ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[DallasMaverick]

This is Kyrie Irving we are talking about here. He is the definition of nonsensical. 

He literally left a team that orchestrated one of the greatest playoff comebacks of all time and won, where he hit the biggest shot of the series. He blew up not one, not two, but three championship contenders in their prime because he felt like it. 

To think that he wouldn't bolt at perceived disrespect by not offering him a max contract (something he did in February of this year) is folly.

Most people learn something from their mistakes.

I suspect Kyrie has learned from his, as well.  He's gotten bitten by some of his unwise public statements, and it's cost him sponsorship money as well as fan support.

Many of his statements have come from genuine conviction. His anti-Covid-vax stance, for example.  Do I agree?  No.  Do I respect his right to believe that way?  Absolutely.

On the other hand, I don't get the feeling that his ego is outsized.  Not a sense of seeping entitlement that I see in a lot of other NBA players.  Not the quick rush to take offense when he perceives that he's being disrespected.

Maybe I'm reading him wrong.   Time will tell.