before kyrie irving would become part of the only team in league history to come
back from a three to one playoff deficit and win the nba finals from the bottom
of my heart man this was a very very special year
i wouldn't trade it for the world man i love all y'all man
real talk before kyrie irving would score the second most points in brooklyn
nets franchise history only days after his mentor kobe
bryant died in a tragic helicopter crash and kobe mentality and mamba mentality
will keep me hey keep going keep going so feel good
before kyrie irving would criticize the nba for looking
to restart the league during a global pandemic and in the midst of a
groundswell of support for the black lives matter movement
kyrie irving is only 28 years old but his nba career has already gone through
several stages promising young star rob until lebron's
batman taker of the shot and co-founding member of the boston celtics
now fans they fell in love with kyrie from the very beginning and his
cold-blooded scoring mentality ball on a string type
handles and soft otherworldly touch around the rim
but it wasn't only his talents that made a fan stand up and take notice
now whether it's his passion for the tv show friends or his alter ego uncle drew
or his controversial thoughts on the exact shape of the planet we all live on
now kyrie he is always looking to make headlines and do you know what his
favorite friends episode of all time is well stay tuned and i'll tell you a
little later in this video what's going on guys it's boy michael cretin back at
it again with a brand new video this time an updated look at the life and
career of kyrie irving proud of fame here for you of course before they're
famous now with kyrie in the headlines pushing back against the recent nba
restart well i thought now would be as good as
time as endy to take a look at his come up and provide you with all the content
on why he's choosing to make his voice heard now now don't forget to let us
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kyrie irving was born on march 23rd 1992 in melbourne australia
now you may not believe it but melbourne has actually produced more number one
draft picks in the nba than any other city on the planet not
only kyrie irving but andrew bogut and ben simmons they were all born there
new kyrie's father dedrick irving he was an american board basketball player who
found success playing in the aussie pro league
otherwise known as the national basketball league
now he played for the team known as the bullying boomers
whoa
kyrie in his pops as well as his older sister asia and his mother elizabeth
they moved to west orange new jersey when kyrie was only two
now at some point his parents they separated his mother elizabeth she was
half sue and she moved across the country to
be closer to her roots now soon after that she grew ill and
tragically she just passed away now kyrie he was only four years old at
the time and uh well he never really got to know her too well
something he would try and remedy later on in his life by investigating his
sioux heritage knowing that my mom passed and left me
such a powerful empowering family such as standing rock
as well as all the united sioux nation i mean to be a part of it now and not
just outside supporter but knowing that this
is family for life and blood couldn't make us any closer
and our journeys have been directed in so
many different ways but yet we're still standing here august 23rd
2018 embracing each other as if we haven't lost any time from the very
beginning kyrie he was something of a basketball prodigy
now i mean he was already dribbling a basketball at 13 months old
that's like around the same time that most of us are just getting comfortable
crawling now with a professional baller as a
father and rod strickland as his godfather
well i guess that makes some sense i guess it really shouldn't come as a
surprise that basketball played such a huge part in his life from an early age
and if you compare and contrast their games well it's clear that kyrie
absorbed a lot of what rod was great at now his daddy also pushed him to be the
very best version of himself he could be going so far as to wrap the basketball
in plastic to make it harder to grip so that kyrie would have to focus
especially hard to maintain control over the ball
regardless of how ludicrous that sounds will this help set kyrie apart from
everyone else in his age group
he attended montclair kimberly high school and in his freshman and sophomore
year will he put up a red-hot 26.5 points per
game on his way to leading the team to a
state title but basketball wasn't a young kyrie's only passion
now he eventually transferred to st patrick high school in new jersey where
he continued to excel on the court putting up big numbers and
winning the new jersey tournament of champions title
and while there well he also discovered a new talent which was acting
yeah speaking with gq he had this to say i put myself out there in my first high
school play my senior year i was so nervous to get up in front of
people and turn into another character so it was actually pretty awful in the
high school musical but then i started to get used to being
in front of people and being in front of the camera
and then i was able to be myself once i started to understand how to take
direction i was able to play a different character
like uncle drew we'll get to uncle drew in just a minute
but it's important to know that from early on in his life well kyrie he's
always had interest outside of basketball
now of course basketball is still what he excelled at in june of 2010 kyrie was
selected to play for team usa at the fiba americas under 18
championship now kyrie led his team to the gold medal
his unbelievable play during the tournament led the espnu declaring him
the best young point guard of 2010. now that same year kyrie he took his
talents to durham north carolina to play for the prestigious duke
university basketball program now kyrie he came out of the gates on
fire averaging 17.4 points per game in his first eight games but during his
ninth game well he suffered a ligament injury to his toe
that sidelined him indefinitely huh sidelined him indefinitely
there you go he didn't return until march 18th just in time for the march
madness tournament now duke they made it all the way to the
