{"id":1183523,"date":"2022-01-03T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183523"},"modified":"2022-01-03T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T18:05:02","slug":"report-kyrie-irving-to-make-season-debut-wednesday-against-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-kyrie-irving-to-make-season-debut-wednesday-against-indiana-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kyrie Irving To Make Season Debut Wednesday Against Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Freport-kyrie-irving-to-make-season-debut-wednesday-against-indiana-pacers%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=1183523&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>Brooklyn Nets star point guard Kyrie Irving has been missing from the NBA for the entirety of the 2021 NBA regular season, sidelined by his team due to remaining unvaccinated in a city which requires him to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to play in his home arena.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Irving\u2019s absence ends Wednesday, according to NBA insider Shams Charania of The Athletic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving is expected to make his season debut Wednesday on the road against the Indiana Pacers, sources tell [The Athletic] [Stadium],\u201d Charania posted to Twitter Monday morning. \u201cAfter missing the Nets\u2019 first 35 games of the season, Irving has targeted Wednesday for his return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving is expected to make his season debut Wednesday on the road against the Indiana Pacers, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAthletic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Stadium<\/a>. After missing the Nets\u2019 first 35 games of the season, Irving has targeted Wednesday for his return.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1478019917500846081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a quick turnaround for Irving, who attended his first practice last Wednesday since the organization shelved him in October.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New York City requires players to be vaccinated in order to play in \u201ccertain covered premises,\u201d including Barclays Center, home of the Nets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In mid-October, Nets general manager Sean Marks announced that Irving would not be part of the organization \u201cuntil he is eligible to be a full participant.\u201d At the time, Marks would not allow Irving to play in just Brooklyn\u2019s road games, which would have made him &nbsp;a \u201cpart-time player.\u201d That thinking changed in the middle of December when the Nets were hit particularly hard by COVID-19, forcing Marks and the Nets to do an about face regarding Irving\u2019s position on the team, allowing him to return to the team as a \u201cpart-time\u201d player for Brooklyn\u2019s remaining road games.<\/p>\n<p>Following his first practice since the preseason, Irving told reporters he understood the initial decision by the team, saying that while he was aware of the consequences that came with remaining unvaccinated as a member of the Brooklyn Nets, he was not prepared for the real life ramifications of his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understood their decision, and I respected it and tried not to become too emotionally attached to what they were deciding to do,\u201d Irving <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3041375\/2021\/12\/29\/kyrie-irving-practices-with-nets-and-prepares-for-part-time-return-this-is-always-where-i-wanted-to-be\/\">said<\/a> according to Alex Schiffer of The Athletic. \u201cI had to sit down and really evaluate things and see it from their perspective, meaning the organization and my teammates. I just really empathized and understood their choice to say, \u2018If you\u2019re not going to be vaccinated, fully vaccinated, then you can\u2019t be a full participant.\u2019 I knew the consequences. I wasn\u2019t prepared for them by no stretch of the imagination. Coming into the season, I had my thought process on being able to be a full-time teammate and just go out and have fun and provide a great brand of basketball out there. But unfortunately, it didn\u2019t happen like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Steve Nash told reporters that Irving\u2019s debut would depend on his level of conditioning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does he recover from today?\u201d Nash <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3041375\/2021\/12\/29\/kyrie-irving-practices-with-nets-and-prepares-for-part-time-return-this-is-always-where-i-wanted-to-be\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cHow many high-intensity (practices) does he need to feel comfortable, confident from a personal standpoint \u2014 for Kyrie, for the performance team and all those different measures? It\u2019s still a shifting landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nets have 24 road games remaining on their regular season schedule, but two of those games will be played against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden where Irving is not eligible to play, and one will be in Toronto when Brooklyn travels to play the Raptors on January 26. All NBA players must be vaccinated in order to travel to Canada beginning January 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets currently sit in second place in the Eastern Conference with a record of 23-11.<\/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&nbsp;sports@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&nbsp;<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing<\/a>&nbsp;our petition to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Nets star point guard Kyrie Irving has been missing from the NBA for the entirety of the 2021 NBA regular season, sidelined by his team due to remaining unvaccinated in a city which requires him to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to play in his home arena.\u00a0 Irving\u2019s absence ends Wednesday, according to &#8230;<\/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-1183523","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\/1183523","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=1183523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183523\/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=1183523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}