Five months after ACL surgery, Kyrie Irving sounds like a man eager to beat the clock. The Dallas Mavericks star, long expected to return closer to midseason, is now hinting at a faster climb back that could shift the entire calculus of the team’s early campaign.

A potential early-return scenario that, if realized, would give Anthony Davis the running mate he played just one game with last year far sooner than planned. The hints have been subtle, but they’re stacking up, and if his latest comments are anything to go by, the Mavericks might not have to wait much longer.

He didn’t put a date on it. Instead, he dropped clues. “ I was in the gym, doing a little bit more ,” Irving said during a Twitch stream. “ I won’t tell you exactly what I was doing because it’s all about incremental gr

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