{"id":2011472,"date":"2023-08-24T22:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-usa-star-doesnt-consider-himself-american-wants-to-play-for-different-country-instead\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T22:13:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:13:44","slug":"team-usa-star-doesnt-consider-himself-american-wants-to-play-for-different-country-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-usa-star-doesnt-consider-himself-american-wants-to-play-for-different-country-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"US Star Rejects American Identity, Seeks to Represent Another Nation"},"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%2Fteam-usa-star-doesnt-consider-himself-american-wants-to-play-for-different-country-instead%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=2011472&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--><h2>Kyrie Irving: The Controversial NBA Star Who Doesn&#8217;t Consider Himself American<\/h2>\n<p>Kyrie Irving, one \u2064of the NBA\u2019s most controversial players, is at it again, this time saying that he doesn\u2019t really even consider himself an American \u200bplayer \u2014 even though he has played for Team USA in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Twitch,\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/irvings-27-points-18-assists-leads-celtics-past-raptors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irving<\/a> claimed that he considers himself \u2064an \u201cinternational player,\u201d not an American.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, Irving was born to American parents in \u2063Australia. The Irving family\u2064 lived in Melbourne for a few \u2064years while the player\u2019s father, Drederick Irving, played for the Bulleen Boomers in the semi-professional South East Australian Basketball \u2062League. But they moved back to the U.S. when Irving was two.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI consider myself an international player even though I played on Team\u2062 USA,\u201d Irving said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10086833-kyrie-irving-on-playing-for-australia-coach-k-wasnt-going-to-let-that-happen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleacher\u200d Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of my peers laugh at me when I bring it up, and some fans may not \u2063agree, but I was born \u200cin Australia. Team USA asked me to play for them when I was 17 \u200cor 18,\u201d he added. \u201cI wanted to play for Australia, but it just didn\u2019t happen. Coach K wasn\u2019t going to\u200b let that happen either.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By \u201cCoach K,\u201d Irving meant Mike Krzyzewski, coach of Team USA in 2014 and 2016 when Irving played for America. Apparently the coach talked him out of joining the Australian team.<\/p>\n<p>Krzyzewski \u201cwas \u2064a huge part of the decision,\u201d Irving \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/olympics\/how-close-australia-really-got-to-luring-nba-superstar-kyrie-irving-as-boomers-prepare-for-team-usa\/news-story\/623605d6ed01097a5c886be0919d7dfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in 2016. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s Coach K. As a young fella, he definitely did tell me I had a chance to be a part of something bigger than myself \u2063and ultimately \u2062being the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-an-offseason-of-drama-the-nba-returns-tuesday-night\/\" title=\"After An Offseason Of Drama, The NBA Returns Tuesday Night\">starting point guard<\/a> on the U.S. Olympic team. I never thought\u200c it would happen as\u2062 soon as it has.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A Controversial Journey<\/h3>\n<p>No matter where he was born, Irving\u2063 has represented the U.S.\u2062 in a number of \u2063international contests,\u2063 and he made his fame and fortune as a pro basketball \u2064player in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n<p>However, along the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-irving-dodges-bottle-boston-another-ugly-nba-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irving<\/a> \u200c made himself one of the most controversial players in the league.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, for instance, he made himself notorious among liberals \u2014 but \u200da hero to millions of others \u2014 for blatantly refusing to take any of the coronavirus vaccines.\u200d As a result, he was suspended and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nba-star-kyrie-irving-exposes-price-paid-refusing-covid-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost millions<\/a> in earnings.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI gave up four years, 100-and-something million deciding to be unvaccinated,\u2063 and that was the decision,\u201d Irving said \u2064in September 2022,\u200b according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/34672230\/gave-4-year-100m-plus-extension-unvaccinated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a>.\u200c \u201c[Get this] contract, get \u2063vaccinated or be unvaccinated, and \u200dthere\u2019s a level of uncertainty of your future, whether\u2063 you\u2019re going to be in this\u2063 league, whether you\u2019re going to be on this team, so \u200cI had to deal with that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fujian-chinas-new-aircraft-carrier-is-important-but-no-game-changer\/\" title=\"Fujian: China\u2019s New Aircraft Carrier Is Important \u2014 But No Game-Changer\">real-life circumstance<\/a> of losing my job\u2064 for this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Refusing the vaccine was not the only thing that got him \u2063in Dutch with the famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/woke-nba-jacks-ticket-prices-us-inflation-crisis-fans-abandon-games-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woke NBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He also became a\u2063 pariah among \u200cmany and was called an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-kyrie-irving-torches-reporter-mic-drop-moment-sharing-documentary-alex-jones-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-Semite<\/a> for pushing information put out by an anti-Semitic group called the \u200dBlack Hebrew Israelites, who claim they, not the white \u2063Jews, are the real children of God.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2022, Irving took to his social media and alerted his followers to a film produced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/team-usa-star-doesnt-consider-himself-american-wants-to-play-for-different-country-instead\/\" title=\"US Star Rejects American Identity, Seeks to Represent Another Nation\">radical\u2063 black group<\/a>. Then he \u200dsteadfastly refused to\u2062 agree to demands \u2063from his team, the Brooklyn Nets, to\u200b apologize\u200b and publicly \u2064aver\u200b that he is not anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the Nets suspended Irving until he finally apologized, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/11\/03\/nets-suspend-kyrie-irving-refusing-disavow-antisemitic-beliefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He was\u200d not only benched for five \u200cgames, but he also lost endorsements \u2014\u00a0 most notably Nike, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2023\/08\/23\/i-consider-myself-intl-player-kyrie-irving-reveals-he-wanted-play-australia-not-team-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>An Irony of Convictions<\/h3>\n<p>There is \u200ba great\u2064 irony \u2064in Irving\u2019s longing to\u2064 play for Team Australia, though.\u2062 Of all the Western countries,\u2064 Australia \u2064is one of the most strict in forcing everyone to take vaccinations for COVID-19. So, even as he has refused to get vaccinated in the U.S., he was still allowed to live up\u200c to his convictions \u200cby maintaining that refusal. But during\u2064 the height of the pandemic, he wouldn\u2019t have even have \u200dbeen allowed \u200dto enter Australia, much \u2062less <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-show-depicts-religious-jews-as-dumb-bigots-the-most-anti-semitic-thing-ive-ever-seen-on-tv\/\" title=\"NBC Show Depicts Religious Jews As Dumb Bigots: \u2018The Most Anti-Semitic Thing I\u2019ve Ever Seen On TV\u2019\">play basketball<\/a> there \u2014 \u2063citizenship\u2062 or not \u2014 because he is unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, despite all his claims to stand on freedom, he has not taken \u200cany time at all to realize that he has more of it here than he thinks.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/team-usa-star-doesnt-consider-american-wants-play-different-country-instead\/\">Team USA Star Doesn&#8217;t Consider Himself American, Wants to Play for Different Country Instead<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA&#8217;s Kyrie Irving, known for controversy, recently stated he doesn&#8217;t identify as an American player, despite representing Team USA in the Olympics. In a Twitch interview, Irving referred to himself as an &#8220;international player&#8221; rather than American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2011473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2011472","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}