Former Cavs Guard Kyrie Irving Slams Cleveland as Not a Real Sports City

Former Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving left Cleveland saying ‘thank you’ to the city in a video, but comments today captured in a tweet by AP’s Tom Withers, points to Irving now thinking a different way about the city he was drafted to play in.

Read the comments in the tweet below:

Kyrie Irving on playing for #Celtics: “Boston, I’m driving in and (thinking), ‘I’m really playing in a real, live sports city?’" #Cavs

— Tom Withers (@twithersAP) October 12, 2017

This goes quite a bit against what Irving said back on August 31st, when he did a video giving a lot of praise to the city.

“I spent part of my life and my years in the NBA in Cleveland in such a great environment, being there from the start in 2011 and now coming to an end in 2017, which is still crazy in my mind,” Irving said back on the video.

Whatever the case, Irving is going to get a taste of the city he left next Tuesday, when the Cavs open the season on October 17th at home vs Boston.