A professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association, Kyrie Andrew Irving was born in America on March 23, 1992.
Following his selection by the Cleveland Cavaliers as the first overall choice in the 2011 NBA Draft, he was voted the Rookie of the Year.
He was a three-time All-NBA Team selection and a seven-time All-Star. In 2016, he and the Cavaliers won the NBA title.
Prior to signing with the Cavaliers in 2011, Irving played basketball for the Duke Blue Devils in college.
He was named the 2014 All-Star Game’s Most Valuable Player (MVP). Irving’s game-winning three-point field goal in the 2016 NBA Finals sealed the Cavaliers’ historic victory over the Golden State Warriors.
Is Kyrie really Native American?
Kyrie Irving, a guard for the Brooklyn Nets, is descended from the Standing Rock Sioux people of North Dakota. Elizabeth Larson, his mother, was adopted as a young child after being born into the tribe.
What percentage of Native American is Kyrie?
If Kyrie Irving is mixed race, he is 75 percent Black and 25 percent Native American, just like Elizabeth, his mother who was given up for adoption and given the name Cynthia Jeannette Mountain by her biological parents. Irving has openly embraced his Sioux ancestry from his quarter.