Tim Bontemps: Kyrie Irving said he, Anthony Davis and Kevin Durant talked about playing together in Boston back in 2018, with the hope to do so eventually alongside Jayson Tatum. “It was a dream for Kyrie, AD, KD to be on one team and still keep JT and let him grow and then see how it goes.” AD said you guys talked about playing together back in 2018? Then, I was caught in a hallway talking to KD, and everybody was like, ‘Hey, these two are working together.’ Then the rumors started with AD around the same time. We all had that vision to play together in Boston. Danny Ainge had a large responsibility in that, trying to make it happen, make sure I stayed in Boston. But we had some young pieces in JT and JB and if we would have traded either one of them who knows if they win a championship. So the franchise had to do what was best for them, and I had to do what was best for me. So then it didn’t necessarily make a lot of sense, because the pieces and assets we had, but now, in our older age, as they say, in our league, we get a chance to do something we envisioned awhile ago, when we were young kids, so it’s exciting now. So the vision was you, KD and AD in Boston, at one time? Yeah. That has no foreshadowing either, on anything, guys. Just letting you know right now. (laughs) We were discussing in 2018, just for everybody at home that’s watching, because I know all of these words are going to be looked at. But yeah, in 2018, it was a dream for Kyrie, AD, KD to be on one team and still keep JT and let him grow and then see how it goes. But back then, those young guys weren’t ready to be in trade rumors, man. Our locker room splintered after that, once they found out. It wasn’t JB or JT, but our locker room splintered once they started figuring out the trade rumors, and our season started going in a whole different way.