{"id":835159,"date":"2021-10-01T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835159"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:44:11","slug":"nba-you-say-we-live-in-the-land-of-the-free-draymond-green-questions-covid-vaccine-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-you-say-we-live-in-the-land-of-the-free-draymond-green-questions-covid-vaccine-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: \u2018You Say We Live In The Land Of The Free\u2019: Draymond Green Questions COVID Vaccine Pressure"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fnba-you-say-we-live-in-the-land-of-the-free-draymond-green-questions-covid-vaccine-pressure%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=835159&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1234602959.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The media may be constantly asking athletes if they\u2019ll attempt to push their unvaccinated teammates toward receiving the shot, but NBA players don\u2019t appear to have any interest in telling their teammates what to do.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though it was reported Thursday that nearly 95% of the league is vaccinated, the few players that remain unvaccinated have become the main topic of conversation.<\/p>\n<p><span>Draymond Green is a three-time NBA champion, the 2017 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and the unquestioned leader of the Golden State Warriors.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But Green doesn\u2019t feel that his leadership role extends to telling teammates what to put in their bodies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat would be like me telling him, \u2018Yo, your wife is going into labor. How dare you leave this team and not go tend to your wife?&#8217;\u201d Green said. \u201cThat\u2019s something that\u2019s personal to him. That\u2019s something that\u2019s health-related. That\u2019s something that\u2019s personal to his family. This is no different. We\u2019re dealing with something that to me feels like has turned into a political war when you\u2019re talking about vaccinated [people] and non-vaccinated [people]. I think it\u2019s become very political.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Green was speaking on Warriors guard Andrew Wiggins, who recently had a tense exchange with the media about his hesitancy in receiving the vaccine.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s none of your business is what it comes down to,\u201d Wiggins <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDumasReports\/status\/1442582057859706882?s=20\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday when asked about his reasoning behind not getting the shot. \u201cI don\u2019t ask you guys what you think is right or wrong. We\u2019re different people \u2026 Who are you guys where I have to explain what I believe? Or what\u2019s right or what\u2019s wrong in my mind. We\u2019re two totally different people. What you think is not what I think. What I think is not what you think.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnything that has to do with my status, vaccination, it\u2019s a private matter,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDumasReports\/status\/1442582057859706882?s=20\"><span>continued<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cSo, I\u2019m going to keep it personal and private.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For Wiggins and for the Warriors, the decision to be unvaccinated could have major implications.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>NBA athletes who play in New York and San Francisco will be required to have the vaccine in order to play indoors, per local rules. On Wednesday, the NBA announced that any player who misses a game due to not being vaccinated will not be paid for the missed game.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Warriors have 41 games at the Chase Center in San Francisco for the 2021-2022 season.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Five-time All-Star Klay Thompson is expected to make his return after missing two years due to injuries, and Golden State is expected to be competitive in the Western Conference.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Green doesn\u2019t see that as a reason to pressure Wiggins to be vaccinated, saying that it\u2019s every individual\u2019s choice.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFor someone who\u2019s not extremely into politics, when you make something so political \u2014 not everyone is into politics \u2014 then you can also turn those people off,\u201d Green continued. \u201cThere is something to be said for people concerns about something that\u2019s being pressed so hard. Like \u2018why are you pressing this so hard?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou say we live in the land of the free. Well, you\u2019re not giving anyone freedom because you\u2019re making people do something essentially,\u201d Green said later. \u201cWithout necessarily making them, you\u2019re making them do something. That goes against everything that America stands for, or supposedly stands for.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.9047619047619\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Draymond Green said he won&#8217;t pressure Andrew Wiggins to get the vaccine, even if that means he will miss home games. He had a ton of thoughts on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Part 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oogj6TILUv\">pic.twitter.com\/oogj6TILUv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1443689491437260800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s not my place nor my business on whether he gets vaccinated or not \u2026 That\u2019s none of my business,\u201d Green continued. \u201cAnd I think people in this world could do themselves a great deal if they actually took that approach as well. It\u2019s your own personal choice at the end of the day, what you do with your body. It\u2019s not my place what he should or shouldn\u2019t do with his. Because he\u2019s not going to come tell me what I should do with my body. Just because I am a leader of this team don\u2019t give me the right to go tell him hat to do with his. That\u2019s his personal choice\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.9047619047619\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Draymond Green said he won&#8217;t pressure Andrew Wiggins to get the vaccine, even if that means he will miss home games. He had a ton of thoughts on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Part 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P9FlaqBdLx\">pic.twitter.com\/P9FlaqBdLx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1443689814734237697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Tuesday, LeBron James announced that he was vaccinated, but said that it wasn\u2019t his place to tell others what to do with their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about individual\u2019s bodies,\u201d James said on Tuesday when elaborating on his decision. \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about something that\u2019s political or racism or police brutality or things of that nature. We\u2019re talking about people\u2019s bodies and well-being. So I don\u2019t feel like for me personally that I should get involved in what other people should do for their bodies and their livelihoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NBA regular season begins October 19th.<\/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&nbsp;<\/i><i>sports@dailywire.com<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media may be constantly asking athletes if they\u2019ll attempt to push their unvaccinated teammates toward receiving the shot, but NBA players don\u2019t appear to have any interest in telling &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-835159","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\/835159","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835159\/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=835159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}