Kyrie Irving won't play against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday due to a shoulder injury.

Some in Boston believe Irving is avoiding this game on purpose so he doesn't have to deal with the Celtics crowd, who would have booed Irving.

So, flyers of Irving with the word “coward” on them have gone up across TD Garden:

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The 2018-19 Celtics were supposed to win the Eastern Conference. Boston, though, was a dysfunctional team on the court and never lived up to expectations. Irving got a lot of the blame from the media and fans. The team lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the 2019 playoffs in five games.

Irving told Boston fans he was planning to re-sign with the Celtics before the 2018-19 season started. Instead, Uncle Drew signed a four-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets, the team Irving grew up rooting for while living in New Jersey as a kid.

The Celtics replaced Irving with All-Star point guard Kemba Walker, who is loved in Boston already since he seems to be the anti-Irving type. Boston president Danny Ainge has been on record saying the Celtics’ chemistry in 2018-19 just wasn’t good and blaming Irving for all of the team’s issues isn’t the right thing to do.

However, that's not going to stop the fans in Beantown from hating Irving.

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