{"id":236743,"date":"2021-10-12T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=236743"},"modified":"2021-10-12T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:46:03","slug":"kyrie-irving-cant-play-for-nets-till-covid-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=236743","title":{"rendered":"Kyrie Irving can&#8217;t play for Nets, till COVID vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-236741\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Irving-Kyrie-Nets-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Irving-Kyrie-Nets-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Irving-Kyrie-Nets-768x486.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Irving-Kyrie-Nets-1024x647.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Irving-Kyrie-Nets-277x175.jpg 277w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Irving-Kyrie-Nets.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(AP)\u00a0 NBA star Kyrie Irving can keep refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but he can\u2019t play for the Brooklyn Nets. The Nets announced Irving won&#8217;t play or practice with the team until he can be a full participant, ending the idea he could play in only road games. Under a New York City mandate, professional athletes playing for a team in the city must be vaccinated against COVID-19 to play or practice in public venues. General manager Sean Marks says Irving will still be paid for road games. Irving hasn\u2019t said he isn\u2019t vaccinated, asking for privacy when he spoke via Zoom during the team\u2019s media day on Sept. 27. NBA players are not required to be vaccinated, but they face more testing and social distancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 NBA star Kyrie Irving can keep refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but he can\u2019t play for the Brooklyn Nets. The Nets announced Irving won&#8217;t play or practice with the team until he can be a full participant, ending the idea he could play in only road games. Under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236744,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236743\/revisions\/236744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}