Kyrie Irving

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كايري إيرفينغ

American basketball guard (born 1992) born in Melbourne, Australia, and raised in New Jersey, the first overall pick of 2011 and a 2016 NBA champion with Cleveland; in 2021 he stated his commitment to Islam and has fasted Ramadan in season since.

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Roles
basketball player
Region
Americas & Oceania
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    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1992

    Sources

    • Kyrie Irving — English Wikipedia
    • كايري إيرفينغ — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Kyrie Irving — Wikidata
    • Kyrie Irving — Andscape on his conversion to Islam, 2021
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Kyrie Irving”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/kyrie-irving/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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