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Kyrie Irving wants to leave a legacy. With his stance on vaccination, he just might.
This asshole is conspiracy nutcase and this will be his legacy
Link to tweet
He’s a gentle philosopher king and a spiritual seeker who wants to leave a “service legacy on the Earth,” he said. It isn’t only whimsical bluster; he has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the homeless and the hungry, to Native Americans and Black students, to social justice causes and international relief efforts. But he can’t seem to serve his own teammate LaMarcus Aldridge, who briefly retired last season with a heart condition, by getting a coronavirus jab. He adopts the air of a laureate as he talks flat-Earth theory. He once said he has never seen a “real” picture of the globe and spoke of doing his “own research” into the actual shape of the planet.
You might ask yourself the shallow question, “What do his private beliefs have to do with his ability to play home games?” You might ask why he won’t clarify whether he expected to even be available to his team for home games, given a statement by one of his relatives in Rolling Stone suggesting he might skip homestands this season to avoid the “oppressing” nature of the city’s vaccine law — a public health issue?
“Please, just respect my privacy,” he repeated. “All the questions kind of leading into what’s happening, just please — everything will be released at a due date, and once we get this cleared up … I’m just excited to enjoy this day by day and the journey, man. However this comes, the ups, the downs, the good, the bad — I know that I’ll be there every day no matter what and just be present for my teammates as one of the leaders on the team.”
I’m sorry — you’ll be “there,” meaning where? And what exactly do you take people for?
You might ask, in your puny-brained superficial way, how a man who signed a contract worth $136 million over four years — some of whose pay comes from the ticket-buying and viewing public — justifies keeping an entire franchise and city in a state of distracted uncertainty. “We trust in Kyrie, and I expect us to have our whole team at some point,” teammate Kevin Durant said stonily during the media event.
You might ask yourself the shallow question, “What do his private beliefs have to do with his ability to play home games?” You might ask why he won’t clarify whether he expected to even be available to his team for home games, given a statement by one of his relatives in Rolling Stone suggesting he might skip homestands this season to avoid the “oppressing” nature of the city’s vaccine law — a public health issue?
“Please, just respect my privacy,” he repeated. “All the questions kind of leading into what’s happening, just please — everything will be released at a due date, and once we get this cleared up … I’m just excited to enjoy this day by day and the journey, man. However this comes, the ups, the downs, the good, the bad — I know that I’ll be there every day no matter what and just be present for my teammates as one of the leaders on the team.”
I’m sorry — you’ll be “there,” meaning where? And what exactly do you take people for?
You might ask, in your puny-brained superficial way, how a man who signed a contract worth $136 million over four years — some of whose pay comes from the ticket-buying and viewing public — justifies keeping an entire franchise and city in a state of distracted uncertainty. “We trust in Kyrie, and I expect us to have our whole team at some point,” teammate Kevin Durant said stonily during the media event.
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... damn glad he's gone. He's poisonous. What a headcase.
Will never forget what he did to win us a championship, ever. But only a year later, he pulled the same BS he pulls on every team. Maybe when he finds the edge of his flat earth, he'll get his head together. 
