{"id":1726499,"date":"2022-11-06T06:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726499"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:19:33","slug":"nike-suspends-ties-with-kyrie-irving-cancels-next-shoe-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nike-suspends-ties-with-kyrie-irving-cancels-next-shoe-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike Suspends Ties With Kyrie Irving, Cancels Next Shoe Release"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fnike-suspends-ties-with-kyrie-irving-cancels-next-shoe-release%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=1726499&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>Nike Inc. on Friday suspended its relationship with Brooklyn Nets star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kyrie-irving\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> and canceled its next Irving-branded shoe release in the aftermath of his promotion of a documentary that some see as anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets had already suspended Irving at least five games after he stopped short of fully disavowing the documentary on two occasions. Irving later issued a more fulsome apology late on Thursday for promoting a project he said contained \u201cfalse anti-Semitic statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 film is titled \u201cHebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America\u201d and based on a 2014 book of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>But the apology was not enough to stop Nike from suspending ties with Irving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form of antisemitism. To that end, we\u2019ve made the decision to suspend our relationship with Kyrie Irving effective immediately and will no longer launch the Kyrie 8,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraEisen\/status\/1588689457703956487\">Nike said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened and disappointed by the situation and its impact on everyone,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-statement\">statement<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Several media outlets have reported the shoe deal to be worth $11 million, but Reuters could not confirm that.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets will also not pay him during his suspension. He is on a $36.9 million contract this season, after having earned nearly $195 million in his previous 11 seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics and the Nets, according to Basketball-Reference.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets had said he would be suspended no less than five games and until he undergoes a series of unspecified \u201cremedial measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irving has faced heavy criticism since posting a link on Twitter last week to a 2018 commentary and defending the post over the weekend. The seven-time All Star has since deleted the Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on Instagram Thursday, he apologized to those \u201churt from the hateful remarks made in the documentary,\u201d and said he took full responsibility for his decision to share the content with his followers.<\/p>\n<p>Irving said the film \u201ccontained some false anti-Semitic statements, narratives, and language that were untrue and offensive to the Jewish Race\/Religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to clarify any confusion on where I stand fighting against Anti-semitism by apologizing for posting the documentary without context and a factual explanation outlining the specific beliefs in the documentary I agreed with and disagreed with,\u201d Irving wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Irving\u2019s suspension and apology follow a controversy generated by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who was suspended by social media platforms last month for posts that online users condemned as antisemitic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-reuters\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/reuters-logo-.jpg\" alt=\"Reuters\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nike Inc. on Friday suspended its relationship with Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving and canceled its next Irving-branded shoe release in the aftermath of his promotion of a documentary that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695410,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1726499","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}