In a thoughtful essay for Basketball News, Etan Thomas, former NBA player, poet and political activist writes about Kyrie Irving. Although Thomas doesn’t mention the Nick Wright tweet that suggested the Nets were interested in trading Irving, it is obviously the touchstone for his piece.
For Thomas, the story is not so much about any individual tweet or individual writer or whether the Nets should consider dealing Irving — an issue lesser writers have entertained, but how much the current controversy is part of “media noise” that makes the mercurial Nets guard an easy foil .