With Kyrie he can pull himself away from the team 5 minutes before the game. His character has really become a bit tiresome, he’s not good enough to justify his antics and he’s getting paid $30million a year to do his job. The whole partying with his sister while away from the team was just incredibly disrespectful to the entire organization. Too upset with the events of 6th January to play basketball but not upset enough to dance at his sister’s birthday party I guess. I also don’t get those ‘family first’ explanations - it’s not a birth of his child, it’s a birthday party (during pandemic as well).
He didn’t like being second fiddle to LeBron at Cleveland and stopped talking to his teammates in the final month of his last season, got to be the alpha for Boston and almost immediately started being disrespectful to their young players (who grew to be better than him in Brown and Tatum), got his move to Brooklyn and started questioning his teammates immediately as well. If he was tradeable I would probably prefer to move him if I were a Brooklyn GM but he’s not, nobody in their right mind will offer anything for him.
He’s a massive attention seeker with a need to be perceived as ‘special’. He will have huge issues playing third fiddle to vastly superior players in Harden and Durant.
