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Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving once again lamented how his partnership with LeBron James ended while they were members of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Irving said on I Am Athlete he wasn’t in the right frame of mind to build a truly successful relationship with James and others on the team:
“I definitely feel like if I was in the same maturity level I am now and understanding who I am and I look back on that time then, we definitely would have won more championships together because there would’ve been a better man-to-man understanding about what I’m going through. I didn’t know how to share my emotions, I didn’t know how to do that. So, instead of sharing, I isolated myself. And I just started pouring myself more into the game of basketball and I had one of my better seasons, but I wasn’t connecting with everybody as much during our championship year.
“And so in 2017, it was a different year for us. So when we went against Golden State, we went against a great team. When you’re not a great team, and you’re not clicking on all cylinders and together, you’re easily defeatable. You’re defeated before you even get to the arena. We were in those games against Golden State, but we definitely could’ve given them a run for their money, regardless if they had [Kevin Durant].”
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