NEW YORK — As Nets general manager Sean Marks told reporters he has yet to speak directly to star guard Kyrie Irving — only Irving’s representation — following the announcement of his minimum five-game suspension, a small group of Black Hebrew Israelites protested the suspension outside Barclays Center.
The group, about three dozen deep, gathered in front of the Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center train station exit closest to the front of the arena and one protestor with a microphone addressed both pedestrians casually walking by and fans entering the building for Wednesday’s matchup between the Nets and Knicks.
“[Kyrie] is being persecuted for that statement of truth,” the mic’d-up protestor shouted outside Barclays Center. “He is being persecuted. He is being hazed by society today.”
