Updated:21/01/2021 02:03h
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The new Brooklyn project, in addition to a great sports potential, if successful, holds redemption, as James Harden, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, three of the best players in the NBA, are easily despised. As arrogant as they are insecure, human after all, perhaps too much. Harden, the most furnished of the three, without being a true praise, has left Houston fought with everyone. Even Wall and Cousins, who came to the team this summer and theoretically with less power, strongly reproached the guard’s attitude, forged in the preseason between nightclubs and friction with the newest of the team. Durant, an absolute safety on the court (averaging more than thirty points after two years without playing), was identified on the network with a false Twitter account where he defended his honor against the millions of detractors that every player in his category has. But Irving, the youngest of the three, has no brakes. A figure, persecuted excessively surely, it has taken to a new level the eccentricities of a league eternally persecuted by the past and present of its players. “We have to talk about Kyrie”, as Guillermo Giménez would say.
Lighter in beard and hair, as in his beginnings in Cleveland, Irving finally appeared after two weeks totally oblivious to his team’s schedule, a time in which he has missed seven games and in which he has not even trained. “I take full responsibility for my actions,” explained the Melbourne-born player, who argued that he needed “a break” and attributed this stop for personal reasons, despite the fact that the base was seen a few days ago in a nightclub with his sister and without a mask.
Irving, since leaving LeBron James’ protective aura in 2017, has tripped himself on several occasions throughout his career and, despite being only 28 years old, he seems a somewhat lost and overly reflective man. It only took two seasons with the Boston Celtics to blow up the whole plan Danny Ainge up in the air, that he saw him as a leader, as he ended up shifting the responsibility for the playoff eliminations to his teammates. The team’s fans, Catholic and Irish, have attacked him from a distance, attributing “cowardice” and “pestilence” to him.
Two sides in the Orlando bubble
NBA players, especially their stars, must be measured both by their basketball impact and by the social, heads of the Black Lives Matter movement since the Orlando bubble. During the height of police violence in Minnesota and Wisconsin, two camps were created within the player establishment. On the one hand, LeBron was the main supporter of using competition as a platform, as a bridge to get a message across the planet. On the other hand, Irving opted for the season cancellation and the forcefulness of the act in order to raise awareness. Finally, the Lakers star was the victorious ideologue, surely aware that an unfinished season would not be a well-received message between the owners and the league’s board of directors, two bodies that finally joined the cause. Kyrie, in addition to his nightlife, has also been in the news in recent weeks for buy a house from George Floyd’s family, the black man killed by suffocation by Minneapolis police on May 25. This was stated by Stephen Jackson, a former NBA player and close friend of the Floyd.
We do not know exactly what dwells in Irving’s spirit, other than that he is protected by the “jamsa”, a symbol from the Middle East that adorns his left shoulder in the form of a tattoo. In need of purification, the player returned last December for the first time to the Celtics stadium. There, hours before the game, he burned sage imitating a ritual of the Indian tribes Sioux, peoples settled in Canada. With an apparent taste for the past, Irving joins the flat-earther group, simple in his message. “There are no real photos of the planet,” he said at the time.
He has also generated enemies with his statements, or a more watered down affection. At the beginning of the season, he assured that he was not going to address the press throughout the year, that he would let his basketball speak. Sounds were his statements about Kevin Durant, whom he considered the first equal he had played with in his career, a player to pass the ball to in hot moments. A phrase that it didn’t sit well with James, with whom he won the ring in 2016. “Honestly, it hurt a little.”
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