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Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is not expected to play for the rest of the week for “personal reasons” and the NBA is looking into videos that seem to feature Irving without mascara celebrates at a family birthday party over the weekend, according to an ESPN .com report.
A league source confirmed that the league is looking into the videos.
Irving, 27, will miss his fourth game Tuesday night against Denver and is not expected to play Wednesday at the Knicks or Saturday against the Magic, all ESPN.
“I don’t have any updates, sorry,” Nets coach Steve Nash said Monday when asked if he had a schedule when Irving returned.
Online videos that say Irving is celebrating with his father, Drederick, and sister, Asia, among others at a family birthday party over the weekend in West Orange, were co. NJ Drederick’s birthday is Monday and Tuesday is Asia’s 30th anniversary.
Irving’s story comes as the NBA on Tuesday released a series of new guidelines and protocols for players, including those governing “activities outside the team environment”: “For at least the next two weeks, players and staff must remain at their home (when the team is in the home market) at all times but attend a team activity at a team facility or area, outdoor exercise, or performing necessary activity, or as a result of individual circumstances. ”
Players are expected to wear masks on the bench at all times.
Multiple reports last week have revealed that Irving was upset by the events last Wednesday at the Capitol building in Washington, DC, and by a decision not to charge a police officer in the shooting of Jacob Blake.
“I have not spoken to Kyrie, but I find him upset and concerned about what happened this week in Washington and the decision not to shoot any allegations of the police offer on African America. [man] seven times, ”said Chris Chavannes, head coach at St. Patrick’s School in Hillside, NJ
Irving signed a four-year, $ 141-million free contract with the Nets in the summer of 2019 and joined Kevin Durant in Brooklyn.