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Kyrie Irving‘s latest venture into conspiracy theories and controversy has drawn condemnation from Brooklyn Nets team owner Joe Tsai and his own team for its clear antisemitism. On Thursday, the Nets point guard tweeted out a link to a documentary called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” based on a book of the same name by Ronald Dalton Jr. As Rolling Stone explains it, the documentary puts forward “ideas in line with more extreme factions of the Black Hebrew Israelites, which have… Source link

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant knows Kyrie Irving has some important decisions to make this offseason. Irving previously said he wanted to stay in Brooklyn for the long haul, but — as many things are with Irving — the situation is complicated. Irving has a $36 million player option for the 2022-23 season. He has until June 29 to pick up that option. A few months ago, it was assumed Irving would pick up that option or sign a long-term extension with the Nets. But after Irving missed a… Source link

Kyrie Irving is an easy and most times, deserved punching bag — for the media, for the NBA and for anyone with a pair of red gloves. He was rightfully fined $50,000 by the NBA for his one-fingered salutes to Celtics fans and probably a phrase caught on social media as he walked to the locker room, fighting back against abuse from the scorned lovers. And you know what? Good for him. The league did what it had to do — players can be seen giving obscene gestures multiple times on national TV… Source link

BOSTON — Kyrie Irving tried to make TD Garden his own, but it belongs to Jayson Tatum. Tatum’s spinning layup around Irving with no time left on the clock gave the Boston Celtics a 115-114 victory against the Brooklyn Nets in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series. All it took was the first buzzer beater in franchise history to erase Irving’s sublime performance in the face of a hostile Boston crowd. Irving, who vowed to re-sign with the Celtics before bolting for the Nets in 2019 free… Source link

Make it make sense. The NBA is going through a wave of COVID-19 diagnoses, even among the vaccinated and perhaps the boosted, and the Brooklyn Nets decide to kowtow to Kyrie Irving? On some level, maybe it does. Players of all levels are testing positive, so what’s the harm in bringing in a healthy body for road games, to help out the overworked Kevin Durant even in a pinch? The harm, aside from common sense, science and everything believed to be true about teams with championship… Source link

The Milwaukee Bucks finally looked like the Milwaukee Bucks in dominating the second half of Game 4 to take a 107-96 win over the Brooklyn Nets and even the Eastern Conference semifinals series at 2-2.  Giannis Antetokounmpo outdueled the Nets’ Kevin Durant after Kyrie Irving was ruled out for the remainder of the game with a right ankle sprain. Antetokounmpo scored 34 points and had 12 rebounds. Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday got comfortable and scored 19 and 14 points,… Source link

The curious case of Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving is growing only more complicated. Irving has missed Brooklyn’s past three games for undisclosed personal reasons and has been ruled out for Tuesday’s game against the Denver Nuggets under the same circumstances. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Nets also expect Irving to miss the team’s two remaining games this week, at a minimum. Meanwhile, the NBA is launching an investigation into a video of Irving allegedly… Source link