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...Nike has severed its contract with US basketball star Kyrie Irving after the Brooklyn Nets guard promoted an anti-Semitic film on social media, the latest fallout amid a rise in high-profile hate speech....
...Nike terminates Kyrie Irving contract after anti-Semitism controversy Nike has severed its contract with US basketball star Kyrie Irving after the Brooklyn Nets guard promoted an anti-Semitic film on social...
...Nazarian calls the brand’s turning point “the Kyrie moment”. During a 2017 NBA game, Irving’s back seized up and the 6ft 2in point guard asked for a Theragun to be brought onto the court....
...Kyrie Irving, a National Basketball Association player for the Brooklyn Nets, abstained from taking the vaccine and was restricted from competing for most of the 2021-22 season because of a New York City...
...The National Basketball Association’s Brooklyn Nets announced it will bar one of its star players, Kyrie Irving, from the team for the foreseeable future, effectively suggesting he is ineligible to play...
...Highlights Nike severed its contract with US basketball star Kyrie Irving over his controversy posting a reference to, and refusing to condemn, an anti-Semitic film earlier this season....
...It helped that Nike, which suspended its deal with Kyrie Irving after he refused to disavow anti-Semitism, never let his brand usurp its own....
...After getting swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round of the National Basketball Association playoffs, the basketball supersquad led by Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving and coached by two-time league...
...Irving....
...It is now trying to quell resistance among a few of its influential players, including Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving....
...In US basketball, there has been a furore around Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving. But he just happens to live in a place with an indoor vaccine mandate; other anti-vaxxers can keep playing....
...US basketball star Kyrie Irving’s refusal to be vaccinated led his team the Brooklyn Nets to initially block him from selection, while Aaron Rodgers, a star National Football League quarterback, has defended...
...The policy came on the heels of a testy first week of the 2021-22 NBA pre-season, with stars including the Nets’ Kyrie Irving and the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James weighing in with opposing views on vaccination...
...The recent signing of NBA All-Star players Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant should increase ticket sales. Mr Tsai, a board member of NBA China, would no doubt find ways to grow team revenues in Asia....
...But just a few weeks ago, the Nets — owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov — shocked the hoops establishment by signing free-agent superstars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving....
...The Nets also added Kyrie Irving, the point guard formerly on the Boston Celtics, and centre DeAndre Jordan....
...The deal cements what has already been an exciting off-season for the Nets, who signed Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving and appear to have assembled a formidable squad out of thin air....
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