Jaylen Brown On Nets’ Suspension Of Kyrie Irving Earlier This Season: “It Was A Violation Of Our CBA”

Jaylen Brown did not agree with the Brooklyn Nets suspending Kyrie Irving for anti-Semitic comments and claimed it violated the CBA.

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Jaylen Brown wants to be more than just a basketball player. He is extremely aware of the platform he has and wants to do more with what he gets.

Brown is Vice President of the NBA Players Union and was not happy to see how Kyrie Irving was treated by the Brooklyn Nets earlier this season when the team suspended him and gave him a list of demands to fulfill before he could return to the team.

“That’s my job as vice president of the union. The union is supposed to be an entity to protect the players, especially their rights and their freedom of speech. I feel like what the Brooklyn Nets did—I still feel the same way—it was inappropriate. I think it was like a public ransom note almost, in a sense, where he had a list of demands he had to do to return to the game. It was a violation of our CBA. It’s a violation of our agreement and kind of got looked over like it was nothing.” (h/t The Ringer)

Irving was suspended for sharing the link to an anti-Semitic movie that generated heaps of controversy for the star. While Irving did everything asked of him to return to the court, the bad feelings stayed until Irving forced the Nets to trade him away in the winter,


Kyrie Irving Had Reasons To Leave Brooklyn

Kyrie Irving has been endlessly vilified for how he handled his tenure with the Nets. it was fair to criticize Kyrie for the mistakes he made, but the way the Nets handled him this season seemed to be harsher because of the mistakes. If he doesn’t intend to re-sign in the summer and wanted to ensure there was a team with his Bird rights that would extend him for a max, he should be allowed to walk if required.

In addition, the Nets were better off trading Irving than letting him walk in free agency. They were already depleted in assets after the failed James Harden trade, and moving Kyrie got them a valuable first-round pick from the Dallas Mavericks in 2029 (2 years after Luka Doncic’s current contract expires) and 2 players that they can flip for future assets in Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith. 

Brown is openly criticizing what the Nets did from a position of power in the union, so there are definitely more players that share this sentiment. Hopefully, he doesn’t run into the same problems with Mark Cuban in Dallas that he did with Joe Tsai in Brooklyn.

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