Mavericks' Kyrie Irving acquisition comes with plenty of risks, but Dallas may have had no other choice - CBS Sports
Irving is a player who, on paper, certainly surrounds Luka Doncic with the level of talent he needs to have a realistic shot at postseason glory.
In numerous conversations across the league, there was a had-to-do-it pragmatism meets good-luck-with-that sarcasm as sources discussed the trade and what it likely means for Dallas.So it is now with Dallas, who have invested much in a player who, in his pattern of unreliability, may or may not even stick around when this season ends and his free agency kicks in — or, if he does extend with the Mavs, once he does or doesn't decide, as he has in Cleveland, Boston and now Brooklyn, that he wants to be somewhere else.Even before news leaked that he was demanding a trade, sources across the NBA pointed to Dallas as a team eager to add a big weapon alongside Doncic.They were, sources said, hoping more teams with difference makers would shift into sell mode and give them a shot at a real star.The desperation to believe, as the Celtics and Nets have before them, that Irving will be the great thing you want to see when glancing under deadline pressure at his Rorschach test.