Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving‘s recent social media post was much talked about. On Wednesday, Irving, known for bluntly expressing his views on different issues, posted a tweet questioning trust in the government.
“Out of all of our federal government officials, who can I trust?” Irving tweeted.
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Irving has 4.4 million followers on X. Within five hours of posting, his tweet had over 6,200 likes, more than 1,100 replies and was viewed over 428,000 times.
Irving won his lone NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. He is a nine-time All-Star and a three-time All-NBA selection.
Irving tore his ACL on March 3, 2025, and has not appeared in a game since. There were rumors on social media that the 6-foot-2 guard could make his return at some point this season. However, Dallas announced in February that Irving was ruled out of the remainder of the 2025-26 NBA season to continue his ACL recovery.
In July, Kyrie Irving signed a three-year, $118.5 million contract with the Mavericks. He will earn $39.5 million next season and has a $42.4 million player option for the 2027-28 season.
Kyrie Irving recently changed his Instagram photo to a picture of a Palestinian child in a war zone
Three weeks ago, several people noticed that Kyrie Irving changed his profile photo on social media. The Dallas Mavericks star’s Instagram account displays a photo of a child holding a book in front of barbed wire and soldiers, who appeared to be blocking the child from going to school.
Several fans said that the child in the photo might be Palestinian and the soldiers could be Israeli. In early April, Palestinian children in Umm al-Khair, in the occupied West Bank, found a barbed wire fence blocking their route to school.
Kyrie Irving has close to 20 million Instagram followers. He had expressed his support for Palestinians through several social media posts before. In 2025, he changed his X profile photo to a picture of Yaqeen Hammad, a social media influencer and activist who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in May 2025.
Edited by Kim Daniel Rubinos
