{"id":258038,"date":"2020-06-14T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=258038"},"modified":"2020-06-14T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T12:01:36","slug":"kyrie-irving-calls-on-players-to-oppose-restart-of-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/14\/kyrie-irving-calls-on-players-to-oppose-restart-of-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving calls on players to oppose restart of NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_258039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258039\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/27235940294_3ed6251ca4_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-258039 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/27235940294_3ed6251ca4_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/27235940294_3ed6251ca4_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/27235940294_3ed6251ca4_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/27235940294_3ed6251ca4_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/27235940294_3ed6251ca4_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyrie Irving on players&#8217; call Friday, per sources: \u201cI\u2019m willing to give up everything I have (for social reform).\u201d (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edrost88\/27235940294\/\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edrost88\/\">Erik Drost\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Brooklyn Nets All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving lobbied NBA players to oppose the resumption of the NBA in the wake of mass demonstrations against racism and social injustice in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources: Kyrie Irving led a call of 80-plus NBA players, including Chris Paul\/Kevin Durant\/Carmelo Anthony\/Donovan Mitchell, and Irving and several players spoke up about not supporting resumed season due to nationwide unrest from social injustice\/racism,\u201d Shams Charania, an NBA insider for the Athletic, tweeted late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Charania added Donovan Mitchell, Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard are also among players who are against the NBA return plan because of the social issues and coronavirus fears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNBPA leadership, Paul\/Garrett Temple, provided insight too. Every player had a voice \u2014 wants to find purpose, whether they play or not,\u201d Charania added.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving on players&#8217; call Friday, per sources: \u201cI\u2019m willing to give up everything I have (for social reform).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NBA will return with a 22-team format at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida as the tentative start date of the tournament was scheduled for July 3.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 Brooklyn Nets All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving lobbied NBA players to oppose the resumption of the NBA in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":258039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54365,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-instagram","category-sports","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258040,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258038\/revisions\/258040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}