He will give up his career to prove a point': Former ESPN anchor on Kyrie Irving

[YoshidaYui]

[luvs2sing]

1. Naw, more like..

He will give up his career to prove how stupid he is.

[NurseJackie]

8. Maybe someone will start a go-fund-me account for him...

[luvs2sing]

11. No doubt..

[Raven123]

2. Sadly, in my mind, Irving has made more headlines over not playing than playing over his career

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. He's not 'proving' much of anything, much more like 'trying to make a point'

But hey, if he's willing to give up his career and millions of dollars because he doesn't want anyone telling him he has to get vaxxed to play, so be it.

It's a Free Country, and quitting is the honorable thing to do if it's his firmly-held belief he shouldn't have to be vaxxed.

I can respect that kind of consistency.

But I simultaneously think it's very foolish.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. He's been a drama queen for as long as I remember.

No idea what he'll decide to do, but putting himself in the news in the meantime doesn't surprise me.

[sop]

5. Yeah, but he's giving a "voice to the voiceless."

[rurallib]

6. My take: what an ego maniac. Trying to force the team and the league

to bend to his rules. Ever heard that saying "there is no I in team," Kyrie?

Lucky for him he is most likely quite rich already.

So now he can become a martyr for the right. Good for him. Enjoy it. You will be on the dung pile of history quickly

[Me.]

7. I KNew He Was A Quitter

but i guess his ego is worth the 30 million a year he will now lose. He's no Kaepernick.

[Traildogbob]

9. It all seems normal to him

On his flat earth world. How would anyone expect him to believe in scientific medicine. One year at Duke, guessing there is not a freshman science course. Way to go Duke. Your education is looking as valid a Harvard Law degrees.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Anyone who entertains the flat-Earth nonsense...

... like he did, shows a serious lack of curiosity about learning the truth.

And if they make even the slightest effort in that regard, such as viewing pics of the Earth from orbit, and they still question it? That's a very dangerous level of mental illness and paranoia, involving vast conspiracies among people to pull off such repeated deception. In which case, those types of paranoid people are very unpredictable and prone to taking action based on whatever delusions that happen to enter their thoughts.

Edit: Or he simply talked about it to get more attention, which seems plausible to me.

[Traildogbob]

13. Agree

Do they believe all the disc shaped images of the earth, moon, sun and planets are all 2 dimensional? What do they think happens to the ocean water at those disc edges, where you have to go over to get to the other side of flat earth? Is one side blank and all the land masses are on one side? Are Basket balls really flat?

[njhoneybadger]

12. It doesn't matter, he's busy doing research to prove that earth is flat.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. I honestly hope he is that stupid.

[Voltaire2]

15. He's got nothing to prove.

It was already understood that he is a fucking idiot.