“Kyrie Irving burns down every team he goes to while Damian Lillard embraces his”: NBA Twitter finally comes to senses and says Dame Dolla is better than $90M champ

Akash Murty | 02/08/2022
“Kyrie Irving burns down every team he goes to while Damian Lillard embraces his”: NBA Twitter finally comes to senses and says Dame Dolla is better than $90M champ

Kyrie Irving is far more skilled than Damian Lillard but is the Nets star really better than the Trail Blazers point guard? 

Most in the NBA community believe Kyrie Irving should have made it to the NBA’s Top-75 of all time over Damian Lillard when it came out last year. If we go by the social media reactions far lesser people would have been angry with Dame’s snub than they are with Kyrie’s.

But that’s fans, that’s how they operate. They might love the most unpredictable guy in the league and don’t care about a man who can give shivers to hundreds and thousands of people when he is playing against your favourite team.

The thing is, NBA did not mess up on this one. They might have been wrong in snubbing Dwight Howard I can agree, but Irving over Lillard is absurd. Do not go bonkers yet, hear me and this NBA Twitter thread out first.

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NBA Twitter finally comes to senses and says Damian Lillard is better than Kyrie Irving

Even if one overlooks the fact that Lillard might be the most clutch player in NBA history, it is quite clear that Kyrie would never be able to lead a franchise to 8 straight Playoffs like Dame has led the Trail Blazers. In fact, Irving is not capable of even playing for a franchise for that long.

Now Kyrie stans would ask could Dame Dolla help LeBron to the 2016 championship as the Nets point guard did? I would say, yes. And not one but multiple championships and Bron could still have been in Cavaliers if the Cleveland franchise did somehow pull that off.

And Twitter agrees with that.

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The diehard fans of the former Cavs star might not get any of it, and still believe Lillard is nowhere close to Irving and that the latter was just punished for his antics in not getting the nod for that Top-75 Aniversary list.

They might be two of the most courageous guards in clutch moments, maybe of all time, but the truth is Irving is nowhere close to Lillard when it comes to consistency, mental strength and stability.

Post Edited By: Akash Murty
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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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