SACRAMENTO — With about four minutes remaining in the Mavericks’ Friday night win over the Kings, Kyrie Irving made perhaps the most physical and crucial play...
SACRAMENTO — With about four minutes remaining in the Mavericks’ Friday night win over the Kings,Not a crafty dribble and score.The 6-foot-2 All-Star guard leapt in the paint and grabbed an offensive rebound off Tim Hardaway Jr.’s missed 3-pointer. He pivoted, took off for a crafty layup at the rim, and drew a foul.
“He really is a competitor, and he wants to win, and I love it,” Josh Green said of Irving. “I’m all for it, man. He’s getting those offensive rebounds at the end of the game. He’s on the floor three, four times. To have the name that he has and to have the career that he’s had, to be doing that stuff, it just motivates the rest of the team. You can just tell he’s a competitor, and it’s good to have that.
While Irving’s overall statistics might have popped like some of Doncic’s historic lines this season, his offensive gravity became clear. Wood’s flurry of 3-pointers, mixed with crafty passes to teammates in the paint, started 50 seconds after Irving first subbed out with 4:01 remaining in the opening period.
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