on with this. Athletes are human beings too.
Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant are very close friends, and they were literally just chatting before the All-Star game was starting. NBA players have lives off the court as well. They aren't talking about basketball 24/7.
Unfortunately for Irving, because he and Durant are set to become free agents this summer, they can't do anything with each other without drawing headlines. The two superstars were spotted hanging out after All-Star weekend and people started overreacting to that as well. It's just the world we live in.
Irving and Durant have been linked with the New York Knicks for some reason. Until free agency starts on July 1, we need to stop guessing where these star players are going to go.