{"id":1211872,"date":"2022-01-12T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211872"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:21:08","slug":"report-there-could-be-a-way-for-kyrie-irving-to-play-in-brooklyn-home-games-money-is-the-potential-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-there-could-be-a-way-for-kyrie-irving-to-play-in-brooklyn-home-games-money-is-the-potential-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: There Could Be A Way For Kyrie Irving To Play In Brooklyn Home Games, Money Is The Potential Answer"},"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\">40<\/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-there-could-be-a-way-for-kyrie-irving-to-play-in-brooklyn-home-games-money-is-the-potential-answer%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=1211872&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>When the Brooklyn Nets announced in December that unvaccinated star point guard Kyrie Irving would be allowed to play in the team\u2019s road games, many of us wondered what that meant for Brooklyn\u2019s chances of winning the 2021-2022 NBA championship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Irving\u2019s presence on the court will certainly help Brooklyn in its pursuit of the top seed in the Eastern Conference, as well as allowing stars Kevin Durant and James Harden to play fewer minutes, come postseason time, Irving\u2019s inability to play at Barclays Center in Brooklyn would severely hinder the organization\u2019s chances of reaching and winning the NBA Finals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But there is a loophole to this problem, according to Stefan Bondy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/basketball\/nets\/ny-nets-kyrie-vaccine-20220112-vhw3aptgzffwphs6jvqzjtbuce-story.html\">The New York Daily News<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to play in Brooklyn home games or at Madison Square Garden where the New York Knicks play, Irving would need to be vaccinated due to local New York City regulations, or pay a fine, according to the NY Daily News.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In August, then-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio (D) put out an <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/225-001\/emergency-executive-order-225\">executive order<\/a> which required players to be vaccinated in order to play in \u201ccertain covered premises.\u201d In the executive order, the subsequent fines for an individual who violates the rules are laid out, starting with a $1,000 fine for the first violation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A second violation within a twelve-month period will warrant a $2,000 fine, with every violation thereafter costing the individual $5,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s consider how many home games the Nets potentially could play during the NBA playoffs. Brooklyn currently sits second in the Eastern Conference, but to make this easier to understand, let\u2019s say they finish as the conference\u2019s top seed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the top seed, the Nets would have a maximum of four home games per round. With four rounds \u2014 including the NBA Finals \u2014 the Nets would have a maximum of 16 home games. Irving would be fined $3,000 for the first two games he plays, and then a total of $70,000 for the remaining 14 home games in which he plays, when Irving playing is a violation of New York City\u2019s executive order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Irving makes more than $400,000 per game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The odds of this happening seem small, as the backlash would be immense, but props to Bondy for doing the necessary research and pointing out the loophole.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Irving has played in two games since Brooklyn allowed him to be a \u201cpart-time\u201d player, averaging 22 points and 4 assists per game in 36 minutes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The entire situation around Irving has been a fiasco from the beginning.&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 as a \u201cpart-time\u201d player for Brooklyn\u2019s remaining road games.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to allow Irving to play has enraged many in the media, including ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith, who even said he was open to the league mandating the COVID-19 vaccination for players.&nbsp;<\/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 bringing Irving back 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&nbsp;<\/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>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nets next road game is against the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night.<\/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 sports@dailywire.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Brooklyn Nets announced in December that unvaccinated star point guard Kyrie Irving would be allowed to play in the team\u2019s road games, many of us wondered what that meant for Brooklyn\u2019s chances of winning the 2021-2022 NBA championship.\u00a0 While Irving\u2019s presence on the court will certainly help Brooklyn in its pursuit of the &#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-1211872","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\/1211872","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=1211872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211872\/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=1211872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}