“A flow state is a flow state, man”
In case you missed it, newly minted Cavalier, Donovan Mitchell, broke the team scoring record last night against the Bulls by dropping 71 points. And this was not a Devin Booker-ish, stat-paddy 71. The Cavs trailed by as much as 21 in this game. They needed every last Mitchell basket, including the Luka-style-bricked-free-throw-rebound-putback-game-tier to sent the game to OT.
Call of Duty Hoop Warmup?
In what may be the only possible news tidbit more interesting than a player scoring 71 points, when asked for his reaction to the Mitchell outburst, the embattled Kyrie Irving mentioned that he’d been playing Call of Duty with Mitchell that day, and that Mitchell was “locked in.”
I’m happy that he did it. What’s funny is that I was on Call of Duty before the game with Don. We were playing quads. He was locked in — I could tell.”
Kyrie Irving
In case you think Kyrie is just joshing about the Mitchell COD session, rest assured that he’s a die hard gamer. In a 2018 interview with Kicks on Fire, Irving derailed a conversation about his new Kyrie show to talk about his favorite map pack additions to COD.
Yeah, I played Black Ops 2, I didn’t play the first Black Ops… oh wait, I did play Black Ops 1. Oh man, I’ve been saying all day that I didn’t play Black Ops 1 but I did.
I’m a big fan of the single-player (in Black Ops) just for the simple fact that it can help you get better at the game and the storyline is how out of the world the creative thinking is behind it. And me visiting the Treyarch Studios to see the behind the scenes and really just see how they dominate this game and the making behind, just from the graphics to the storyline, the guns, the maps. It’s just amazing and it takes a lot of work to make it and I have a huge amount of respect for the creative behind it.
Until you see it behind the scenes, you won’t know and have an appreciation for (how much it takes to makes these games work).
Kyrie Irving (2018)
The man knows his FPS’s.
