{"id":477724,"date":"2024-02-07T06:32:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477724"},"modified":"2024-12-05T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:01:03","slug":"irving-on-returning-to-brooklyn-im-ok-with-that","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/irving-on-returning-to-brooklyn-im-ok-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Irving on returning to Brooklyn: \u2018I\u2019m OK with that\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After appearing in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> match in Brooklyn since being traded away exactly 1 year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kyrie-irving\/\">Kyrie Irving<\/a><\/a><\/a> admitted that his willingness to demand a trade was that &#8220;it was the right moment to get my own peace of mind and join another franchise where I was able to thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kyrie Irving: \u201cIf I didn\u2019t get injured versus the Bucks, do I still ask for a trade? If KD\u2019s foot wasn\u2019t on the 3-point line, are we talking about a different legacy here? If James (Harden) doesn\u2019t ask for a trade? All of the woulda, coulda, shoulda.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AYeWf2YTTl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AYeWf2YTTl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1755087652880052282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, I don&#8217;t want to share any more details because I like protecting the people that I\u2019ve worked with, even if it doesn&#8217;t work out,&#8221; Kyrie shared after notching 36 points and leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> to 119-107 win vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/brooklyn-nets\/\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> at Barclays Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To repeat, I wish all those guys the best in the future. But discussions that needed to be had weren&#8217;t had before the trade deadline, and I don&#8217;t understand if anything needed to be salvaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie&#8217;s trade happened several days before the other superstar, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a>, was also traded to Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After appearing in his 1st match in Brooklyn since being traded away exactly 1 year ago, Kyrie Irving admitted that his willingness to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":477725,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16720,16748,16721,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17842,17975,18742,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Kyrie added that he made his peace during his period with the Nets.","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\/477724"}],"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=477724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488721,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477724\/revisions\/488721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477724"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477724"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}