Kyrie Irving is a top recruit that just committed to Duke. Adam Zagoria is the reporter who broke Irving's final commitment two days prior to Irving's official announcement, which was set to take place live on ESPNU. Recruitniks had assumed Irving was planning on heading to Duke for a while, but Zagoria's reporting seemed to make it official, and Irving was not pleased: He denied the decision and said he was still mulling things over, and, oh yeah, he'd let you know in two days on ESPNU.

Naturally, Irving chose Duke, and his refutation of Zagoria's story ended up being for no other reason than to push people to watch the ESPNU announcement. Clever marketing. Also kind of mean. So fellow reporters Seth Davis and Gary Parrish have come to an agreement: Irving needs to apologize.

From Davis:

Make no mistake: Kyrie Irving is worth the hype. He is the best guard Duke has recruited since Jay Williams, and he is a terrific student to boot. But since he has been playing the media game so deftly, he should do what a real media organization is supposed to do when it publishes something that's wrong: He should issue a correction. At the very least, he should apologize to Adam Zagoria. Unlike Kyrie, he got the story right.

From Parrish:

(Note: Credit SNY's Adam Zagoria with the scoop. He had this nailed two days ago, wrote it and had to deal with Irving refuting his story publicly . As a journalist, I can tell you there's nothing more frustrating than having an accurate story refuted. So it was nice to see Zagoria vindicated, and Irving probably owes him an apology via Twitter, at least.)

Rush the Court has an interview with Zagoria, and it's clear Adam isn't looking for any pity, so all's probably forgiven. And come on: Irving's not going to apologize. Still, it is a bit of a jerk move. Zagoria found information (that wasn't exactly a well-kept secret anymore anyway), confirmed it, and published it. In other words, he did his job. Irving has plenty of time in his career to host press conferences; getting mad at Zagoria for "ruining" this one seems incredibly short-sighted. But 18-year-olds can be shortsighted sometimes, I guess.

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