While he was said to be back this season with a “totally different” energy, Kyrie Irving didn’t take long to embarrass the Nets with his actions off the court.
In line Kanye West’s latest provocations, the Brooklyn leader posted a link on his Twitter account, promoting a 2018 film titled “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” ). Taken from a 2015 book of the same name, it aims to demonstrate the “Israelite Black Hebrews” theory, according to which the Israelites of the Old Testament were in fact black people, and that the current black people are their descendants.
According to the most radical proponents of this theory, already mentioned by Kyrie Irving in the past, blacks would thus have been “deprived of their identity as God’s chosen people” by white European Jews.
A thesis clearly defended by “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” which quotes for example very seriously “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”asserts that anti-black racism has its source in the Talmud and Hebrew tradition, that “European Jews and Freemasons claimed to worship Satan or Lucifer” or even that in “controlling our money and the media, European Jews have taken control of our thinking”.
So many anti-Semitic tropes that forced the Brooklyn franchise to react.
“The Brooklyn Nets strongly condemn and have no tolerance for the promotion of any form of hate speech”the team said in a statement on Friday. “We believe that in these situations, our first action should be open and honest dialogue. We thank those, in particular the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), who gave us their support during this period. »
Then it was Joe Tsai, the owner of the Nets, who spoke.
“I’m disappointed that Kyrie seems to support a film based on a book full of anti-Semitic misinformation. I want to sit down with him and make sure he understands that this is hurtful to all of us, and that as a man of faith it is problematic to promote hatred based on race, ethnicity or religion. »
| Kyrie Irving | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2011-12 | KEY | 51 | 31 | 46.9 | 39.9 | 87.2 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 18.5 |
| 2012-13 | KEY | 59 | 35 | 45.2 | 39.1 | 85.5 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 5.9 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 22.5 |
| 2013-14 | KEY | 71 | 35 | 43.0 | 35.8 | 86.1 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 20.8 |
| 2014-15 | KEY | 75 | 36 | 46.8 | 41.5 | 86.3 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 21.7 |
| 2015-16 | KEY | 53 | 32 | 44.8 | 32.2 | 88.5 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 4.7 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 19.6 |
| 2016-17 | KEY | 72 | 35 | 47.3 | 40.1 | 90.5 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 5.8 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 25.2 |
| 2017-18 | BOS | 60 | 32 | 49.1 | 40.8 | 88.9 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 24.4 |
| 2018-19 | BOS | 67 | 33 | 48.7 | 40.1 | 87.3 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 6.9 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 23.8 |
| 2019-20 | BRK | 20 | 33 | 47.8 | 39.4 | 92.2 | 1.1 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 6.4 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 27.4 |
| 2020-21 | BRK | 54 | 35 | 50.6 | 40.2 | 92.2 | 1.0 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 26.9 |
| 2021-22 | BRK | 29 | 38 | 46.9 | 41.8 | 91.5 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 27.5 |
| 2022-23 | BRK | 4 | 38 | 45.5 | 21.9 | 91.7 | 0.8 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 27.3 |
| Total | 615 | 34 | 47.0 | 39.2 | 88.3 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 23.1 | |
