{"id":890786,"date":"2026-10-22T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890786\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:14:15","slug":"kyrie-irving-said-you-have-to-stand-up-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890786\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving said &#8220;you have to stand up&#8221; when \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Mavericks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Dallas Mavericks&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> guard <a data-ylk=\"slk:Kyrie Irving said &quot;you have to stand up&quot; when addressing Wednesday night why he offered to cover Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair&#039;s Week 1 NFL fine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kyrie Irving said \\&quot;you have to stand up\\&quot; when addressing Wednesday night why he offered to cover Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair&#039;s Week 1 NFL fine&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/50246419\/kyrie-irving-azeez-al-shaair-hind-rajab-eye-black-fine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrie Irving said &#8220;you have to stand up&#8221; when addressing Wednesday night why he offered to cover Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair&#8217;s Week 1 NFL fine<\/a>. Al-Shaair was fined $11,941 after he wore the name Hind Rajab on his eye black during the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Texans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Texans&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Texans<\/a>&#8216; season opener against the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Buffalo Bills&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>. Rajab was a Palestinian girl killed in Gaza in January 2024. After the news of the NFL&#8217;s discipline, Irving posted on X, &#8220;I&#8217;ll take care of his fine.&#8221; &#8220;He&#8217;s a friend of mine,&#8221; Irving said after the Mavericks&#8217; 128-110 season-opening loss to the Houston Rockets. &#8220;He&#8217;s a brother that I consider in this revolution that a lot of this generation is building. It&#8217;s a selfless act when you can show up for others that don&#8217;t necessarily have a voice for themselves. &#8230; I think small instances of revolutionary acts like wearing people&#8217;s names or wearing a child&#8217;s name like Hind Rajab on your face and taking the fine and stepping up to the plate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving said &#8220;you have to stand up&#8221; when addressing Wednesday night why he offered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-890786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}