>On TNT’s Nets-Bulls broadcast on Tuesday, the matter was discussed for several minutes in the first quarter in a discussion including Miller, play-by-play broadcaster Brian Anderson and sideline reporter Jared Greenberg.
>“In years past, this league has been great because the players have led the way and they have strong voices,” Miller said. “When Donald Sterling stepped in it, when Robert Sarver just recently stepped in it, our voices in the basketball community and our players were vocally strong in some type of discipline being handed down — or be gone.
>“The players have dropped the ball on this case when it’s been one of their own. It’s been crickets,” Miller added. “And it’s disappointing, because this league has been built on the shoulders of the players being advocates. Right is right and wrong is wrong. And if you’re gonna call out owners, and rightfully so, then you’ve got to call out players as well. You can’t go silent in terms of this for Kyrie Irving. I want to hear the players and their strong opinions as well, just as we heard about Robert Sarver and Donald Sterling.”
Couldn’t find a video clip of this so I found the transcription
[Source](https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/reggie-miller-blasts-nba-players-for-crickets-on-kyrie-irving/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow)
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Reggie Miller with another clutch play
Thin Baller Line
My own team dropped the ball on this, fucking pathetic
“our enhanced moderation has been turned on”
Preach Reggie
13 Nets/Kyrie posts in a row at the top of r/NBA, looks like we found number 14
That’s because a lot of players probably share the same views as Kyrie
Edit: Alright, let me clarify my point a bit
Look, I’ve given the players a lot of slack on this kinda stuff already.
I was and still am against people trying to use shit like not calling out China in order to discredit the nba’s messages about racial equality in America because I believe those two things are completely unrelated.
But when a fucking PLAYER IN YOUR LEAGUE believes in racist shit and you STILL keep quiet then you’re just a fucking hypocrite. It literally doesn’t hit any closer to home than that. If I’m a Jewish player, then how the fuck am I supposed to feel knowing that the Vice President of my players union believes this shit?
A lot of people are trying to tell me that most players probably don’t actually share the same views as Kyrie, but quite frankly I don’t think it makes a difference.
Either they are anti-Semitic themselves, they don’t care about anti-semitism, or they are trying to protect someone who is anti-Semitic.
Just an absolute embarrassment for any professional organization to tolerate this shit. Let alone one that virtue signals as hard as the NBA does.
Black lives only matter
Reggie and Brian Anderson especially were going in on Kyrie at the start of the game
I think it’s a symptom of players not being willing to go out of their way to speak out on issues that don’t directly impact them
It’s much easier for ex players to say this
This player could be a teammate (future, previous, current)
Players only give a shit when it benefits their wallet
Straight facts
Hats of to the TNT crew for standing firm on this. Racism is bad no matter who it’s affecting
For real.
Reggie giving the choke signal to the players because they didn’t have the balls to say anything.
Rare Reggie W
It’s one thing standing up for your own interests, but a person’s true character shows when they’re presented with injustice that doesn’t effect them.
Props to Reggie for the courage and perspective here. A lot of players are conspicuously silent when prejudice isn’t specifically against black people (we all remember LeBron during the Hong Kong protests).
Athletes looking more and more hypocritical these past few years.
Dudes who speak up about social matters when it is easy never fucking speak up about people like Hill, and Roethlisberger, watson, patrick kane etc. Fine with playing with dudes like that. Tom Brady basically bent over backwards to help AB of all people. If Bridges is allowed back are any players gonna speak up? So many other athletes are buddies with Floyd mayweather, plenty of celebs buddy up with Mcgregor. Sports no matter how socially active it is now, is still a massive hotbed of toxic masculinity. None of them spoke up about Ham, Billups, or kidd during the hiring process lol.
Celebrities in general and really just most rich people are sanctimonious, useless hypocrites.
“poor people are hypocrites too” yeah, and but they don’t have power, influence, or resources lol. Put your money where your mouth is, be consistent or stfu.
None of these dudes are anywhere near people like Kareem, Bill, or Ali.
