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Kyrie Irving Sounds Off On Fans, Media And Everyone In Long Instagram Post
Last year’s Boston Celtics were struggling all year long. The team never managed to build a chemistry and act like an actual team, leading to Kyrie Irving eventually leaving town.
This season, the Celtics look great and like a proper team. They are sitting at 13-4 and haven’t lost a home game yet.
Last night, the Celtics played Kyrie Irving’s new team, the Brooklyn Nets, and while Irving did not play due to an injury, he was booed and made fun of, even though he wasn’t physically present. Celtics fans were all over Irving from beginning to end, blasting him for failing to show up to play his former team.
After the game Irving posted an extremely long post on Instagram, calling out fans, the NBA, the media, and the circus that surrounds it all:
It happens all the time and Tonight just shows how Sports/Entertainment will always be ignorant and obtrusive. It’s one big SHOW that means Very VERY little in the real world that most people live in because there are Actually things that matter going on within it. Like figuring out a life that means more to than A dam Ball going into ahoop, or learning how to grow up being in a fish bowl of a society based on your popularity level as a person, or even dealing with becoming the leader of your family after someone’s passing and not knowing how to deal with Life after it happens. Buttt, This Game of Sports entertainment matters more than someone’s mental health and well being right? Or the real life things that happen to people everyday but they still have to Perform for the NBA and its fans? Right? It’s all about doing it for the fans and organization that love you so much? Think again, It’s a GAME, and it’s promoted as a Fandom experience for ticket buyers and viewers at home, while defacing who people truly are as PEOPLE. Then spat out all over these media networks as valuable food for thought while they actually believe that their opinions hold weight to real cultural leaders that speak and act for change. One big Gimmick with Some smoke and mirrors! I’ll always be the one that takes the stand and speaks the truth every time though. A purposeful and spiritually led Life will always be bigger and more meaningful than any sports arena or any entertainment space. This GAME isn’t meant to be controlled and shown as a Drama, it’s meant to show the LOVE. Love for the Art is the Only damn thing that keeps the purist people in this Giant Sports/Entertainment Circus. Don’t fall for the Game that’s played in front of you as Entertainment, it’ll never be as serious dealing with LIFE.
