NBA: Irving saying goodbye to the Cavaliers:”Unavoidable.”

Before the duel with the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night (at 2:00 a. m. live on DAZN), Kyrie Irving spoke to ESPN in detail about his summer trade.

Irving had asked the Cavaliers for a trade this summer because he was looking for a new challenge. “Farewell was inevitable,”Irving explained,”I could feel it.”

Irving’s trade claim surprised many observers in the league this summer, especially since the Cavs are once again the favourites for a final appearance this season. Cleveland, however, had already been holding loose discussions with other teams about a trade of the Point Guard weeks before, as the report reveals.

“I didn’t feel I had to say anything because I knew the truth and she did. That’s why I didn’t care what the others said,”said Irving, who now made it clear:”They didn’t want me there.”

According to the report, he and his agent Jeff Wechsler suspected that LeBron James and his camp were behind the original trade talks. Among other things, a three-team deal was said to have taken place, in which Irving would have come to Phoenix and Eric Bledsoe and Paul George to Cleveland. These talks came to a halt, however, after former Cavs-GM David Griffin resigned from office in mid-June.

Ultimately, Irving ended up in Boston, in a situation that looked promising to him,”But there’s a misperception of how it all went,”Irving said,”I was traded to Boston. I had no control over where I landed.”

Irving and Celtics took first place in the Eastern Conference ahead of Cleveland with a 30-10 record.