After a long wait, Irving returned to the game after a gap of 206 days, which also attracted great attention from fans. After not playing a game for more than half a year, Irving made a stunning comeback. In the Nets' showdown with the Pacers, Irving scored 22 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, making an outstanding contribution to the Nets by "filling the data bar".
In the final quarter, Irving scored 10 points to help the Nets achieve a reversal, and his comeback debut can provide such a stunning performance, which is indeed worthy of the praise of fans. It is worth mentioning that Irving's plus-minus (+16) is the first place in the Nets' starting lineup, which is completely unlike players who have not played in more than half a year.
For Durant and Harden, Irving's comeback is definitely exciting news, after all, Irving can relieve them a lot of pressure, and Durant can let go. Durant gained more offensive space in this game and scored a game-high 39 points, which is the benefit of Irving's comeback.
When the Nets successfully reversed the Pacers, the Nets also ended the team's 3-game losing streak, and everything went in a good direction. As a key figure to help the Nets win the game, Irving, who performed well, naturally became the focus of fans' attention, and the topic of "Irving's comeback" also rushed to the hot search list of major social media.
In addition, the topic of "Irving is not supergiant" has also appeared in front of everyone's eyes again. As we all know, NBA players are divided into several levels, namely ordinary players, stars, superstars and superstars, and the supergiants that everyone often says are the abbreviations of "superstars". So the question is, is Irving a supergiant? Let's analyze it together.
Putting aside the rank of ordinary players, the NBA's slightly famous ones belong to the category of stars. Even in the rotten team, as long as you can become the team star, then you can definitely be counted as an NBA star.
Relative to the category of stars, there must be more honors to become a superstar, such as the NBA scoring king, rebounding king, assist king, championship, MVP, All-Star MVP, Finals MVP, and the number of all-star teams, best teams, and best defensive teams.
Finally, the fans often talk about the super giant, from the current situation, the number of NBA active super giants is very small. James, Durant, Curry, Little Card and Alphabet Brother should be relatively uncontroversial supergiants, but whenever Irving is mentioned, there are still many people who feel that Irving cannot join the supergiants.
In fact, Irving still won many honors, winning the NBA's best rookie in his first year in the NBA, and then winning the All-Star Rookie Challenge MVP. Since then, he has won the All-Star Three-Point Championship and the All-Star MVP, while Irving has been selected to the All-Star Team for 7 times and the NBA Best Team in his career (1 second and 2 thirds), and the most valuable honor is to win the NBA championship in the 15-16 season.
If you only look at the NBA's active players, then Irving's flowing style of play is a unique existence. Coupled with the extremely aggressive offensive performance, this means that no matter which team Irving is placed on, it is difficult for an opponent to suppress his attack, in short, Irving can improve the offensive strength of any team.
In the Nets' showdown with the Pacers, Irving, who returned to the game after 206 days, taught the Pacers a lesson with practical actions. It can be seen that no matter how long he is absent, Irving can maintain a very high level of competition. With a flowing ball style, Irving also has the honor of getting his hands on it, so Irving is fully worthy of the superstar title.
Due to Irving's eccentric personality, such as his debut this season until now, the main reason is that Irving refused the vaccine and was banned. Irving can only play away games at the moment and cannot play home games for the Nets. This maverick style has made Irving suffer a lot of questions, and when fans talk about supergiants, they will naturally argue about the topic of "irving is not a supergiant".
But with Irving's comeback, the Nets' next away games will become more stable. As long as Durant and Harden can play a good home game, then I believe that the Nets, which are determined to win the championship, will be getting closer and closer to the championship!