Posted on 10/12/2021 9:54:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
UPDATE
Brooklyn has told Kyrie Irving he can’t be a part-time Net.
The All-Star point guard has refused to get a Covid vaccine, and the Nets announced Tuesday that he won’t be part of the team until he does. In essence, get vaxxed or get gone.
“Given the evolving nature of the situation and after thorough deliberation, we have decided Kyrie Irving will not play or practice with the team until he is eligible to be a full participant,” Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks said in a statement Tuesday morning.
“Kyrie has made a personal choice, and we respect his individual right to choose. Currently the choice restricts his ability to be a full-time member of the team, and we will not permit any member of our team to participate with part-time availability.”
Irving stands to forfeit $34 million in salary for this season.
JUST IN – NBA's Kyrie Irving "will not play or practice" with the Brooklyn Nets until he is vaccinated against #COVID19, GM Sean Marks announced. pic.twitter.com/wkgg3o2gC3
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 12, 2021
It’s ironic, so many of these NBA players were “taking a knee” for so-called police injustice, and their orgs were backing them up…now, when they try and fight medical injustice, the orgs kick them to the curb.
Controlled/approved activism isn’t really “activism” is it? https://t.co/wgagyueZUv
— Ames (@RestingTwitFace) October 12, 2021
Irving stands to lose $380,000 for every home game — totaling $17 million for the season.
SOURCE
With time running out for Kyrie Irving to obtain full eligibility for the regular season by getting vaccinated against the coronavirus, the Brooklyn Nets acknowledged that their all-star guard will be unavailable for more than half of games this season because of New York City’s vaccine mandate.
Nets Coach Steve Nash said Sunday that Irving’s status remains unresolved. “I think we recognize that he’s not playing home games,” said Nash, whose Nets are a leading title favorite. “We’re going to have to play without him this year. So it just depends on when, where and how much.”
While the NBA doesn’t have a vaccine mandate for players, certain cities, including New York and San Francisco, have enacted rules that require vaccination for members of home teams in those markets. Irving, if he remains unvaccinated, would be ineligible for Brooklyn’s 41 home games at Barclays Center and its two road games against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
Per NBA rules, players must be two weeks removed from their final shot to be considered vaccinated. Brooklyn’s regular season home opener is slated for Oct. 24 against the Charlotte Hornets, meaning Irving would have needed to receive the shot by Sunday to be eligible.
Irving would be able to play in Brooklyn’s road games without receiving the vaccine as long as he abides by the NBA’s strict health protocols, which would require him to undergo regular testing, avoid eating with his teammates and steer clear of public socializing at bars and clubs, among other restrictions.
The NBA announced last month that unvaccinated players will be fined if they are unable to play in games because of vaccine mandates, which could cost Irving roughly $380,000 per game — or more than $16 million of his $34.9 million annual salary. National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Michele Roberts said last week that the union “did not agree” to the league’s pay reduction plan.
While Irving hasn’t conducted interviews with reporters since Brooklyn’s media day Sept. 27, he participated in Nets training camp, which was held in San Diego, and attended — but did not play in — the team’s preseason opener against the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center.
Irving had been barred from practicing with his teammates at the Nets Training Center in Brooklyn until authorities ruled Friday that the practice facility was a “private office building” and thus exempt from the mandate.
Can’t spend it if you’re dead.
Kyrie eleison. Good for him. I hope he sticks to his guns and refuses to be bought.
Good for him
They should form a union.
Brooklyn should trade him to a non-NY/California team. I think the Phoenix Suns might take him.
The suggested trade from some has been Kyrie + filler/pick for Ben Simmons (Sixers). Simmons needs to be moved, and the Sixers need a point guard. No vaccine mandate at any arena other than for the two New York teams (Nets, Knicks) and the San Francisco team (Warriors).
We need some real modern heros. I think he will be mine.
Did he sign a contract which stipulates that he must be vaccinated against Covid?
If not in the contract, then, the Nets can probably be sued for breach of contract.
Even if he loses, he and his Union should fight this mandate and his right to be paid, he has a contract that is multiple years in length...
I wonder is there is any provision in the contract about his forfeiting his right to pay over a medical procedure he refuses to take...
I might could agree with the decision if he refused treatment for a physical injury like knee surgery that would keep him from playing...
The rules have changed for him and this deserves to be fought in the courts....
My life is worth more than a mere $34 Million.
I bet he has a clause in his contract that says “I play or I become a free agent” but no clause in his contract that says “I’ll inject foreign substances into my body at the whim of some government bureaucrat.”
Why are all these teams going woke and falling in line with the Tyrannical Government Vaccine mandates?
This will be interesting to see how it plays out.
He needs to get more NBA players on his side. NBA players strike?
He has more than he could ever spend. Maybe he should talk about the tennis pro whose career may be over from the vax.
Correct.
I’ll set him up with a card for 500k.
He needs to join a team in a red state/city.
Get the heck out of very high crime NYC.
I did.
Wondermif there are blackmmarket doctors out there who will fill out vax cards without the shots? Heck. Abortion/murder c.inics ran for many many years outside the law, this issue is far .essentially serious or deadly or immoral than those Abortion mills were.
But not saying he should do this, and glad he is standing up for his rights, b UT I’ll bet there are palaces handing out ‘fake’ cards, with ‘official doctor’s approvals’ (or however they verify a card is legit) and folks will get them... I would imagine this as a new underground thriving business.
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