Following the report which indicated Kyrie Irving “proposed that players could start their own league” and that he was urging his Brooklyn teammates to not travel to Disney World to finish out the remainder of the 2019-20 season in Orlando, Nets players have come to his defense.
Both Taurean Prince and Caris LeVert refuted Bleacher Report’s Instagram post on the report:
Theo Pinson also shared a similar sentiment in response to the Instagram post, in addition to his remarks about the original report from Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News on Twitter.
Chris Chiozza also weighed in on Twitter, writing, “Y’all just making up [expletive] about my guy now… cut the cap y’all really getting annoying.’
Bleacher Report‘s Taylor Rooks then reported Irving “never stated that the Nets should begin their own league in response to the bubble,” and after Bondy’s report came out, the point guard left the team group chat.
Amidst the reactions on social media, Bondy clarified Irving’s proposal is “not necessarily in response to the bubble situation,” but stood by his report that the Nets point guard has brought up the subject of players starting their own league to his teammates before.