NEW YORK — Call it the Aaron Judge Rule, or the Mike Lupica Rule:
“When an athlete gets asked if he’s gotten the shot then declines to answer, that means he hasn’t gotten the shot.”
That was the position the Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics found themselves in last week. There are four teams that could be headed to Canada, where unvaccinated players are barred from entering, in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Two of them, the Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks, told ESPN that all of their players were vaccinated. The Sixers and Celtics wouldn’t say, and you know what that means:
