If you were following the Wednesday night game between the Boston Celtics and the Kyrie Irving-less Brooklyn Nets, you may have caught wind of a story taking hold before the teams hit the court.
Posters declaring Irving a “coward” popped up around TD Garden in response to the current Nets (and former Celtics) point guard sitting out the game with a shoulder injury.
“We thought of this a couple weeks ago, knowing [Irving] was coming back,” Griffin Whitman said of the posters. His company, LFG Sports, is behind the stunt. The sign’s original version included the term “liar” and Irving’s October 2018 quote about re-signing with Boston, but the plans changed course with news of his absence.