The hardest thing for any athlete to do is to give up the sport they've loved their whole life. Just ask Michael Jordan when he was with the Washington Wizards, Deion Sanders with the Baltimore Ravens or Brett Favre with the New York Jets. 

For Martavious Irving, a former guard for the Kansas State Wildcats, the narrative holds true. He doesn't want to stop playing the game he loves. 

"It's too hard to give up on something you love," Irving said. 

That's why after sitting out a year following his senior season, Irving is back on the hardwood, signed to an agent and trying to earn his way overseas.