Reference: Were the Celtics on court not bad enough, one fan makes it even worse – The Boston Globe
Kyrie Irving, the physically-talented but brain-dead former Celtics player now playing for the Nets, after having a great game against the Celts took the time and trouble to make a point of stomping on the Celtics mid-court logo before he left the court. Apparently in response, a fan tossed a water bottle at him as he exited the court.
Irving’s response – oh, that was racist. This is what he said about it:
“It’s unfortunate that sports has come to this crossroads, where you are seeing a lot of old ways come up,” said Irving. “It’s been that way in history, in terms of entertainment, performers in sports, for a long period of time. Underlying racism and just treating people like they’re in a human zoo. Throwing stuff at people, saying things. There’s a certain point where it just gets to be too much. I called it out. I wanted to keep it strictly basketball. But people just feel very entitled out here . . . we’re not at the theatre. We’re not throwing tomatoes and other random stuff at the people that are performing. It’s too much.”
Talk about trying to play the race card. Couldn’t have been because he’s just a jerk, could it? Naaah, that doesn’t fit the racist narrative, so you won’t hear anything about this guy’s selfish and jerky antics over the years. But blacks can’t be jerks, it’s racist to even think so, never mind say so. And even if the bottle wasn’t thrown in response to his stomping on the logo, it’s still more likely than not that it was because he’s a jerk, not because he’s black. There were lots of other black Nets players too and they didn’t get targeted. Only the former Celtic jerk did.
In any event, he stomped on the logo and disrespected the city, the Celtics and their fans. Too bad the bottle didn’t hit him, he had it coming. Of course, since he’s black he doesn’t think there should be any consequences for his own actions, so he has to make it a race thing when it plainly isn’t.