Watch as all the moments Kyrie Irving ‘disrespected’ the Boston Celtics are put together ahead of the NBA Finals
guard has replicated his form of old during the 2024 postseason, and for the first time in a while looks like the unstoppable offensive weapon who was onceIrving was involved in a blockbuster trade to the Celtics in 2017 and was supposed to deliver the franchise itsInstead, his two-year stint with the Cs was mired in controversy and ended with him becoming public enemy number one after jumping ship to the new-look Brooklyn Nets after the 2018-19 season.
Race was one of the many hot button issues that dominated the discourse in the build up to both those games. Asked whether he had ever had racist comments made toward him while in TD Garden, Irving said that he "was not the only one that can attest to this" and shrugged his hands.As the teams left the court, Irving appeared to stomp and wipe his foot on the face of the Celtics' logo, known as Lucky the Leprechaun.
"It's been that way in history in terms of entertainment, performers and sports for a long period of time, just underlying racism and just treating people like they're in a human zoo."Throwing stuff at people and saying things. It's a certain point where it gets to be too much. I called it out, I just wanted to keep it strictly basketball.
Irving, now 32, reflected on some of his low points with and against the Celtics in recent years, revealing he was in a dark place, due to off-court issues, during some of the more controversial outbursts. "I think I'm better at consolidating kind of the emotions now or being aware of what it's going to be like," he went on.
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