{"id":17526,"date":"2020-12-12T23:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=79881"},"modified":"2020-12-12T23:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:10:54","slug":"nba-brooklyn-nets-guard-kyrie-irving-refuses-to-talk-to-the-media-both-player-and-organization-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/nba-brooklyn-nets-guard-kyrie-irving-refuses-to-talk-to-the-media-both-player-and-organization-fined\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving refuses to talk to the media; both player and organization fined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrie Irving earlier this week posted a story on his Instagram account, stating that he would not be talking to the media this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie\u2019s IG story; \u201cI do not talk to pawns. My attention is worth more.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9vkn4TtXdQ\">pic.twitter.com\/9vkn4TtXdQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHoopCentral\/status\/1337419519812255744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Players and general managers of the NBA are expected to talk to the media and answer questions whenever a training camp starts. Irving refused talking to the media or the media reporters several times since the camp started on December 1.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, both Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets have received a fine of 25 thousand dollars each for failing to observe the league\u2019s media rules.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA in a statement regarding the fine said, <strong>\u201cThe fines result from Irving\u2019s refusal on several occasions this week to participate in the team media availability.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrie Irving earlier this week posted a story on his Instagram account, stating that he would not be talking to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":38270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1217,1216,826],"class_list":["post-17526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nba"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}