{"id":1724071,"date":"2022-11-03T21:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T01:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724071"},"modified":"2022-11-03T21:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T01:48:22","slug":"brooklyn-nets-suspend-kyrie-irving-after-he-refuses-to-apologize-for-tweeting-anti-semitic-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brooklyn-nets-suspend-kyrie-irving-after-he-refuses-to-apologize-for-tweeting-anti-semitic-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets Suspend Kyrie Irving After He Refuses To Apologize For Tweeting \u2018Anti-Semitic\u2019 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrooklyn-nets-suspend-kyrie-irving-after-he-refuses-to-apologize-for-tweeting-anti-semitic-movie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Brooklyn Nets suspended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kyrie-irving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> for at least five games without pay for failure to \u201cunequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irving shared a tweet Thursday \u2014 which appears to have been deleted \u2014 including a clip from a movie titled \u201cHebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,\u201d a film based on the book by Ronald Dalton that Rolling Stone said shares \u201canti-Semitic tropes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nets officials issued a statement on Irving, saying the franchise\u2019s view of the team\u2019s guard is that he is \u201ccurrently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last several days, we have made repeated attempts to work with Kyrie Irving to help him understand the harm and danger of his actions, which began with him publicizing a film containing deeply disturbing anti-Semitic hate,\u201d the team\u2019s statement reads. \u201cWe believed that taking the path of education in this challenging situation would be the right one and thought that we had made progress with our joint commitment to eradicating hate and intolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nets officials said they were \u201cdismayed\u201d after Irving refused to denounce antisemitic beliefs or acknowledge specific \u201chateful\u201d material in the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was not the first time he had the opportunity \u2014 but failed \u2014 to clarify,\u201d the Nets said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Irving told reporters he takes responsibility for posting some content referring to the Jewish community that he referred to as \u201cquestionable,\u201d \u201cuntrue,\u201d and \u201cunfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe everything that everybody posts in a documentary,\u201d Irving said. \u201cSo I take my responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t mean to cause any harm,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m not the one that made the documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporters continually pressed Irving to issue an apology. Irving again refused while slamming the media for not asking the same questions when he was a kid \u201cdealing with, learning about the traumatic events of my familial history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you when I was a kid figuring out that 300 million of my ancestors are buried in America?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Nets called Irving\u2019s refusal to disavow antisemitism \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d and against the organization\u2019s values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, we have decided that he is currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cWe have decided that Kyrie will serve a suspension without pay until he satisfies a series of objective remedial measures that address the harmful impact of his conduct and the suspension period served is no less than five games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nets statement on Kyrie Irving: \u201cWe are of the view that he is currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets. We have decided that Kyrie will serve a suspension without pay until he satisfies a series of objective remedial measures\u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mp682Sck23\">pic.twitter.com\/Mp682Sck23<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1588316913016655872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/03\/nets-suspend-currently-unfit-kyrie-irving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> Irving spoke to reporters after releasing a joint statement with the Nets and the Anti-Defamation League, where Irving took responsibility for the retweet and pledged $500,000 to fight hate.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted that Irving \u201cclearly has a lot of work to do\u201d following the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took @KyrieIrving at his word when he said he took responsibility but today he did not make good on that promise,\u201d ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Irving\u2019s suspension marks the second time for the NBA star after he refused to comply with the league\u2019s COVID vaccination policy last season, which cost him $100 million and a four-year contract extension.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Nets suspended Kyrie Irving for at least five games without pay for failure to \u201cunequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs.\u201d Irving shared a tweet Thursday \u2014 which appears to have been deleted \u2014 including a clip from a movie titled \u201cHebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,\u201d a film based on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1724074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}