David the Brooklyn Nets Kyrie Irving who wasn't talking to the media

announced on Friday I don't talk to pawns

my attention is worth more

what I want to know is as a sports writer

how do you feel about being called a pawn?

I feel seen finally finally someone has identified me for what I truly am

I mean you'd be offended by it right but you kind of feel like

this is less of a direct attack and more of a sort of philosophical statement coming from Kyrie

right? And not a particularly like just one I just feel like he's you know if he expanded upon that

he'd probably be talking you know in terms that only you know

Kierkegaard or Elron Hover would understand on the chess board of life exactly

there are kings and there are queens and there are bush shops and there are rooks

and then you get all the way down to sports writers and their pawns

like the first pawn that's taken in a game of chess

exactly I like how mean of time said that Kyrie has obviously been watching the

Queens gambit like the rest of us

it's just the first analogy at hand

players have called sports writers kind of weird names for decades and decades but hey you know

pawns I got it you know

he semi-apologized today on Monday and said he wasn't talking about any sports

writer in particular so if you're a sports writer covering the Brooklyn nets

or even if you're not feel free to disregard the statements you are not a pawn

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