CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Boston Celtics beat the first-place Toronto Raptors Wednesday night and then Kyrie Irving apologized. An apology that made almost as much news as did his previous proclamation that the earth was flat.
Irving’s apology was to former Cleveland Cavalier teammate LeBron James for the way he acted as a young player in Cleveland when James returned in 2014.
There seem to be two camps on the significance of Irving’s apology. One camp believes that Irving’s apology is genuine and is a sign of the all-star point guard’s emerging maturity. The other camp believes Irving is using the apology to motivate his younger Boston teammates now that he is the man on a team that is supposed to be performing better than it is.
Kyrie eventually admitted he didn’t really believe the earth was flat. He was just saying it to challenge people to think. So maybe he is using the apology more as a motivational tool than a genuine mea culpa to LeBron.
Crowquill, by Plain Dealer artist Ted Crow, appears three times a week in The Plain Dealer and on cleveland.com.
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