I´m not sure I´d take Kyrie for dollars on the dollars. It can´t be a good sign of things to come that he´s blowing things up in this way with the franchise that, dysfunctional or not, drafted him and gave him a chance. Of course there may be some internal story there that we outsiders don´t know about, or it could be a Kobe-Shaq case, not anybody´s fault in particular, the guys just couldn´t gel, but it sure doesn´t look good. Of course I´d take a flyer if the price is right, but I wouldn´t give a lot away to build around him. These days, you can´t win championships with one Alpha-Dog plus supporting cast, you need three or four superstars in the same team, and if Kyrie can´t live with Lebron, when, by all accounts, Wade and Bosh were pretty OK with it for years, What does that tell you?

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