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The Brooklyn Nets are now in the midst of finally cashing in on perhaps the most significant investment this franchise has ever made when they brought both Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to Brooklyn. It's not going to be an easy road ahead, but the Nets currently have the golden opportunity to win their first NBA championship in franchise history.
It now feels like ages ago when the Nets shocked the basketball world by successfully recruiting both Kyrie and KD to their squad. As it turns out, however, these landscape-shifting moves would have never come to fruition if Brooklyn listened to the “negative intel” they got from Kyrie's former teams in the Cavs and the Celtics.
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Yet talent comes with cost, especially with Irving. League sources say executives, coaches and players who were present during Irving's time in Cleveland and Boston shared with the Nets negative intel — his unresponsiveness and truculence with coaches, his lack of self-awareness with teammates, his constant defiance of offensive game plans, his disinterest in playing off the ball. But the Nets, multiple sources say, knew that bringing Irving aboard was the cost of doing business: No Irving, No Kevin Durant.
Needless to say, Irving did not exactly leave an amenable impression with his two former teams. Kyrie's exits from both the Cavs and the Celtics were not exactly in the most cordial of manners and it may have left a sour taste in their mouths. You also have to note that this is feedback from team execs, the coaching staff, AND even his former teammates. It clearly sounds like they all just didn't like Irving very much.
