DONE DEAL: KYRIE IRVING ACCEPTS $67.8 MILLION TO BOSTON CELTICS
Kyrie Irving sounds like a man at peace with the reality that Boston Celtics fans will never permit him to walk onto the TD Plant parquet and listen anything but a torrent of boos.
After the C’s 138-110 triumph over Irving’s Dallas Dissidents on Walk 1, Irving had a shockingly measured reaction to the city of Boston giving him an earful; this about five a long time after the irregular point protect cleared out the Celtics to sign with the Brooklyn Nets in free office.
“The booing’s portion of it,” Irving said (h/t NESN). “I have managed with Boston fans earlier to me indeed coming here. I’ve left them some times. But prior in my career, we utilized to come up to Boston and smack them around. I’ve had both sides of the coin presently, and I’ve acknowledged that’s what comes with the competitive side. I’ve had both sides. Sending Boston fans domestic at that point too booing me all the time. … They need to win, so you ought to grant them credit.”
Jaylen Brown feels Boston Celtics fans ought to boo stars like Nikola Jokic as much as they do Kyrie Irving
Jaylen Brown has no issues with Celtics fans working out their flexibility of discourse rights, but he’d like to see them treat Irving the same way they do another going to genius — particularly naming Nikola Jokic as an case.
“The fans, they do what they do,” expressed the three-time All-Star (h/t Interior The Celtics). “They’ve got anything reason for that. I think (that) we ought to likely boo each player, each star player that comes in(to) our field; I would like to see that. Possibly it has an impact, possibly it doesn’t, but (Nikola) Jokic and all these other players come in here, boo them as well.”
Brown choosing Jokic was likely by plan given the racial energetic — Irving once said there’s an “basic bigotry” relating to Boston’s response to his return — numerous see at play between the player and his previous fanbase. Having talked out against racial injustice countless times within the past, Brown is playing peacemaker here.
