Editors’ note: Several hours after this column was posted, the Nets suspended Kyrie Irving. Irving issued an apology on Instagram late Thursday night.
Enough already. It is time to suspend Kyrie Irving. No more dancing around the issue, no more chances for Irving to stand near a microphone and do his shifty pseudo-intellectual/martyr act. He cannot be trusted to say, do or even think the right thing, and so Adam Silver or the Nets have to do it for him.
Irving blew his last chance at a genuine apology Thursday with another debacle of a press conference. He had ample opportunity to denounce what should so obviously be denounced, and he still did not do it. He has proven himself uninterested in self-reflection and incapable of a sincere apology because he is so committed to presenting himself as the deep thinker that he clearly is not.
