Daily News | Kyrie Irving faces the Sixers on Tuesday. His antisemitic filth should be answered with grace.
If he still was a producer at NBC Sports Philadelphia, if he still was charged with arranging sit-downs with the sports stars who play in and pass through Philadelphia, Brian Schiff would be at the Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday night for the 76ers’ game against the Brooklyn Nets, searching for an opening to coax a juicy sound bite out of Kyrie Irving. Get him to talk. Get some insight. That was his job for 18 years.
He assisted Steve Chadwin at Abington Friends when the school was a Friends League power. He hired Sandy Pyonin, who was Irving’s trainer for four years at the YM-YWHA of Union County , in 1999 to coach a Maccabi team. He has boarded buses for Maccabi tournaments in Mexico City, Santiago, and Buenos Aires — buses that trundled along cordoned-off city streets and were escorted by police cars to make sure he and his players were safe from any terrorist threats.
“I would say to him,” Schiff said in a recent phone interview, “something like, ‘One of your main mentors was Jewish. It wasn’t like you had zero exposure to Jewish people growing up. You can say you didn’t realize what might have been part of that documentary, but you’re not a dumb guy. So I would innately think you would have been a little more aware of what that was and what the inaccuracies were.
“You have to hope that the party who caused it understands enough that they can learn,” Schiff said. “They have to be willing to accept that they messed up.”
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