Shaquille O’Neal is not the owner of the Brooklyn Nets, nor a player in the franchise. This is very good news for Kyrie Irving. While on CBS Sports Radio, Shaq was asked what he thought of the refusal of some players to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Irving being the most media of them, the Big Cactus interlocutors wanted to know what he would have done if he had had to deal with it as a member of the Nets.
The answer will not please Kyrie Irving, nor the other members of the league – like Michael Porter Jr – who are demanding the right not to be vaccinated if they do not want to.
“If I was playing in Brooklyn, I would go see the management and tell them, send him off. We’ll get by with a duo and a great shooter, plus some rebounders we already have. But let him go.
Every day we have to answer questions about him. Make it break from there. I don’t know if that will happen. But you asked me what would happen if I was on this team.
If I were his teammate, I would be in charge on a daily basis. And whoever owns the Nets, I would tell them to get Kyrie away. “
Shaquille O’Neal is not the only one who wants sweeping sanctions against players who do not want to be vaccinated. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar felt a few days ago that these players had no place in the NBA.
“Players who remain silent when asked to take a stand for immunization do not take on the responsibilities that fame gives them. Athletes have no obligation to be spokespersons for a government. it is a matter of public health.
Black athletes do not encourage their peers to get vaccinated and contribute to their mortality. I’m also worried that it helps preserve the stereotype of the idiot unable to verify scientific evidence and draw a rational conclusion.
There is no place for players who are willing to risk the lives of their teammates, staff and people just because they are unable to grasp the gravity of the situation or do the necessary research. “
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