Kyrie Irving was piecing together a sensational debut season with the Boston Celtics before an old injury brought his season to a premature close. Reportedly back to full health, here are three goals for Irving in the upcoming 2018-19 season.
No longer playing second fiddle to LeBron James, Kyrie Irving was the headline act on a Boston Celtics squad zeroing in on an NBA Finals birth. That opportunity was of course ripped away from him in mid-March, leaving him helpless on the sidelines during the team’s epic run to the Eastern Conference Finals.
The Celtics now head into the 2018-19 regular season hoping for a change of fortune and a long-awaited union between their prized All-Star acquisitions in Irving and Gordon Hayward. That duo was only afforded five minutes of court time together last season, and figures to play a major part in their squads goals of challenging the Golden State Warriors next June.
Irving is an NBA Finals stalwart, having been a core piece of the Cleveland Cavaliers squad that made three straight trips to the series with Uncle Drew running the point. Now in green, let’s take a look at three critical goals to a successful regular season for Kyrie.