Kyrie Irving ‘Truly Upset’ about events at Capitol, Decision without cost in Jacob Blake shooting

Kyrie Irving has missed the last two games of the Brooklyn Nets and his status for Sunday’s game with the Oklahoma City Thunder is still up in the air.

Irving has not made any public comments about his absence but one of his former high school coaches thinks Irving is “really upset” about Wednesday’s events in which a group of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol building, and also charges were not filed Tuesday against Rusten Sheskey, a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisc. who shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, seven times in the back on Aug. 23. Irving was also disturbed by the lack of punishment for the officers in Breonna Taylor’s shooting.

“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 appeared at St. Patrick’s High School, which was ahead of St. Patrick’s School, and continues to be heavily involved in providing financial support to the school and the basketball team. He went into practice with the team last season, advising NBA lottery pick Jonathan Kuminga and other players.

Irving averages 27.1 points, 6.1 assists and 5.3 rebounds for the nets (5-5).

“I made messages with Ky, but I want to keep everything private,” Nets coach Steve Nash told reporters after the team’s 115-100 loss at Memphis on Friday night. “It simply came to our notice then. But we will deal with that and come out before we leave on Sunday. “

Amid complaints from Black Lives Matters last summer, Irving said he told his NBA players during a league-wide call that the league should not return to play because it would take away his. everyone from the wider problem of systemic racism in America. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 put an end to protests across the country.

According to Shams Charania of the Athletic, Irving said, “I do not support going into Orlando. I don’t like the racist and the bull &% # *. Rudeigin Something smells a little fish. Whether we want to admit it or not, we are targeted as black people every day we wake up. ”

As a result of Wednesday’s terrorist attack on the Capitol by a horrific white group of Trump supporters who have suffered five deaths, including a Capitol police officer, several NBA players have spoken out about the double status of -into how law enforcement treats “campaigners. “If those who stormed the Capitol were largely people of color, many believe they would have been treated very differently by law enforcement.

“We live in two Americas and that was a prime example of that [Wednesday], ”Said Lakers star LeBron James, a former Irving team player in Cleveland. “If you don’t understand or see that you need to take a step back. Not just one step but four or five or even 10 steps back.

“How do you want your children or grandmothers to live in this beautiful country? Not yesterday. I couldn’t help but wonder if that was the kind of storm I was taking to the Capitol what the outcome would be. We all know what would have happened if someone had gone near it without storming or getting into the offices. ”

James was wearing a shirt into Thursday’s game at the Staples Center which read, “Do you understand now?”

When asked what his shirt meant, James said he wants people to understand what athletes and blacks say.

“You never understand feeling like a black man and woman in America,” said James. “Do you understand how difficult it is to keep motivating and giving away everything we’ve got? Everyone jumps on a bandwagon of what we offer, what we bring with them. How we decorate, our music, our culture, our food. Everyone steals from what we do and then they want to work like we did or brought into this world. We will get no due diligence or anything back to his country but a slap in the face. ”

After the Nets’ loss on Friday, Nash said he respects Irving’s privacy and understands that bigger issues are at stake for NBA players.

“Well, there is no question that social justice is much more than basketball,” he said. “It simply came to our notice then. I think we all understand that in this league.

“So we are all frustrated and in a gray phase that change must come, and we need to make sure that small changes happen. It’s not fast enough. It is not strong enough. But it cannot stop us from our common belief that change is essential. ”