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Kyrie Irving’s road to a return from his suspension isn’t over.
“He still has work to do,” Nets owner Joe Tsai told The Post on Saturday.
Irving was handed an indefinite suspension, which the Nets said would be at least five games, for promoting an anti-Semitic movie. The All-Star guard reached that five-game threshold Saturday, when the Nets played the Clippers. He also will sit out Sunday against the Lakers — and for as long as it takes for him to complete a set of remedial tasks mandated by the Nets.
“He has to show people that he’s sorry,” Tsai told The Post during the game against the Clippers at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday. “What’s important — and what people miss — is he only apologized after he was suspended.”
On Oct. 27, Irving posted multiple social media links to an anti-Semitic film, and stubbornly doubled down by refusing apologize. It wasn’t until Tsai and the Nets stepped in on Nov. 3 and suspended Irving that the mercurial point guard finally posted an apology on Instagram.
Now, Irving must meet the guidelines set by the Nets in order to return from the suspension. How long that will take is largely up to Irving.
“I do not know. I do know not available [Sunday], I have been told that. So I can give you that,” Jacque Vaughn said before he coached his second game since the Nets removed the interim label from his title and made him their head coach.
