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Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving will not play for the team during the 2021-2022 NBA season as long as he remains unvaccinated against COVID-19, the team announced.
“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,” Nets General Manager Sean Marks said in a statement. “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. It is imperative that we continue to build chemistry as a team and remain true to our long-established values of togetherness and sacrifice.”
Irving has not been able to participate in Nets practices and preseason games so far this year due to local requirements in New York City for unvaccinated people.
These vaccine restrictions are from the local officials, and not from the NBA.
Irving is scheduled to make $35.2 million this season from the Nets, and may lose out on some, if it all of that money if he doesn’t play this season, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks.
This is a developing story.
