Irving also missed time last season as he was unable to play home games in New York due to his refusal to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The point guard, who was then playing for the Brooklyn Nets, initially refused to apologize for the tweet and doubled down on the controversial post in front of the media, which ultimately landed him with an eight-game suspension until he belatedly offered an apology. Irving sparked backlash and criticism of his own in October when he posted a link to the Amazon page for the 2018 film 'Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America' based on a 2015 book of the same name, which has been described as 'venomously anti-Semitic'. There was an overload of judgment on what I had going on, and there's usually an overload of judgment from the public court of opinion.' 'I don't want to assume anything by every media member, but that's just the way it seems for me and my perspective, which is there was an overload of judgment on Ja. 'When you're dealing with particular hardships in the public eye, especially with the media being attracted to just keeping up with what we're doing, or what's the next kind of grab or story,' Irving added.
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