Kyrie Irving: we already named a city after him!

[F Gump]

Dammit!

I know the board narrative is about some theoretical re-trade of Kyrie.

But if you look at the landscape of what is happening without the board filter, this swap looks like an all-in, complete commitment to Kyrie move. Cuban spending MASSIVE money to do this, and using needed players (with trade value) PLUS a 1st, all of that is a bullhorn saying they are committed to this Luka-Kyrie path for a few years at least.

In fact, it looks like they are trying to make other deals to enhance the chance for this to be a really good team. If Luka is playing at an MVP level, they NEED to put much better players around him, whatever that takes, so that his MVP-ness impact on games is multiplied, and this is part of something like that.