The best tweets following reports of Kyrie Irving’s trade request
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According to multiple reports, Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving has requested a trade ahead of this season’s NBA trade deadline. The 2023 All-Star will sign elsewhere if he is not traded.
Irving joined the Nets in the summer of 2019 after a tumultuous stint with the Boston Celtics. His time in Brooklyn has been equally controversial. A surprise trade would be a fitting end to Irving’s Nets career, though it remains to be seen if anyone will pursue a deal for the disgruntled star.
News of the failed contract extension talks and subsequent trade request took most of the NBA and its fans by surprise. As is often the case, some of the best reactions and responses could be found on Twitter. From the analytical to the hysterical, from the disaffected to emotional, here are some of the best tweets responding to Kyrie Irving’s trade request.
To my Peers: JUST BE YOURSelf and GROW!
Keep people around who CELEBRATE YOU unconditionally and appreciates all of the hard work that gets put in.Distance yourself from the folks who manipulate, hate, and hurt.
Hélà
🤞🏾♾— Hélà (@KyrieIrving) February 3, 2023
Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, and James Harden have now all requested trades from the Brooklyn Nets in the past 13 months.
— Alec Sturm (@Alec_Sturm) February 3, 2023
That historic Celtics blowout really left a lasting mark with Kyrie I guess
— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) February 3, 2023
the nets FINALLY look like a legit contender after surviving kyrie’s anti-vax era, harden requesting a trade, KD trying to leave unless GM or coach is fired, steve nash getting fired, nearly hiring udoka, & kyrie antisemitism ordeal and kyrie requests a trade. brilliant stuff
— Molly Morrison (@mollyhannahm) February 3, 2023
https://t.co/BifRz1yaQ7 pic.twitter.com/H0lUxEjzxR
— Nick Fay (@Nick_Fay_) February 3, 2023
Kyrie waking up today like pic.twitter.com/cEQTDrY0L0
— The Ringer (@ringer) February 3, 2023
Kyrie: I want to be traded
Rob Pelinka: pic.twitter.com/yKbVlM9bIZ
— Jasmine (@JasmineLWatkins) February 3, 2023
Kyrie bout to play for more cities than Beyoncé’s renaissance tour
— Jasmine (@JasmineLWatkins) February 3, 2023
Fully expect the Lakers to have serious discussions about a possible Kyrie Irving trade.Reminder that his salary and Westbrook’s aren’t a match and the Nets would have to include more salary to make a trade work.
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) February 3, 2023
People trying to talk themselves into Kyrie NOT being a headache on their favorite team pic.twitter.com/80wFKr0ssv
— Gerald Bourguet (@GeraldBourguet) February 3, 2023
