Posted on 10/12/2021 11:06:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Brooklyn Nets won’t allow basketball star Kyrie Irving to participate in any team activities until he receives the COVID-19 vaccine, the team announced Tuesday.
“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,” general manager Sean Marks said in a statement.
“Kyrie has made a personal choice, and we respect his individual right to choose,” it continued. “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.”
As reported by Fox News, the team initially intended to prohibit Irving from playing in home games due to New York City health mandates. While he was granted permission to practice with the team at its facilities, he was at risk of missing 41 games.
Tuesday’s announcement deems him ineligible for any team activity until he gets vaccinated.
“It is imperative that we continue to build chemistry as a team and remain true to our long-established values of togetherness and sacrifice,” Marks continued. “Our championship goals for the season have not changed, and to achieve these goals each member of our organization must pull in the same direction. We are excited for the start of the season and look forward to a successful campaign that will make the borough of Brooklyn proud.”
As previously reported by Human Events News, the NBA issued a stark warning to its unvaccinated players: you refuse, you lose.
If players are forced to miss games due to local executive orders requiring vaccinations, they won’t be paid.
“Any player who elects not to comply with local vaccination mandates will not be paid for games that he misses,” NBA’s executive vice president of communications Mike Bass said in a statement in September.
According to Zero Hedge:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/ny-nets-ban-kyrie-irving-playing-until-he-gets-covid-19-vaccine
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Irving earns more than $400,000 per game - and forfeited some $817,000 in salary in January after missing two games to take part in a league-ordered quarantine after attending a birthday party in a club. He earned around $35 million last season, and was slated to earn $36.6 million this year - the last year of his contract.
It’s widely believed that Irving remains the only member of the Nets to not be vaccinated. It was noticed in the media early this week that he didn’t travel with the team for the missed pre-season game. According to ESPN, “The Nets are prevented by law from revealing whether Irving has been vaccinated, but the team’s statement is a strong indication he has not met New York’s vaccination requirement.”
Kyrie stands for the National Anthem too. Must put him in the wrong think box with white supremacist John Gruden.
I find it hard to believe that some of the most reasoned voices of the pandemic are coming from NBA players, but here we are.
Always good to see people stand up against the BIDEN-FAUCI FASCISM.
I hate Kylie as a player. He was a huge disappointment in Boston.
However I am watching this with a smile and mixed feelings. I respect his stand on this—it’s going to thrust him into the spotlight!
On the other hand…I am glad he is the Nets problem, not Boston’s.
We respect his right to refuse the shot, ignore that horse head in your bed.
RE: Kyrie stands for the National Anthem too.
For those who don’t know, Kyrie Irving is a dual citizen.
Kyrie Irving was born in Australia, but moved to the United States when he was two years old.
Exactly right.
This decision would have been made by the owner Joe Tsai.
Tsai was permitted to make billions by the CCP and he is an apologist for the regime.
It’s hard to imagine Tsai would not have consulted with his benefactors in Beijing on what stance to take to be in harmony with the CCP.
I would love to see Kyrie challenge the regulation.
The regulation is arbitrary and irrational.
The vaccines do not prevent transmission of the virus, which is the only legitimate interest government would have in imposing a mandate, that is, if the disease were a much greater danger justifying such a mandate.
But the media and the NBA are pretending it does prevent transmission.
The fallback justification for the mandate is that it is necessary to lessen the burden on hospital and medical resources.
But in Irving’s age and risk group, this is a de minimis risk.
And such a justification would permit the government to ban foods high in cholesterol or saturated fat, mandate the administration of statins, require everyone to eat ten servings a day of wheat, etc. in order to lessen the costs of heart disease on hospitals and the medical system. Or whatever other health nonsense government “experts” are pushing on a given day.
Sue their asses!
This needs to make it to court FAST
Well, what does it say in his contract? Is there any clause that permits this? If not, then they’ll have to keep paying him, or face a lawsuit.
Kyrie is about to find out just how little his players’ union has his back.
I know nothing about this guy but I have to applaud someone who is standing by his conviction. It is costing him $$$ and his career.
Not an easy choice.
Good luck to the young man.
Hope he finds a way to wiggle through the maze of forced vaccination.
Where are the exemptions?
Are they still doing that stupid kneeling?????
The vaccine does not prevent you from getting the virus, it does not prevent you from spreading the virus, and it only increases your survivability rate (of dying from covid) from 99.7% to 99.8%. AND it causes possible reactions that can kill you.
It does not even meet the definition of a vaccine and it is NOT approved by the FDA. The manufacturers themselves are not requiring their employees to get it,
So, why the hell would ANYONE get this stupid non-vaccine???
RE: So, why the hell would ANYONE get this stupid non-vaccine???
To increase your chances of surviving Covid by 0.1%?
RE: The vaccine does not prevent you from getting the virus, it does not prevent you from spreading the virus
How true is the oft cited statistics that over 90% of patients hospitalized in the US are unvaccinated?
Everyone supporting these mandatory vaccines and saying his choice not to get vaxxed and play is blindly signing up for a future where everyone will be required to get mandatory annual or more likely bi-annual injections of whatever substances the completely corrupt and unethical pharmaceutical industry decides are “necessary.” That is a scary proposition. Time for everyone to open their eyes. Do not accept this medical tyranny.
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