For Kyrie Irving, a Milestone Week For a 20-year-old manning the game's toughest position, Kyrie Irving's second-year numbers have been increasingly eye-popping: 23.5 points, 5.5 assists, 1.7 steals, a true shooting percentage of just under 57 percent (including 42.5 percent on three-pointers), and a player efficiency rating of 22.3. Last weekend, the Cavaliers" point guard had a chance to put his talents on national display, parlaying his first All-Star game berth into a full-fledged coming-out party. Irving kicked things off with a 32-point, six-rebound, six-assist performance in a 163-135 loss in Friday night's Rising Stars Challenge, which features the best of the game's rookie's and sophomores. He might have lost out on the game's most valuable player award to Denver's Kenneth Faried (40 points and 10 rebounds), but Irving was just warming up. The following night, Irving blitzed his way to a surprising win in the 3-Point Contest, brushing aside a pair of favorites in New York's Steve Novak and San Antonio's Matt Bonner. Behind a most valuable player showing from the game's preeminent point guard, Chris Paul, the West won for the fourth time in five years in Sunday's marquee event, edging the East, 143-138. But Irving's final stat line - 15 points and four assists in 25 minutes for the East - served final notice that his weekend performances were no fluke. Irving wasted little time parlaying his sterling weekend into another great display: 35 points, 7 assists, and 5 rebounds in a 105-100 win over the New Orleans Hornets Wednesday night. After a quiet first half, Irving got hot down the stretch, scoring 20 fourth-quarter points - on drives, free throws, and long-range bombs. At 9.5 games behind the conference's eighth seed, it seems nearly impossible for the Cavaliers to reach the playoffs, even with Irving. But with a bona fide phenom at the helm and a bevy of young talent on the roster, there is no doubting the team's promise.