Does anyone still think Kyrie would resign with us? The media kind of torched him and fans are pretty irate.
Only if Anthony Davis was a guarantee, considering they're friends.
I couldn't blame him though. People are holding him solely responsible for the mess that was this team, which is lunacy
I don't understand why people think it's unreasonable to hold Kyrie accountable when
(a) He literally said, all season long, that he was all about the playoffs and that the reason a team should want him on the roster is the playoffs
(b) He laid one of the all-time eggs in four straight games on the way to the Celtics getting totally trounced in a five by the Bucks.
(c) Afterward, he acted like it was no big deal and if he could do it all over again he wouldn't do anything differently -- "I would have shot more."
You can't expect to avoid major criticism when you spend all season acting like the regular season doesn't matter, chemistry doesn't matter, talking to the media doesn't matter, none of it matters because only the playoffs matter, AND THEN play like absolute dog crap in four straight games against a quality opponent.
Who said it was unreasonable to hold Kyrie accountable? He shares blame but that doesn’t mean he needs to be a scapegoat for all of the Celtics problems.
In my mind any conversation about what went wrong this season that doesn't start and end with Kyrie is missing the point.
There was a lot of adversity facing the Celtics this year, but none of it was insurmountable except for the fact that the de facto franchise guy repeatedly torpedoed the team chemistry, hijacked the offense, undermined the coach, threw the young guys under the bus, and then when the time finally came for him to make good on the whole year worth of bluster about how he's a basketball genius born to make shots in the playoffs, he completely disappeared.