In the run-up to the current NBA season, a conflict broke out in the best basketball league in the world with one of its top stars. One of the Brooklyn Nets figures, Kyrie Irving, was at the center of the scene for her decision not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus .
The franchise separated him from the team for much of the start of the campaign, although the league players' union and the organization chaired by Commissioner Adam Silver reached an agreement that did not force the protagonists to inoculate themselves against COVID-19. Beyond that, because the regulations of each city or state were above, the point guard was unable to play in the games that the Nets played as a home at the Barclays Center in New York until that restriction was lifted.
Today, in the preview of the start of the playoffs, and after returning to the team to be key in the Brooklyn qualification to reach 7th place, Irving spoke about his choice not to get vaccinated against COVID-19. “I made the right choice for me,” he said in dialogue with the press after the last practice before the series premiered against the Boston Celtics.
“I can really say that I stood firm in what I believed, what I wanted to do with my body. I think it shouldn't just be an American right, I think it should be a human right,” added number 11 of the Nets.
Irving only made his debut in the current season on January 5, in a game against the Indiana Pacers. For two months, the former Cleveland Cavaliers champion only played away games until New York City Mayor Eric Adams amended the city's vaccination requirement for professional athletes and performers towards the end of March.
“I can't address everyone, but as we go through time, I know I made the right decision for me. It's a great feeling when you know that in awkward moments you can really lean on different people despite their role in different sectors or different places in our organization or the things they represent,” said the 30-year-old about the support he had from the organization in the franchise.
“Some people supported me in public, some people supported me in private, and I agree with both. Some people don't agree with me in public, some people don't agree with me in private. It doesn't really bother me as much as it did at the beginning of the season, because everything was so new,” he added.
Finally, he explained that he listened to all the comments about him. “They called me by so many different names... It was part of my struggle to watch the season, a game I love; my job, I can't even keep calling it a game, it's my job,” he said.
In just 29 games, Irving's end-of-season impact for the Nets was key. With an average of more than 27 points and almost 6 assists, the point guard was decisive. He scored 60 points in one game and 50 in another.
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