Now We Get To Find Out What Kyrie Irving Is Actually Worth. The market or at least Danny Ainge thinks Kyrie Irving is worth a six inch smaller version of Kyrie Irving, a known quantity 3 and D guy on a dream contract, an untested young big, and one of the most precious draft picks in the league. Thats a hefty haul for the Cavs therefar better than what Jimmy Butler and Paul George got this offseason, though neither of those players, to public knowledge, forced a teams hand quite the way Irving apparently did. Now the deal is done, and Kyries return raised more than a few eyebrows, even those of true believers in his talent. Forget the market then what about critical consensus Broadly it seems clear that the Cavs just made themselves viable and flexible for the near future, but this trade is much harder to assess from the Celtics vantage point. No one is scrambling to pay an injured and aging Isaiah Thomas, but was Irving worth throwing all that other value overboard Even a casual NBA fan could reel off five okay, at worst, four superior point guards Chris Paul, James Harden, Steph Curry, Russell Westbrook, John Wall, to say nothing of the trickier comparisons that Damian Lillard or Kyle Lowry might invite. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Google is compensated by these merchants. Payment is one of several factors used to rank these results. Tax and shipping costs are estimates. Torrentz domain names are for sale. Send an offer to contactinventoris. Harpoon Ultimate Edition. Honda didnt need to make their fun sports car midengine. But they did anyway and the world is richer for it. In a prickly parenthetical, Rob Mahoney at Sports Illustratedasserted today that Irving isnt even the best player on the Celtics roster, slotting him below Gordon Hayward, who was acquired with far less pain. The on paper rsum is remarkable, if totally warped by the distortion of playing with Le. Bron James. But by age 2. Ac/Dc Live Rock Band Wii Iso' title='Ac/Dc Live Rock Band Wii Iso' />All NBA team and three straight Finals, sunk his share of iconic shots, filled highlight reels with spurts of iso scoring that seem to accrue even greater value in the playoffs, which pose a grinding series of matchup puzzles. But what do you make of Kyrie Irvings seasons before the arrival of one of the best basketball players ever What do those three lonesome seasons of Eastern Conference bottom feeding tell you about the future, if anything And what happens after he sets off on his own again Will he be able to get his fill even after being unsatisfied with a 3. Le. Bron damn James Are his ball dominant habitshis field goal percentage skyrockets to 4. NBA trends, and this new unselfish cast of teammates in particular Can he be trusted to direct an offense, now that he has been separated from the man who always put the ball where it needed to go Will he ever learn to play defense and justify his height advantage over the wee genius he replaced, or will he continue to hide wherever he can Is he just a shoe and ticket selling sideshow with golden handles or one of the best players of his generationAny proximity to James or a similarly game breaking player makes it hard to weigh exactly how much a player is worth just ask any team who signed Mo Williams or people who bought Daniel Gibson jerseys. But now Irving is free to answer all these questions right as he enters what should be his prime. That he was swapped out for a very similar player makes this experiment even juicier. As someone with no particular emotional stake in the Cavs or Celtics as franchises, but who watched Irving play when none of this ever seemed possible, the most interesting part of this season will be seeing all these vague hypotheticals tested. The only thing I know for sure is that the Celtics open against the Cavaliers on October 1. Irving will seamlessly fill Thomass shoes in this capacity.