Kyrie Irving is once again fully eligible, as are any unvaccinated athletes in NYC, thanks to Mayor Eric Adams rolling back workplace vaccine mandates for athletes and performers on Thursday.
And, while Kyrie himself was mum on the topic when news started circulating about it Wednesday night, the NBA and NBA Players’ Association have released a joint statement regarding the rollbacks, touting the league’s high vaccination rate and support of the mandate softening:
Of course, Irving is not within that 97 percent, as are (or were) a handful of other star players around the league during the course of the season – but the joint statement agrees in part with comments made by Kevin Durant earlier this month following Kyrie’s appearance at a Nets-Knicks game at Barclays Center, criticizing the basis of the mandates and how they were unequal.
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Yankees president Randy Levine and Mets president Sandy Alderson, who were both present at the press conference where the rollback was announced, spoke positively of the move, as well.
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