Adam Silver said that Kyrie Irving is not Antisemitic.
Per NY Post, “He’s someone I’ve known for a decade, and I’ve never heard an antisemitic word from him or, frankly, hate directed at any group,” Silver told the Times.
Silver added: “Whether or not he is antisemitic is not relevant to the damage caused by the posting of hateful content.”
“I feel that we got to the right outcome here in terms of his suspension,” Silver told the Times. “And in retrospect, we may have been able to get there faster. I accept that criticism. But I felt it was important to understand the context in which it was posted to understand what discipline was appropriate, not in any way to excuse it but to understand what discipline was appropriate.”
“Once we did that investigation, it was clear to me that this was indeed hate speech and we, together with the Brooklyn Nets, did respond,” Silver told the Times.
At the conference in Washington, Silver said that Amazon bore some responsibility for hosting the antisemitic film on its site.
“I think Amazon has to make decisions as well,” Silver said. He added, “My first instinct wasn’t that something, to me, that is so frankly vile and full of hate speech would be contained within Amazon Prime.”
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