NBA insider Brian Windhorst echoed recent reports that outside of the Mavericks, there is no real market for Kyrie Irving.
According to him, the only realistic destination for the star point guard was the Lakers but the team has clearly chosen a different path. Windhorst adds that Irving is a desired player, but due to financial implications the market for him is virtually non-existent.
“There’s not much of a market. The teams that have cap space – Orlando, Indiana, Detroit, Houston – these are not realistically landing spaces for Kyrie Irving,” Windhorst said on ESPN. “He can take meetings with teams that don’t have space and there can be negotiations on the sign-and-trade, but that would imply Dallas wants to say goodbye. They don’t.
“The only team in this offseason where I thought Kyrie would have a chance to go that would be outside Dallas, really, would be LA. And Rob Pelinka has taken out a billboard in Los Angeles that says ‘We are not going to be a cap space team. We’re re-signing our players.’
“There’s no open market for Kyrie Irving. It doesn’t mean he’s not a desired player. There are just not avenues for him to go. I don’t see where he’s going besides Dallas.”
