Ed Puskas: Irving may come to regret trade request.

The Cavaliers are the most dysfunctional three-time NBA Finals qualifier you’ve ever seen.

First, owner Dan Gilbert got rid of the man — general manager David Griffin — largely responsible for the off-the-court moves that got his team to three straight NBA Finals.

Then Gilbert was unable to close the deal on Griffin’s replacement, Chauncey Billups, leaving the Cavaliers without a GM during a critical time in the offseason.

And the clincher: Kyrie Irving — who hit the go-ahead 3-pointer in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals — reportedly asks the Cavaliers to trade him because he no longer wants to play with LeBron James.

Has anyone thought to administer a drug test to the Cavaliers’ current — for the moment at least — point guard? Who in their right mind wants to bolt a team that remains a huge favorite to make a fourth straight Finals appearance?

Either Irving isn’t all about trying to win championships or he overestimates his role in the quest. He seems most concerned with being The Guy and is no longer willing to play Robin to LeBron’s Batman, even if the uneasy partnership has taken the Cavaliers to three straight Finals.

But does Irving even have Batman-like credentials? In Irving’s three years as The Guy in Cleveland before James’ ballyhooed return, the Cavaliers went 21-45 in the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season, then 24-58 in 2012-13 and 33-49 in 2013-14.

Admittedly, the supporting cast in those years did not compare to what Griffin put around James and Irving the last three years. But if Irving is going to be The Guy for the team that will eventually trade for him, he must make his new teammates better and he really hasn’t shown that ability.

Irving is a 6-foot-3 point guard, but he’s more like Allen Iverson — a brilliant one-on-one player — than a facilitator like Magic Johnson or John Stockton. Irving also doesn’t defend like they did. He takes far too many defensive sequences off.

None of this is to demean or dismiss Irving’s contributions to the best three-year stretch in Cavaliers history. Without him, they don’t get to the last three NBA Finals. And they surely don’t win Game 7 of the 2016 Finals without his shot.

But Irving knows as long as he plays with James, he’ll always be second fiddle. He believes he’s better than that and he has the right to ask for a trade.

And he seems to be doing all he can to ensure he gets traded, if the video that surfaced last week is any indication. In it, Irving appears to encourage Steph Curry, who is mocking James’ recent workout videos.

Irving has yet to be traded. That said, it’s difficult to imagine a workable Kyrie-LeBron scenario with the Cavaliers next season. That appears to be what Irving was going for in hamming it up with perhaps the Cavs’ most bitter rival over the last three years.

Yes, Kyrie has the right to ask for a trade. But there is also the very real possibility he will come to regret that move when he suddenly isn’t in the Finals every year.

This figures to be a case of Irving not appreciating what he had until he’s gone.

Write Vindicator Sports Editor Ed Puskas at epuskas@vindy.com and follow him on Twitter, @EdPuskas_Vindy.