I actually like that he's a weirdo. I hope he gets weirder.
TP to this.
But even if Kyrie is a little out-there, I think more than anything he's a guy who just isn't comfortable in front of a camera talking to media people.
I've gone back and listened to some of Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye's podcast and Kyrie appears a bunch. The two episodes with him I've listened to, Kyrie is laid back, charming, and thoughtful. He's not stiff and and misusing ten cent words like he was on First Take or during his initial Celtic press conference.
Look, also, at the exchange he had with Brian Scalabrine right
before an interview (where he asks if its ok to call Scal White Mamba). Kyrie seems cool to me. And after that, Scal has him in a comfortable place so when the camera starts rolling, Kyrie can sit and have a conversation and I think he came off well. But when he's having to stare down the barrel of a camera and talk to reporters, he looks really uncomfortable and tries too hard to be "professional" or something.
To me, that's a big piece of the puzzle when asking "Why would Kyrie leave a good situation?" I think the drama and media attention (both sports and entertainment) that Lebron James brings made him uncomfortable and he didn't want to deal with the circus anymore.
Boston will have its own media circus for Kyrie to deal with but it'll be local, not international.