Kyrie Irving hasn’t played a single home game with the Brooklyn Nets so far this season. Not a single one.
But all that might change soon. Within a few weeks type of soon.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference on Wednesday and was asked about potentially peeling back the city’s vaccine mandate. The mandate currently in place bars unvaccinated folks from entering establishments like restaurants, gyms, arenas, and the like.
Adams said he was looking forward to peeling back the mandate soon “within the next few weeks.”
And that, in turn, leaves the door open for Irving to play Nets home games again, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
New York City has a plan to phase out the vaccine mandate in the coming weeks, Mayor Eric Adams says, at which point Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving would be cleared for home games.
Spokesperson adds that current rules remain in place.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 23, 2022
The Nets are in a space where they could potentially be bringing in Irving, Ben Simmons and Kevin Durant together all at once in the next few weeks. This is a scenario that felt absolutely unthinkable just a month ago.
Yet, here we are. Things are on track for it to finally happen. There’s still a question about how much it’ll actually matter. There are 13 home games left for the Nets and one other game at Madison Square Garden.
How quickly this gets done determines how many of those games Irving plays in, so we’ll see how it plays out.
But it might be scary hours for the Nets once again — except for this time without James Harden.
