Boston Celtics forward and NBPA vice president Jaylen Brown said he and others in the players union have issues with the requirements the Brooklyn Nets have given Kyrie Irving in order for him to be reinstated.
Complete sensitivity trainingsMake a $500,000 donation to anti-hate causes
These requirements are coming from the Nets, not the league — which told Yahoo Sports last week it was “unaware of the depth of what Irving was asked to fulfill by the team.” Still, Brown said he thinks that those requirements are way too harsh. After Irving meets with Silver, he hopes the league and the NBPA can set guidelines to better handle similar situations in the future.."I don't think people in our governing bodies think he's antisemitic. He made a mistake. We understand from an outside perspective how important sensitivity is to not condone hate speech and not condone anything of that nature. It's sensitivity to the dialect around that.
"We don't want to stand up for somebody in order to not condemn hate speech, but I don't believe Kyrie Irving is antisemitic. And hopefully the NBA feels the same way … There is an interesting distinction between what somebody says verbally and what somebody posts as a link on a platform with no description behind it. Some people will argue there's no difference and some people will argue there is a difference. There's no language in our CBA. There's no rules against it.
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