Sources: Kyrie could rejoin Nets as soon as Sun.

Suspended All-Star defender Kyrie Irving is nearing completion connected the process needed for a instrumentality to play and could rejoin the Brooklyn Nets arsenic soon arsenic Sunday's crippled against the Memphis Grizzlies astatine Barclays Center, sources told ESPN.

Irving volition miss his eighth consecutive crippled connected Thursday nighttime successful Portland, but helium is closing successful connected the extremity to his suspension aft astir 2 weeks, sources said.

"Kyrie is continuing his travel of dialog and education," NBPA enforcement manager Tamika Tremaglio told ESPN connected Wednesday night. "He has been grappling with the afloat value of the interaction of his dependable and actions, peculiarly successful the Jewish community. Kyrie rejects Antisemitism successful immoderate form, and he's dedicated to bettering himself and expanding his level of understanding. He plans to proceed this travel good into the aboriginal to guarantee that his words and actions align with his pursuit of information and knowledge."

Tremaglio and the national person worked intimately with Irving, the Nets and NBA successful helping him to writer his ain remedies to extremity the suspension, sources said. What whitethorn person started retired arsenic a rigid database of prerequisites evolved into Irving himself taking ownership of the process, which is what the Nets and league hoped would beryllium the case, sources said.

Irving is carrying retired a minimum five-game suspension without pay for his nonaccomplishment to initially apologize and condemn his societal media nexus to a movie riddled with antisemitic material.

Irving's apology -- posted connected his Instagram relationship hours aft his suspension was announced connected Nov. 4 -- came successful the aftermath of 2 quality conferences and a nationalist connection issued with the Nets that didn't see an apology oregon a condemnation.

Irving has met with Nets proprietor Joe Tsai and commissioner Adam Silver individually, and some publically said that they didn't judge Irving is antisemitic.

At the clip of his suspension, the Nets issued a connection saying "failure to disavow antisemitism erstwhile fixed a wide accidental to bash truthful is profoundly disturbing, is against the values of our organization, and constitutes behaviour detrimental to the team."

In a memo to members of the NBPA connected Friday, the national told NBA players 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 Nets are 4-3 without Irving during his suspension, including a 153-121 nonaccomplishment to the Sacramento Kings connected Tuesday night. Brooklyn is 6-9 overall, 5.5 games down first-place Boston successful the Eastern Conference standings.

Irving, 30, is averaging 26.9 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists for the Nets this season.