{"id":1405202,"date":"2022-03-28T15:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405202"},"modified":"2022-03-28T15:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:44:53","slug":"kyrie-irving-makes-season-debut-in-new-york-city-im-standing-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kyrie-irving-makes-season-debut-in-new-york-city-im-standing-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving Makes Season Debut In New York City: \u2018I\u2019m Standing For Freedom\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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-makes-season-debut-in-new-york-city-im-standing-for-freedom%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=1405202&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239571961.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>After many months and 74 regular season games, Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving made his season debut in front of the Nets\u2019 faithful on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His first game at Barclays Arena came just days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that professional athletes and performers are now exempt from the city\u2019s vaccine mandate in order to work in the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cToday, I signed emergency Executive Order 62, expanding the performance exemption to private employer mandates,\u201d Adams <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kyrie-wins-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-to-allow-unvaccinated-professional-athletes-to-play-in-home-games\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on Thursday. \u201cThis is about putting New York City-based performance on a level playing field. Day one when I was mayor, I looked at the rule that stated \u2018home town players had an unfair disadvantage [to] those who were coming to visit.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd immediately, I felt that we needed to look at that,\u201d Adams continued. \u201cBut my medical professionals said, \u2018Eric, we\u2019re at a different place. We have to wait until we\u2019re at a place where we\u2019re at a low area and we can re-examine some of the mandates.\u2019 We\u2019re here today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s a massive deal for the Nets, who have gone through long losing stretches during the regular season, at one point losing 11 in a row during the months of January and February. Irving\u2019s full-time participation is a massive boost to a Nets team that will need to win in the play-in games in order to be one of the eight playoff teams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Sunday night, Irving\u2019s return to the court was greeted with cheers from Brooklyn\u2019s home crowd, but they were quickly quieted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving received loud cheers from fans at Barclays Center during introductions. Irving is playing in his first home game for the Brooklyn Nets since Game 2 versus the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference Semifinals on June 7, 2021. He waved to the crowd before tip off. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZVav5KTsXn\">pic.twitter.com\/ZVav5KTsXn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/1508230237502517251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Irving shot just 6-22 from the floor (27.2%), scoring 16 points in a 119-110 loss to the Charlotte Hornets. The loss dropped the Nets into the ninth spot in the Eastern Conference, with seven games remaining on the regular season schedule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the loss, Irving made it clear that the game was about much more than just basketball.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI made it very clear it was never just about me,\u201d Irving said. \u201cI think for my own legacy, that\u2019s to be written by all those that I impact and all those that impact me, and it\u2019s far bigger than just a basketball game. But when I\u2019m in this locker room, I get a chance to perform with a bunch of guys that are selfless and are sacrificing just as much as I am. It makes it worthwhile.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When Irving first announced that he was unvaccinated against COVID-19 in October, Irving said that his stance on the vaccine was about more than just him, saying that\u00a0<\/span><span>\u201cnobody should be forced to do anything with their bodies.\u201d He reiterated that stance after Sunday\u2019s game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe point of this season for me was never to just take a stand,\u201d Irving said. \u201cIt was really to make sure that I\u2019m standing on what I believe in, in freedom. Freedom. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a word that gets defined enough in our society. About the freedom to make choices with your life without someone telling you what the f*** to do. And whether that carries over into nuances of our society that politicians control, or government controls \u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m standing for freedom. So, that\u2019s in all facets of my life,\u201d Irving continued. \u201cAnd there\u2019s nobody that\u2019s enslaving me, there\u2019s nobody that\u2019s telling me what I\u2019m going to do with my life, and that\u2019s just the way I am. And if I get tarnished in terms of my image and people try to slander my name continuously, those aren\u2019t things that I forget. I haven\u2019t forgotten anything that anybody said. I don\u2019t read everything, but I definitely read some things that put my family\u2019s name in a certain position that I believe are unfair. I\u2019ve been discriminated against. People have said things that have been biased. They\u2019ve gone against their own morals. And where we\u2019re living today, I have such a strong moral code of just being honest, being truthful, following God\u2019s guidance, and just living with the results. But in terms of that, I\u2019m a servant. I\u2019m comfortable being in that position.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving on his legacy:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom. It&#8217;s about the freedom to make choices with your life without someone telling you what the f\u2013k to do. I have such a strong moral code of being honest.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U8AWJYDWQk\">pic.twitter.com\/U8AWJYDWQk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nets Videos (@SNYNets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNYNets\/status\/1508278494077280266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The Nets next face the Detroit Pistons in Brooklyn on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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