Kyrie Irving to Forfeit Up to $1.6 Mill for Missing Games

Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving is scheduled to be back at his job this Saturday. The NBA came down hard on the enigmatic star, fining him $50,000 for attending his sister’s birthday party while he was on a leave of absence from the team for personal reasons. Not only is he going to have to pony up for the fine, but he’s also forfeiting his game check for up to the four games he’s missed.

And it adds up to a whole lot.

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See below:

Kyrie Irving will forfeit $816,898 for the 2 games missed this past week.

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) January 15, 2021

The NBA has fined the Nets' Kyrie Irving $50,000 for violating the league's health and safety protocols and assigned him a five-day quarantine

He will forfeit more than $400,000 in salary per game for those missed during quarantine at a rate of 1/81.6 of his season salary pic.twitter.com/oaj4u0dWHm

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) January 15, 2021

Twitter reacted below:

Can you imagine going to a party and losing $816,898? lmfao. https://t.co/9DaC6qGJYn

— Jake Ghent (@JakeGhent7) January 15, 2021

He make dn half a mil a game and its still like 50 left to play😭😭😭 https://t.co/AkkcM8dD7W

— Boogie (@sai_boogiee) January 15, 2021

https://twitter.com/MarketCapGod/status/1350143361907388417

Damn jus two games shit https://t.co/G2ZQUYG4bp

— JB (@1johnn_2) January 15, 2021

So @KyrieIrving gotta pay because he choose to have fun 😒🤨 if @BrooklynNets don’t win the championship just know why 😌 https://t.co/Gicgi3Z5n4

— 👑Bookieooo🦅👑 (@bookie300) January 15, 2021

https://twitter.com/IMJUST_AMAZING/status/1350139188566487041

Damn. I'm just looking at how much he earns every two games. https://t.co/Sg129zUgDL

— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) January 15, 2021

https://twitter.com/McNaughtTodd/status/1350138460494041089

https://twitter.com/McNaughtTodd/status/1350138460494041089

This is an expensive ass weekend. Sheesh… https://t.co/o7JeNg3Qop

— Dame Söze (@dsc72478) January 15, 2021

Kyrie has to understand when he doesn’t want to play, the optics are too hard to ignore. For that amount of money to play basketball, not many people would be choose not to play.

Hopefully those game checks will go to charity.

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