> **How much longer do you want to play?**
> Irving: I’m never going to stop playing. You hear me? Get that — I am never going to stop playing. This is not even a debate. It’s not a consideration.
> **But you seem like a guy who thinks about a whole bunch of different stuff —**
> Irving: For sure … [But] I want to maximize on all those opportunities, to get to know people on this level. On other levels — and to be a bridge. So I can bring people to show what it’s like to play at this level, what it’s like to be at this level, teach the youth … what it’s like to get to this level, to be a professional. I feel like I was a professional since 8 years old, 9 years old, because I was doing it more than I was going to school. I was doing it more than I was hanging out with my friends, hanging out with my family, I was doing it day and night. …
> It was a passion, but I also chose that. … Coming into the league at 19 years old, no one gives you that guideline or game plan of what the league is going to require of you, so that’s what I’m saying. It’s a great partnership with the NBA and I appreciate being a player here. And there are goals that I have outside of the NBA, but as of right now, I’m just focused on this.
[Source](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34790296/kyrie-irving-talks-future-advising-ben-simmons-turning-big-payday)
by iksnet
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> I was doing it more than I was going to school
This actually explains a lot
“but i will sit out half the games dying on an anti vax hill! that is for sure!”
Kyrie “The Bridge” Irving
Didn’t he say he would consider retiring like 2 years ago
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he’ll play in pakistan when he’s 60
I always thought it was bonkers how many people demanded that he threats to retire on the regular when this was the one rumor he directly adressed and denied.
Alternative headline; Kyrie vows to haunt r/nba for the rest of eternity.
Bruh. We’ve seen your injury history.
Don’t try it.
Would love to see 80 year old Kyrie in the league. Uncle Drew irl
“None of you sons-of-bitches try to be heroes. You hear me?”- Kyrie Michael Michaels
There are people intently listening to this guy for cues on ways to live their own life. Terrifying
So lessons on how to be professional from a guy who chose to miss how many games instead of getting a shot that does no harm and protects everyone you come into contact with against a global pandemic? Hard pass
kyrie irving at 57 years old in a udonis haslem role walking around with sage, tarot cards, amethyst and a pendulum.
Next headline: Kyrie has decided to retire.
He stopped playing like 54 times last season.
YMCA always holding pick up games…
Bye Felicia!
They should put some of Kyries best quotes on New Yorker cartoons like they did with Kanye: https://twitter.com/pigsandplans/status/989180176302071808
Mf just straight up forgot contracts expire
UNLESS there is another vaccine!! You HEAR me!?!?!
New conspiracy: The man wants Kyrie to continue playing so he’s too busy and cant expose Area 51, covid magnets, lizard strippers and insert crazy shit here…
That’ll get him to retire
“I’m never gonna stop playing………….witchu dumbass reporters”
Kyrie could realistically play 40 Kyrie seasons.
Kyrie season = you only play half of the games.
He’s taking this uncle dru thing a little too seriously.
Can’t wait until the nba retires him
Lol…Kyrie has already stopped playing for months at a time for no reason, what the fuck is he talking about?
You can’t play like Kyrie unless you legitimately love hoops. I think that’s why him and KD get along. Both of those dudes just seem obsessed with the game. Not obsessed with the NBA or the money, but the game of basketball itself.
Lol what’s with all the dillusional celebs these days… jones, kanye, kyrie… no basketball team even wants him besides the Lakers because they are desperate… dude is proven to be unprofessional
Except last year
Kareem said it best, he is a comical buffoon who makes all athletes look bad. It’s also ironic because kyrie thinks he is some sort of trail blazer for civil rights like Kareem was…