After stating before the start of last season that he wanted to remain a Boston Celtic, the relations between Kyrie Irving and the Celtics seemed to fracture over the length of the season before Irving eventually departed to Brooklyn.
Celtics general manager Danny Ainge is now opening up about what went down between AInge and Irving in his exit interview from Boston.
Ainge was asked on 98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Toucher and Rich” about his interview with Irving and how he upfront about everything.
Talking about last year’s team is getting about as boring to me as talking about the 2016 presidential election. So I think that I’d rather not address those issues, but I will say that I have said before that Kyrie was forthright.”
His version and my version might be a little bit different, but it’s pretty close and I think that I hold no grudges against Kyrie. Kyrie, he didn’t slam the door on a potential return, but he did let me know that he would prefer to go home. Those were the words that he used and so we for sure had an inkling, but he didn’t slam the door on the possibility of returning to Boston.”
Even with Irving being on the Brooklyn Nets, Ainge hasn’t seemed to close the door on Irving returning to Boston somewhere in the future.
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