Brooklyn Nets' Kyrie Irving won't reconsider COVID-19 vaccine stance in wake of Kevin Durant injury

[Auggie]

CLEVELAND -- Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving made clear Monday that his stance regarding the COVID-19 vaccine will not change in the wake of Kevin Durant's knee injury that is expected to sideline him for four to six weeks.

Irving is unvaccinated and therefore ineligible to play at home because of a local mandate that all professional athletes playing in New York City's public venues be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The Nets originally decided before the regular season began that they would not accommodate Irving as a part-time member of the roster, but reversed course last month after a COVID-19 outbreak decimated the roster.

Irving said that no injury or other circumstance would compel him to change his mind, emphasizing repeatedly that he stands "rooted" in his decision.

"That's what I think comes into a lot of this culture and basketball and sport and entertainment,'' Irving said following Brooklyn's 114-107 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. "You bring in teams and you bring in situations. Kev's going to heal, Kev's going to be OK, and we're going to have to deal with that as his teammates. But in terms of where I am with my life outside of this, I stay rooted in my decision. And that's just what it is."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33088525/brooklyn-nets-kyrie-irving-reconsider-covid-19-vaccine-stance-wake-kevin-durant-injury-stay-rooted-my-decision

Quote: "It's not going to be swayed just because of one thing in this NBA life. That somehow it's brought to my attention as being more important than what's going on in the real world. It's just not happening for me. Again, I respect everyone else's decision, I'm not going to ever try to convince anyone of anything or any of that, I'm just standing rooted in what I believe in. And though we're dealing with this right now with Kev, I just know that I'm protected by the organization, I'm protected by my teammates, I'm protected by all the doctors I've talked to. And I just stand rooted."

Four to six weeks without Durant also means seven or eight home games without Irving.

[Botany]

1. Kyrie Irving, "I stay rooted in my decision. And that's just what it is."

Kyrie Irving on the earth's shape: “Can you openly admit that you know the Earth is constitutionally round?” he said to
me. “Like, you know that for sure? Like, I don’t know.” 2018

Kyrie is a really great player. There is no doubt about that but his ignorance is helping to spread a deadly disease
in different ways not the least insidious is impressionable young people might listen to him and not get vaccinated.

Kyrie, Dojokovic, and Aaron Rogers can all just go the fuck away and if I ever hear of them it will be too soon and
if they get sick with the virus they should not get any medical care because that care is based in the same science
that was used in the research and production of the vaccine.

[lark]

2. Cut his potentially disease spreading ass now.

He's is a bonified bone head, so give him his due and let him go. Why pay him to sit?

[oasis]

3. Dumbass talks like a smartass. He's an ass for sure. nt