On Tuesday evening the Cavaliers fulfilled Kyrie Irving's trade request by sending him to the Boston Celtics in exchange for Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic and a first-round draft pick. There's a high chance you heard about it if you've had your phone on you over the past few hours. As is to be expected, when two All-Stars are swapped, people in Boston, Cleveland, and other cities where they also have internet access went on Twitter to come up with a solid trade tweet.
Here's a sampling:
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Griffin offered his take despite it not being his problem anymore.
Oh and also, when it comes to tweets, Isaiah Thomas may want to just go ahead and pretend this one never existed (though it's still up, don't expect that to last forever):
Can't wait to see how this all shakes out.
