According to pr.NBA.com, Commissioner Adam Silver will meet with Brooklyn Nets star point guard Kyrie Irving next week to discuss the latter’s recent actions. Irving shared a link to the movie “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” on his Twitter last Thursday, a film that is widely viewed to contain several antisemitic tropes.
Silver, who is Jewish, addressed the situation in a statement on Thursday:
“Kyrie Irving made a reckless decision to post a link to a film containing deeply offensive antisemitic material. While we appreciate the fact that he agreed to work with the Brooklyn Nets and the Anti-Defamation League to combat antisemitism and other forms of discrimination, I am disappointed that he has not offered an unqualified apology and, more specifically, denounced the vile and harmful content contained in the film he chose to publicize.