{"id":17787,"date":"2022-03-16T16:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T10:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=203927"},"modified":"2022-03-16T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T10:46:25","slug":"kyrie-irving-and-his-huge-performance-catches-lebron-james-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/kyrie-irving-and-his-huge-performance-catches-lebron-james-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving and his huge performance catches LeBron James\u2019 attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James tweeted during Kyrie Irving\u2019s dominating performance over the Orlando Magic. Kyrie went on to score a very efficient 60 points against the Magic. The Nets blew them out 150-108 on the back of Kyrie\u2019s 60 points. Having had a few great performances himself this month, the King showed appreciation for the greatness that Kyrie was putting on display.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ky stop it man!!! Actually don\u2019t \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1503888366923829248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But whenever the King is involved controversy and drama follow. LeBron himself had 2 great nights this month in the Crypto.com arena where he dropped 56 points against the Golden State Warriors and 50 points against the Washington Wizards. Kyrie similarly had two 50 point games as well, scoring 50 against the Charlotte Hornets and then dropping 60 points against the Magic today.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Fans took to Twitter saying LeBron was shown up by Kyrie Irving because he didn\u2019t just have 2 50 + point games but also a 60 point game while LeBron didn\u2019t. What needs to be understood is that despite being friendly with each other on the surface, LeBron and Kyrie haven\u2019t actually had the best of relationships. The two players won a championship together in Cleveland but Kyrie left because he wanted to prove that he could lead a team to a championship without Lebron\u2019s help. So far he hasn\u2019t been able to accomplish that.<\/p>\n<p>Their teammate on the Cleveland Cavaliers championship team, Channing Frye tried stirring the pot of trouble himself. Channing responded to a fan\u2019s tweet on Kyrie one-upping LeBron and the interpretation could be the 2 players battling it out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fOxTKQFCvd\">https:\/\/t.co\/fOxTKQFCvd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FaABK7Qpnj\">pic.twitter.com\/FaABK7Qpnj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Channing Frye (@channingfrye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/channingfrye\/status\/1503919147029172226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While it is factually true that Kyrie came up on top with his 60 points to LeBron\u2019s 56, it does not really mean much. The two players have since their Cleveland separation, had a much better relationship. Regardless of who got the better of the other, we as fans are lucky to be witnessing the best stretches of NBA basketball, with 7 50+ point games in the span of 2+ weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King tweeted out in appreciation of Kyrie\u2019s great game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":38531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1217,2251,1783,1216,1073,1071,826],"class_list":["post-17787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-chmapionship","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}