Teams doing their due diligence on Kyrie Irving have received positive reports on his improved commitment to the game.

Irving has had a history of late nights and partying but he hasn't missed practices or shown up for shootarounds nursing an apparent hangover. 

Irving has picked his spots more wisely. 

"Go back through every team he's played on, talked to people involved -- or just study the results -- and it doesn't matter whether it was high school, college, USA development and national teams, and in the NBA -- and you see a pattern of him impacting winning," one Eastern Conference executive said. "There are questions about those first couple years before LeBron came back, but I think there were a lot of issues around there that were out of his control. That said, he didn't always help himself then either."

An old teammate of Irving's told one Western Conference GM: "He's an animal. Forget whatever you hear about him off the court, go get him."