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NBA players react to Kyrie Irving-Isaiah Thomas trade


Massive NBA news broke on Tuesday, and both NBA Twitter and NBA players on Twitter had tons of reactions.

As confirmed by Paste BN Sports, the Cavaliers are trading Kyrie Irving to the Celtics for Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic and a first round draft pick.

Players had mixed reactions from lots of "Wow!" to emojis to the Trail Blazers' Evan Turner saying Thomas "deserved better."

"Wow!"

The emojis:

Rudy Gobert had one of Thomas' old tweets ready to RT:

This was a tweet Thomas sent out while trying to get Gordon Hayward to join the Celtics, which Hayward did, though now Thomas won't be playing with him.

More emojis:

Love for the NBA:

The shocked reactions:

All the rest: