Controversial Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving, who sat out most of a season because he refused to be vaccinated, spoke to the media and refused to back down after he had tweeted antisemitic content.
ESPN reporter Nick Friedell got into heated debates with Irving over his actions, and the NBA star insisted he did nothing wrong or caused any harm.
To catch you up, on Thursday, Kyrie Irving shared a post that linked to a movie called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America.”
This forced the Brooklyn Nets Joe owner Joe Tsai to respond.
"I'm disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-semitic disinformation," Tsai tweeted. "I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to all of us, and as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity or religion. This is bigger than basketball."
During a presser today, Irving says he doesn't stand with Jones' take on Sandy Hook (Thank God, for small miracles) but agrees with his "one world order" nonsense.
“My post was a post from Alex Jones that he did in the early nineties or late nineties about secret societies in America of a cult and it’s true.”
“And to follow up on the promotion of the movie and the book ," Friedell asked.
But Irving cut him off.
“Can you please stop calling it promotion?” Irving said. “What am I promoting?”
Irving isn't that stupid.
“You put it out on your platform,” Friedell said. "I'm promoting it?" he replied.
, “By putting it out there—”
“I put it out there, just like you put things out there, right?” Irving said.
“You put things out there for a living, right?”
This is juvenile garbage.
“But my stuff—” Friedell said.
“Great,” Irving interjected. “So let’s move on.
“—isn’t filled with anti-Semitic stuff,” Friedell countered.
“Don’t dehumanize me up here,” Irving said.
“I’m not!” Friedell replied.
How is calling out horrific antisemitism dehumanizing Irving?
The Nets need to suspend him for a very long time. Or just dump him altogether.
