Brooklyn Nets proprietor Joe Tsai will not be blissful along with his star guard Kyrie Irving, once more.
Irving has a well-established historical past as what is perhaps described as “free considering.” One in every of his hottest beliefs is the truth that the planet is flat as a substitute of spherical. And naturally, he had doubts in regards to the numerous COVID-19 vaccines, and it’s why he missed a majority of the crew’s video games final season after he refused to satisfy vaccine mandates to play in Brooklyn, New York’s Barclays Middle.
Properly, on Thursday he added to that distinctive historical past when he took time to indicate help for a documentary movie based mostly on a controversial 2015 e-book. Earlier than the crew’s loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, Irving despatched out a tweet that appeared to again the Ronald Dalton, Jr. movie Hebrews to Negroes: Get up Black America.
The tweet is problematic as a result of the movie pushes a number of antisemitic tropes and helps concepts shared by excessive factions of the Black Hebrew Israelites. The group has an extended historical past of homophobia, xenophobia, and, in fact, antisemitism.
That help of the controversial movie bought the seven-time All-Star in scorching water along with his boss Joe Tsai yesterday.
Brooklyn Nets proprietor on Kyrie Irving: ‘I wish to sit down and ensure he understands that is hurtful’
