Big Three label aside, LeBron James, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving won’t be heading to Cleveland Cavaliers training camp without their own hierarchical designation—namely, that order exactly.
At least that was the order, before Irving’s stellar showing at the FIBA World Cup rescued everyone into a fact that had lately been forgotten: This guy has superstar written all over him.
To be sure, Irving’s FIBA numbers don’t exactly jump off the page: 12.1 points and 3.6 assists on 56 percent shooting (including 61 percent from distance, which, okay, that jumps off the page).
Rather, it was how Irving played—deferential when he needed to be, dominant when it mattered most—that proved he’s more than ready to take the reins of what could prove the NBA’s most punishingly potent offense.
“I’m doing whatever’s needed to win, playing with the best in the world,” Irving told NBA.com’s John Schumann. “I feel like that’s where I want to be and where I should be. Going back to Cleveland, I’m just going to have the sam ...
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