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A five-storey mural celebrating Indigenous cultures has been unveiled in New York after being commissioned by Australian basketballer Patty Mills’s foundation and his team the Brooklyn Nets. The spectacular mural on the side of a school building in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park was created by artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez and depicts a First Nations woman and a Native American woman against a background of water.
During a scrum at the Nets practice facility in Sunset Park, ESPN’s Friedell cut to the chase and told Irving that people wanted to hear “a yes or no” on whether he was antisemitic. Irving replied, “I cannot be antisemitic if I know where I come from.” The answer immediately entered the pantheon of failed sports non-denial denials, alongside Mark McGwire’s steroid-era “I’m not here to talk about the past.” The Nets suspended him that day. Kyrie’s defenders explain his stonewalling as exasperation. “Kyrie felt almost insulted, like, ‘Man, you guys think I’m racist? I’m not even entertaining that,’” says Phil Handy, a mentor from his time with the Cavaliers, now an assistant coach with the Lakers.
The train the attack occurred on stopped at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, and when the doors opened, wounded passengers collapsed onto the platform, others ran from the train car. That subway station is the closest to the Nets’ training facility. Most of the players heard about the attack while commuting to the morning shootaround or after arriving. “It’s really close,” guard Goran Dragic said. “It’s kind of scary of how close. I’ve already been in the subway a couple times, but now I have my doubts.”
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