Former Cavaliers star Kyrie Irving didn’t exactly get a warm welcome in Cleveland on Monday night, and it cost him.
The Nets point guard was fined $25,000 by the NBA after viral videos showed Irving cussing at some Cavs fans heckling him in Brooklyn’s 114-107 loss at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.
“Got y’all a championship, and you motherf–kers still ungrateful,” he hit back at hecklers — one of which asked if Irving needed his former Cavs teammate, LeBron James.
“I’m ungrateful for you,” a Cleveland fan can be heard saying in clips of the back-and-forth.
Irving was part of the 2015-16 LeBron James-led Cavs team that won Cleveland its first championship in 52 years against the Warriors. His huge 3 pointer in Game 7, with 53 seconds left is a moment that’s still celebrated amongst Cavs fans.
On Thursday, the NBA announced it was fining Irving for “directing obscene language toward a fan.”
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