Irving opens up: ‘It was difficult to sit at the table with my family’
NBA | KYRIE IRVING
The point guard talked for long about him promoting an antisemitic movie, just hours before playing again for the Nets after his suspension.
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Kyrie Irving is ready to play again. The controversial point guard will jump onto the court on this Monday’s early morning when the Nets clash with the Memphis Grizzlies, after going through a suspension that kept him away from the game for eight consecutive matches with the Brooklyn Nets. This decision came after he actively promoted an antisemitic movie on Twitter. Nevertheless, and although he already said he’s sorry through a social media post, Irving talked about the whole situation again in an interview with Ian Begley from SNY, about how he lived through the whole process of forgiveness he had to take by orders of the New York Franchise.
‘I just want to say I’m so sorry for all the actions that derived from my post on social media. I’ve had a lot of time to think. But my focus, initially, if I could do it all over again, woould be to heal and recover some of the many close relationships to my relatives, jewish brothers and sisters.
'The pain I had to repair was far too great'
‘I feel no hate whatsoever in my heart for the Jewish people or anybody that identifies itself as Jewish. And it’s been a whole process of sitting at home with my family, witnessing all this, asking questions. The hardest part was to explain this to myself, because I know who I am, I know what I represent’, Kyrie Irving commented.
Irving was forced by the Nets to meet with heads of the Jewish community of Brooklyn as part of his forgiveness process, because the franchise thought a simple ‘sorry’ wasn’t enough.
‘It’s been a learning journey. It was too much damage to be repaired, too many necessary conversations. And a lot of reflection. I had the opportunity of doing so with people from the Jewish community, the black community, the white community. I just take care of people. When I hurt somebody, I want to take responsibility and say that ‘I’ll do it better’’, the Nets star concluded.
