Kyrie Irving made rounds on social media Tuesday night, telling a Nets fan to thank New York City mayor Eric Adams for why he never thrived in Brooklyn the way he has been in Dallas this season.
While Gio wouldn’t rip Irving for his stance on the city’s vaccine mandate that caused him to play in just 29 games during the 2022-23 season, he did call the former Nets point guard out for conveniently leaving out several other reasons why Irving never matched his peak in Brooklyn.
“Remember the year before when he disappeared?” Gio said. “You had the bubble thing, then you had that…then the vaccine thing.
“What about all the other games you missed because you were just you?”
Irving missed time with injuries and was also suspended for promoting a movie on social media containing anti-Semitic material, which he initially showed little remorse for. Gio wanted it known that there were plenty of other reasons why Irving’s Brooklyn tenure failed aside from the city’s vaccine mandate, and many were due to Irving himself.
“Let’s not forget the movie he retweeted that said the Holocaust didn’t exist. Did that have anything to do with Mayor Adams?” Gio said.
“The fact that he just pointed to the one thing that people can have his back on, I thought it was weak.”