Kyrie Irving Trade Buzz Grows as Cooper Flagg Shines

Another guy that I don't think is going to happen because the Mavericks have looked really good so far and Cooper and Kyrie have looked so awesome, it's Kyrie Irving. And a lot of people are saying, well, Kyrie to the Heat, that makes perfect sense, or Kyrie to the Pistons, like that makes perfect sense. I just really don't see the Mavericks trading Kyrie Irving. They're 7-4. Like, he's actually looked pretty decent. They're load managing his injury because he's coming off a torn ACL, but he's looked really good with Cooper Flagg so far. The Mavericks are that meme that never let them know your next move. I wouldn't be shocked if they traded Kyrie, man. I'm not even finished. Listen, after they traded Luka, everything's on the table at this point. But it's not Nico Harrison anymore. It's Masai Ujiri. And that's cool. And that's cool. But Masai Ujiri take orders from the owner. And we already know that owner's a wild card. Very unfortunate. And so, to me, I think... And two, Kyrie might walk into that office and say something crazy to them folks. And they look at him and go, all right, well, you got to go. So this is an unpredictable situation from both ends. The Mavericks management is as wild as the outside. And Kyrie Irving is his own beat. He's his own drum. He's his own band. And so Kyrie may come in on some, you know, I'm not playing again until they get the Gaza situation figured out. And he means it. And he won't play. So, you know, you just have to really be tuned in to that organization to kind of really know where they're at. And I don't think anyone's that tuned in in a league to know what they're going to do next. So they could move Kyrie or they could, you know, continue the way that they're going. But Cooper Flagg's been amazing for it. And by the way, Cooper Flagg is still 19 years old. For people who haven't, who haven't gone on, he's still 19 years old. And he's doing things in this league where you can already say, like, that's a top 20 player in this league already. LeBron, he's doing, at 19, Cooper Flagg is doing LeBron James-level things. I don't know why more people aren't saying this. The games don't look the same. The games don't look the same. They're not playing, they don't play the same way. But statistically, they're very identical to what LeBron did his first two years in the league and what Cooper Flagg is doing his first two years in the league. And again, around the same age, people were saying, well, this is the next coming of Michael Jordan when LeBron came in. And it's just the fact that there's so much good young talent right now in the NBA that we're kind of, oh yeah, Cooper Flagg, by the way, looks incredible. Unbelievable. Just by the way, you know, so. So they're. There, there people are, Wemby is the reason nobody talks about Cooper Flagg. Exactly. And I should have mentioned this in the MVP talks because Wemby. I think I put this in our group chat the other night. I know we're kind of getting off topic here, but I have to mention this. Like, when been, when? Wemby is doing things on the basketball court, and I know it's been, what, year three, year four, whatever it is, of Victor Wembanyama. He's doing things on the court where I'm just like, oh, my God, I've still never seen that before. I mean, he had this layup. It was a layup, simple layup. From the three-point line? It wasn't just the three-point line, John. He was two steps behind the three-point line when he started his layup. He began the process, the gather, at the three-point line. And he finger-rolled at the... I just hope someone on that coaching staff will just say to him, Hey, man, look. Look at the film. Same thing for Joel Embiid, but more so for Wembanyama. Standing 12 feet from the basket, you can score 40 points a game. And because you'll be playing so close to the basket, you can also get 20 rebounds. The game he had 40, I think he had 40, 20, and 8 blocks. But you can do that every single game by playing closer to the basket. He shoots the three better than Joel Embiid does, but every time he shoots it, he's bailing out the other team. Every single time. Him? Wemby close to the basket is the most unguardable player I've seen since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. There's just nothing you can do about it, literally nothing.