Kevin O'Connor is an NBA writer for the ringer.com.

And he's becoming quite the big shot.

Kevin O'Connor, thank you for joining us, sir.

Thank you guys for having me this morning.

All right, we always appreciate when you come on.

All right, so what is Kyrie Irving's deal?

Yeah, I guess he wants to be, you know, away from LeBron right now.

And I think for him, it's about getting out one year ahead of time of LeBron possibly leaving and going to Los Angeles.

So I think it's really just getting out ahead of time.

I think it's going to happen eventually once LeBron leaves.

And that's the type of thing where he just wants his own team, wants the own spotlight. Does he not get along with LeBron leaves, and that's the type of thing where he just wants his own team, wants the own spotlight.

Does he not get along with LeBron James?

Because you say he wants to get out a year early before LeBron leaves.

Is it just that he, in addition to that, does he just not like playing with him?

I don't know if it's that he doesn't get along with LeBron James.

I think those guys did have their difficulties early on.

I think Kyrie has admitted sometimes, like, they've had different philosophies

about how to approach the game, and I think they got better the past two years,

and it seems like all indications are that Le years, and it seems like, all indications are

that LeBron, it seems like things were fine in LeBron's end this past season. But I get the vibe that

really it's just, it's just really mostly about basketball reasons in terms of wants his own

team, wants to be more of a playmaker, wants to be able to do things on his own. So I think he sees more

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