While former All-Star Kyrie Irving has stayed relatively quiet this offseason, he opened up on the Brooklyn Nets’ first-round playoff sweep and how it’s motivated him.
Irving discussed the playoff failure on the Boyz Night podcast, claiming that the team needed to be humbled in that way.
“Get ’em up. I’ve got to get them up on both ends of the floor. I’ve got to be a complete player. Coming for different hardware this year, bro. I’ve been in the lab crazy, since we got 4-0’d. It was meant to happen like that”, Irving said on the show. “It was meant to happen like that. Motivation, bro. We needed it. We needed that humbling experience, especially going against the Celtics. It was already built in to be that matchup.”
Irving looks to contribute to the Nets making a deep playoff push next season, finally being able to play more than half of the games.
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