The Celtics notched their first win of the season on Friday night to avoid an 0-3 start to the season with a 102-92 win over the Sixers. Boston dug deep into its bench to find players to take rotation minutes as they continue to deal with the loss of Gordon Hayward and most recently Marcus Smart.
Kyrie Irving led the way for the Celtics with 21 points, six rebounds, and four assists in the win, giving him his first win in a Boston uniform. With Hayward down, Irving is the lone marquee star on the Celtics and that was, reportedly, one of the things he wanted a chance to be when he requested a trade from Cleveland.
As one would expect, Irving gets to hear plenty of LeBron James related jeers and taunts from opposing crowds (not just Cleveland’s) and he’s apparently already tired of it. The Celtics’ point guard got one of those from a Sixers fan who yelled “Kyrie, where’s LeBron?” as the team entered the tunnel and responded with a quick “suck my d*ck.”
The video itself is fairly funny, but it naturally got lots of play and on Saturday Irving addressed it. Irving wasn’t apologetic to the fan involved or remorseful in the slightest, but was sorry to any kids that heard him.
“Hell no,” Kyrie said when asked if he regrets it. “Man enough to record it on video, that’s on him. Glad he got his @ name out there and his five seconds of fame and gone viral, that’s the social media platform we live on. I take full responsibility for what I said. Excuse the kids at home and we move on.”
Irving’s learning, like LeBron and Kevin Durant before him, he has to have some thick skin after a controversial team change and let the jeers roll off of him, but if the worst he does is tell a fan to suck his d*ck then I think he’ll be OK. We’ll just need to keep our eye out for suspiciously vengeful Twitter accounts stanning for him in his mentions.
