"When the Cavaliers drew the Golden Ping Pong Ball in the NBA lottery, 18-year-old LeBron James promised to turn the city into Las Vegas by the Lake. It didn't happen.

Neither did the long basketball Dark Ages his desertion seemed to portend.

This time, no one is calling Kyrie Irving, 19, also delivered via a draft lottery ping pong ball, a savior. Few are checking off "youngest to this or that" milestones for him. The Cavs this season are not on ESPN, TNT or ABC, an alphabet of network disinterest.

Mostly, Irving has been nationally noticed only when he has been spectacular. He made a last-gasp, weaving, left-handed layup that finished the recent comeback at Boston and then a jack-knifing righty slash for the final basket Saturday against NBA champion Dallas. "