{"id":18635,"date":"2025-07-23T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18635\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:49:07","slug":"mavericks-star-kyrie-irving-slights-lebron-james-with-recent-bold-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18635\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks star Kyrie Irving slights LeBron James with recent bold take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his career, Kyrie Irving has had the chance to share the floor with numerous superstar talents. However, based on some recent comments, it&#8217;s clear who sits in the top spot when it comes to his all-time teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While streaming on Twitch earlier this week, Irving opened up about his tenure with the Brooklyn Nets. When it comes to his partnership with Kevin Durant, he feels it is a duo that can never be recreated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will say this,&#8221; Irving said. &#8220;The 7\/11 duo of me and KD can never be topped. In terms of just being on the court with somebody that special. Let me get that disclaimer out. I played with a lot of great players, but playing with KD, that was OD. He&#8217;s one of the best of all time.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kyrie speaks on the duo of him and Kevin Durant in Brooklyn<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 7\/11 duo of me and KD will never be topped in terms of being on the court with somebody that special\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tecYyOf9eC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tecYyOf9eC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyrie Center (@kyriecenterig) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyriecenterig\/status\/1947852353543327868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no denying that Durant is one of the game&#8217;s top talents, but Irving has had more notable running mates. The most notable being LeBron James, with whom he played alongside on the Cleveland Cavaliers. This duo competed at a high level for years and even captured a championship in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From a skill standpoint, Irving and Durant are arguably just as good a duo. That said, they didn&#8217;t have nearly the same level of success as he and LeBron did in Cleveland. When they joined forces in Brooklyn in 2019, some felt they had the potential to be a dynasty. Unfortunately for them, injuries and off-court drama have resulted in them being one of the biggest &#8220;what-ifs&#8221; in NBA history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon recovering from the ACL tear he suffered last season, the Mavericks star will embark on a journey with his newest star teammate in Anthony Davis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout his career, Kyrie Irving has had the chance to share the floor with numerous superstar talents. However,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-18635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}