NBPA: Resolution on Kyrie, after meetings, 'soon'

Suspended Brooklyn Nets defender Kyrie Irving has met with team, league and national officials connected "several occasions" successful caller days and there's optimism for a solution "very soon," the National Basketball Players Association told its rank Friday successful an email obtained by ESPN.

Nets proprietor Joe Tsai and his woman Clara connected Wednesday met with Irving, who was suspended for a minimum of 5 games for his archetypal nonaccomplishment to condemn and apologize for antisemitic worldly shared to his societal media.

"It's wide to maine that Kyrie does not person immoderate beliefs of hatred toward Jewish radical oregon immoderate group," Tsai posted to Twitter connected Friday.

The Nets are leaving Friday for a four-game Western Conference roadworthy trip. Even with the 5th crippled of Irving's suspension coming Saturday nighttime against the LA Clippers, determination appears to beryllium nary momentum for his instrumentality during this travel that extends done Portland Trail Blazers connected Thursday, sources told ESPN.

The Nets instrumentality location vs. Memphis Grizzlies connected Nov. 20.

Irving is expected to prosecute with a fig of constituencies -- including gathering with leaders successful the Jewish assemblage -- and made bully religion efforts to amusement the Nets and NBA of his sincerity earlier he's cleared for a instrumentality to play.

Irving, who met with NBA commissioner Adam Silver connected Tuesday, is serving a word arsenic a vice president successful the NBPA.

In the NBPA memo, the national maintains that "Kyrie's rights, and the rights of each aboriginal players, person been protected astatine each turn," and added, that the national "look(s) guardant precise soon to a solution of each matters satisfactory to each parties." The NBPA described the caller meetings arsenic an "effort to deepen knowing and unfastened wide lines of connection among each parties."

The NBPA reiterates to players that Irving and national "unequivocally condemn antisemitism and each different forms of hatred ..."