Report: LeBron-Kyrie beef involves moment between LeBron's friend and Irving's father

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By: Erik García Gundersen | 17 hours ago









The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd dropped an insightful look at the breakup between LeBron James and Kyrie Irving.

In the piece, Lloyd relays an interesting story that has been confirmed to him by several sources involving Cavaliers team official Randy Mims, also one of LeBron’s closest friends, and Drederick Irving, Kyrie’s father.


Here are the details from Lloyd’s report

Mims, one of James’ lifelong friends and an official Cavs employee, reached out his hand to slap Drederick five. But Dred, Irving’s father, pulled his own arm back and refused the gesture.

When James later asked Irving about the incident and if there was something wrong, Irving said his father believed they shouldn’t be “fraternizing with the enemy.” Three sources with knowledge of the exchange independently confirmed it to The Athletic, revealing just a glimmer of light into a fractured relationship that both men hid well during their time together.

Mims is the Cavaliers Executive Administrator of Player Programs and Logistics, according to RealGM. As a member of the front office, it appears that Irving’s father saw Mims as “the enemy.”

Or perhaps he saw LeBron’s people as the enemy. Irving’s father was also at odds with the Cavaliers organization with how to handle Kyrie’s knee issues which led to him suffering a fractured knee cap in the 2015 NBA Finals.

Lloyd asked Irving about the incident at Tuesday’s shootaround and neither confirmed nor denied the incident. Mims and James did not comment on the incident.


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