Also, Irving currently is ineligible to play on March 1 at Toronto because travel for unvaccinated players across the border into Canada will be prohibited starting in January.īrooklyn has two road games at the Knicks remaining.
New York City's vaccine mandate does not allow Irving to play at Barclays Center or Madison Square Garden, home of the New York Knicks. Whenever Irving is cleared to return, he can play with the team only on the road due to his unvaccinated status.
"It's affecting everybody differently, whether they have had vaccines, not been vaccinated, had booster shots, and to be quite frank, which variant they caught. "Everyone's case is quite different," Marks said when asked what kind of hurdles Irving has to pass before returning. And then he has to ramp back up to game conditioning. Before entering health and safety protocols, Irving had to return negative COVID-19 test results on five consecutive days before he could join the team because he is unvaccinated. Irving, though, will have to wait before he can make his season debut. But I want to get him back in the fold, and we'll navigate those conversations then."įor a player to be cleared from the protocols, he must return two negative tests 24 hours apart. "When he gets back here, I'm sure he'll have conversations with, whether it's myself and Steve or whether it's with players, and so forth. Like sometimes, Steve has mentioned in the past that he's talked, but they never really talk about basketball, you know? We're trying to continue that camaraderie and so forth. The times I've gone to see him, these are about forming bonds and forming friendships and having conversations about the family, sometimes basketball and so forth. "I don't think that's been appropriate right now. "I have not talked to Kyrie about vaccination status," Marks said.
Marks said he has not spoken to Irving yet about whether the point guard is open to getting vaccinated down the road now that he is rejoining the team. What was best for the team at that point was continuity, and I think we all see that continuity right now, over the course of the last week, and whatever the future looks like may be out of the window for a while." Marks added: "Several months ago, we made a decision that was based around what was best for the team. We've seen large minutes that our guys have had to endure and play, and we've gotta look at what's best for the team over the course of the season." Managing our overall player load, that's something we've gotta be aware of throughout the course of this season. COVID has done a number on the team and on society in general, so that's certainly changed. "I walked to the arena today, and there's several lines out there for COVID testing, and there's 200, 300 people waiting in line to be tested. "The overall environment has changed as we've all known, drastically," Marks said before Saturday's game against the Magic.
12 that the team would not have him as a part-time player but would welcome him back when he complied with New York City's vaccine mandate, was prompted by the current circumstances that have ravaged the Nets' roster. Nets general manager Sean Marks said the decision to bring Irving back, reversing course after deciding on Oct. The Nets play the Denver Nuggets on Sunday as part of a home back-to-back. Brooklyn also will be without center Nic Claxton (wrist soreness) against the Orlando Magic on Saturday. The Nets' roster has been crushed by COVID-19, with 10 players now in protocols, including Durant, Irving, James Harden and LaMarcus Aldridge. Less than a day after deciding to bring Kyrie Irving back as a part-time player, the Brooklyn Nets saw their roster become further decimated with Kevin Durant and Irving entering the NBA's health and safety protocols on Saturday. Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving enter NBA's health and safety protocols, among 10 Brooklyn Nets players added this week
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