For the second time this season, the NBA has fined Kyrie Irving and the Nets over Irving’s refusal to speak with the media, this time $35,000 each for the star’s “repeated refusal to participate in postgame media availability,” the league said in a statement.
As Malika Andrews of ESPN writes...
The NBA requires that healthy players be made available upon request to reporters before or after every game. Throughout the season, Irving has declined on several occasions to be available in a news conference. Most recently, Irving declined requests — including those from ESPN — to speak to reporters after the Nets’ 124-118 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night.