Brooklyn Nets heat magnet and resident conspiracy theorist Kyrie Irving he wants a team to deal him elsewhere before the NBA trade deadline or he will leave as a free agentas reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Athletics Shams Charania.
Irving, 30, asked to be waived before the season, according to Woj, citing sources. Guard it’s inside the final year of his four-year, $136+ million deal with Brooklyn.
Irving, the Mercurial player who was number 3 in ours List of idiots of the year 2022is currently averaging 27.1 points per game for Brooklyn (31-20), which is third in the Atlantic Division.
His teammate Kevin Durant asked the Nets to trade him back in June.
I’m sure you remember, in the meanwhile deleted messages on his social networks, Irving promoted the book and the documentary Hebrews to Blacks: Awaken Black America, which pushes several lies about the Jewish people and their mistreatment of people of color. Nike subsequently suspended his relationship with Irving, who he later declared that he was “free”.
G/O Media may receive a commission
58% discount
Whitening Powerhouse Pen & Gel Duo
LIGHT UP YOUR SMILE
Whiten your teeth at home with Smileactives’ one-two punch: Whitening Powerhouse Pen & Gel Duo. This set will give you the kind of teeth whitening power that uses the same ingredients dentists rely on for in-office whitening treatments at a fraction of the cost.
He didn’t apologize until after the Nets suspended him for eight games and the Anti-Defamation League rejected his donation.
Irving is also a known flat earther and antivaxxer, claiming that his stance on the COVID-19 vaccine cost him over $100 million.
“I gave up four years, 100-something million by choosing not to get vaccinated and that was a decision,” Irving said at the Nets’ media day in September. “[Get this] contract, to vaccinate or to be unvaccinated and there’s a level of uncertainty about your future, whether you’re going to be in this league, whether you’re going to be on this team, so I had to deal with that real-life circumstance of losing my job because of this decision.”