NBA Analyst Deletes Very Questionable Kyrie Irving-Dwight Howard Tweet But Then Sends it Again Anyway
By Jerry Trotta
NBA stars Kyrie Irving and Dwight Howard have taken some heat for their stance on why players shouldn't return to action during a time when the country is trying to instill social change as it pertains to systemic racism. However, most people who disagreed with their viewpoint at least understood where they were coming from, and chose to respond by listing the benefits of playing.
Well, almost everyone.
NBC analyst Dan Feldman deleted a tweet in which he made an extremely off-kilter reference to former victims of police brutality. However, he literally re-sent the post in the tweet explaining why he deleted it.
Deleting this tweet because, not because I don't stand by my point, but because I worded it poorly and allowed my point to be easily misconstrued. That's on me. Will follow with my points stated (hopefully) better. Feel free to disagree pic.twitter.com/AIEdl2Z5tr
— Dan Feldman (@DanFeldmanNBA) June 14, 2020
Is this not the very definition of hypocrisy? If you want to delete a post on Twitter, it probably means that you loudly disagree with something that you said, in retrospect, and want it permanently erased from the platform before it blows up for the wrong reasons.
Feldman stating that he still sees eye to eye with the point he made means that he would've been better served providing logical pointers as to why he made the reference.
It's never too late to do better, and I wouldn't fault Irving and Howard one bit for taking action now they could've taken previously. But I'm also not sure not playing = doing better. That should be assessed more.
— Dan Feldman (@DanFeldmanNBA) June 14, 2020
Hiding from it and then embracing it is just a bizarre hill to die on. In our eyes, it means that, at his core, he never wanted to delete the tweet in the first place, and that's pretty alarming considering its context.