Kyrie makes long-awaited return, dazzles in Mavs' China preseason game

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorESPN reports Kyrie Irving scored seventeen points in his return to the Mavericks, his first game in five hundred eighty-six days. I have the thermometer.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKenji, you're first.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFive hundred eighty-six days off and he still scored seventeen. That's the best attendance policy in America.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI'm taking a sabbatical and coming back to a standing ovation from my own group chat.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYour group chat mutes you. NOT.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHot take: he didn't miss anything.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe was in a long, deep rest cycle, and seventeen points is what a fully recharged person looks like.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEvery Monday should be a comeback tour.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMondays already have a comeback tour. It's called Tuesday. HOT, barely.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBarely?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBarely.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy final take: if you can disappear for five hundred eighty-six days and nobody forgets you, then this desk has been unsupervised for years and the ratings prove it.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's the hottest thing you've ever said, and you said it with a thermometer.