Kyrie Irving to cross over to film with full-length Uncle Drew movie

Kyrie Irving is one of the most exciting athletes on the planet when he’s hot, his uncompromising handle and ability to shoot off-angle leading to preposterous highlight reel shots. At the end of his rookie season, he appeared in old-man makeup for a longform Pepsi advertisement where he played Uncle Drew, an old-timer crawling out of retirement to play some street ball. The ostensible joke is watching an old dude splash in three-pointers and improbable layaways against a bunch of youngbloods, but the real humor comes from Kyrie’s on-court shit-talk throughout. (He credits his musical theater background for his comedic timing.) Since then, four more Uncle Drew advertisements have come out, often incorporating Irving’s famous athlete friends as their own old-people counterparts.