Kyrie Irving, you can’t say that, bro

It happened. He finally did it. The NBA season is over, and now it is time for the next one. He thinks he is a martyr.

Irving likened his situation to that of a Thomas Becket, Martin Luther King Jr., or Emily Davison, while speaking on the ETCS Podcast with Kevin and Eddie Gonzalez.

I had the chance to play away games, but there was no plan in place for how it would work for our team. I think that impacted a lot of people. I had to sit in that hot seat and deal with it. The life of a martyr.

Excuse the fact that martyrs are dead, ask the family members of dead anti-vaxxers how they were treated.

Here at Deadspin, we have covered Irving's idiocy at length, so in lieu of the usual few paragraphs full of outrage and jokes, I'm going to try something.

His admission that more people than just himself were impacted by his unvaccinated status is the most ridiculous thing he said. Do you think he came to the realization that being unvaccinated can have a broad impact all by himself, or did someone show him a list of all the people who were contract-traced as a result of him walking around? After describing yourself as a martyr, Irving dropped the bicyle.

In a sentence is reserved for snowboarders on a gondola during a powder day, frat guys describing a hot chick at an electronic dance music concert, or the Tracksuit Mafia in Hawkeye.

It would make sense if it was a tic in Irving's speech. Whenever I say bro, it's to make fun of bros who say it all the time. Kyrie Irving: bro or martyr sounds like a solid investigative journalism piece.

I'm not going to do that either. I'm going to tell you a bunch of phrases that should never end.

Doctor to patient: You have Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, bro.

Parent to child: You were adopted, bro.

You are the father, Maury.

Spider-Man to Tony Stark: "I don't feel so good, bro."

Waiter to diner: "How would you like your New York strip cooked?"

When do you need that?

I gave you the clap.

I'm pregnant, bro.

The Supreme Court is going to overturn Wade.

If God is all you have, you have all you need, bro.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

The life of a martyr is what Irving said to the hosts.

That is it. That's all I have. I wasted all my creativity on the bro quotes. You may come back.