Kyrie Irving, at 34, has been there and done that. So when he speaks on needing to lift up a teammate coming off a struggling effort?
He deserves an audience.
Flagg is taking the microphone now to make it clear that part of his job to take some of the load off of young Cooper Flagg after an awful shooting night in the Dallas Mavs' 127-117 loss to Cleveland on Saturday.
“He’s in his sophomore year,'' said Irving of Flagg, the 2025-26 NBA Rookie of the Year. "He has a target on his back. He knows that. It’s my job to alleviate a lot of the pressure that he feels.''
That can be done on the court, of course, especially in the wake of Flagg having…
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