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NBA tells players who miss games under vaccine mandates won’t be paid for them
Penn Live ^ | 9/29/21 | AP via Penn Live

Posted on 09/29/2021 2:21:52 PM PDT by proust

Kyrie Irving now has a decision to make: Get the COVID-19 vaccine, or sit games out without pay.

With COVID-19 vaccination mandates in New York City (and San Francisco), NBA spokesperson Mike Bass issued a statement on Wednesday: “Any player who elects not to comply with local vaccination mandates will not be paid for the games that he misses,” Bass wrote.

If Irving is unvaccinated, he would forfeit a huge chunk of his $34.9 million salary by missing the Nets’ 43 games in New York at the Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden. The Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins has said he is unvaccinated, and would lose out on millions of his $31.6 million in pay if he couldn’t play because of San Francisco’s vaccine mandate. (The exact amount of pay lost for the home games is still to be determined, according to ESPN.)

Wizards All-Star Bradley Beal and Magic forward Jonathan Isaac are among the other NBA players who have been outspoken about their decision not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...


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KEYWORDS: covid; nba; thesaline
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1 posted on 09/29/2021 2:21:52 PM PDT by proust
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To: proust

He plays under a contract. Have they changed the contract?


2 posted on 09/29/2021 2:23:47 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: proust

People are going to have to stick together.

If we let them divide us further, they’ll destroy all of us.

If I’m challenged to show I’ve been vaccinated, I’ll prove
it and leave. I’ll tell them why they’ll never get business
from me again too.


3 posted on 09/29/2021 2:23:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Biden = Green Light to > China, N. K., Russia, M/E Terrorists, FBI, CDC, MSM, & the Left...)
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To: proust
You guys have money but apparently no brains.

PAY a frikkin' lawyer to sue the NBA

4 posted on 09/29/2021 2:24:06 PM PDT by knarf
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To: ClearCase_guy

The contract fine print will tell the story...


5 posted on 09/29/2021 2:24:34 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: proust

The NBA knows that they are in the Democrat plantation and nothing, NOTHING is more important than that - not even the folks who earn them the bucks. I hope that the players know who’s the slave - and who’s da boss. Say hello to your plantation master & mistress - Slow Joe and the HO.


6 posted on 09/29/2021 2:25:28 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ClearCase_guy

“He plays under a contract. Have they changed the contract?”

No laws when it comes to deep state obeisance.

Anyhow, these players all pledged allegiance to ChiComs.


7 posted on 09/29/2021 2:25:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: proust

Far be it for me to tell any of these players to forfeit millions in a career that can end at any time due to injuries. But it would be interesting to watch at least one player try, and then have their home city rescind their vaccine ordinance during the middle of the NBA season.


8 posted on 09/29/2021 2:25:37 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: proust

One thing is for sure—going forward any high value person is going to have to insist that the Nuremberg Code be an addendum to their contract.


9 posted on 09/29/2021 2:25:53 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
They have altered the deal.

PRAY, they do not alter it any further.

10 posted on 09/29/2021 2:26:58 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: proust

What does their contract say? Is Covid Vaccine spelled out? If not, sue them


11 posted on 09/29/2021 2:29:44 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: proust

A new term to remember: “Vaccinazification”. Using an illusory threat of a disease to impose fascist controls over others.


12 posted on 09/29/2021 2:31:48 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Jen Psaki - The Ginger Goebbels)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Apparently no one pays attention any more. Until it gets to court.


13 posted on 09/29/2021 2:31:49 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ClearCase_guy
I'm sure the contracts have a provision about "complying with all applicable laws, rules and regulations" in each city where the NBA plays.

The NBA may actually be doing this because they want to be sued by the players. The league would then file a third-party claim against the cities to get the stupid vaccine mandates overturned.

I can't believe any team would push this matter with a player. Kyrie Irving has been so brittle and injury-prone that he'd save himself a lot of trouble by playing one game on the road before missing the rest of the season with a fake injury. Then he'd get paid his full salary without ever having to show up in New York City at all.

14 posted on 09/29/2021 2:34:08 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: cgbg

Oh come on man

Go get vaxxed. So what if ADE kills a bunch of them, they will have helped the DimWITS get vaxx passports and social scores implemented.


15 posted on 09/29/2021 2:35:37 PM PDT by politicianslie (There was no cover-up, the election was not stolen. Biden won=NO ONE CAN STOP WHAT IS COMING)
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To: proust

NBA, NFL MLB all need a lesson in patriotism. Until they can arrange to be thankful to the country that made their millionaire lives possible...f’em.


16 posted on 09/29/2021 2:36:11 PM PDT by albie
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Vaxnazification is easier to say.


17 posted on 09/29/2021 2:36:30 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The difference between animals and humans: animals would never let the dumbest of the herd lead them)
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To: proust

Oppression is oppression.


18 posted on 09/29/2021 2:36:56 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: proust

Time to take a stand. When you’re standing in front of St. Peter those millions of fiat currency won’t mean a damn thing.


19 posted on 09/29/2021 2:39:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: proust

Breach of contract requires a lawyer.


20 posted on 09/29/2021 2:39:56 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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