This would be assuming that Kyrie was healthy.
If Kyrie were healthy for the Celtics, the Cavs probably wouldn’t even be in the Finals. Here is what the unnamed Cavs player had to say via The Athletic.
“We’d be up 3-0 if Kyrie [Irving] was still here,” the player told Lloyd after Cleveland’s heartbreaking Game 3 loss, leaving them in an 0-3 hole against the unstoppable Warriors. “I have no doubt. Do you?”
The question begs who the player is. I am assuming that if it is a veteran Cavs player, it would have to be someone who was on the squad last year, which eliminates have the team.
I don’t think this is something Kevin Love or LeBron would say, so that leaves these suspects.
JR Smith, Tristan Thompson and Kyle Korver.
I am going to rule out Korver, and that leaves us with JR and TTK. The angriest Cav in the series that isn’t Kendrick Perkins has been TTK, so it wouldn’t shock me if he were the leak, but that is just a guess. If TTK can cheat on a 9-month pregnant woman, he could definitely be an unnamed source.
Was Kyrie responding to this report with this snapchat?
Flip the page and you make the call.