Kyrie Irving: It’s Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, but this is about awareness of your mental health every day. I’m on here because this helps me with mine. It’s getting me out of my comfort zone, helping me create boundaries. I’m way more driven, and it’s helping me heal. I’m watching the Finals, recovering from my ACL injury—I could be bogged down or depressed. But I’m sharing this unfiltered because you deserve it. I let people spin narratives, get into my head, violate my spiritual boundaries. That led to a spiral of emotions. I know what it feels like to lose it all or not want to be on Earth anymore. So please—don’t stay quiet, don’t retreat. I care. Reach out to your loved ones. You don’t need to call every day, but check on them. Say, ‘How you doing? I love you.’ That matters. I love each and every one of you. Thank you for supporting me.”
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Irving responded to T-Mac on a live stream, and while he took no issue with McGrady’s opinion, he also gave his own take on what sets him apart from Tinsley: “When I see an OG like T-Mac come out and say, ‘I don’t think anyone had better handles than Jamaal Tinsley, even Kyrie,’ it doesn’t bother me because I’m a mix of all the great players that came before me. … I wouldn’t be who I am without watching the guys that came before me. I just took it to a whole different place. “When it comes to every portion of my game, I feel like I try my best to pay homage to all the great ones that came before me. So when he’s talking like this, I know he’s talking about one of the guys that he’s seen that has better handles, but I just don’t think he has the same movement. Jamaal Tinsley was not moving like me. I don’t think anybody moves like me. I think we have similarities, others have similarities, and they’ve advanced different things.” -via Bleacher Report / June 15, 2025
Kyrie Irving is one of the most electrifying bucket-getters in the NBA, thanks not only to his scoring arsenal but also to his masterful handles. But according to Tracy McGrady, Jamaal Tinsley was on another level when it comes to handling the ball, even though he admits Irving is still a must-watch. “Man, I don’t think nobody had better handles than Jamaal Tinsley, even Kyrie,” McGrady said on The Young Man & the Three podcast. “I think Jamaal Tinsley’s handles were probably the best I’ve seen. That’s an argument, though. He was nice with that thing on a string.” -via Basketball Network / June 15, 2025
Kyrie Irving: “Rest in paradise. You don’t need nothing but today. Yeah… the world is so small. Till it ain’t, till it ain’t, till it ain’t, till it ain’t. I’m building up till it breaks. Till it breaks, till it breaks, till it breaks—and when I want to. I hope I never… Real talk, man. First—rest in paradise to Mac Miller. You guys have no idea how much that man inspired me. Young man. We were like the same age. He was like the first—I don’t want to say the first—but he legitimately had… I don’t know if you remember the TV show he had, but man, he inspired me a lot, bro. I used to DM him all the time. I used to DM him all the time. Oh damn—I used to DM him all the time, bro. Mac, man. Shout out to his family. Shout out to Frank.” -via YouTube / June 15, 2025