The Post’s Brian Lewis and Josh Kosman report that a surprising tweak to the language of New York City’s vaccine mandate last August may have changed the Nets fortunes as well ... and not just for last season.
The two report that sometime between August 16 and 20, without the Nets knowledge, Mayor Bill deBlasio’s administration made a subtle yet important change in the wording of the “Key to the City” policy that included vaccine mandates for city employees and “artists” a designation that included players on the city’s professional sports:
This train first went off the rails not during the season but in the preseason; in August 2021 when Mayor Bill de Blasio issued an emergency executive order allowing unvaccinated local athletes who lived outside the city to play home games, then switched the city mandate just four days later to bar them as well.