A proposito dell'espulsione di Smart. I giornalisti sono andati a chiedere a Kyrie cosa ne pensasse... qui la risposta.

“I mean it’s basketball, so if you really want to get a shake in—and when I say ‘get a shake in’ (I mean) throw hands in a basketball game—if it gets to that point, obviously, somebody said something pretty disrespectful,” Irving told reporters in Atlanta. “… we all get paid pretty handsomely from the NBA, from our teams. To go out there and start fighting on the floor, this ain’t the 80s. It’s just a different brand of basketball but if it does happen you got to be prepared and I’m pretty sure we were all pretty much raised that way. If somebody says something disrespectful and looks you in the eye and tells you something like that, then you got to stand up for yourself. So, it is what it is.”

in poche parole :"Se si arriva al punto da alzare le mani vuol dire che c'è stato qualcosa di irrispettoso... la pallacanestro di oggi non è più quella degli anni 80 però se qualcuno ti dice qualcosa di irrispettoso in quel modo allora devi farti valere"