{"id":947825,"date":"2026-10-31T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947825\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:22:19","slug":"kyrie-irving-now-sees-value-in-nba-cup-i-understand-the-concept-of-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947825\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving now sees value in NBA Cup: &#8216;I understand the concept of it now&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t that excited about it,&#8221; Kyrie Irving admitted Friday. Three years later, Irving said he has gotten more comfortable with the idea of the NBA handing out a trophy prior to Christmas and sees value in gunning to win the NBA Cup. <a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;I think I understand the concept of it now and what it means for the fandom of basketball,&quot; Irving said. &quot;And just getting your legs up underneath you.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;I think I understand the concept of it now and what it means for the fandom of basketball,\\&quot; Irving said. \\&quot;And just getting your legs up underneath you.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7740797\/2026\/10\/31\/kyrie-irving-nba-cup-dallas-mavericks\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I think I understand the concept of it now and what it means for the fandom of basketball,&#8221; Irving said. &#8220;And just getting your legs up underneath you.<\/a> \u2026 The Knicks and the Spurs last year, we saw them in the Finals. I think there is some correlation to playing well early in the season and that leading to success later on down the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t that excited about it,&#8221; Kyrie Irving admitted Friday. Three years later, Irving said he has gotten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-947825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}