For some years now, Kyrie Irving has fearlessly taken advantage of the visibility that the sport has given him to support and voice to sensitive and consequent issues that need to be addressed.
The donation of US $ 1.5 million to WNBA athletes for being left without a salary due to the coronavirus pandemic, the investment on the documentary about the history and murder of Breonna Taylor, the non-support of the NBA's return in pandemic times, the donation of 200,000 hamburgers to a fund a campaign against hunger and protection for those affected by the coronavirus and the creation and dissemination among NBA athletes of the protest “I Can't Breathe” after the murder of Eric Garner by police officers, are mere examples of the actions that the athlete has gotten involved with.
Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul- Jabar Jesse Owens, Tommie Smith e John Carlos and Jim Brown are examples of activist athletes who inspire us and who certainly contributed to the improvement of the world in some way. And yes, they paved the way for the new ones to come as well as LeBron James, Venus Williams, Colin Kaepernick and Kyrie Irving to continue in this arduous struggle to do good and to strongly defend what they believe in, regardless of the opinion of those who may disagree.
