Without fans at TD Garden for the Nets’ trip to visit the Celtics on Friday — and the fact it was a preseason meeting — there wasn’t the type of tension expected in Kyrie Irving’s first game back in Boston. It’s clear Irving’s former teammates have moved on — two gave him their jerseys after the Nets’ 113-89 win. Brooklyn’s point guard says he feels similarly.

“It’s like going on another day at the job, honestly,” Irving said about his return to Boston on a Zoom call with reporters following Friday’s preseason win. “I’m grateful to be able to have relationships with a lot of these guys still here, guys that aren’t here . At the end of the day, we went to war together. I respect all those young men down there.

“We’re not even young, you know. We’re just young kings growing in a business where we wanna do what makes us happy, and to see Jayson get better, to see Jaylen get better, to see these guys mature and be in the positions that they’re in, I’m nothing but proud of them. To see other guys be happy, that’s all I could want. So, coming here is easy. Performing here is easy. Basketball’s the easy part. It’s just the external stuff beforehand that gets a little noisy, so try to limit that.”

Irving and the Nets will visit the Celtics again on Christmas.