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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he met with Kyrie Irving earlier this week and that he did not believe the Brooklyn Nets guard was anti-Semitic, Yahoo Sports reported on Thursday.

“I would doubt that we go back,” Nike co-founder Phil Knight said in an interview on CNBC. “But I don’t know for sure.”

Phil Knight said the Nets star was given several chances but he was “dug in.”

The star forward was in the midst of a strong offensive night before being forced to leave the court.

NEW YORK — The Knicks can claim the title for least dysfunctional team in New York. Not the best.

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.

LOS ANGELES — Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said Wednesday that it is OK for activists to criticize Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving for actions that have been perceived as antisemitic.

The New York Knicks will meet the Brooklyn Nets in NBA action on Wednesday night at the Barclays Center.

This isn't what tanking is supposed to look like.

NEW YORK — A Knicks analyst unloaded on Ben Simmons a couple days before the interborough rivalry game, labeling the Nets’ point guard as “scared” when asked to identify the league’s most overrated player.

NEW YORK — To start the 2015-16 NBA season, the Cleveland Cavaliers fired head coach David Blatt and promoted lead assistant Tyronn Lue. Lue brought the Cavaliers’ locker room together and helped steer the franchise to the first NBA championship in its history that same season.