Team USA Star Doesn’t Consider Himself American, Wants to Play for Different Country Instead
Kyrie Irving, one of the NBA’s most controversial players, is at it again, this time saying that he doesn’t really even consider himself an American player — even though he has played for Team USA in the Olympics.
In an interview on Twitch, Irving claimed that he considers himself an “international player,” not an American.
As it happens, Irving was born to American parents in Australia. The Irving family lived in Melbourne for a few years while the player’s father, Drederick Irving, played for the Bulleen Boomers in the semi-professional South East Australian Basketball League. But they moved back to the U.S. when Irving was two.
“I consider myself an international player even though I played on Team USA,” Irving said,
