{"id":413032,"date":"2022-12-08T19:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=413032"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:26:03","slug":"kyrie-irving-hides-nikes-trademark-post-severing-of-their-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kyrie-irving-hides-nikes-trademark-post-severing-of-their-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving Hides Nike&#8217;s Trademark Post Severing Of Their Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrie Irving, a shoe-free agent, used Wednesday night&#8217;s Brooklyn Nets game to promote his status.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after Nike severed its ties with him, Kyrie Irving toyed with tape over the insignia on his black sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I AM FREE Thank you, I AM, God &#8220;during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/nets\">Nets&#8217;<\/a> 122-116 victory against Charlotte, was scrawled on the sneakers in gold marker. &#8220;Logo here,&#8221; it said in the reverse.<\/p>\n<h2>Kyrie Irving Hides Nike&#8217;s Trademark Post Severing Of Their Deal<\/h2>\n<p>In his strongest performance since serving his suspension, Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving torched the Charlotte Hornets for 33 points as his team defeated them 122-116 at Barclays Center. It has been a difficult few weeks for Irving.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie\u2019s shoes tonight. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickDePaula?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NickDePaula<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xz9J4tDvmm\">pic.twitter.com\/xz9J4tDvmm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHoopCentral\/status\/1600673015590973440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This week, Irving was also released by Nike, ending his association with the company that produced seven signature sneakers bearing his name while they were a partnership. Irving missed eight games after sending a link to an anti-semitic documentary on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Nike issued a statement saying, &#8220;At Nike, we think there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any kind of antisemitism. The situation and its effects on everyone leave us very depressed and disappointed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving wrote \u201cI AM FREE\u201d and \u201cLOGO HERE\u201d over the Swoosh on his shoes in his first game after splitting with Nike \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vc3itXCgXW\">pic.twitter.com\/Vc3itXCgXW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nice Kicks (@nicekicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicekicks\/status\/1600675353218863104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, Kyrie Irving hit the court in a pair of his Kyrie 3 sneakers despite no longer being affiliated with the company, covering the Nike swoosh with black tape and adding his own handwritten inscription.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Nike statement, the 30-year-old posted a similar remark on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>After that, he sent out a tweet to his followers saying, &#8220;Anyone who has even spent their hard-earned money on anything I have ever produced, I consider you FAMILY and we are forever bonded. It&#8217;s time to demonstrate our community&#8217;s strength.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving covers up the Nike swoosh logo after he got dropped from Nike for \u201canti-Semitic\u201d documentary posts &amp; writes this message instead\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rLFIqXKlRY\">pic.twitter.com\/rLFIqXKlRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegendaryEnergy\/status\/1600717893989113856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty surrounds the future of the shoe-free agency, but Nike has moved quickly to fill the void. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Ja Morant, a talented player for the Memphis Grizzlies, will soon receive a new pair of signature Nike sneakers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5qksMLLtSbg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE NBA UPDATES-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/warriors-stephen-curry-takes-the-title-from-tom-brady-adds-it-to-his-list\/\">Warriors Stephen Curry Takes The Title From Tom Brady &amp; Adds It To His List<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrie Irving, a shoe-free agent, used Wednesday night&#8217;s Brooklyn Nets game to promote his status. Two days after Nike severed its ties with him, Kyrie Irving toyed with tape over the insignia on his black sneakers. &#8220;I AM FREE Thank you, I AM, God &#8220;during the Nets&#8217; 122-116 victory against Charlotte, was scrawled on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":413038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,51],"tags":[154,3512,3634,4005,2553,2215,1940],"class_list":["post-413032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooklyn-nets","category-nba","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-kyrie-irving-anti-semitic","tag-kyrie-irving-controversy","tag-kyrie-irving-nike","tag-nba-2022","tag-nba-news","tag-nba-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413032","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}