"Kyrie Irving sat playing video games in his family's New Jersey home on July 8, 2010, the night the Cavaliers' last No. 1 overall draft pick told a national television audience of his intentions to leave Cleveland for the Miami Heat.

Although the teenage point guard had gotten to know LeBron James from his Akron summer camps, it wasn't reason enough to tune into The Decision, he said. Irving had no ties to Cleveland and no idea how his future would become indirectly shaped by the events of that evening.

"When he made his decision I was going into my freshman year [at Duke]," Irving said. "I was just worried about being the best freshman I could be. That's all I was really concerned about." "