10 NBA personalities suffering from Middle Child Syndrome
10. Kyrie Irving
Every family television sitcom with three children has an episode dealing with the middle child. The premise is always the same. The parents drop everything to help the older child with whatever they need. Then, they pick everything back up only to drop it again when the younger child does something cute.
The middle child attempts to get the parents to drop everything, but they don’t. So, the middle child does something drastic. Maybe it’s running away to get married or maybe it’s announcing that they are having a child. Whatever it is, it typically works. The parents drop everything, realize they’ve been ignoring the middle child, say, “You don’t have to do this. We’re sorry” and the show ends on positive.
If the NBA were a sitcom, Kyrie announced he’s running away to get married and is pregnant the other week.
Kyrie is the middle child to LeBron James. Cleveland loved rookie LeBron, the machine who carried inferior teams to the Finals because he was that good. And they loved champion LeBron even more, the machine who returned to bring the city back to prominence.
Meanwhile, Kyrie hit the biggest shot in team history and was there during the dark post- and pre-LeBron era.
Kyrie is a good player. All he wants is to be appreciated and treated the same way LeBron is appreciated and treated. Is that too much to ask?