NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar blasted Nets star Kyrie Irving on Sunday, calling the Brooklyn point guard a poor role model for young people after he posted a 2002 video clip of Infowars founder Alex Jones on Instagram last month.
Abdul-Jabbar, who also has criticized Irving for his stance against vaccine mandatest, wrote in a Substack article that Irving’s decision to circulate the snippet of the infamous conspiracy theorist was “destructive, insensitive, and just plain silly.” In the video, Jones suggests that global leaders have formed a “New World Order” that releases plagues to profit on the misfortune of others.