Doyel: Herb Simon's Pacers do the Lord's work by beating Kyrie Irving
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INDIANAPOLIS – The Lord works in mysterious ways. Is it possible He just used our very own Pacers as an instrument of justice, Old Testament-style, on that idiot Kyrie Irving? Oh I hope so. And no, you’re right, the Lord would never call Kyrie “an idiot.”
That’s all me.
But Kyrie Irving is an idiot — a nuanced version, one we’ll discuss more in a minute — and Saturday night in Brooklyn he received his comeuppance in the form of Indiana Pacers 125, Brooklyn Nets 116.
If you’re confused by any of this, join the crowd. This is Kyrie Irving we’re talking about, a basketball player so skilled, but a human being so bizarre, that he seems like a figment of Salvador Dali’s twistedly brilliant imagination.
Background, as quickly as possible: Kyrie has a Twitter account. More than 4.5 million follow him for his steady diet of self-celebrating spiritual and intellectual gobbledygook. See for yourself, but say these two things about Kyrie:
1. Kyrie loves him some Kyrie
2. What a weird dude
On that Twitter account, where he normally offers self-serving garbage cloaked in philosophy, Kyrie has posted links — no words, not even emojis; just a link — to two items in the past six months. One was a link to his “More Than a Run” pickup game in Brooklyn. That was in August.
The other was a link to the movie “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” a movie that investigates “the true identity of the children of Israel (including) Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, the sons of Ham, Shem & Japheth.”
Hey, historical curiosity is fine. Nothing wrong with such a spiritual exercise.
Except …
The movie, based on the 2014 book of the same name by Ronald Dalton Jr., builds its case with noxious antisemitic tropes, including “Jewish slave ships that brought our West African negro or Bantu ancestors to slave ports owned by [Jews],” and, “Using control of our money and the Mass Media, the European Jews gained control of our thinking.”
Oh, and this bit of antisemitic poison comes straight from the book, from the movie, Kyrie promoted to his 4.5 million followers:
“Interesting enough, in earlier years, many Jews and European Scottish/York Freemasons have claimed that they worship Satan or Lucifer. Many famous high-ranking Jews and Freemasons have written books admitting to this.”
Now, Kyrie says he wasn’t trying to offend anyone. So how dare anyone be offended? After much of the free world, from multiple continents, came crashing down on Irving for sharing such a cruel piece of poison, Irving tried to clear it up with another tweet two days later:
“I am an OMNIST and I meant no disrespect to anyone’s religious beliefs. The 'Anti-Semitic' label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in everyday. I embrace and want to learn from all walks of life and religions.”
Where, you may ask, do the Pacers fit into all of this? Well, Irving formed that promotional tweet about an obviously antisemitic movie on Thursday, hours before the Dallas Mavericks would play the Nets that night, and two days before the Pacers visited the Nets on Saturday.
Mark Cuban owns the Mavericks. Herb Simon owns the Pacers.
Cuban and Simon are Jewish.
Dallas won. The Pacers won.
Works in mysterious ways, doesn’t He?
Kyrie Irving, garden-variety conspiracy theorist
Kyrie’s problem isn’t one of intelligence. Well, let me back up. It’s not a lack of intelligence. Listen to the guy. Not necessarily the words that come out of his mouth, but the way he says them. That’s a finely tuned brain, kind like a Bugatti or a Lamborghini or a Ferrari is a finely tuned car.
The worst three cars for spitting out pollution? You guessed it: Bugatti, Lamborghini and Ferrari.
That’s Irving’s brain: brilliant, powerful, noxious. Being that smart, being one of the smartest people in every room and knowing it, can have a warping effect. Kyrie has become a garden-variety conspiracy theorist, deciding that the smartest course of action is to see things the rest of us are just too stupid to comprehend.
Like, the Earth being flat. Never mind all the science or centuries of research by our smartest people or, I don’t know, satellite pictures. A handful of people with big vocabularies and imaginations have figured out the truth, that the world is flat. Kyrie joined them.
Like, Alex Jones’ “New World Order,” in which the Sandy Hook-denier posits the world is run by secret societies and occults. Kyrie has posted he agrees with evil, lying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, because he sees in Alex Jones a kindred spirit: someone smarter than we are.
Like, the real ancestry of God’s chosen people, and the true nature of Jews, who “worship Satan or Lucifer. Many famous high-ranking Jews and Freemasons have written books admitting to this.”
Kyrie is quite possibly one of the dumbest smart people alive.
Kyrie's shot at Mark Cuban, Herb Simon
Back to the Pacers.
Look at that timing again, please. That book, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” was published in 2014. The movie came out in 2018. For whatever reason, Kyrie decides to share the link on Thursday, Oct. 27, five hours before tipoff against Dallas, and two days before the Pacers arrive for the first of two games at Brooklyn.
Both teams, owned by Jews.
The Mavericks beat the Nets 129-125, thank God. And then the Pacers, our little Pacers, tanking their way toward the top of the 2023 NBA Draft lottery, beat the Nets on Saturday night. Kyrie played well against the Pacers, despite the fury coming his way, because he’s coldblooded. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks. He’s smarter than you, remember?
But the Pacers played better, getting at least five 3-pointers from Bennedict Mathurin (32 points), Tyrese Haliburton (26), and Buddy Hield (17), enough to withstand 35 points from Irving and 26 from Kevin Durant.,
Insider: Pacers heat up from 3-point range, beat the Nets
Afterward, Kyrie’s news conference was contentious. And stupid. Kyrie took umbrage with a reporter suggesting his tweet had “promoted” an antisemitic movie. Kyrie grabbed onto that word, promoted, daring the reporter to prove his tweet was an act of promotion ... only to talk over the reporter before walking off the podium.
The reporter, Nick Friedell of ESPN, never had the chance to say what I told you earlier: That Irving has issued just two such tweets in six months. One was about his basketball event in August (promoting it). The other was about a movie from 2018, a movie about “the true identity of the children of Israel” — (promoting it) hours before the start of three games in five days against teams with Jewish owners.
He thinks he’s so smart, Kyrie, but he’s obviously a miserable little conspiracy theorist, probably a narcissist, and definitely coming off back-to-back ass kickings from Mark Cuban’s Mavericks and Herb Simon’s Pacers.
So it is written, Kyrie. So it is true.
Find IndyStar columnist Gregg Doyel on Twitter at @GreggDoyelStar or at www.facebook.com/greggdoyelstar.
This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Kyrie Irving tweeted anti-Semitic movie before Jewish-owned teams visited Nets
