Kyrie Irving, suspended since November third, has rejoined his Nets teammates and is predicted to play Sunday evening … practically a month after posting a hyperlink to a controversial film.
30-year-old Irving was at Nets shootaround Sunday morning — hours earlier than BK performs the Grizzlies at Barclays — as soon as once more instructed reporters he wasn’t antisemitic.
“I don’t stand for anything close to hate speech or antisemitism or anything that is going against the human race,” Irving stated.
“I feel like we all should have an opportunity to speak for ourselves when things are assumed about us and I feel it was necessary for me to stand in this place and take accountability for my actions, because there was a way I should have handled all this and as I look back and reflect when I had the opportunity to offer my deep regrets to anyone that felt threatened or felt hurt by what I posted, that wasn’t my intent at all.”
Kyrie Irving talks about rising up in a “racial harmonious environment” in New Jersey:
“If you know anything about West Orange, New Jersey, I don’t think I could grow up as an antisemite in that environment because of how much alliance that we feel to one another” pic.twitter.com/U05v3OQVLv
— Nets Videos (@SNYNets) November 20, 2022
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Of course, it was manner again on October twenty seventh Kyrie tweeted a hyperlink to the film “Hebrew to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” … a movie filled with antisemitic tropes.
Irving ultimately deleted the tweet … however refused to apologize for giving the film consideration. After a number of missed alternatives to apologize, the Nets suspended Kyrie on November 3, saying he was “unfit” to be a Net.
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Adam Silver, Nets Owner Joe Tsai Sure Kyrie Irving Is Not Antisemitic After Meetings
But, after assembly a number of standards … together with a face-to-face with NBA commissioner Adam Silver, the Nets group believes Kyrie has performed sufficient.
“Kyrie took ownership of this journey and had conversations with several members of the Jewish community,” the Nets stated in an announcement on Sunday. “We are pleased that he is going about the process in a meaningful way.”
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