Terms like “#IStandWithKyrie,” “Free Kyrie” and “#BoycottTheNBA” trended on Twitter’s sports section Friday afternoon as users flooded the platform to defend Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving a day after he was suspended at least five games for promoting an antisemitic film, which he apologized for Thursday night after going days without admitting wrongdoing. More than 14,000 tweets mentioning #IStandWithKyrie had emerged by Friday …

The controversy surrounding Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving sparked harsh criticism from Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal on Tuesday night, as the Nets played the Chicago Bulls. Irving promoted a film on Amazon Prime that uses antisemitic tropes to push an agenda. The Nets guard kept the tweet up for a few days as team owner Joe Tsai and …

Irving tweeted a link to a book and film that peddle antisemitic content. Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai and the organization itself issued rebukes of Kyrie Irving on Friday after the team’s All-Star point guard took to social media a day earlier to promote an antisemitic book and film. On Thursday, Irving posted a tweet and Instagram story that included …

Kanye West had lost business due to antisemitic remarks he made Kanye West, the embattled rapper now known as Ye, appeared to support sports commentator Stephen A. Smith and Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving in a series of Instagram posts on Sunday. Ye posted headshots of Smith and Irving in subsequent posts, as well as former NFL running back-turned-Republican Senate …

Kyrie Irving put on a show in Boston on Sunday. Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets ended up losing to the Boston Celtics yesterday in Game 1 of their first-round series. Of course, this was not Kyrie’s fault at all as he managed to score 39 points all while having a truly remarkable fourth quarter that almost gave his team …