Noted flat-earther Kyrie Irving, it has been widely reported, has voiced his opposition to restarting the NBA season and has called for his peers to bypass it and instead focus on the Black Lives Matter movement, because one cannot be expected to retweet memes and play a basketball game in the same week.
This is interesting for a few reasons, the most relevant being that Irving is already involuntarily bypassing the rest of the season because he recently underwent shoulder surgery. That being said, he would have to show up to the games and sit there, for which he earns $243,902 per game.
Also notable is that Irving’s team, the Brooklyn Nets, are expected to be an eight seed and knocked out of the first round of the playoffs in a sweep, so he won’t be getting much camera shine.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Irving hasn’t attended any BLM protests to date, yet apparently not having the burden of showing up for work will really kickstart his motivation. To his credit, he has posted about the movement three (3) times to Instagram.
Per sources, Irving said, while likely drunk, on a conference call populated by nearly a hundred players and staff (which sounds generally counter-productive):
“I don’t support going into Orlando. I’m not with the systematic racism and the bullshit. Something smells a little fishy.”
For those unaware, the NBA has concocted a cockamamie plan to finish the season after the COVID crisis. Players and staff will be essentially quarantined at Disney World, which has several hotels and basketball courts, and play the final eight games of the regular season followed by the playoffs, amid stringent testing, and without fans present.
Players have the option not to participate, though they’d lose a portion of their salary, which seems reasonable, although most people who choose not to participate at their job lose all of their salary.
Were Irving’s call for all players to skip work succeed, the league and players would lose significant revenue, which would in turn lower salaries for each player in the league going forward. 
Irving is among the highest earners in the league, especially when factoring in endorsements, so this may not be as much of a pressing concern for him as opposed to a rookie who just took out a loan for a house.
The NBA in general, including its commissioner Adam Silver, has projected an increasingly woke image in recent years, the authenticity of which is difficult to gauge, as quite often it seems inseparable from the league’s marketing strategy.
Further complicating things, many of the players are full of shit. LeBron James has been consistent in speaking out about domestic injustice, yet punted on the issue of the protests in China because of his business interests, thereby solidifying the fact that his convictions run less deep than his pockets.
He also encouraged people to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, yet he himself failed to actually vote, which takes seven seconds by mail, even though he was registered in Ohio, a swing-state.
This would lead one to conclude that he likes talking about doing things much more than actually doing things.
That being said, at least his message is stripped down and consistent. Irving is a rich kid rattling off babble to the help, per Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA’s Deep Throat:
He had a question about NBA sponsors on campus, and whether they would be supplying players with products. A union official asked him for an example, and Irving mentioned a popular adult beverage — before insisting that he had indeed simply shared an example — and wondered what food might be provided to players under league partnerships.
I’m perplexed as to why a boycott regarding police brutality would possibly hinge on schwag, but Irving is a buffoon not worth dignifying.
Here’s my theory: Irving wants to keep banging his girlfriend and doesn’t want to join his team in Orlando. He only cares about social causes when they are extremely convenient to him.
Further, this is another of the countless examples of slacktivism – in which a social justice warrior proposes not doing something as a form of protest, which is defined as; a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.
Action being the keyword there. Not inaction. By this logic Irving should set up a masturbation drive. He was also quoted, per Wonjarowski, as saying, “I’m willing to give up everything.”
That’s the equivalent to saying If Trump wins, I’m moving to Canada, because we all know it’s never going to happen, so just shut the fuck up.
What I find concerning is that I don’t think Irving is especially atypical. I think people these days think that posting three times to Instagram is the equivalent of joining a march, calling a congressman, starting a fundraiser, or at the very least, informing themselves.
It’s not. I couldn’t be more supportive of the BLM movement. Police brutality and economic oppression has reached a tipping point.
But a lot of these guys are utter jackasses.
Both things can be true.