Sporting goods giant Nike and controversial NBA star Kyrie Irving are no longer working together.
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the essentials in brief
- Nike ends collaboration with NBA star Kyrie Irving.
- The Brooklyn Nets player shared an anti-Semitic film on Twitter.
- Irving loses about eleven million US dollars a year as a result.
Nike has ended the contract with Irving that has been dormant for weeks, several other US media reported yesterday in addition to “The Athletic”.
The Brooklyn Nets basketball player has recently been heavily criticized. The reason: Irving shared a link to a film with anti-Semitic content and then did not clearly distance himself from anti-Semitism for a long time.
Kyrie Irving loses $11 million
Nike had therefore already put the sponsorship contract on hold at the beginning of November. According to reports, Nike transferred about eleven million US dollars to Irving every year.
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