Irving said some things in a controversial film were untrue, but he didn’t say he shouldn’t have posted a link to it.
NEW YORK — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wants an apology and Kyrie Irving still isn’t going to give one.tweeting out a link to a film containing antisemitic materialIrving said some things in “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” were untrue, but he didn’t say he shouldn’t have posted a link to it.
Silver’s comments were the second statement the league office has issued on the latest Irving controversy, and the first in which Irving was referenced by name. Silver’s comments and Irving’s reluctance to apologize came hours before the FBI said it had received The National Basketball Players Association also put out a statement this week echoing the NBA’s original comments. The NBPA also did not mention Irving by name; Irving is a vice president of the union and a member of its executive committee.
“Those falsehoods are unfortunate,” Irving said, referring to content in the film. “And it’s not that I don’t believe in the Holocaust. I never said that. Never, ever have said it. It’s not come out of my mouth. I never tweeted it. I never liked anything like it. So the Holocaust in itself is an event that means something to a large group of people that suffered something that could have been avoided.”“I cannot be antisemitic if I know where I come from,” Irving said.
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