Kyrie Irving Trivia | 73 facts about the basketball player

Kyrie Irving is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career.

1. His full name is Kyrie Andrew Irving
2. He was born on March 23, 1992
3. He is an American professional basketball player
4. He plays for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA)
5. He was named the Rookie of the Year after being selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft
6. A seven-time All-Star and three-time member of the All-NBA Team
7. He won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016
8. Irving played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils before joining the Cavaliers in 2011
9. He won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for the 2014 All-Star Game
10. In the 2016 NBA Finals, Irving made the championship-winning three-point field goal to complete the Cavaliers’ historic comeback over the Golden State Warriors
11. After another Finals appearance in 2017, Irving requested a trade and was dealt to the Boston Celtics
12. He played as a Celtic for two seasons, after which he signed with the Brooklyn Nets as a free agent in 2019
13. He has also played for the United States national team
14. With which he won gold at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics
15. In February 2020, he was elected vice-president of the National Basketball Players Association, replacing Pau Gasol
16. He is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
17. Irving is an active philanthropist to his Lakota people on the reservation
18. He has written, directed and acted in a number of advertisements as the role of “Uncle Drew”
19. It became a feature film in 2018
20. He has starred as himself in Kickin’ It (2012)
21. He has done voicework in We Bare Bears (2016) and Family Guy (2018)
22. Irving was born in Melbourne, Australia, on March 23, 1992
23. He is the son of Drederick Irving and Elizabeth (née Larson) Irving, American expatriates
24. He has an older sister, Asia, and a younger sister, London
25. His father, Drederick, played college basketball at Boston University alongside Shawn Teague (father of Jeff and Marquis Teague) and under coach Rick Pitino
26. After completing his college career, Irving’s father moved to Australia to play professionally for the Bulleen Boomers in the SEABL
27. The Irvings lived in the Melbourne suburb of Kew before relocating to the United States when Kyrie was two years old
28. He holds dual American and Australian citizenship
29. His mother, who was African American and Lakota, died of an illness when he was four
30. Drederick raised him along with the help of Irving’s aunts
31. In 2004, Irving’s father remarried, to Shetellia Riley, who as of March 2022 is Kyrie Irving’s agent
32. Irving grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, where he frequently attended his father’s adult-league games
33. His inspiration to play in the NBA came after playing at Continental Airlines Arena during a school trip in fourth grade, when he declared, “I will play in the NBA, I promise”
34. Due to his father’s connection to Boston University, Irving spent a lot of time in Boston, including at BU’s basketball skills camp
35. Irving said that in fifth grade, he was offered a scholarship to Boston University by then-head coach Dennis Wolff
36. As a teenager, Irving played for the Road Runners of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)
37. Irving enjoys reading and has a journal
38. He also likes to sing, dance, and play the baritone sax
39. His godfather is former NBA player Rod Strickland
40. His cousin, Isaiah Briscoe, was a highly rated basketball player who played at the University of Kentucky before declaring for the 2017 NBA draft
41. Irving and his ex-girlfriend have a daughter
43. In May 2011, Irving made a promise to his father to finish his bachelor’s degree at Duke within five years
44. However, in 2016, having not achieved his degree, he claimed he was putting his plans on hold, stating, “when I leave the game of basketball, then I’ll focus on the next step of my life”
45. In 2015, he launched his PSD Underwear collection
46. In August 2018, Irving and his older sister were honored with a “welcome home” ceremony at Standing Rock Indian Reservation, acknowledging their family ties to the community, and in gratitude for Irving’s activism on behalf of the water protectors at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests
47. Irving’s mother was known to the tribe, though she was “adopted out” at a young age, and their late grandmother and great-grandparents also had ties to the reservation community
48. Since then, he has continued to honor his Lakota heritage through donations to the tribe, designing Nike shoes dedicated to the Lakota people
49. As well as burning sage before every game
50. In 2021, his petition for citizenship was granted and he became an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
51. Starting with the 2016–17 season, Irving moved to a predominantly plant-based diet
52. Which he also referenced in a December 2017 Nike ad
53. Since then, Irving has moved to a 100% plant-based diet
54. In April 2021, Irving announced that he is committed to Islam (and other religions), saying “For me, in terms of my faith and what I believe in, being part of the Muslim community, being committed to Islam, and also just being committed to all races and cultures, religions, just having an understanding and respect”
55. Irving has been fasting for Ramadan since 2021
56. In November 2016, Irving tweeted his support for the water protectors at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation who were demonstrating against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota
57. Protesters said the pipeline, which crosses under the river and across the region’s aquifer, violates treaty law and sacred burial grounds on the land at Standing Rock
58. There is urgent concern that the crude oil passing through the pipeline threatens the safety of the drinking water supply of not only the Standing Rock community
59. But that of many surrounding communities, both Native and non-Native
60. He has donated to various social causes through his K.A.I. Family Foundation
61. In 2020, he donated a home to the family of George Floyd
62. Irving paid off student debt for students from Lincoln University
63. Irving committed $1.5 million to help pay WNBA players who opted out of playing during the COVID-19 pandemic
64. Irving donated over $300,000 to food banks and with City Harvest on his birthday
65. He donated 17 pallets of food to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
66. On July 29, 2021, Irving built a solar water center in Pakistan with Paani Project through his K.A.I. Family Foundation
67. In February 2017, Irving stated in an interview for a podcast that he believes that the Earth is flat
68. In a later interview, he was less forceful in advancing his flat Earth belief, encouraging people to “do their own research” into the topic
69. In September 2017, Irving denied these claims and said that media misunderstood him as he was joking
70. However, in a June 2018 interview, when asked if he would admit that the world is round, he said “I don’t know. I really don’t”, and added that people should “do [their] own research for what [they] want to believe in” because “Our educational system is flawed”
71. In October 2018, Irving apologized for his original flat Earth comments
72. Irving also stated that he believes in other conspiracy theories, such as the idea that John F. Kennedy was killed because he wanted to end the banking cartel
73. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and his hesitancy to receive a vaccine against the virus, Irving has shared and interacted with social media posts from a conspiracy theorist on Instagram