{"id":394444,"date":"2022-11-05T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394444"},"modified":"2022-11-09T07:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:39:22","slug":"nike-splits-with-irving-after-antisemitic-post","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nike-splits-with-irving-after-antisemitic-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike splits with Irving after antisemitic post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nike Inc. suspended on Friday its relationship with Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving, effective immediately, in the aftermath of his promotion of an anti-Semitic documentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cAt Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech, and we condemn any form of antisemitism. To that end, we\u2019ve made the decision to suspend our relationship with Kyrie Irving effective immediately and will no longer launch the Kyrie 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cWe are deeply saddened and disappointed by the situation and its impact on everyone,\u201d the sportswear giant said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after Nets suspended Irving at least five games, he apologized for his promotion of the film and book, saying he takes \u201cfull accountability and responsibly for [his] actions,\u201d and that he \u201cwants to move forward by having an open dialogue to learn more and grow from this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from the Brooklyn Nets <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/699px8XYpx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/699px8XYpx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynNets\/status\/1588320399409827840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Several media outlets have reported the shoe deal to be worth $11 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nike Inc. suspended on Friday its relationship with Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving, effective immediately, in the aftermath of his promotion of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394445,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16720,16721,16739],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Several media outlets have reported the shoe deal to be worth $11 million","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394444"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394444"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}