Tonight the Wolves are in Cleveland to take on Kyrie Lee Irving and his Cleveland Cavaliers (6PM CST, FSN, 830-AM). Hands down, Kyrie Irving has the best handle, and possibly the coolest offensive repertoire in the NBA. That’s the need-to-know. Rinse, repeat, enjoy.
Now, watch this and tell me Kyrie’s game wasn’t honed practicing moves from the best basketball movie of the 1990s.
More preview stuff available over at the Strib and Canis Hoopus.
Punch-Drunk Wolves 
Is it just me or is Irving a shoot first version of Chris Paul with maybe slightly less passing ability? Sure he’s a little more flashy than Paul, but they are both great shooters that use different gears/change of pace to their advantage like few in the league do. If anything Irving may be a better shooter than Paul. It’ll be interesting to see how Rubio fares against the match-up.
Jon–
Second-season comparison of Paul & Irving here: (http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pcm_finder.cgi?request=1&sum=0&p1=irvinky01&y1=2013&p2=paulch01&y2=2007)
Irving is quite a bit more dynamic as a scorer, and significantly worse as an assistor (especially relative to turnovers).
Aesthetically, I prefer Irving 8 days a week. He does all the flashy stuff — and does it effectively — without resorting to stupid foul gimmicks that largely define Chris Paul’s game. But I don’t know if Irving will ever become the all around floor leader that Paul is. It remains to be seen. He’s got a long ways to go defensively, too, where Paul is and always has been very good (even if slightly overrated).