About an hour and change before tip-off against the Milwaukee Bucks, the news dropped.
Kyrie Irving has been cleared to practice with the Brooklyn Nets. Brooklyn’s practice facility, the HSS Training Center, has been determined as private office space by the New York City city counsel, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
Charania clarified in a second tweet that this latest ruling does not apply to the Barclays Center, meaning that Irving is still ineligible to play at home. Ian Begley of SNY further detailed the rational behind the city’s ruling.