Maverick Kyrie Irving has a lot to learn, as if the Earth is round, dinosaurs lived, and anti-Semitism is bad

A man with all the pens, it turns out, does not understand anything at all.

Kyrie Irving is one of the best dribblers in basketball history…and one of the most colossally wobbly thinkers in the universe.

When the Dallas Mavericks admitted that Luka Doncic’s one-man circus was entertaining every night but was ultimately unsuccessful, they decided to do what many teams do. Like when the Dallas Cowboys traded for the infamous short-tempered Charles Haley to help them win the Super Bowl in the 1990s. And when, in 2000, the Texas Rangers signed Hall of Famer Narcissist Alex Rodriguez, and in 2007 acquired reborn, always bad hitter Josh Hamilton.

Taunted by the right talent and lucrative potential, sports franchises are quickly becoming selectively blind, swallowing their integrity and selling their souls to the devil.

Enter Irving.

Remember, these are good Mavericks boots. Founded by Christian Cowboy Don Carter and for season 21 was led by star Dirk Nowitzki, who didn’t fart much in church. But the Mavs are suddenly 12 years behind their only championship. Dirk has retired and is now just a statue outside the American Airlines Center. Doncic is the talent of a generation, setting every “24-year-old” record in NBA history. Last spring, the Mavs valiantly made it to the Western Conference Finals before losing to the eventual NBA champion Golden State Warriors.

But this season – around .500 – it seemed like they were wasting Doncic’s brilliance.

A desperate half-court dash from Dallas? A trade for Irving, one of the most talented players in the history of the sport, but also one of the worst teammates and a crazy conspiracy theorist who would make QAnon’s most staunch supporter cringe.

• In 2017, Irving stated that the Earth is not round. “The earth is flat,” he said on the podcast. “It’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us!” A year later, he apologized for the hype caused by his comments, but did not completely renounce his faith. “Even if you believe it, don’t go out and say things like that. It’s for intimate conversations because perceptions and how you’re received changes. In fact, I’m a cunning person.”
• He publicly doubted the existence of dinosaurs. “These experts are finding one bone,” he said. “Then they digitally compose 98 percent of that to create images of what they think dinosaurs should look like.”
• Irving believes that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas because the President sought to “end the world’s banking cartel.” In an interview with boston globehe also stated that the Federal Reserve played a role in the conspiracy, adding that he believed the CIA was trying to “hire Jamaicans” to kill reggae music legend Bob Marley.
• He refused to receive a COVID vaccine, saying, “I did my own research.” His actions kept him out of most of his team’s home games in Brooklyn last season due to New York’s vaccination mandate.

And as a kick to Irving’s sanity earlier this season, while still with the Nets, he used his social media to promote a reference to the 2018 film. From Jews to Blacks: Wake Up Black America. Among other things, the film falsely claims that the murders of over six million Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust never happened, and stigmatizes white Jews as “imposters” who are responsible for the slave trade.

How obsessed is the Mavs with winning and how good is Irving at basketball? The owner Mark Cuban is Jewish.

A sip, indeed.

When confronted with the film’s retweet, Irving initially refused to apologize or retract his antisemitic beliefs. He eventually did so via a statement on his Instagram after the Nets suspended him for eight games. The team then announced that they would make a $500,000 joint donation with Irving to support Jewish civil rights and the Anti-Defamation League. But the ADL refused to accept the money, essentially because it didn’t think Irving’s apology was sincere or that he didn’t hold anti-Semitic beliefs.

Irving then removed his apology from Instagram, which has 18 million followers, and no other appeals were made to New York’s Jewish community. After his exchange with the Mavs, he was asked about whitewashing his social media.

“I don’t think he’s one of those guys who’ll be marching in Charlottesville chanting ‘Jews won’t replace us'” – Mavs owner Mark Cuban.

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“I delete a lot from my Instagram,” Irving said after his first workout as a Maverick.

When asked if he supported the deleted apology, he responded with the typical enigmatic Irving.

“I stand by myself and why I apologized and I did it because I care about my family,” Irving said. “There are Jews in my family who care deeply about me. Did the media know about this in advance when they called me this word “anti-Semite”? No. Did they know anything about my family? No. Everything was supposed. Everything was laid out before I could say anything, and I reacted instead of responding emotionally and maturely. I didn’t mean to defend or attack anyone, so I apologize. And I support my people everywhere – all walks of life, all races, all religions. The same.”

Meyers Leonard returned to the NBA this year after a two-year absence for calling a gamer a “Jewish bitch” during a game. Call of Duty. Out of the league, Leonard spoke publicly about the Chabad house incident at the University of Illinois, his alma mater. He reportedly attended a dinner with Holocaust survivors, spoke with Jewish leaders, and participated in a program to distribute meals to Jewish families in Miami. According to Chicago TribuneLeonard visited the Holocaust museum and organized basketball camps for Jewish children.