(1) Kyrie Irving won the All-Star Weekend The All-Star Weekend was supposed to be LeBron James's victory lap.
(2) Washington Wizards break .500 If there has been any sort of major All-Star snub it might be that the Washington Wizards' John Wall deserved to be among the Eastern Conference All-Star starters over Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers .
(3) In 2012 they picked Dion Waiters with the fourth pick, hoping he could be Kyrie's sidekick.
(4) Thank goodness for Kyrie Irving because without him this would have been one of the more lackluster All-Star Weekends in recent memory.
(5) OK, yes they got it right with their first post-LeBron No1 pick when they selected guard Kyrie Irving, but that pick was such a no-brainer that not even the Cavs could have messed it up.
(6) Cleveland are eager to add Love to a roster that will include Best Basketball Player in the Universe LeBron James, budding All-Star Kyrie Irving and whatever promising young players they wouldn't have to toss to the T-Wolves to land him.
(7) They added free agents in the off-season, they traded for Luol Deng mid-season, they were expecting Kyrie Irving to make The Leap and become a true superstar.
(8) The last two times Cleveland found themselves in this position were no-brainers, but there was nothing close to a LeBron James or Kyrie Irving third time around.
(9) Here’s the full roster, which will be coached by Duke University’s Mike Krzyzewski: Guards : Steph Curry , Klay Thompson (both Golden State), Derrick Rose (Chicago), Kyrie Irving (Cleveland), James Harden (Houston).
(10) | George Kyris Read more “If you look at his advisers, the China people are not the kind who are looking to improve the relationship [with Beijing],” Delury said.
(11) • If this were earlier in the season, the Cleveland Cavaliers losing Kyrie Irving to a bicep issue would have its own separate entry.
(12) The sentimental choice would be for a return to Cleveland, with Kyrie Irving a better sidekick that anyone he had first time round, but this seems rather unlikely , not given the bad blood between James and owner Dan Gilbert.
(13) They are led by the All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving, who recently agreed to sign a five-year contract extension, and the Cavs have two other No1 overall draft picks, the last two, in Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins.
(14) Maybe change is for the best, as this opened the door for Paul George, Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving and Steph Curry to make their first All-Star starts.
(15) While All-Star guard Kyrie Irving took a slight step back in 2013-14, with James onboard he will no longer be forced into a leadership role he seems ill-equipped to handle.
(16) That’s probably a mild quibble, though, as Team USA’s 12-man roster is, as always when it come to international play, fairly loaded: DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento); Stephen Curry (Golden State); Anthony Davis (New Orleans); DeMar DeRozan (Toronto); Andre Drummond (Detroit); Kenneth Faried (Denver); Rudy Gay (Sacramento); James Harden (Houston); Kyrie Irving (Cleveland); Mason Plumlee (Brooklyn); Derrick Rose (Chicago); Klay Thompson (Golden State).
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cleveland now feature a downright scary core of James, Love and Kyrie Irving, who at one point was supposed to be James’s heir and now only needs to be the team’s third option.
(18) Cleveland's Kyrie Irving, although practically worshipped by diehard NBA fans, is still something of an unknown quantity for the general public, mostly due to that whole playing-in-Cleveland-thing.
(19) He hints at a far more likely reason when he talks about mentoring younger players like Kyrie Irving, Tristan Thompson and Dion Waiters: if the choice was indeed between the Heat and the Cavaliers , the Cavaliers might actually, for the first time in James’ NBA career, be able to provide a better supporting cast.
(20) For those who believe that team success should be a big part of the voting process, Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks and Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers must be particularly galling choices.
Petition
Definition:
(n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.
(n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.
(v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor.
(v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(2) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
(3) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(4) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
(5) Nearly 740,000 people have signed a petition calling for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, organised by the campaign group Avaaz.
(6) Monday's petition showdown is a chance to demonstrate they have the popular support to back up those claims.
(7) Cameron made clear in his speech that Britain remains committed to the individual right to petition.
(8) Differently from generalised non convulsive seizures (like petit mal absences), their first appearance has no typical age limit, however, their proportion to other forms of seizures increases in adolescence and adults especially between the third and fifth decade of life.
(9) Induction of petite (cytoplasmic-respiration-deficient, rho-,rho-) mutations in yeast and deletion of mitochondrial drug-resistance genetic markers were compared after after treatment with ethidium and the corresponding photoaffinity probe, ethidium azide.
(10) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.
(11) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
(12) In terms of education, a representative of the Born Free Foundation once pointed out, out of millions of visitors to zoos in Europe, only 2% signed a bushmeat petition.
(13) Of course, saying this even while petitioning for easier repayment on Greece's mountain of debt is just another example of austerity's topsy-turvyism.
(14) In a relatively high proportion of the transformants, disruption of the 17-kDa gene was accompanied by the appearance of a second mutation causing a petite phenotype.
(15) Ursula K Le Guin, who gained significant author support for her petition calling for "the principle of copyright, which is directly threatened by the settlement, [to] be honoured and upheld in the United States", also opted out.
(16) In disorders of petit mal epilepsy and parkinsonian tremor, centrally and peripherally observable rhythmic patterns are due to network oscillations of thalamocortical cells.
(17) It’s time to speak out, to bring this impunity to an end, time for men to change their behaviour rather than for women to adapt to it,” the petition says.
(18) None had petit mal, confirming its rarity in the elderly.
(19) Ureterosigmoidostomy with anti-reflux technique (Petit-Leadbetter procedure) was performed in 12 children, mainly after failure to repair an exstrophy.
(20) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.