{"id":58256,"date":"2020-09-01T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kemba-walkers-nba-playoff-showcase-is-a-kyrie-irving-warning\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T18:13:00","slug":"kemba-walkers-nba-playoff-showcase-is-a-kyrie-irving-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kemba-walkers-nba-playoff-showcase-is-a-kyrie-irving-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"#Kemba Walker\u2019s NBA playoff showcase is a Kyrie Irving warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Kemba Walker\u2019s NBA playoff showcase is a Kyrie Irving warning<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The thing to keep at the front of your mind, if you are a Nets fan, are the 20 game<\/a>s Kyrie Irving played this year. It was an all-too-brief sample, an all-too-fleeting taste, but those 20 games need to stay prominent because they remind you of all he can be, and all the Nets can be, especially once Kevin Durant joins the party.<\/p>\n

It is smart to remember the next-to-last game in which he took the floor for Brooklyn this year, Jan. 31, a Friday night at Barclays Center. Three thousand miles away Kobe Bryant was honored at Staples Center by his team and by his city five days after his death; inside the house on Atlantic Avenue Irving paid his own personal tribute: 54 points, five assists, 19-for-23 from the field, 7-for-9 from 3.<\/p>\n

For one of the few times in its history, Barclays was bonkers, all 17,732 people inside chanting his name every time he made a shot, every time he took it hard to the glass, every time he stood up on the bench, peeled off his warm-ups, ambled to the scorer\u2019s table.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hit a few shots,\u201d he said later, amid a roomful of teammates who were still practically awed into silence at what they\u2019d seen. \u201cI had to keep going, had to keep that Kobe mentality, that Mamba mentality, keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The thing to keep in the back of your mind, if you are a Nets fan \u2013 hidden beneath the detritus of all the disapp<\/a>ointments of all the years going back to the ABA \u2013 is watching what Kemba Walker is doing for the Boston Celtics in the NBA\u2019s bubble in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., listening to his teammates line up to praise not only Kemba himself but the experience of playing with Kemba.<\/p>\n

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A Celtics fan holds up a sign indicating he prefers Kemba Walker to Kyrie Irving<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen someone so good who\u2019s first instinct is to be so unlselfish,\u201d Jaylen Brown says.<\/p>\n

\u201cA great player who\u2019s a better teammate is a treasure,\u201d says Marcus Smart.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur true leader,\u201d says Jayson Tatum.<\/p>\n

And what is most important to ignore if you are a Nets fan, if you can, is just how efficiently the Celtics are humming in these playoffs, even without a key cog like Gordon Hayward, rolling over the Sixers and humbling the Raptors in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Now, it is important to state here, because you surely see where this is going: not everything that went wrong last spring for the Celtics was Irving\u2019s fault. He averaged 22.5 points and close to 8 assists in a first-round sweep of Indiana. Boston ran into a Milwaukee buzzsaw in the second round but Irving was still good for 20.4 points and 6.4 dimes a game.<\/p>\n

But, then, perception doesn\u2019t always adhere to statistics. The truth is, by the end, the Celtics were an unhappy bunch, disjoined, jarred by Irving\u2019s declaration that he\u2019d play elsewhere as soon as he could \u2013 and he was true to that pledge.<\/p>\n

And there is this:<\/p>\n

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Kyrie Irving<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The year before, with Irving injured, the Celtics made it to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals and would\u2019ve certainly played in the Finals if not for an especially heroic effort from LeBron James in his last-hurrah push in Cleveland. Couple that with the way the Celtics look this year, in their first season After Kyrie, under the stable, guiding hand of Walker \u2026<\/p>\n

Well, look: that\u2019s always been the odd appeal of Kyrie, right? You can get all kinds of results from that cocktail. It is a matter of record that LeBron would have one fewer ring, and that Cleveland would still be a town title-free since \u201964 if not for Irving\u2019s brilliance in 2016. That is inarguable. And that is the beacon for Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever forget,\u201d says a league official who has worked with Irving, \u201cthat at his core Kyrie is as good at what he does as anyone alive right now when he\u2019s healthy and when he\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n

He paused, because there\u2019s always a pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just have to hope he\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was right for most of those 20 games this year and as a Nets fan that is what you focus on, that\u2019s what you hang your hat on, that\u2019s what you envision when you begin to visualize the Kyrie\/KD partnership in full bloom. You shuttle the other stuff \u2013 the injuries, the oddities, the times he too regularly shuffles lesser teammates under the wheels of whatever vehicle is nearby \u2013 aside. You have to.<\/p>\n

And maybe you hide your eyes watching what the Celtics look like these days now that they\u2019ve traded in Special K\u2019s \u2013 Kyrie for Kemba \u2013 and hope that has nothing to do with you, and with next year, and what\u2019s to come.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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