Kyrie Irving may have actually dribbled off his knee on purpose

Few things are scarier than Kyrie Irving in the open court. Not because of his brute strength or lightning-quick speed, but because you never know what move he’s going to pull out of his bag of tricks.

Denver’s Juancho Hernangomez found that out the hard way on Monday night when Irving used some sort of hesitation move to blow by the Nuggets’ big man. The thing is, this hesi/in-and-out concoction looks like it bounced off Irving’s knee. If it did, it’s hard to believe it was by accident.

Irving went in his bag and pulled out a Joker. Hernangomez folded.

Twitter detective Rob Perez opened an investigation and slowed down Irving’s dribble. It’s really hard to tell, but it actually looks like Irving dribbled the ball off his knee to blow by Hernangomez. The tricky part is that the ball continued in the same direction it would have had Irving pulled off a normal in-and-out move.

But the ball also vaulted forward, continuing a trajectory that could have been caused by a subtle bounce off the patella. It was so crafty a move, there was no way Hernangomez could have seen it coming. A silent death.

The basketball world flipped out after Russell Westbrook used a Shammgod move — again — to spin around Hornets big man Cody Zeller. It cooed when Omri Casspi, of all people, used the same move on Sunday against the Suns. But Irving just hit a man with an in-and-out move off his damn knee.

We’re living in a time with some of the best dribblers ever, and Irving might be the best of them all. There’s no one else you want to be trapped on an island with. You might not see your end coming.