Silver calls Kyrie's tweet 'reckless,' laments lack of apology from Nets star

NBA commissioner Adam Silver decried a statement made by Kyrie Irving on Wednesday in which the Brooklyn Nets star did not explicitly apologize for promoting an antisemitic film on Twitter.

"Kyrie Irving made a reckless decision to post a link to a film containing deeply offensive antisemitic material," Silver said in his own statement Thursday.

"While we appreciate the fact that he agreed to work with the Brooklyn Nets and the Anti-Defamation League to combat antisemitism and other forms of discrimination, I am disappointed that he has not offered an unqualified apology and more specifically denounced the vile and harmful content contained in the film he chose to publicize.

"I will be meeting with Kyrie in person in the next week to discuss this situation."

The Nets, Irving, and the Anti-Defamation League issued a joint release Wednesday that said the guard and the team would each donate $500,000 "toward causes and organizations that work to eradicate hate and intolerance" in communities. Irving said he was "aware of the negative impact" his tweet had on the Jewish community and said he took responsibility but did not issue an apology.

"So from my family and I, we meant no harm to any one group, race, or religion of people, and wish to only be a beacon of truth and light," Irving's statement concluded.

Following Silver's statement Thursday, Irving addressed reporters, but when asked specifically if he was sorry for the hurt caused, he didn't formally apologize.

"I take my responsibility for posting that," he said, according to SNY. "Some things that were questionable in there, untrue. Like I said in the first time you guys asked me when I was sitting on that stage, I don't believe everything that everybody posts. It's a documentary."