September 24, 2026
Sports

Kyrie Irving Offers to Pay Fine for Texans’ Al-Shaair After Eye Black Tribute to Palestinian Child

Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving has offered to pay the fine levied on Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair for violating the NFL’s rules against unauthorized messages in his eye blacking. Shaair was fined $11,492 for putting the unauthorized message in his eye black during the…

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Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving has offered to pay the fine levied on Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair for violating the NFL’s rules against unauthorized messages in his eye blacking.

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Shaair was fined $11,492 for putting the unauthorized message in his eye black during the Texans’ loss to the Bills on Sunday.

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Al-Shaair, infamous as one of the NFL’s dirtiest players and a practicing Muslim, wrote the words “Hind Rajab” across his eye black to honor a five-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed during a military engagement in Gaza in 2024.

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Al-Shaair was not fined for the message content. However, he did not get permission from the league before including the girl’s name in his eye black, and the fine was for an unauthorized message, as the league tightly controls the messages players can display during games.

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Now, Irving has stepped in to offer assistance. Irving took to his social media on Wednesday to make is offer.

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NBAer Irving has a long history of supporting the terror-instigating Palestinians.

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This is not the first time the radical NFL player has been fined for unauthorized eye black messaging. He was also sanctioned in January when he wore an anti-Israel message reading “stop…

Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/sports/

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