Brooklyn Nets warmth magnet and resident conspiracy theorist Kyrie Irving desires the crew to deal him elsewhere previous to the NBA commerce deadline or he’ll depart as a free agent, as reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic’s Shams Charania.

Irving, 30, had beforehand requested to be sign-and-traded forward of the season, based on Woj, citing sources. The guard is in the ultimate yr of his four-year $136+ million contract with Brooklyn.

Irving, the mercurial level guard who was No. 3 in our 2022 Fool of the Yr record, is presently averaging 27.1 factors per recreation for Brooklyn (31-20), who sits third within the Atlantic Division.

His teammate Kevin Durant requested the Nets commerce him again in June.

As I’m certain you bear in mind, in since-deleted messages on his social media, Irving promoted the ebook and documentary Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America, which pushes a number of lies concerning the Jewish folks and their mistreatment of individuals of shade. Nike subsequently suspended its relationship with Irving, who later declared he was “free.”

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He didn’t apologize until after the Nets suspended him for eight video games and the Anti-Defamation League rejected his donation.

Irving can also be a identified flat earther, and anti-vaxxer, claiming his stance on the COVID-19 vaccine value him over $100 million.

“I gave up 4 years, 100-and-something million deciding to be unvaccinated and that was the choice,” Irving had mentioned at Nets media day in September. “[Get this] contract, get vaccinated or be unvaccinated and there’s a degree of uncertainty of your future, whether or not you’re going to be on this league, whether or not you’re going to be on this crew, so I needed to take care of that real-life circumstance of dropping my job for this resolution.”