{"id":410500,"date":"2022-10-30T15:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=410500"},"modified":"2022-10-30T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:25:00","slug":"stop-calling-it-promotion-kyrie-irving-engages-in-a-back-and-forth-verbal-spat-with-a-reporter-for-questioning-his-anti-semitic-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/stop-calling-it-promotion-kyrie-irving-engages-in-a-back-and-forth-verbal-spat-with-a-reporter-for-questioning-his-anti-semitic-post\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stop Calling It Promotion&#8221;: Kyrie Irving Engages in a Back-and Forth Verbal Spat With a Reporter For Questioning His Anti-Semitic Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Haliburton added 26 points, and rookie Bennedict Mathurin scored a career-high 32 as the Indiana Pacers defeated the Brooklyn Nets 125-116 on Saturday. Kyrie Irving led the struggling Nets, who dropped to 1-5, with 35 points on 13 of 22 field goal attempts. During Brooklyn&#8217;s current four-game losing streak, its defense has given up 124.5 points per game. Irving has drawn criticism for appearing to embrace an anti-Semitic movie two days ago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Cg1JH_2rzo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving stated that he respects all religions before the game. He stated on Saturday night that he does not think he violated any laws by using his social media profiles to promote an antisemitic movie and book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"\u201cMake That 9,975-2\u201d: Luka Doncic\u2019s Dallas Mavericks Become Only the 2nd Team in Last 25 Years in the NBA to Achieve This Record\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/make-that-9975-2-luka-doncics-dallas-mavericks-become-only-the-2nd-team-in-last-25-years-in-the-nba-to-achieve-this-record\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cMake That 9,975-2\u201d: Luka Doncic\u2019s Dallas Mavericks Become Only the 2nd Team in Last 25 Years in the NBA to Achieve This Record<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Kyrie Irving blasts ESPN journalist for questioning his controversial post<\/h2>\n<p>Kyrie Irving reaffirmed his choice to spread an Alex Jones-promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Irving defended releasing a clip from the Jones-promoted video &#8220;Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America&#8221; in a furious exchange with ESPN writer Nick Friedell.<\/p>\n<p>Irving <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Talkin_NBA\/status\/1586551407989112833?s=20&amp;t=U9gLCFN69y-7Qi-kFY8mrA\">said<\/a>: <em>\u201cMy post was a post from Alex Jones that he did in the early nineties or late nineties about secret societies in America of a cult and it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_396463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-396463\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-396463\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/kyrie-irving.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrie Irving\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/kyrie-irving.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/kyrie-irving-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/kyrie-irving-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/kyrie-irving-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-396463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credits &#8211; SI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Friedell then asked Irving,<em> \u201cAnd to follow up on the promotion of the movie and the book\u2014\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But Irving cut him off: <em>\u201cCan you please stop calling it promotion?\u201d Irving said. \u201cWhat am I promoting?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving going back and forth with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFriedell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NickFriedell<\/a> during the Nets postgame presser \ud83d\ude33<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBATwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBATwitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetsWorld?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NetsWorld<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mn2dSsirSN\">pic.twitter.com\/Mn2dSsirSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc24\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc27&#39; \ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc01\ud835\udc00 (@_Talkin_NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Talkin_NBA\/status\/1586551407989112833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou put it out on your platform,\u201d<\/em> Friedell said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI put it out there, just like you put things out there, right? You put things out there for a living, right?\u201d<\/em> Irving replied.<\/p>\n<p>It only got more intense from here. On Thursday, Kyrie Irving tweeted a link to the movie&#8217;s Amazon page. The same-named novel from 2015 served as the inspiration for the 2018 film.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving did take some steps to separate himself from Jones more widely, particularly when the latter made remarks about Sandy Hook victims staging the tragedy, for which he was recently found liable in a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut and sentenced to pay almost $1 billion in damages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More NBA news:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Lakers GM Rob Pelinka Gives A Cringe Worthy Speech, Attempt To Motivate Fails\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/lakers-gm-rob-pelinka-gives-a-cringe-worthy-speech-attempt-to-motivate-fails\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lakers GM Rob Pelinka Gives A Cringe Worthy Speech, Attempt To Motivate Fails<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Kyrie Irving Labeled \u201cAnti-Semitic\u201d To Which Responds,\u201dNot Justified\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kyrie-irving-labeled-anti-semitic-to-which-respondsnot-justified\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kyrie Irving Labeled \u201cAnti-Semitic\u201d To Which Responds,\u201dNot Justified\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Yao Ming\u2019s legacy in the NBA and how it all began for the Chinese superstar\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/yao-mings-legacy-in-the-nba-and-how-it-all-began-for-the-chinese-superstar\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Yao Ming\u2019s legacy in the NBA and how it all began for the Chinese superstar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba\/\"><strong><em>Follow our NBA page for more key NBA updates and news<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyrese Haliburton added 26 points, and rookie Bennedict Mathurin scored a career-high 32 as the Indiana Pacers defeated the Brooklyn Nets 125-116 on Saturday. Kyrie Irving led the struggling Nets, who dropped to 1-5, with 35 points on 13 of 22 field goal attempts. During Brooklyn&#8217;s current four-game losing streak, its defense has given up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":380441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,51],"tags":[154,3518],"class_list":["post-410500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooklyn-nets","category-nba","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nick-friedell"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}