{"id":1137701,"date":"2021-12-21T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137701"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T18:06:52","slug":"espns-stephen-a-smith-reveals-he-has-covid-19-calls-nets-decision-to-allow-unvaccinated-kyrie-irving-back-disgraceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espns-stephen-a-smith-reveals-he-has-covid-19-calls-nets-decision-to-allow-unvaccinated-kyrie-irving-back-disgraceful\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith Reveals He Has COVID-19, Calls Nets Decision To Allow Unvaccinated Kyrie Irving Back \u2018Disgraceful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fespns-stephen-a-smith-reveals-he-has-covid-19-calls-nets-decision-to-allow-unvaccinated-kyrie-irving-back-disgraceful%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137701&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>ESPN Stephen A. Smith teased the viewers of his show \u201cFirst Take\u201d Tuesday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenasmith\/status\/1473281486006665224?s=20\">informing<\/a> his followers that he had something to say on Tuesday\u2019s edition of the program.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, Smith didn\u2019t announce a big trade in the NBA, or give his prediction for the NBA Finals. Instead, Smith \u2014 in a raspy voice \u2014 announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve tested positive for COVID-19,\u201d Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5YJpMEL-q3Y\">announced<\/a>. \u201cI have the coronavirus. I learned this over the weekend. I got tested three times last week prior to the weekend. I had tested negative before I had departed for LA, I tested negative when I arrived in LA, I tested negative when I got back from LA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith did not appear on Monday\u2019s show due to his positive test, and said he will be out for the remainder of the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank god I was vaccinated,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5YJpMEL-q3Y\">continued<\/a>. Thank god I got the Pfizer vaccine, two shots a few months ago \u2026 thank god I got the vaccine because had it not been for that, I\u2019d probably be much worse than I am right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith revealed that he has mild symptoms and dealt with a 12-hour fever. He also informed the viewers that while he has not yet received his booster, he plans on doing so soon.<\/p>\n<p>Following his announcement that he had contracted a virus that roughly 51.5 million other Americans have been infected by, Smith dove right into hammering the Brooklyn Nets for allowing star point guard Kyrie Irving to return to the team as a \u201cpart-time\u201d player. Irving has yet to play in a game this season due to remaining unvaccinated, which prohibits him from playing at Barclays Arena, the home of the Nets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a horrible move. I think it\u2019s a disgraceful move,\u201d Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5YJpMEL-q3Y\">said<\/a> when asked if this was the best move for the Nets\u2019 organization. \u201cI think that Nets ownership is incredibly disappointing and I think that the league should intervene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m open to the league invoking its \u2018best interest of the game\u2019 clause and mandating that everybody be vaccinated in some capacity,\u201d Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5YJpMEL-q3Y\">continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s comments come a day after his former colleague \u2014 Skip Bayless \u2014 slammed Irving for putting his teammates at risk on Monday\u2019s airing of \u201cUndisputed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, that\u2019s shameful,\u201d Bayless <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P_SKny_ypKg?t=155\">said<\/a> to Shannon Sharpe. \u201cYou thought it was shameful what Kyrie did to this team to begin with \u2026 The crushing irony of this whole development is that he betrayed this team over COVID, and then they crawled back to him because of COVID. And so the very thing he refused to protect himself and his team against, has now wrecked the whole basketball team to the point they said \u2018we got no other choice, we gotta ask him to come back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a society, we\u2019re up against a variant that is the most contagious yet, by far. Maybe not the deadliest, but most contagious. And Kyrie is unvaccinated \u2026 he will be an enormous threat to their team. Which is why he\u2019ll have to be tested every day, and kept in all kinds of mask protocols \u2026 He\u2019s going to be a huge threat while he also can be a godsend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to\u00a0sports@dailywire.com.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing<\/a> our petition to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN Stephen A. Smith teased the viewers of his show \u201cFirst Take\u201d Tuesday morning, informing his followers that he had something to say on Tuesday\u2019s edition of the program. \u00a0As it turned out, Smith didn\u2019t announce a big trade in the NBA, or give his prediction for the NBA Finals. Instead, Smith \u2014 in a raspy voice \u2014 announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve tested positive for COVID-19,\u201d Smith announced. \u201cI have the coronavirus. I learned this over the weekend. I got tested three times last week prior to the weekend. I had tested negative before I had departed for LA, I tested negative when I arrived in LA, I tested negative when I got back from LA.\u201d\u00a0Smith did not appear on Monday\u2019s show due to his positive test, and said he will be out for the remainder of the week.\u00a0\u201cThank god I was vaccinated,\u201d he continued. Thank god I got the Pfizer vaccine, two shots a few months ago \u2026 thank god I got the vaccine because had it not been for that, I\u2019d probably be much worse than I am right now.\u201d Smith revealed that he has mild symptoms and dealt with a 12-hour fever. He also informed the viewers that while he has not yet received his booster, he plans on doing so soon.\u00a0Following his announcement that he had contracted a virus that roughly 51.5 million other Americans have been infected by, Smith dove right into hammering the Brooklyn Nets for allowing star point guard Kyrie Irving to return to the team as a \u201cpart-time\u201d player. Irving has yet to play in a game this season due to remaining unvaccinated, which prohibits him from playing at Barclays Arena, the home of the Nets.\u00a0\u201cI think it\u2019s a horrible move. I think it\u2019s a disgraceful move,\u201d Smith said when asked if this was the best move for the Nets\u2019 organization. \u201cI think that Nets ownership is incredibly disappointing and I think that the league should intervene.\u201d\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m open to the league invoking its \u2018best interest of the game\u2019 clause and mandating that everybody be vaccinated in some capacity,\u201d Smith continued.\u00a0Smith\u2019s comments come a day after his former colleague \u2014 Skip Bayless \u2014 slammed Irving for putting his teammates at risk on Monday\u2019s airing of \u201cUndisputed.\u201d\u00a0\u201cTo me, that\u2019s shameful,\u201d Bayless said to Shannon Sharpe. \u201cYou thought it was shameful what Kyrie did to this team to begin with \u2026 The crushing irony of this whole development is that he betrayed this team over COVID, and then they crawled back to him because of COVID. And so the very thing he refused to protect himself and his team against, has now wrecked the whole basketball team to the point they said \u2018we got no other choice, we gotta ask him to come back.\u2019\u201d\u201cAs a society, we\u2019re up against a variant that is the most contagious yet, by far. Maybe not the deadliest, but most contagious. And Kyrie is unvaccinated \u2026 he will be an enormous threat to their team. Which is why he\u2019ll have to be tested every day, and kept in all kinds of mask protocols \u2026 He\u2019s going to be a huge threat while he also can be a godsend.\u201d\u00a0Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to\u00a0sports@dailywire.com.The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by signing our petition to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}