sweet 16 spot but they lost to arizona despite kyrie
going off for 28 points right now i'm thinking about next year
you know i'm not saying that definitely guarantee i'm coming back
next year but uh you know right now i'm just gonna
go see my family you know um sit down with the coaching staff
later on after the ncaa tournament was over and then
you know go from there after a disappointing end to his season
well kyrie decided to forgo his final three years at school
and enter the 2011 nba draft now unsurprisingly kyrie he was selected
with the number one overall pick by the cleveland cavaliers
who were still reeling from lebron james leaving them a season earlier kyrie
would score 18.5 points per game in his first season
on his way to winning the 2011-2012 nba rookie of the year award that next
season he'd make the nba all-star team for the first time
and the year after that while he'd win the all-stars mvp
off the court things were going almost as well now he began dating former texas
beauty queen andrea wilson in 2013 and the two would go on to have a child
together azuri elizabeth irving who was born on november 23rd
but kyrie's relationship with andrea it would end soon after that
meanwhile kyrie's career it was reaching new heights in 2014 he signed a 90
million contract extension with the cavs the
next season lebron he returned to cleveland
deemed to bring the city a title something he knew that kyrie could play
a key role in now the cavs they made a trade for kevin
love just like that well they had their big three
now this trio was nearly unstoppable force that made it to the nba finals in
their first go-around unfortunately for kyrie well he would
fracture his kneecap in game one and be out for the rest of the series
now the cavs they would go on to lose four to two but kyrie
he would get another shot at the larry ob the next season
when the cavs and golden state warriors once again squared off
now this time the cavs they were healthy and despite finding themselves in a
three to one hole halfway through the series well they did
the impossible and came back to win the entire thing
thanks and large to part of this shot huh thanks in part to this shot you know
what i mean irving and curry one-on-one irving puts
it up kyrie irving from downtown that shot it
propelled the cavs to a 93-89 win now for the first time in 52 years well
cleveland sports fans they had something to cheer about
cleveland this is for you now the cavs they would make the finals
again the following year but by the end of that season rumors that lebron was
looking to head to la they were spreading like wildfire kyrie
had no interest in sticking around for another rebuild in cleveland
so we forced the trade between the cavs and the boston celtics
potential trade between the celtics and the cavs that would
basically swap the starting point guards for the two teams that faced off in last
year's eastern conference finals kyrie irving going to boston isaiah
thomas going to cleveland along with some other
players and a draft pick no it didn't go swimmingly with the celtics to say the
very least while his first season with the team saw
them making it all the way to the eastern conference finals
well kyrie he was not an active member of the roster having injured himself
halfway through the season now on the court he was also dealing
with some detractors now kyrie has always been someone who prided himself
in his ability to say eccentric things to get a discussion going in the past he
suggested that the world is flat the moon landing it was faked and that
the cia tried to kill bob marley but according to him well it's only to
get discussion going he told 98.5 the sport tub all i want to do is be
able to have the open conversation it became like because i think different
does that knock my intellectual capacity or the fact that i could think different
things than you that was the intent behind it do your
own research don't come to me and ask me when i do something i know my intent and
it proved what i thought it would outside of his controversial theories
well kyrie was also dedicating a lot of his time to his alter ego
uncle drew a character that started as an internet sensation
watching wilt watching real balls get buckets i get buckets
during that season he released his uncle drew movie and while the film wasn't a
huge hit well it made back its modest budget and
furthered kyrie's brand outside of basketball
which is clearly something he's purposely cultivated the next season
with the celtics will kyrie he was healthy
but the team season was a disappointment with chemistry
and fit issues now that season kyrie he also lost his grandfather
something that would play a huge part in what he decided to do next
he told usa today after he passed basketball was the last thing on my mind
i didn't take the necessary steps to get counseling or get therapy
or anything to deal with someone that close to me die so throughout the year
it started becoming more and more clear that my relationship within my home life
was the higher precedence than the organization or anyone
with his desire to be closer to home in mind well kyrie he used his free agency
to relocate closer to where his family is
brooklyn now it wasn't exactly a move that made a lot of celtic fans happy
especially after he had said this only like a few months
as well as prior organization and everyone else in boston
you guys would have me back i plan on resigning here next year
but as this story has shown well kyrie is always someone who's willing to go
against the flow and not concern himself with what anyone
else is thinking he should do after all his favorite friends episode
is the one in barbados which sees joey and rachel kiss for the
very first time pretty much everyone else's least
favorite part of the series but hey i don't know whatever i guess monica had
that puffy hair after hearing his story there's no doubt
that kyrie irving is one of the most talented players in the nba
and with kd teaming up with him next season well the sky is once again the
limit for this talented baller from melbourne
but will he achieve the pinnacle of sports fame once again
i guess we'll have to wait and see because this is before they are fairness
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