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Kristian Winfield

Kyrie Irving: If I can work unvaccinated, others should be able to, too

NEW YORK — On today’s installment of ‘things Kyrie Irving posts on Twitter,’ the Nets star guard appears to have responded to a video of Mayor Eric Adams getting his COVID-19 booster shot on live TV.

The Mayor’s appearance was part of a campaign promoting COVID-19 booster shots in New York City, as he ends the private employer vaccine mandate but keeps the mandate active for city workers.

Irving, who is the most notable among the NBA’s unvaccinated players and the only known unvaccinated NBA player in New York City, tweeted in defense of the unvaccinated — and thus unemployed — workforce suffering because of their decision against the COVID-19 vaccine.

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