Posted on 11/19/22
| News Source: Arutz-7
Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving, who was suspended by the team earlier this month after posting a link to a film containing antisemitic material, on Saturday issued an apology to the Jewish community.
Speaking to SNY ahead of his expected return to the court on Sunday, Irving said, “I really want to focus on the hurt that I caused or the impact that I made within the Jewish community. Putting some type of threat, or assumed threat, on the Jewish community.”
“I just want to apologize deeply for all my actions throughout the time that it’s been since the post was first put up. I’ve had a lot of time to think. But my focus, initially, if I could do it over, would be to heal and repair a lot of my close relationships with my Jewish relatives, brothers and sisters,” he continued.
The Nets suspended Irving at the start of November for a minimum of five games after he shared a link to an antisemitic documentary on his Twitter account, then refused to “unequivocally say he has no antisemitic views.”
Irving did say in one of the news conferences which followed the tweet that he didn’t support everything in the film and couldn’t be antisemitic because he knows where he came from.