Yeah he has to do certain things to get reinstated.I hope the "No less than 5 games" is there for a reason. So if they so choose, it becomes indefinite?
Yeah he has to do certain things to get reinstated.I hope the "No less than 5 games" is there for a reason. So if they so choose, it becomes indefinite?
I mean, if these conditions were important to the Nets, make him do them in the joint statement or don’t put your name on it.
He might prefer to be nailed to this cross he has built for himself.Kyrie might be done in the NBA.
Given who he is, it's hard for me to imagine he'll ever say he was wrong.
Yeah, this feels like the beginning of the end to meKyrie might be done in the NBA.
Given who he is, it's hard for me to imagine he'll ever say he was wrong.
HA!Fewer.
They will parse those however they want depending on what they want to happen. "Attend sensitivity training and come to some understanding about the painful things he said" would be code for "we are sending him away for 2 weeks till this blows over." Kind of like a politician gets a DUI and immediately goes to rehab.At least he won't even have to go awol to celebrate his sister's wedding this year. I'm not sure what the stipulations for his reinstatement are but I'm pretty sure he'll do roughly zero of them.
Six million games would be appropriateI hope the "No less than 5 games" is there for a reason. So if they so choose, it becomes indefinite?
With the caveat that I haven’t lived in the neighborhood for a while, all any Net would need to do to see Jewish families buying formula with SNAP cards is hang out at the Target across the street from the Barclays Center on a Sunday morning. You know, do their own research.They spoke up plenty during BLM--this is wrong. What might be right though, is that anti-semitism doesn't feel real to most NBA players in the way anti-blackness does. I'm going to bet damn near every Jew the average NBA players knows is a rich guy. "Hey, they don't seem like they have it so bad."
He really has become the Kanye of the basketball world, hasn’t he? The similarities between them are eerie.Given that this suspension seems open ended and contingent on Kyrie actually like... doing things to prove he isn't an anti-Semite... it seems to me that this is the end of his basketball career. Because he is an anti-Semite and I can't seem him actually apologizing for it and actually making amends.
I don't think I can think of two.Unless he apologizes--really apologizes-- what NBA team is going to take him?
I don't think I can think of one.
If they need to hang out at the target, I think my point is made.With the caveat that I haven’t lived in the neighborhood for a while, all any Net would need to do to see Jewish families buying formula with SNAP cards is hang out at the Target across the street from the Barclays Center on a Sunday morning. You know, do their own research.
We know from last year that he's stubborn. And I think he's beyond being "talked sense to." The success rate of convincing people who believe batshit bullshit (whether bigoted bullshit or garden variety bullshit) is pretty small.Could LeBron sit Kyrie down and talk some sense into him? Would he? And then have the Klutch PR team shape an exit strategy for Kyrie to get him to L.A.?
That's about the only way I see Kyrie playing again this season.
(And yet the cynic in me says that all of this gets lost in the election news cycle, Kyrie faux-apologizes, and he's back on the court against the Lakers on the 13th.)
Cant tell if serious. (which really symbolizes the whole thing)Kyrie just canceled his check to the ADL
Tongue firmly in cheek.Cant tell if serious. (which really symbolizes the whole thing)
Antonio Brown is the parallel I’m drawing.He really has become the Kanye of the basketball world, hasn’t he? The similarities between them are eerie.
At least that guy might have the excuse of massive repeated head traumas. What is Kyrie's excuse?Antonio Brown is the parallel I’m drawing.
They won't because he wildly popular among the players, and....I bet more players agree with him than anyone wants to admitMad respect for the Nets for having done this.
And I love that they have put this piece of red hot garbage in an almost impossible position for him.
I wonder if a single active NBA player will speak out against Kyrie.
Yup. It wouldn't shock me at all if Kyrie tripled down on his tone deafness.Yet still not impossible its true
Kyries excuse is that there's a group of people controlling things who he's made uncomfortable by speaking the truth. If not for them, he wouldnt be getting persecuted.At least that guy might have the excuse of massive repeated head traumas. What is Kyrie's excuse?
I don’t hate it; this is huge. Like, I’m not seeing anyone yet that this is wild jurisprudential territory.And I hate to get into slippery slope arguments, but what precedent(s) does this set?
Oh… oh shit.Unfit. That word is biting.
You’re right about an apology. My guess is that the criteria the team is talking about encompasses a whole lot more, such as demonstrating that he understands what is wrong about that propoganda.What is the value of an "apology" now?
And I hate to get into slippery slope arguments, but what precedent(s) does this set?
I have almost no doubt you are correct. But he has to pass by the front office to get to the locker room.Also, I have no proof of it but it would not shock me at all if a good number of NBA players share the same zip code in terms of having similar views as Kyrie. Point being that he may be a lot more welcome in other locker rooms than we'd like to believe.
Again, that's just a sense I have and I am about as close to an NBA locker room as most others here.
Well, that’s the kicker, isn’t it? Understand the impact the propaganda is and why it causes harm, or understand that it is wrong?You’re right about an apology. My guess is that the criteria the team is talking about encompasses a whole lot more, such as demonstrating that he understands what is wrong about that propoganda.
Space lasers.At least that guy might have the excuse of massive repeated head traumas. What is Kyrie's excuse?
He'll never think its wrong. Ive never thought you can change too many bigots' minds. The best you can hope for is to make them realize there are consequences for spewing hateful stuff, because there is no thought police. I'm struggling to find a better way of saying, "youre free to be a bigot, just keep it to yourself."Well, that’s the kicker, isn’t it? Understand the impact the propaganda is and why it causes harm, or understand that it is wrong?
Is there still a Russian basketball League?I understand that people are thinking this is the end for Irving in the NBA and it might be. However there are scenarios where, with gentle coaching by say, Klutch Sports consultants, Kyrie winds up playing elsewhere after a period of reflection and an apology.
Also, I have no proof of it but it would not shock me at all if a good number of NBA players share the same zip code in terms of having similar views as Kyrie. Point being that he may be a lot more welcome in other locker rooms than we'd like to believe.
Again, that's just a sense I have and I am about as close to an NBA locker room as most others here.