Kyrie Irving wants more. Will he get it from the Celtics?

So, Kyrie gets his own team.

Sort of. Gordon Hayward is probably a better all-around player, for now at least, but it probably wasn’t just being in Utah that dimmed the wattage of his star. Maybe, though. This could be his chance, too.

But, nevertheless, as the old saying goes, Kyrie got what he supposedly wanted, and now we’ll see if he wants what he supposedly gotted.

Or, some verb tense more appropriate to the situation.

For the record, I don’t blame Kyrie at all for wanting to leave Cleveland for some reasons. Everybody knows about Cleveland’s dysfunctional front office, about the rumors that LeBron’s planning to leave, about the prophecy of Maggy the Frog with respect to LeBron “Valonqar” James. This looks like a typical situation where a young guy just wants to be a bigger deal a la Shawn Marion in Phoenix, Kobe in LA, Carlos Boozer in everywhere. But we don’t really know that. The overlooked problem might be that LeBron has never once seemed happy with the team they have. I don’t begrudge him his ability to play GM, which is his right, if he wants to use it, as the most important player in the game. But, it can’t be fun to have the best player in the world looking at you and constantly telling you you’re not enough. When you’re Kyrie Irving, and LeBron’s telling the world the Cavs need a play-maker, that has to sting a little.

Still though, there may be one little thing that lots of young guys don’t understand about what makes you big, and what makes you famous. The old guys generally do, or seem to these days. Basically, people used to think the famous guys were famous because they were the ones who could win the rings. Now, though, the secret’s out that it’s the other way around: the rings make you famous. That’s why they’re lining up to sign with already stacked teams, in some cases without worrying about the minutes or the dollars. The ringz have always protected guys from criticism, but to be honest, nobody knew just how much until advanced stats started showing us that common sense was about 50-50 on who the best players are. Now, our next Civil War will start over where Kobe ranks all-time.

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In other words, Kyrie might find out, depending on what happens next, that playing with LeBron didn’t hurt his reputation, or give him less of a chance to shine, but actually enhanced both. Being a winner covered up his faults, and hitting that one big shot will define his career until there’s something equally big. If there’s something equally big. Maybe he will blossom on his own, and the best news for him is that he actually kind of isn’t getting his own team at all. The Cs, after all, actually won the East, added Hayward, lost only…uh, Isaiah Thomas…have Jayson Tatum and some good picks still to use. And he’ll be good for them. But then again, he used to play with LeBron James.

So we’ll see how it all goes. In searching for what he wants, Kyrie might have gotten farther away from it. But it all depends on what he and the Cs can do for each other.