Kyrie Irving drops 36 on old team as Mavericks handle Nets

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Kyrie Irving scored 36 points in his return to Brooklyn as the Dallas Mavericks took control in the second quarter, survived some shaky moments in the fourth and earned a 119-107 win over the Nets on Tuesday in New York.

On the one-year anniversary of Irving being traded from the Nets for Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith after a controversial tenure in Brooklyn, Irving