For all the accomplishments and amazing games Kyrie Irving has given the Cleveland fan base, he’s never recorded a triple-double. That changed Friday night with the Jazz in town. Irving had 21 points 12 assists and 10 rebounds in the easy 99-79 win. Maybe it was Irving’s night that drove a fan to run out onto the court just for a chance to say whassup before police tackled him. Unlike the triple-double this has unfortunately happened before with Kyrie.
Here are highlights from Kyrie’s first career triple-double. He’s mastered that little pocket pass after a pick-and-roll, and if the defender doesn’t help hard on him — though not too hard, since he’s got some handle — he’ll just knock down a mid-range jumper.
But Kyrie’s big night was almost marred because this is the second time a fan has rushed the court to be close to Kyrie. Besides the fan in December that rushed at Kyrie with a message on his t-shirt, another Cleveland fan did the same thing to LeBron James when the Heat were in Cleveland last year.
This needs to stop. Cleveland needs to do something about it’s on-court security before some nut job turns violent. Kyrie didn’t help matters much with his casual response to the incident after the game:
Irving joking about fan on court:”There is no such thing as too much support. I enjoyed my guy. It was one of my long-time friends."
— Rick Noland MG/CT (@RickNoland) March 1, 2014
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Thankfully, it was an innocuous kid brazen from booze or youth who wanted to express his love to Kyrie — possibly in an attempt to get him to stay.
More Irving on fan: “He told me he loved me. I told him I loved him back.”
— Rick Noland MG/CT (@RickNoland) March 1, 2014
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Still, another scary moment in Cleveland.
(GIF via @JDonSports)
What’s in the Cleveland water that makes them so recklessly daring?
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