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Kyrie Irving’s Return to Boston Reignites Racism Issue

BOSTON — Kyrie Irving is back in town on Friday. He will bring Kevin Durant, James Harden … and a decades-long debate about racism in a city with a nasty history of it with him.

In case you missed it (and at this point, how could you?), Irving, the ex-Celtic, made waves Tuesday when he suggested he had experienced racism in Boston. Irving declined to cite specifics, rather imploring fans at TD Garden to keep it “strictly basketball, there’s no belligerence or any racism going on, subtle racism and people yelling s--- from the crowd.”

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