Kyrie Irving addressed reporters on Tuesday, two weeks after his last game, four days after the NBA fined him $50,000 for violating its health and safety protocols and 24 hours before he is scheduled to return to a lineup that will look decidedly different than the one he left.
Over 12 minutes on a Zoom call, Irving said very little.
But in saying little, he said a lot.
Irving wasn’t interested in publicly explaining his absence. “Lot of family and personal stuff going on,” Irving said. He wasn’t inclined to address his violation of league protocols, which came to light after a video surfaced of a mask-less Irving at a family birthday party.