Kyrie Irving says he ultimately got the jersey security blocked him from swapping with Bam Adebayo

Play a physical, intense two-hour basketball game? No problem. Start to swap jerseys? The NBA’s hug police is starting a new production in their coronavirus prevention theater.

Heat stud Bam Adebayo, who torched the Nets for 41 points Saturday night, began to trade jerseys with Kyrie Irving when a Miami security staffer successfully pulled Adebayo away. (DeAndre Jordan added in an affectionate slap on the head.)

“I just want to follow NBA protocols,” a laughing Irving said postgame. Irving was fined over $800,000 for violating those protocols earlier this month after going to his sister’s birthday party without a mask on. “I have the jersey, by the way,” he added.

But wait. Someone is lying here.

Irving claims that he has the jersey. Adebayo said “I’ll give Kyrie the jersey on my own time.”

Adebayo, who like Irving is from north Jersey, explained the connection between the two when asked about it. Irving’s father apparently helped pay for Adebayo’s AAU team as a teenager, according to the Heat center. “It’s all love, but in between the lines, we enemies,” he said. Maybe they’ll be enemies after Kyrie accidentally admitted the truth Saturday night.