Inside the Kevin Durant kick-off party for the NBA season

Kevin Durant and his business partner Rich Kleiman celebrated their Boardroom company as well as the Brooklyn Nets strong start to the NBA season 2022-23 at a private party filled with stars.

Serena Williams, Erin Foster, Polo G and Sloane Stephens are some of the big names who attended Durant’s VIP party at Chelsea’s new Italian restaurant Cucina Alba on Thursday night.

“People danced and drank and enjoyed their little bites,” says a Page Six informant, adding that Durant, 34, was “happy and outgoing” and had a “very cool, cool demeanor” throughout the evening.

“The place was packed and everyone showed off their moves to 90s music played by DJs Samantha Ronson and Jus Ske,” shares the source.

Other notable guests at the festival were Cam’ron, Tyrant “You Ty” Smith, Noah Tepperberg, Richie Akiva, and David Grutman.

Party people enjoyed special cocktails called Boardroom State of Mind, NFTini and Whiskey Business. When it comes to decadent dishes, participants rushed to eggplant parmigiana, crispy mushroom lasagna, short espresso ribs, and toro-stuffed rigatoni.

We were told KD seemed to be high after leading the chain to victory over the New York Knicks on Wednesday in the show 112-85.

But off the pitch, the Brooklyn team did not go smoothly.

Networks suspended Kyrie Irving earlier this month after he promoted a video on Twitter that included anti-Semitic leads and he repeatedly refused to apologize this is why.

“We were horrified today when we were given the opportunity during a media session that Kyrie refused to unequivocally state that he had no anti-Semitic beliefs or admitted to specific hateful material in the film,” the team said in a November 3 statement. This wasn’t the first time he had the opportunity – but failed – to explain.

“Such a failure to deny anti-Semitism, when given the clear opportunity, is deeply disturbing, runs counter to our organization’s values, and is detrimental to the team. Consequently, we believe that it is currently unsuitable for an affiliation with the Brooklyn Nets. ”

Only after the suspension of Irving, 30, finally apologizewriting in part on Instagram, “I take full responsibility and responsibility for my actions. … To all Jewish families and communities that have been hurt and touched by my position, I am so sorry that I caused you pain and I apologize. “

Durant for his part defended Irving and shared that he thought his teammate’s suspension was an overreaction.

“It is an unfortunate situation for the people concerned. It just sucks for everyone. I hope we can get around it, ”he said. “This is what the NBA looks like now. … Everyone has an opinion about this situation and we hear it all the time.

“But once the balls start bouncing and we start exercising, neither of those things will make it into the gym. So that’s the fun part of being in a league.

After being met with a reaction to his comments on Irving, Durant took on twitter in order to clarify.

“I have no tolerance for hate speech or anti-Semitism [sic]”I always want to spread love,” he wrote. “Our game connects people and I want to make sure it’s in the foreground.”

Page six can confirm that Irving did not attend Durant’s sports evening on Thursday.