Kyrie *yawn*.
"We want to give all the respect to those guys and the amount of work they put in as well," Irving told reporters after Game 5. "We don't want to disrespect them or anything they put forth in terms of their hard work. That boy Jayson Tatum as I said over the time I played with him has grown tremendously. Nothing short of proud of him, nothing short of proud of [Marcus] Smart, all the guys that have come in and gave us their competitive spirit.
"I'm grateful for the opportunity that I had in Boston. I'm grateful for a lot of the support that I had post-leaving there. Obviously, it wasn't the easiest transition to deal with, there was a lot going on personally while I was there in Boston that people don't know about, so to see kind of the emotions that were lingering on from the past year-and-a-half between that, I'm just glad it's settled. And for me, we can just move on and focus on the rest of this long season that we have ahead. So just grateful that we have a chance to be together in the trenches, me and my teammates, and we just get to move on from this."