NBA Analyst Slams Kyrie Irving Over His Views Against NBA’s Restart

Kyrie Irving said he didn’t like the idea of having the season back, and he was definitely against the NBA restart. NBA analyst Skip Bayless said he wanted to compete with Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James. In what way? According to Bayless, Irving wanted to be an activist.

Irving led the conference call last Friday. The call included over 100 players, and Irving said the resumption would affect the ongoing protests against racism and police brutality. Bayless said Kyrie was an excellent player, but he doesn’t view him as a leader. In other words, Irving is not a born leader.

“I have still huge respect for Kyrie’s brainpower and his clutch scoring power,” Bayless said on the Undisputed. “He’s a gifted young man, both physically and mentally. But to your point, he was not born with that leadership gene that some people have and some don’t.”

Will Kyrie Irving change his mind?

Bayless said Irving wanted to be the activist that LeBron has been in the past few years.

“I believe he was trying to challenge LeBron’s authority his pre-eminent position in this league regarded as the number one activist in all of the sports,” Bayless added. “Kyrie said ‘watch what I can activate here.’ But he didn’t have a plan that he could articulate. All of a sudden, the quietest Laker comes out of left field and all of sudden Avery Bradley takes over as the voice of the coalition and he starts making sense to me.”

Irving won’t see any action in the near future because of his shoulder injury. In his first game for the Brooklyn Nets, Irving had an excellent 50-point game. However, he was limited due to his injuries, and his first season was plagued with ache. Brooklyn was also playing without Kevin Durant, and the superstar has yet to make a debut with the team.

Durant left the Golden State Warriors to join the Nets and this move shocked many fans. But, he did the best for his professional career. The Nets may not be interested in resuming the season, because they don’t stand pretty high in the ranking.