All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving recently made some interesting comments about the city of Boston by stating that it was a “real” and “alive” while also throwing some shade at Cleveland in the process.
This has finally made its way back to the Cleveland Cavaliers with offseason addition Dwyane Wade recently giving his take on the situation, according to Dave McMenamin of ESPN.
“I’ve always tried not to be too, me personally, oversensitive to what I read or what somebody says because I wasn’t there when they said it,” Wade told ESPN. “Because you just don’t know. Boston is a big sports town. It has the history there. And I think that’s one thing, if you want to read the quote, they have an amazing amount of sports history and all the championships from football to baseball to all four sports. I think, depending on how you want to take it. If you’re Cleveland and the way they were left, you read it one way. If you’re a sports fan somewhere else, you read it another way. So it just depends on how someone wants to take the quote when someone says it. Unless you were there and you heard it and saw his facial reaction and know how he really meant it. That’s how I look at things.”
To be fair, the city of Boston does have a rich sports history with each of its professional sports teams over the years. In fact, the Boston Celtics have decades of historic moments with numerous Hall of Famers and championships to show for it.
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However, these comments from Irving can’t help be interpreted as throwing shade at the Cavaliers given how much he’s praising his new surroundings. This is all really up to how it is being taken by the individual while also understanding the type person the 25-year-old is to know what kind of message he was trying to simply convey.
Wade knows what it’s like to have to leave a franchise, but he’s always been more than mature about his departure, especially with rumors that he’d like to return to the Heat at some point in his career.
“My thing has always been — even in Miami — first of all, you never know where you’re going to be, what’s going to happen, where you’re going to end up, who you’re going to be teammates with,” Wade said. “You just never know those things, so I never want to leave a place and talk s— about a place. Because when you were there, it was great, and then you leave, it’s terrible? It’s just like players. Fans celebrate players when they’re there, and then they leave, and it’s the worst thing. That’s not me. That’s not how I do things. I’m appreciative of what people have done for me, what organizations have done for me, and I hope they’re appreciative of whatever I can bring or whatever I’ve done — on and off the court. So, it doesn’t always go that way, but that’s the way I try to make it when I can control it.”
