Irving supplies daggers as Mavs top Nets

Unlike Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving didn’t receive a tribute video for his much-anticipated and scrutinized return to Brooklyn one year after being traded away by the Nets.

But the result was the same: A sellout crowd at Downtown’s Barclays was treated to what they had grown accustomed to for the better part of 3 1/2 seasons, a virtuoso performance by one of their former superstars.

Irving lit up the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush as well as the 17,732 in attendance Tuesday night, scoring a game-high 36 points, including a pair of back-breaking 3-pointers, to push the Dallas Mavericks to a 119-107 victory over the struggling Nets.

“Just like any other basketball game, but it felt like I was home tonight,” Irving said.

After arriving here with Durant in the summer of 2019 with hopes of bringing our borough its first major pro sports title since 1955, Irving had a star-crossed tenure here.

He sat out games for social justice causes, missed the majority of Brooklyn home games in 2020-21 for not adhering to vaccination mandates and was suspended months before his trade to the Mavericks (28-23) last February for posting a link to an anti-semitic book and documentary.

In between, the New Jersey native posted 14 games with at least 40 points games as a Net, including a franchise-record 60 in Orlando on March 15, 2022.

The mercurial guard didn’t stir things up in the arena or light up the scoreboard quite as dramatically in this visit to Barclays.

But the fans who spent the early portion of the game booing his every touch of the ball also voiced their pleasure at seeing Irving’s impossible-to-deny talent on display.

The 6-foot-2 playmaker hit 15-of-24 shots, including 6-of-10 from 3-point range. He also handed out five assists and picked up a pair of steals in his second game back from a thumb…