JR Smith Says Kyrie Irving Reached Out After Skipping Cavs Reunion. ‘We GOOD.’

Kyrie Irving skipped the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers reunion trip to the UK. And for a few days, the internet did what it does best — speculating about bad blood.

But JR Smith put that to rest pretty quickly. On his Instagram story, Smith shared a post from ESPN about Irving’s comments on that legendary championship team, then added his own update.

“He reached out! We GOOD! God Bless the young GAWD!!!! Greatest PG I’ve played with 📠📠📠📠” Smith wrote.

So yeah. They talked. It’s fine.

The Reunion That Almost Wasn’t

The whole thing kicked off when the Cavs’ 2016 title team got together overseas — LeBron James, Kevin Love, JR Smith, Tristan Thompson, Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye, Iman Shumpert, Matthew Dellavedova. Pretty much everyone who mattered in that historic Finals run against the Warriors.

Except Kyrie. And people noticed.

Smith had already addressed this before the trip even wrapped. A fan asked him online if Irving was purposely left out. Smith said no — Kyrie was invited. He just didn’t show.

That answer didn’t stop the chatter though. Irving has always been his own guy. He demanded a trade out of Cleveland in 2017. He’s had complicated exits from Boston and Brooklyn too. So when he missed a 10-year reunion for arguably the biggest moment of his career, people wanted to read into it.

Irving himself seemed to feel the need to clarify things. He wrote on social media that “we completed the mission together as brothers, and that’s all that matters to me.”

And then came the call to Smith.

The Shot That Made It All Possible

None of this would be a story without what Irving did in Game 7 of the 2016 Finals. Down 3-1 to the 73-win Warriors, Cleveland fought back to force a winner-take-all game in Oakland. And with under a minute left, tied at 89, Irving pulled up on Stephen Curry and drilled a dagger three.

Cold-blooded. No other way to describe it.

Irving averaged 25.2 points per game in that series. LeBron had the block. But Kyrie hit the shot that actually won the thing. Cleveland’s first NBA championship. The comeback from 3-1. It doesn’t happen without him.

So yeah, his absence from the reunion was weird. But Smith’s post makes it clear there’s no real drama here. These guys won a title together. They bled for it. And nearly a decade later, that still matters more than missing one trip across the Atlantic.