Cavaliers Icon LeBron James Goes Viral for What He Said About Kyrie Irving

Cleveland Cavaliers icon LeBron James believes Kyrie Irving is the most skilled player in NBA history. 

LeBron and Irving were teammates on the Cavaliers from 2014-15 to 2017-18. Cleveland reached the NBA Finals all three years and won the 2016 championship against the 73-9 Golden State Warriors.

The Cavaliers selected Irving with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft.

Irving appeared in 381 regular-season games and 52 playoff games with Cleveland. The Duke product averaged 21.6 points and 5.5 assists per game in the regular season and 23.9 points and 4.7 assists per game in the playoffs. 

Irving made four All-Star teams and one All-NBA team with the Cavaliers. He won the 2011-12 Rookie of the Year award and made the game-winning 3-pointer in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals over Warriors star Stephen Curry. 

In two stints (2003-10, 2014-18) with the Cavaliers, LeBron averaged 27.2 points, 7.3 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 1.6 steals and 0.8 blocks per game in the regular season and 30.1 points, 9.1 rebounds, 7.8 assists, 1.7 steals and 1.1 blocks per game in the playoffs. He won two MVPs and one Finals MVP and made 10 All-Star and 10 All-NBA teams.

LeBron is the best player in Cleveland history. He's also arguably the top player of all time.

Born and raised in Akron, Ohio, LeBron is first in NBA history in points, field goals, games and minutes. He’s the only player to rank top five all-time in points and assists, the only player to win three Finals MVPs with three teams, the only player with 40,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 10,000 career assists and the only player to score 50,000 points combining the regular season and playoffs.

Irving requested a trade from the Cavaliers in the summer of 2017 because he no longer wanted to be in LeBron's shadow. Cleveland traded Irving to the Boston Celtics. 

Along with the Cavaliers and Celtics, Irving has also played for the Brooklyn Nets and Dallas Mavericks. He's currently in Dallas. 

LeBron has played for the Cavaliers, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia 76ers. The leading scorer in NBA history signed a two-year deal with the 76ers this offseason. 

Irving and LeBron will be first-ballot Hall of Famers one day. It's too bad Irving left Cleveland in 2017. It's possible the Cavaliers could have won the 2018 title against the Warriors had Irving been on the team next to LeBron and Kevin Love.