{"id":242788,"date":"2022-11-13T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T21:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=242788"},"modified":"2022-11-13T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T21:54:59","slug":"brooklyn-indefi-nets-bring-no-clarity-to-kyrie-irving-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/brooklyn-indefi-nets-bring-no-clarity-to-kyrie-irving-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn “Indefi-Nets” Bring No Clarity To Kyrie Irving Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyrie Irving will not be playing tonight when the Brooklyn Nets play the horror show also known as the Los Angeles Lakers. His “indefinite” suspension is now lasting longer than the minimum of five games originally stipulated, with Nets owner Joe Tsai saying the mercurial guard has come up short in the contrition department.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe still has work to do,\u201d Tsai told The New York Post on Saturday in Los Angeles. “He has to show people that he\u2019s sorry. What\u2019s important \u2014 and what people miss \u2014 is he only apologized after he was suspended.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nets have agitated the NBA players’ union by setting what some players feel are overly onerous conditions in order for Irving to return, and an appeal of the suspension has been threatened. The lack of clarity from Nets leadership is not helping the situation, leaving everyone questioning how long this will continue. That’s while also distracting from the team’s recent success, going 4-1 without Irving while showing a level of defensive intensity that was missing when both he and former coach Steve Nash were part of the equation.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn is favored by 4 1\/2 points against a floundering Lakers team that sits in 14th place with a 2-9 record, and perhaps the most predictable thing is that LeBron James will weigh in on the side of Irving just as Jaylen Brown (a member of the union’s executive council) did Saturday night:<\/p>\n

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This response is alarming for multiple reasons https:\/\/t.co\/LCIEERpNYF<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jaylen Brown (@FCHWPO) November 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n