He's Going Nowhere: Dallas Won't Trade Irving

"The chatter surrounding Kyrie Irving is completely bizarre to me. I've been writing about this since June. Back in June, the Mavs started telling other teams: 'Kyrie Irving is not available—you can call and ask, but we're not putting him on the block.' Yet over the past few days, the outside noise—which is really just media chatter not grounded in any real talks—the trade speculation around Kyrie has ramped up. And I'm thinking, 'Guys, the Mavs are 4-2.' If they were 1-5, or even 2-4, you could maybe understand it. But things have started so well early on, and the Mavericks keep telling teams that they don't even want to take those calls." — Marc Stein