Kyrie thinks he’s X or Baldwin with handles, j/k he def has no idea who Baldwin is.
people too hung up on their parasocial relationships because a person made music, movies, they like, or plays for their sports team. Kill yr idols, enjoy what they do. I can still love Kanye’s music and think he’s a fucking garbage human being.
Can’t ask Shaq or Reggie or any of those guys about Kyrie cause they old school and wouldn’t dare say anything to hurt they pockets. They gone say whatever’s pleases their boss. Big up to Kyrie for going against the grain against the narratives. Time for ppl to wake up.
“We can’t call out one of our own. He’s part of the nba fraternity.”
Or
“We can’t call out kyrie cause most of us believe what he’s saying. We just aren’t dumb enough to say it out loud.”
they cant grasp that its the equivalent of a white nba player running conspiracies about african americans
But LeBron cares sooooo deeply about social justice
It’s cause all the players are buddy buddy now. People forget how well liked Kyrie is his peers. It’d be akin to denouncing a close friend. Doesn’t excuse it tho.
People are hypocrites. Nobody is surprised.
> I want to hear the players and their strong opinions as well, just as we heard about Robert Sarver and Donald Sterling.”
Lmao
Yep. You can’t promote social justice, plaster messages all over your courts and then let one of your faces spread hate. Everything the NBA does promoting “social justice” is just hollow now.
Love Reg but he dropped the ball on the Draymond incident too. “Right is right and wrong is wrong.”
Either all the players agree with it or they think it’s not their problem because it doesn’t affect them.
If it’s the former, then it’s really no surprise why Kyrie believes the things he does, he’s just the only one willing to ignore PR training and say it out loud.
If it’s the latter, then the players are agreeing that there shouldn’t be any obligation or even expectation for members of the public to bother to care about and support the social causes that players push like Sarver or Sterling or even BLM when they aren’t affected by it.
Yall want the league to be about player empowerment and being able to free themselves from the chains of oppression, you know, express themselves freely, but as soon as a player says something you don’t like, you want Adam Silver to whip them back into shape with fines and suspensions. Effectively making sure they are good little boys. What tf do you want? FOH.
Players have always went after the easy issues when it comes to stuff like this: A bunch of shitty racist cops are easy to talk about in front of a podium. China and Kyrie? Not so much.
A role player does some dumb shit everyone will say he should be put in his place. Hell you even had some players siding with Draymond because of his on the court talent. Kyries talent is beloved by most players, many putting him hilariously high on GOAT lists, he is also a top member of their union.
People tend to only care about what goes on in their communities, wow who knew
Not a **single** owner spoke up against Sarver. Think about that.
Players don’t know anything about the issue, hell they hardly were comfortable talking about an issue that actually impacted them and their communities. And their conviction on that issue was not very long lasting. We don’t trust or respect our real politicians but we like our athletes so now we’re hoping they can do both jobs
This subreddit is a whiter forum than Stormfront I swear to god
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The first mistake is assuming that athletes or anything more than that: gifted humans that fit a sport
Just because someone is a superstar in the NBA does not mean that they are a good person, intelligent, wise, follows good moral practices, a good businessman, a good father, etc. etc. etc.
Don’t put regular people pedestals and then get upset when they don’t fit your narrative. Go to any sub on this site and you’ll see that there’s a lot of shitty ass humans. Do you think people just behave like that online?
> players have led the way… You can’t go silent in
The players [elected Kyrie as a leader](https://nbpa.com/news/kyrie-irving-elected-to-nbpa-executive-committee-as-vice-president), to represent them. VP of NBPA.
The fact that he still represents them is a disappointment.
People are asking players to lead and not be silent. Not one person has suggested that maybe Kyrie shouldn’t be their leader
When the players refused to speak up about Hong Kong, I, someone born in China and had family members prosecuted by the CCP during the cultural revolution and my dad actually took part in the Tiananmen square protest, thought I understood their choice because not everyone is on a max and the money from China could be life changing for many low level players. But this is completely different, you don’t even loose anything to speak out against this. Makes me really question if equality was what they were really after doing the whole BLM support during the bubble.