03-30-2024, 05:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2024, 05:35 PM by KillerLeft.)
(03-30-2024, 05:15 PM)Jason Terry Wrote: What happened with the Kyrie/Boston thing? I know he got hurt one of the years
I get the Cleveland thing. He made the most important shot in their franchise history en route to their 1st ship ever. He doesn’t owe them anything and wanted to do his own thing away from Lebrons shadow…….the Brooklyn thing is well known and easy to understand.
He’s loved by every player in the league. The Boston guys(Tatum/Brown) look up to him to this day as like a big brother hero. That probably bothers Simmons
Boston fans will never be OK with Kyrie, for a number of reasons. One of the big things was that he did a season ticket holder event during which he got on the mic and basically said he wanted to re-sign in Boston and finish his career there. I might have the timeline wrong a little bit, but I’m pretty sure he left at the end of that very season. They were all kind of put out by that.
Also, the version of the Celtics he was on under achieved greatly, and there appeared to be a lot of friction between him and the rest of their core, all of whom were very young at the time. He was brought in to nurture their young talent, a lot like what he was brought in to do here in Dallas. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it did not work very well there and there were lots of ugly news articles with quotes going back-and-forth between the Tatum/Brown crew and Kyrie over the course of his stay there.
Boston fans HATE Kyrie, Simmons notably among them.