https://www.cleveland.com/cavs/2022/12/kevin-love-says-kyrie-irvings-jersey-should-be-retired-by-cleveland-cavaliers-not-even-a-question-to-me.html
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> “Without a doubt. Absolutely. Right away, after his career ends,” Love told cleveland.com when asked after the 125-117 Cavs loss. “It’s not even a question to me. He needs to be up there. He made the biggest shot in franchise history and one of the most important shots in Finals history when you consider how it all went down — what it meant for the city, what it meant for his legacy, LeBron’s legacy and everything else, including that Golden State team that became a dynasty and was historically great.”
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> Nonetheless, Irving is arguably the second-most important player in franchise history. Without him, there’s no Shot. Without him, there’s no title.
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> “I don’t really understand the boos,” Love told cleveland.com. “I can understand it from I guess if someone wants to take it from a political standpoint or a religious standpoint. I don’t know. But I think in terms of Kyrie, the basketball player, and what he meant for the organization, for Cleveland, for Ohio, I think he should get a great applause every time he comes. I think enough time has passed that we should love him up for what he meant to this organization.”
by DonGarlandMobleyJA
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By this logic, we need to retire Iguodala jersey – which would just be dumb
Ironically this is gonna be similar to KD and OKC where it should be without a question, but the fans of those teams might think differently especially considering how they left
It’s still wild that Kyrie was the top-ranked recruit in his high school class, spent a season at Duke, got drafted 1st overall, won ROY, was an All-Star in his 2nd season, then spent the next four seasons blossoming into one of the best players in the NBA and won a championship…and that entire time there were never any questions about his attitude and personality. He was a completely normal and uncontroversial player with zero red flags.
Then seemingly overnight he becomes one of the biggest headcases in NBA history.
It’s just so weird to go 0 to 100 like that. I really wonder if that rumor of him taking LSD or whatever and then it permanently changing his personality is true.
They not gone like this one
>I can understand it from I guess if someone wants to take it from a political standpoint or a religious standpoint. I don’t know.
Well then clearly you don’t understand it, Kevin. Some things are larger than basketball.
If someone is going to step deep out of the realm of basketball to take stances on very sensitive topics they know truly nothing about, no one should be surprised at any reception they receive. Kyrie built this bed, he gets to sleep in it, stop being surprised.
E: seems to be some confusion by those replying to me, my comment is about Kevin not understanding the boos.
Idc how crazy he is, Kyrie was pretty much playing as good as prime Steph Curry. And Idk how many pg’s are better than curry if any at all.
And Kyrie averaged **31 PPG on 51/47/95 shooting** after they went down 2-0.
Don’t ever let these idiots minimize what Kyrie did. Literally the peak of what clutch was.
Kyrie finna make it a question, though, Kevin.
> Kyrie: don’t hang it up there. there is no “up”. our plane of existence is flat
Getting jersey retired is for players with on court success which kyrie definitely has but with the way he demanded out of cleveland then shot talked the city and franchise i just
Don’t see it. Ironically, love is prob getting his jersey retired in cleveland. P
Herb.
Kyrie was my favorite player on those Cavs teams and even though leaving the way he did really sucked, I’d hang Kyrie the player’s jersey the second he retired.
Kyrie the person is going to be a tougher sell.
I’m not really sure this is a without question ordeal.
He didn’t play there like…exceptionally long. In fact he’s now played as many years away from Cleveland as he did there.
And he missed a lot of games over his time there. Great shot, great moment. But his whole career may not be Hall worthy, let alone raise your jersey to the rafters for a team you’d play 6 years for worthy.
Robert Horry isn’t getting his jersey in the Lakers or Spurs rafters is he?
Take some time today and watch some Kyrie highlights. The man is still one of the best PG’s in the league, whether you think like him or not 😤
No.
Guy is a little bitch don’t retire his jersey anywhere
i agree but it should come after he retires.
Sorry Kevin, but you’re wrong. Yes the shot was huge and just as important as you said it was, but the bridges he burned down on his way out should not be rebuilt, f*** Kyrie Irving and his idiot brain
are they retiring it right now? like eventually yes, absolutely, but we can wait until he’s out of the nba and decide if by that times he’s said enough stupid things that he no longer deserves it. If they are trying to retire it right now I admit that would bother me a little
It’s probably gonna depend on how much stupid shit he says. Last year he was a COVID denier, this year he said some antisemitic shit, next year he’ll probably say something even stupider.
If Price,Daugherty, and Nance are in the rafters Kyrie will be too. We talking about the greatest shot in Cavalier history. Listen to Love, man knows a thing or two. Y’all need to stop hating and just be happy it happened. Kyrie is a joke but y’all gotta put some respect on his name.
Obviously they will at some point if for no other reason than not doing it makes them look petty and small .
Kevin “Skieup Bayless” Love
Fuck Kyrie. There are far more deserving players of a retired jersey. He blew up the nucleus of a team that could have contended even to this day because he wanted to be THE guy, a role he proved himself unsuited for, before crawling back to ride the coattails of another true number 1 option. LeBron, KLove and Anderson Varejao should definitely have their jerseys retired, but I couldn’t disagree more about Kyrie. He couldn’t even get the Cavs to the playoffs without LeBron in what was, at the time, a much weaker Eastern conference.
They should retire Kyrie’s and Kevin Love’s jersey.
This does not account for the fact that I personally find him detestable.
Kyrie cost me a lot of money 😂
Def deserves that.