Celtics star Jaylen Brown criticized Nike and its founder Phil Knight after the enterprise maven stated that Nets guard Kyrie Irving “stepped over the road” when he shared an antisemitic movie on Twitter.

Brown shared his ideas relating to Knight’s feedback on his private Twitter account Thursday.

“Since when did Nike care about ethics?” he asked.

The feedback from Knight got here on the heels of the attire firm suspending its relationship with the Nets star final week.

“At Nike, we imagine there isn’t a place for hate speech and we condemn any type of antisemitism,” the corporate stated in a statement. “To that finish, we’ve made the choice to droop our relationship with Kyrie Irving efficient instantly and can not launch the Kyrie 8. We’re deeply saddened and disenchanted by the state of affairs and its affect on everybody.”

Irving was given a list of items that he needed to satisfy with a purpose to return to the courtroom for the Nets franchise, which suspended him “at the least 5 video games” earlier this month. Brown, who’s vice chairman of the Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation, told reporters on Tuesday that he believes the union will enchantment the suspension handed down by the Nets as a result of “lots of the gamers expressed discomfort with the phrases” handed down by the crew.

Whereas there isn’t a readability relating to whether or not Irving has met any of the situations from the crew, the purpose guard met with NBA commissioner Adam Silver earlier this week to debate the matter.