The Brooklyn Nets entered the season with championship-or-bust expectations, and as the season went off the rails and culminated with a first-round sweep at the hands of the Boston Celtics, the continual criticism of the organization and its players reached a new level.
Amid constant daytime TV segments on what went wrong with the Nets, Kyrie Irving blasted “puppet masters” in the media in a rant on Twitter, calling out those who get paid for “discrediting and disrespecting people’s lives for entertainment.”
According to ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins, the criticism of Irving throughout the season – and there’s been plenty of it – has never crossed the line into disrespect.