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right you may have heard the tweet the announcement today from the Celtics

Kyrie Irving will undergo a minimally invasive procedure tomorrow to alleviate irritation

in his left knee we'll talk a lot about this today I think there's obviously short-term

implications long-term implications.

To me, what interests me in is easily the most important facet of it overall is Kyrie Irving and his long-term future. And, you know, just a thought, you know, in a nutshell,

is he damaged goods? Is that too strong to say that? That he's damaged goods, or this is going to be an issue for him, his entire career,

and does this prevent him from being the man?

The man you need him to be, the player that you need him to be.

And to me, that's the question here.

But as we get into that conversation, and again, this is my opening take.

This is not bad luck, Celtics fans.

This is not like beyond their control.

And what I mean by that is, this is a guy with a existing chronic knee issue.

This is a guy that has had.

I think people knew the history.

What's that?

I think people knew the history

that okay so i'm reminding them i'm reminding them because i because i think the you know

the inclination here is to say well they couldn't have planned for this boy what bad luck gordon

heyward just think if we had carrie irving and gordon hayward gordon heyward was bad luck. Gordon Hayward was bad luck. That's a guy with no injury history. I, you know, I... You'll understand what I'm doing here in a second, Jim. And that is, they traded for a guy with a bad knee. And now he's down with a bad knee. This was part of the calculus with the trade that I think too many people ignored.

I think too many of the green teamers were really quick to say,

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