{"id":461151,"date":"2023-09-29T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461151"},"modified":"2023-09-29T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:47:04","slug":"irving-is-happy-to-return-to-the-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/irving-is-happy-to-return-to-the-mavericks\/","title":{"rendered":"Irving is happy to return to the Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks superstar Kyrie Irving claims that he is &#8220;happy to come back here&#8221; after 8<sup>th<\/sup> time All-Star re-inked with the NBA franchise from Texas in free agency as he had a chance to sign with other organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie and Dallas agreed to a 3-year contract worth up to 126 million dollars on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> day of free agency, a deal negotiated by his agent and stepmom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I wish I would&#8217;ve got drafted by Dallas initially. Obviously, they weren&#8217;t in position in 2011, but just feeling how this organization wraps their arms around the guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving on the culture he&#8217;s experienced with the Mavericks ?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4U5f1YyzGA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4U5f1YyzGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1707626910488957195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t too tough to finish things,&#8221; Irving shared after today\u2019s training, the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time the player has spoken to the media since the final week of the past campaign. &#8220;Had Mavericks as No. 1 on my list. I looked elsewhere &#8212; salary cap opportunities, where I could fit in with other players in the NBA &#8212; but there just wasn&#8217;t much space. At my age, I had to have a different vantage point, and I felt like I could not just settle here but enjoy coming back here and be welcomed back by the fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks superstar Kyrie Irving claims that he is &#8220;happy to come back here&#8221; after 8th time All-Star re-inked with the NBA franchise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":461152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,16721,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17975,18742,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Kyrie is enjoying being part of the Mavs.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461155,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461151\/revisions\/461155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461151"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461151"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}