After the Nets loss to the Celtics Wednesday, a game filled with “Kyrie Sucks” chants and signs calling him a “coward” for not playing plastered around TD Center, not to mention stories purporting to give new perspectives on last season, Irving posted a response on Instagram, one that will certainly be debated not just in the days ahead, but for a long time. Irving suggested that basketball is a game ... thus less than life, or as he put it at the end of his post, LIFE.
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“It happens all the time and Tonight just shows how Sports/Entertainment will always be ignorant and obtrusive,” Irving wrote.