The Cleveland Cavaliers were not about to rush star guard Kyrie Irving back into the fold. After all, the team was twelve games above .500 when he returned last month, holding the top record in the Eastern Conference. Coach David Blatt’s group was riding a four-game winning streak, with two of those wins coming against playoff-qualifying teams from a season ago and one coming against the contending Oklahoma City Thunder.
However, it should come as no surprise that Irving instantaneously made an impact on Cleveland’s already-simmering team. When Irving is the on the floor,the team has a plus-21.5 point differential per 100 possessions. “He’s getting there,” LeBron James recently said about Irving’s re-implementation in the starting lineup. “If not the best, he’s one of the two best point guards in our league along with Steph Curry … He’s 23 years old. He hasn’t even scratched the surface yet.”
Written by Billy Coles
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