Celtics guard Kyrie Irving was honored Thursday in a "homecoming ceremony" by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, the tribe from which his late mother, Elizabeth Ann Larson, was adopted out of as a child.
The homecoming celebration included a naming cermony, among other events, where Irving was given the Lakota name "Little Mountain."
His sister, Asia, was given the name "Buffalo Woman," Tim Bontemps of the Washington Post reports.
Irving's family connection was to the tribe's White Mountain family in the Bear Soldier District on the South Dakota side of the reservation, the tribe said in a statement.