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When LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers they welcomed a new star in Kyrie Irving, and soon after he was given the weight of the world to carry, with many forgetting LeBron struggled at times. Kyrie was supposed to change this team, but despite the 22-year-old showing great promise, he never delivered. Now LeBron has come back to share the burden, and it looks like he will get NBA All-Star Kevin Love helping him too, at Andrew Wiggins' expense, so perhaps the point guard will finally turn in to an elite star. He knows he's been below the best, and he's told everyone just that.
The young, smart and dynamic guard has had three stunning seasons, and he will spend at least five more with Cleveland. The young man was never going to be LeBron, or anything better than he's been, considering the many changes the organization has been through during his short career. Kyrie is ready to show the world what he can do, and he accepts he has to improve.
"I've just been a kid trying to figure it out. There's no perfect way to be a leader, and coming in as a 19-year-old kid and having everything bearing on your shoulders, there are a lot of ups and downs. Now it's about being the best every single day and not being afraid.
"I'm more than excited with our new veterans. I'm really excited just from the standpoint of how the locker room is going to go and how to really be a professional. I'm not saying that the veterans that we had weren't professionals themselves, but we didn't have enough. Given the right and wrong things to do in the league, I've had to learn on my own and that's what some of us been doing.
"Now, we have guys who've been in the league for years, guys who've won championships and have had to give a piece of their game for the greater good of the team. It's something I admire and something I'm going to learn from."
Kyrie is likely to get more space and time with All-Stars around him, so how good can he be now the pressure is truly off?
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