Is Kyrie Irving bluffing on wanting to join Lakers?

This could get awkward — in a hurry — for Kyrie Irving.

Irving wants out of Brooklyn due to a contract impasse and thus is seeking his fourth team in six seasons. Either that or he is trying to scare the Nets into signing him to a five-year, $245 million supermax extension. So far Brooklyn has expressed no interest in that, although it has reportedly offered a multi-year deal at a lower number.

Irving has until Wednesday to exercise a one-year, $36.5 million player option. If he declines it, Irving can enter free agency, but he may fit into only a $6 million contract slot elsewhere. And that’s if anyone wants him.

With dwindling options, he is seeking a sign-and-trade – get the supermax with the Nets and then get immediately dealt elsewhere. Brooklyn, however, is all but calling his bluff (or hoping he finds a trade partner) by telling Irving to go ahead and find someone willing to take him.

The problem: There may not be anyone, at least other than a desperate Los Angeles Lakers team that doesn’t apparently have many appropriate assets Brooklyn would agree to take in return.

Irving is a talented player and when he actually plays can be one of the very best in the NBA.

He’s also an extremely difficult and demanding employee who is about to force himself out of his third franchise.

It’s why Irving may find his quest for a trade partner to be humbling. Pretty much everyone looks at Irving as a hand grenade ready to go off.

In 2017, he bailed on Cleveland and LeBron James, with whom he’d won a championship, to be the top dog on his own franchise. It is a move he now says he regrets and blames on immaturity.

He chose to go to Boston but managed just two years before dissatisfaction set in. This was despite the Celtics surrounding him with a motherlode of young talent (Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart) that thrived once he…