By AFP
LOS ANGELES: Nike said Monday it has parted ways with Kyrie Irving after the NBA star sparked a firestorm by posting a link to an anti-Semitic film.
“Kyrie Irving is no longer a Nike athlete,” a spokesman for the company told AFP.
The sponsorship deal came under pressure last month, when the sportswear giant suspended its relationship with the Brooklyn Nets’ point guard.
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That came after the team suspended Irving for at least five games citing his “failure to disavow anti-Semitism” either on social media or in meetings with reporters.
Irving had been under scrutiny since a social media post in which he offered a link to the film “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake up Black America” — a 2018 film widely condemned for containing a range of anti-Semitic tropes.
LOS ANGELES: Nike said Monday it has parted ways with Kyrie Irving after the NBA star sparked a firestorm by posting a link to an anti-Semitic film.
“Kyrie Irving is no longer a Nike athlete,” a spokesman for the company told AFP.
The sponsorship deal came under pressure last month, when the sportswear giant suspended its relationship with the Brooklyn Nets’ point guard.
ALSO READ | US Jews battle new ‘mainstreamed’ anti-Semitism
That came after the team suspended Irving for at least five games citing his “failure to disavow anti-Semitism” either on social media or in meetings with reporters.
Irving had been under scrutiny since a social media post in which he offered a link to the film “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake up Black America” — a 2018 film widely condemned for containing a range of anti-Semitic tropes.
