ESPN.com · Nov 28, 2019
Celtics crowd taunts Kyrie Irving despite his absence from Wednesday's game
BOSTON -- No time was wasted. As the lights dimmed and the player introduction video began to roll on the Jumbotron in TD Garden, the heckling began. The chants were loud, the booing was relentless and signs denouncing the Boston Celtics' former star were abundant.
The target of the taunting -- Kyrie Irving -- was hundreds of miles away from TD Garden. Irving, who has missed the last seven games with a right shoulder impingement, did not make the trip to face his former team. The rest of the Brooklyn Nets' players served as Irving's proxies.
"Where is Kyrie?" Celtics fans chanted.
"Kyrie sucks!" they screeched nearly every time Jarrett Allen went to the free throw line.