Kyrie Irving's parents, Drederick Irving and Elizabeth Irving are athletes. His father, Drederick, played basketball professionally, while his mother was a college volleyball player.
Dredrick started his Basketball career with Boston College. During his college life, he achieved the NAC title with the Terriers.
His mother, Elizabeth, played for the Boston University Terriers women's volleyball team.
She belonged to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and was multiracial, with a Native American mother and a Black father.
The couple met when Elizabeth was in a convenience store on Commonwealth Ave. They met during their first year.
Irving is a member of the BU Athletic Hall of Fame. He was an all-conference selection in 1986 and 1988 and earned team MVP honors in 1988.
In the late 1980s, he averaged 18.0 points per game, 1.8.8 points per game, and 19.9 points per game in three consecutive seasons.
After his mother died when Kyrie was four years old, Drederick raised him as a single dad.
She passed away on September 9, 1996, due to Sepsis Syndrome. Kyrie has her name tattooed in the script on his left pec.
Drederick and Elizabeth's two children, Asia and Kyrie, have kept her legacies alive. Asia has opened a store in her name and Kyrie's daughter's middle name in Elizabeth.
Kyrie's stepmother is Shetellia Riley, his agent. Riley Irving is said to be the first Black woman representing an active NBA player.
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