Kyrie Irving and LeBron James have not always had a picture perfect relationship. However, they have grown immensely as a duo over the last three seasons, keeping things generally peachy. One way Kyrie Irving tried to avoid possible complications was by talking to a player who had many. Kobe Bryant, the yoda like figure to a plethora of players after retirement, gave Kyrie some sage advice about how not to do what he did according to Dave McMenamin of ESPN.
“It’s a tough balance,”
“Because everyone knows, Shaq was really dominant and [had] a lot of the individual accolades … unbelievable. And that’s who he was. And Kobe was just consistently working on his game and consistently trying to prove everyone all the time. And you got to commend somebody for that. That just shows the true testament of their will and what they’re willing to do and what they’re willing to sacrifice, but I know I don’t want to look back and say that I let my selfishness get in the way of us winning championships, because we have unbelievable talent on this team and unbelievable players, and so I don’t want to ever take that for granted.
“Whenever that time comes and it’s my time to be the leader of the franchise, then I’ll be well-prepared. But for now, I’m cool with just being — I’m very, very cool with being — a great guy on a great team.”
Kyrie, a full seven years younger than LeBron James, has plenty of time to take the reigns when LeBron falls off, if that ever happens. It is good to see he took steps to deal with the wait.
