Sports Anchors Disgusted Unvaxed Kyrie Irving Will Play For Nets Again

Many headlines surrounding Kyrie Irving (Boston Nets guard) involve drama. And this week’s was no exception.

Irving, who is unvaccinated in the NBA, will be returning to the Nets’ roster for away games. Irving is not available for Brooklyn games because the NBA doesn’t have an overall vaccine mandate but they released a memo last September that required players to follow the requirements of their respective home cities.

Irving was not allowed to play in Brooklyn due to Brooklyn’s requirement that everyone be vaccinated in order to participate in large events. The Nets were forced to take Irving back because of a COVID epidemic in the NBA, where many players were placed on COVID reserve.

Naturally, this elicited impassioned responses from Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless, both of whom characterized the move by the Nets as “shameful.”

“The crushing irony of this whole development is he betrayed this team over Covid and they crawled back to him because of Covid,” Bayless said on Undisputed. “The very thing he refused to protect himself and his team against, has now wrecked the whole basketball team to the point they said ‘we got no other choice, we gotta ask him to come back’…he will be an enormous threat to their team.”

Stephen’s take actually makes a good amount of sense, Irving is a toxic addition to pretty much any team he’s on. But Bayless’ opinion is completely irrational.

The transmission of COVID even within vaccinated people is possible, so adding someone to the team who is more likely to spread it will not worsen things (the Nets had already to cancel three games as a result). Plus, it at the very least shows that the Net’s strategy of exiling unvaccinated players from the team will not work and that trusting the vaccine to eliminate COVID cases is a bogus plan as well.

We will see how the situation develops, but at this point, Irving is likely to get the last laugh.

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