{"id":1403868,"date":"2022-03-28T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403868"},"modified":"2022-03-28T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T11:45:29","slug":"kyrie-irving-says-the-unvaccinated-need-to-stand-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kyrie-irving-says-the-unvaccinated-need-to-stand-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving Says the Unvaccinated Need to \u201cStand Together\u201d"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fkyrie-irving-says-the-unvaccinated-need-to-stand-together%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=1403868&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>No player in the NBA faced the daunting reality of vaccine restrictions like Brooklyn\u2019s Kyrie Irving.<\/p>\n<p>After being sidelined for home games at Barclays over his unvaccinated status, Irving wants to make sure all unvaccinated workers in New York are granted the same freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been saying from the beginning with all this, it\u2019s never been just about me, and any special privilege or exemption,\u201d Irving said, as relayed by OutKick\/HoopsWire\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hoopswire.com\/nets-kyrie-irving-advocates-for-removal-of-mandates-promises-to-stand-alongside-unvaccinated\/\">Sam Amico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie and unvaccinated athletes in New York have been cleared to play by Mayor Eric Adams; however, employees participating at the players\u2019 home venues must still abide by a private sector ruling that prohibits unvaccinated people from working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are a lot of people dealing with real consequences from being unvaccinated. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s talked about enough in terms of our essential workers and people on the frontlines, and it\u2019s just it\u2019s a whole community of us that really want to stand together.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nets&#8217; Kyrie Irving Advocates For Removal Of Mandates, Promises To &#8216;Stand Alongside&#8217; Unvaccinated <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6lHJlPOUvw\">https:\/\/t.co\/6lHJlPOUvw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uvFl5w1MWY\">pic.twitter.com\/uvFl5w1MWY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hoops Wire (@WireHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WireHoops\/status\/1507810417359294467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd though I\u2019m very appreciative of Mayor\u00a0Adams doing what he did, and everyone in our Nets organization, everyone sending in notes to the mayor and tweets or Instagram posts or wherever you call it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irvin has played 21 of 74 games (all away contests) for Brooklyn this season and will finally play at his home court on Sunday against the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets guard comes back at a crucial time of the year as Brooklyn sits as the East\u2019s eighth-seed team with only seven games left after their game against Charlotte<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, now is the time to really get all of us included and get everybody back to work so we get some normalcy around here. But I know everybody still feels it, and there\u2019s a whole community of people that have lost their jobs due to this mandate as well. And I\u2019m just putting care out for them most importantly, and standing alongside of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When active, Irving has averaged 27.7 points, 5.5 assists and 4.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Follow along on Twitter:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alejandroaveela?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>@AlejandroAveela<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No player in the NBA faced the daunting reality of vaccine restrictions like Brooklyn\u2019s Kyrie Irving. After being sidelined for home games at Barclays over his unvaccinated status, Irving wants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":1892080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403868","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}