The Cleveland Cavaliers made their ESPN debut with Kyrie Irving tonight, and Kyrie did not fail to deliver a performance worthy of the event.
The New Orleans Hornets (who I will refer to as Pelicans from here on out because I can’t wait for it to be official) aren’t a good basketball team, but for most of the evening, the game was a back and forth affair. It started out sloppy and the teams played evenly through the first half.
In the 3rd quarter, the Cavaliers built a 10 point lead before their typical late quarter collapse allowed the Pelicans to tie the game before taking the lead after 3. After some sloppy back and forth play in the 4th quarter and with the Pelicans defense stiffing the Cavaliers offense, Kyrie came back in with 7 minutes left.
The rest of the game belonged to Kyrie. Irving did a little bit of everything, distributing to teammates, grabbing rebounds, taking charges, and yeah, scoring. A lot. And in often spectacular fashion. Irving scored 20 points in the 4th qu...
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Kyrie Irving,
Dion Waiters,
Tristan Thompson,
Bill Simmons,
Greivis Vasquez,
Austin Rivers,
Robin Lopez,
Al-Farouq Aminu,
Anthony Davis,
Ryan Anderson,
Jason Smith,
Roger Mason,
Brian Roberts,
Xavier Henry,
Eric Gordon,
Darius Miller,
Lance Thomas,
Tyler Zeller,
Alonzo Gee,
C.J. Miles,
Luke Walton,
Shaun Livingston,
Omri Casspi,
Daniel Gibson,
Kevin Jones
TEAMS: Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets
TEAMS: Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets
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