How are you going to check any adult man for making a decision good or bad on what he feels are moral grounds?
Kyrie the most headstrong player I’ve ever seen outside of maybe 2000-2003 Kobe and Kobe just wanted to ball his way. Kyrie didn’t want to play at all. Nothing KD could say or do was getting him on the court.
Leaders do it all the time.
If you're objective is to win a chip and you're unsure about Kyrie, it's on the leader to have a damn conversation with him and then assess what would be best going forward after said conversation.
The problem with KD is that he wants to be seen as the leader and just hoop, but doesn't want to take on the responsibilities a leader is meant to take on.
He couldn't convince James to buy-in for another 6 months? he couldn't talk to James and find out what his issue is whether it was Kyrie, the system, D'Antoni whatever, come on