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Kyrie Irving was given permission by the Brooklyn Nets to look for sign-and-trade proposals from other teams back in June, with the Los Angeles Lakers emerging as the “most significant threat” to lure the All-Star point guard away from Brooklyn.
However, it appears that the Lakers’ enthusiasm for Kyrie has diminished as a result of his most recent activities over an anti-Semitic movie he publicly supported. The Nets suspended Irving last week after he refused to retract his promotion of the divisive documentary on Twitter and Instagram.
Sam Amick of The Athletic reports the Lakers now have “significant concerns about the prospect of adding Irving at any price and have not been focused on that scenario all season long.”
“It’s quite clear that Laker Land is a highly unlikely, if not impossible, landing spot,” Amick wrote.
After sharing a link to the 2018 documentary Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America on social media this week, Kyrie received criticism. The film focuses on antisemitic stereotypes, such as the assertion that “many famous high-ranking Jews have admitted to worship[ing] Satan or Lucifer.”
The Nets said Kyrie will need to fulfill a “series of objective remedial measures that address the harmful impact of his conduct” before he can rejoin the team after suspending him last week. He will miss at least five games during his ban.