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Alongside Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving is the most important player in the Brooklyn Nets
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The NBA team Brooklyn Nets has allowed its controversial playmaker Kyrie Irving to play again after his anti-Semitism controversy.
For the game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night (1 a.m.), the Superstar was reported to league officials as available.
Irving missed eight games due to suspension.
This was imposed after the 30-year-old tweeted a link to a documentary at the end of October that contained anti-Semitic, racist, misogynist, homophobic and Islamophobic messages.
First defiance, then the apology
At first, Irving refused an insightful or even apologetic reaction to the criticism of his tweet.
On the contrary: he played the victim role and argued defiantly.
Headwinds grew, and Irving's sponsor Nike also broke off the collaboration and halted the release of his new basketball shoe.
Both Nets owner Joseph Tsai and NBA boss Adam Silver recently said after personal meetings with Irving that they were convinced that Irving was not an anti-Semite.
Now Irving has once again apologized publicly for his misstep, but this time emphatically: "I would like to sincerely apologize for all my actions during the time that has passed since my post," said Irving, "I've had a lot of time to think.
I want to focus on the pain I caused.«
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