Last Friday afternoon, a video of Kyrie Irving partying on a yacht alongside a handful of women surfaced online. Twitter quickly noticed that many of the women in the video were white and, before long, people started going in on the Cavaliers point guard for not allowing any non-white women to party with him.
Irving appeared to respond to all of those people tweeting about his post-NBA Finals celebration by putting up this photo on Instagram:
But on Wednesday afternoon, he took it a step further. It seems he’s been asked about the yacht party by one too many people at this point, so he posted a lengthy statement about the alleged "No Black Girls Allowed" party on Facebook. You can read that statement here:
I'd never think I would have to address something as ridiculous as a yacht party, but I wasn't raised to discriminate against any race let alone any race of women, especially my own. I was raised by the black women in my family and for me to be connected to some nonsense like a "No black girls allowed" party is embarrassing and an inaccurate portrayal of who and what I represent as man. I wasn't going to even address any of this because there are literally a million things going on in the world right now that are far more important, rather than people trying to bring question to my character. I would like to apologize to anyone if they were offended initially without knowing any of what actually happened, but that story has no truth to it and I wanted to clear the air on all of this B.S. And for those who know me, I'm sorry you all had to answer questions about a story as ridiculous as something like this. But now, I would like to continue celebrating this championship. Thank you.
So that’s that. Everyone happy now?
