Kyrie doesn't get an extension, wants trade
Hi. I just drove across America without warning and didn’t send any posts for a week, also Kyrie Irving asked for a trade. Everything is the same, this email could be from any moment in the last five years.
Irving’s timing is all about Feb. 9’s trade deadline. The stupid Stockton posts might have something to do with the eventual explanation, but don’t let Irving derive deeper meaning out of not securing a maximum contract extension from the NBA team that can give him the most money.
It isn’t about anything else. Irving is absolutely correct in his determination to earn as much as possible from a system that underpays its best players while saddling a superstar’s prime with whims of capricious team owners (30 out of 30 clubs), or general managers desperate to keep a job (same). Or, in superstar Kevin Durant’s case, those things plus goofball point guards1.
Irving is convinced he won’t make as much as possible from the Nets, he’s about to turn 31 and wants to shove a room temperature trade demand into the oven and pull out a steaming, cinnamon-smelling tray of generational wealth. He is doing the right thing, however irritating it remains for us fans of freaky layups.
