Kyrie Irving is one step away from the main stage.
It's about that time in the NBA season where the best meet the best. The stage was set for the fourth seeded Dallas Mavericks to take on the first seeded Oklahoma City Thunder to determine who will be one of two teams left in the West. When put to the test, the Mavericks delivered and beat the Thunder in six games.
In 2022, Boston swept Brooklyn in the first round after the Nets got through the play-in versus the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the series, Irving notably got things started by showing no love lost between him and Boston since stepping on the Celtics logo in the 2021 playoffs. The former Nets guard even had a controversial interaction with a Celtics fan mid-game on his way to dropping 39 points before losing in heartbreaking fashion courtesy of a Jayson Tatum game winner at the buzzer.
Fast forward to 2024 for this year's playoffs, it's Irving's first time back in the playoffs since that 2022 embarrassment. So far so good for the Mavericks guard, he is handling the pressure well, even notably showing up big in Game 4 of the first round versus the Los Angeles Clippers when he erupted for 40 points. Being on the verge of playing in the Conference Finals once again almost seems ancient at this point for Irving, but's it's happening.
When the series with Oklahoma ended, the former Nets guard admitted in his postgame interview with ESPN's Malika Andrews that this was in fact the hardest series he ever had to go into.
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