Watch: LeBron, Kyrie Share Emotional Pre-Game Moment

LeBron James and Kyrie Irving met at Staples Center, and it seems like they missed each other.

The Los Angeles Lakers met the Boston Celtics at Staples Center. This added fuel to the fire, and many viewed it as tampering.

“Well, I think that, you know, it takes a very, very strong individual to replay a lot of the experiences that you’ve had,” Irving said. “A lot of anger that you’ve had built up, where you didn’t address the situation and you allowed it to fester. And then it was just combustion and then you realize, ‘Hey, I didn’t have to deal with that the same way I dealt with that.’ But for me, it’s just … apologizing, yeah, that was a step for me, just to move forward in my life.”

Irving has problems with his teammates, and it looks pretty much the same as the issues LeBron had in the Lakers locker room.

“We basically have a bunch of young men in our locker room who feel like they’re capable of doing a lot more than they’re doing,” he said. “And that’s OK, but there’s a maturing that you have to have. I initially didn’t play the minutes I wanted to play. I’m 26 years old, heading into my prime, like, why do I have to wait for anybody?”

Irving and LeBron had great time in Cleveland.

“It takes a real man and a real person to be able to understand who they are,” Irving said. “To be able call or do anything and be able to see their wrongdoings, or believe they had some wrongdoing, and then be able to come to grips with that and either apologize or say that, ‘At that point in time, I thought I was ready for something, but I really wasn’t.’ ”