He is one of the most talented ball handlers, scorers, and finishers at the basket with either hand we have ever seen in the National Basketball Association, yet he has never shied away from controversy.
Kyrie Irving speaks his mind, regardless of his 14th season being cut short because of a knee injury. Irving, who played in 50 games this campaign, averaged 24.7 points per game in his third year with the Dallas Mavericks before the injury.
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The 33-year-old is a nine-time All-Star and 2016 NBA Champion, but it was a conversation on his streaming platform that has social media asking questions. He dove into the topic of racism, calling it the ‘dumbest s*** ever’ and got into a passionate dialogue with the camera as to why it is. Irving, a former No. 1 overall pick of the 2011 NBA Draft from Duke University, has always had a thing for conspiracy theories. Whether it was his thoughts on the earth being flat, thoughts on the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, or the COVID-19 vaccine, Irving has been unapologetic about how he feels.
Racism was the latest thing on his mind, so he decided to attack it.
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“Growing up in this society and just because you have this skin tone, you have different rules you have to abide by,” Irving said.
“You can’t be proud of your history because you are this skin tone … Like people really got killed because they were a different skin tone. Bro, you know how stupid that is? You know how ignorant you gotta be to put people in a tree and hang them because they are black? It is probably the dumbest s*** I’ve ever heard. It is one of the dumbest things ever. It really is.”
Irving added that he does not get along people with a mentality of racism.
“I don’t have time to listen to people like that,” he said. “You are trying to downplay the fact of racism and then say pick up your bootstraps and work harder when there is a whole system designed to oppress people that have darker skin tone?”
Irving does not care how people come at him because he is going to state how he believes.
“I stand up for humanity being a coexisting community where race, culture, and class is not always at the forefront of everything you do,” he said.
Stephen M. Smith is a writer for Ball Exclusives. You can follow him him X via @CoachingMSmith.
