NBA Rumors: Kyrie Irving ‘Very Badly’ Wants To Be Traded To The Knicks

The Cleveland Cavaliers saga involving the uncertain future of superstar Kyrie Irving continues. The one-time NBA champion has told the team he wants to be traded and no longer intends to play alongside fellow superstar LeBron James while giving Cleveland four teams he’d prefer to be traded to.

One of Irving’s preferred destinations in the NBA is the New York Knicks. Now, that’s music to the ears of the dysfunctional front office in New York. They’ll take any good press they can get after the failed Phil Jackson experiment and rubbing star forward Kristaps Prozingis the wrong way in the process.

Apparently, it appears Irving wants to go to New York badly as ESPN’s Pablo Torre points out, via Pro Basketball Talk:

“I got a phone call, and the voice on the other end of that phone call is a trustworthy person. And he was saying to me that Kyrie Irving very badly wants to be a New York Knick. Kyrie Irving wants to come home.”

One would think would be an easier move for the Cavs considering Carmelo Anthony’s availability and the fact he has been linked to the team all summer. Unfortunately, Anthony seems dead set on joining the Houston Rockets rather than going to play alongside his friend LeBron in Cleveland.

The only way this may work is if a three or four-team trade is put in motion with Irving landing in New York, Anthony in Houston and the Cavs getting assets from another team or one of the two mentioned or both.

It’ll be interesting to see how this all pans out for the Cavs. The team already seems destined to lose LeBron next summer in free agency and losing Irving is another severe blow for a once-championship-caliber squad on the way down.