Kyrie Irving is Paying the Tuition for Spencer Joyner, a Sick 12-Year-old Student at The Patrick School

By ADAM ZAGORIA

Spencer Joyner has never met Kyrie Irving, but he knows a lot about him.

“I never met him,” Joyner, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at The Patrick School (N.J.), said by phone. “He plays on the Cleveland Cavaliers with LeBron and Kevin Love. He just won an NBA title last year. [He was] the No. 1 pick in the Draft, went to Duke. He didn’t play so much in college because he got hurt.”

Irving is also among the leaders in votes for the upcoming NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans.

Though the two have never met, Irving is making a huge difference in Joyner’s life. Spencer was diagnosed in November with pseudotumor cerebri, a debilitating condition that results in migraine headaches and can cause vision loss. The condition kept him in the hospital for more than a week and prevents him from attending school for the time being.