DALLAS — Thirty-one days after Kyrie Irving’s trade from Brooklyn to Dallas, Mavericks and Irving fans on Wednesday awoke to the first instance of free-speech Kai, unfettered of reporters’ questions and unrestrained of clipped sound bites.
Irving spoke for 67 minutes on his Twitch livestream channel. Anyone who watched and assumed — hoped? — that he would say something controversial or damning probably is disappointed.
Speaking to his “tribe,” Irving said he had returned to Dallas roughly 20 to 30 minutes earlier, the team plane landing around midnight following Wednesday’s loss in New Orleans.