While almost everyone urges her to get vaccinated, Kyrie Irving is stubbornly refusing any treatment for covid-19. However, this could cost him dearly… and we are talking about it literally, since his decision should be severely sanctioned financially!
If the coronavirus pandemic continues to make the news in the NBA, it is because several players persist in standing up against a vaccination. At their head, we find Kyrie Irving, fiercely opposed to any injection in order to prevent disease. According to rumors, he would also spread completely crazy rumors about it…
Nearly $ 15 million for Kyrie Irving?
However, local New York laws now prohibit players from playing at home without having been vaccinated beforehand, and this therefore also concerns the Nets. As for those who refuse, they go against a monumental sanction. It’s Tim Bontemps fromESPN who dropped the bomb, and the decision taken by the top league will hurt Kyrie:
Reporting with @BobbyMarks42: The NBA and the NBPA have agreed to a reduction in pay of 1/91.6th of a player’s salary for each game an unvaccinated player misses in their home market because of local laws. For example, Kyrie Irving would lose roughly $381,000 per game.
– Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) October 4, 2021
The NBA and NBPA have agreed to a pay cut of 1 / 91.6ᵉ of a player’s salary for each game an unvaccinated player misses in their home market due to local laws. For example, Kyrie Irving would lose around $ 381,000 per game.
Small calculation: if we add up the 41 regular season games that Brooklyn will play at the Barclays Center, we reach the astronomical sum of $ 15.6 million in fines for the 2016 champion. This is the salary over a year of many players of the league, even what some win over an entire contract! This is to say the violence of the financial loss for Uncle Drew.
Unfortunately, it would seem that this is not enough to change his mind. The last update on him given by Steve Nash is indeed nothing reassuring, and we can expect the multiple All-Star to stick to his positions for a while yet. A situation anything but ideal for blacks and whites, who need him to become champion in 2021-22.
The soap opera Kyrie Irving has taken a new turn, but the finish line is still far from being in sight. We hope for Brooklyn that a solution will be quickly found!
