Not The Best Relationship With LeBron
It’s no secret that LeBron James has had trouble trying to relate to the much young Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love. From his subtweets to flat out calling out of the two in day-to-day quotes, I think it’s safe to say that LeBron’s relationship with Kyrie and Love isn’t what his relationship was with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh – you can’t help but compare the two.
Heck, even Kyrie fired back at LeBron via Twitter recently.
But that was just the beginning. In addition to the subtweeting, as the kids say it, there are some around the NBA that believe there is a real chemistry issues between Kyrie and LeBron. To make things even worse, most of their supposed issues are “on-court” issues.
And that’s probably worse than not being on the same page off the court.
According to Yahoo’s Chris Mannix (transcribed via Sports Illustrated):
"Mannix reports “the disconnect between Irving and James is real,” and though they have a “solid” relationship, the on-court chemistry, according to one opposing scout, is “basically nonexistent.”"
In fairness, Mannix also says that he’s trying to teach Kyrie on the fly because he knows how much he means to the franchise.
Still, you can’t deny that there are real issues between Kyrie Irving and LeBron James. Winning indeed cures all but, unfortunately, in order for that to be the case between this team, they’d have to win the NBA Championship.
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