Marcus Smart Reveals What Went Wrong With Kyrie Irving And The Boston Celtics

Irving’s former teammate, Marcus Smart, revealed why he believed the superstar point guard left the organization.

“It’s not that we didn’t know how to act (around him),” Smart said. “It’s that we didn’t know how he was going to act.

We didn’t know what his moods were and we didn’t know what Kyrie was going through.

And that made it tough on us because if somebody’s going through something in their life and you don’t really know what it is, it’s kind of hard to see what’s wrong with him, it’s kind of hard to (provide) some help.

It’s not against Kyrie, it’s just a defense mechanism as a human being you have.

And he wasn’t here long enough to really be able to open up the way he probably wanted to, and it probably got to him a little bit.”