Bigotry against Kyrie Irving in the NBA finals

Kyrie Irving was the 1st pick in the 2011 NBA draft. But no one really cares about him these days since Stephen Curry is point guard of the league that everyone talks about and he has won the MVP award for the 2nd consecutive year. Also since Lebron James was traded to the Cavaliers so Lebron became the star of the team and took the shine away from Kyrie.

Everyone has been overrating Stephen Curry only because he is well capable of shooting the ball behind the 3 point line. But they forget that there is more to basketball then just shooting. No one really payed attention or cared about Kyrie Irving in the finals because the better Point Guard according to the fans is Steph Curry. In my opinion it's Kyrie Irving. Not only because Kyrie is my favorite player but simply because he can do more things on the court other then shoot.

Kyrie Irving is a phenomenal ball handler. He is also a better defender then Stephen Curry. If someone tells me other wise I have the perfect example to prove them wrong. Every time the Warriors and the Cavaliers match up in a game weather its the season, an exhibition or even the NBA finals, it's always Klay Thompson who has to guard Kyrie because Curry can't guard him. Usually in the NBA every position guards the opponent with the same position as them. But in certain cases just like Curry, Klay Thompson who plays the shooting guard had to guard Kyrie who plays the point guard since Steph can't keep up with Kyrie. But Kyrie plays defense on Stephen Curry because he is a good defender and is capable of guarding him.

Also Kyrie Irving is an amazing finisher around the basket. He can get to the rim easily and finish in many different ways, Compared to the MVP Curry, Curry is ''afraid'' of attacking the rim because he is a small player and usually gets bullied inside the paint. So instead of Curry attacking the rim he stays outside the 3 point line and shoots the ball every possession he has.

At the end of the day it's the stats that matter. And let"s check out the stats of Kyrie Irving compared to Stephen Curry in the final series. As we can see to my picture to the right we can see that Kyrie Irving had more points then Stephen Curry. Kyrie had a better field goal percentage because Kyrie took smarter shots in games. They both tied with 23 assists each and Kyrie had 9 turnovers less then Stephen Curry. So Kyrie has definitely proved him self as a top 5 point guard in this league and that he can easily match up against the 2 time MVP Stephen Curry.

So whenever someone tells me that Curry is a better basketball player then Kyrie, I get really defensive because i know he is not and he does not even deserve to be either. Kyrie Irving works 20 times harder and can do more then just shoot the ball behind the 3 point line.

Sources:
www.nba.com/playerfile/kyrie_irving
espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/6442/kyrie-irving