DON'T PRESS SEND!!!!

On Wednesday night the Brooklyn Nets played the Boston Celtics in Boston for the first time since Kyrie Irving left Boston and signed with Brooklyn this summer. Irving is currently out due to a shoulder injury. With them playing the Celtics in Brooklyn on Friday in the early afternoon Irving did not make the trip to the game. He did, however, make headlines by posting a lengthy Instagram post in which spoke about life being bigger than sports and how sports and entertainment bring out the ignorance of people. I know Kyrie is a deep thinker but he is missing the reason in which we watch sports and other avenues of entertainment. Irving posted the Instagram post in response to their being flyers with his face on it with the word coward written across it. We all understand that Kyrie would be upset with the flyers but his post just shows his super sensitivity when it comes to the opinion of the fans and outside public. Obviously, we all know that life is bigger than the game of basketball but sports is a social construct that people use to escape the realities of life. People become fans, they are very passionate about the teams they root for and when they feel betrayed they will let you know. Irving has to realize if he doesn't like scrutiny which comes with being a professional athlete you can walk away from the game and everything that comes with it and live a normal life with a regular 9 to 5 job. That means that 136 million signed for in the offseason you will be walking away from the remaining 102 million that you can make over the remaining 3 seasons of that contract. People watch sports to be entertained; just as you welcome all the money and praise that comes with the game you have realized being booed and dislike comes with the territory. When you want to make the point that people take sports too seriously you can do so in a better way because when you start out in a combative way the message becomes irrelevant due to the intended audience being felt as though they are being attacked. Irving needs to know it is not what you say but how you say it. The perfect movie quote to sum up the Kyrie temper tantrum comes from Paid N Full when Mitch talks about leaving the game and questioning if he leaves will he still beloved by the people.