The Cleveland Cavaliers might very well want to mend fences with Kyrie Irving, but the star guard apparently isn’t having it.
Since news dropped of Irving’s desire to leave Cleveland, the Cavs’ front office has attempted to contact him, according to The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd, via The Score. Irving, though, appears to be giving his current team the cold shoulder.
“Therein lies at least one huge difference between now and 2010: (LeBron) James is still helping to recruit players to Cleveland,” Lloyd writes. “He was instrumental in swaying Derrick Rose and Jeff Green in recent weeks. He was unreachable during the summer of 2010, something Irving is now. The Cavs have unsuccessfully tried to contact Irving, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told The Athletic, but he is not talking to anyone from the organization.
“He has said enough already.”
Despite “Uncle Drew’s” disinterest in speaking with the team, Cavs owner Dan Gilbert recently said he fully expects Irving — who’s still under contract for at least two years — to be present at training camp.
Whether that’s true certainly is subject to debate, as Cleveland reportedly is acting like trading Irving merely is a foregone conclusion.
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