{"id":1262118,"date":"2022-12-06T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/nike-part-ways-with-brooklyn-nets-guard-kyrie-irving\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:25:36","slug":"nike-part-ways-with-brooklyn-nets-guard-kyrie-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/06\/nike-part-ways-with-brooklyn-nets-guard-kyrie-irving\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike part ways with Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image_2022-12-06_080254390-696x392.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Kyrie Irving served an eight-game suspension\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyrie Irving served an eight-game suspension<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nike has ended its sponsorship deal with Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving one month after he promoted a documentary which contained anti-Semitic material on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The sportswear giant initially\u00a0suspended its contract\u00a0with Irving, who later\u00a0apologised.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old missed eight games during his suspension from the NBA.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Speaking recently, Nike founder Phil Knight said: \u201cKyrie stepped over the line. It\u2019s kind of that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knight added: \u201cHe made some statements that we just can\u2019t abide by, and that\u2019s why we ended the relationship. I was fine with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time NBA All-Star Irving had partnered with Nike for eight years and, according to Forbes, had an $11m (\u00a39m) contract with the brand as of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>During his suspension, he met NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Jewish community leaders, while he and the Nets\u00a0pledged to donate\u00a0$1m (\u00a3820,000) to combat \u201chate and intolerance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"IxqEyf-yiWc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premotobre Kasee on Adom TV (02-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxqEyf-yiWc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrie Irving served an eight-game suspension Nike has ended its sponsorship deal with Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving one month after he promoted a documentary which contained anti-Semitic material on social media. The sportswear giant initially\u00a0suspended its contract\u00a0with Irving, who later\u00a0apologised. The 30-year-old missed eight games during his suspension from the NBA. Speaking recently, Nike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28796,9964,29616,29617,5941,12800,385,573],"class_list":["post-1262118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brooklyn","tag-guard","tag-irving","tag-kyrie","tag-nets","tag-nike","tag-part","tag-ways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}