The questions are not going away. As the Nets struggle and Kyrie Irving’s status remains unvaccinated and part-time, beat writers and others are going to ask, repeatedly, about whether there’s any change in his status, whether his teammates are talking to him and whether the burden of having a part-time player, no matter how good, is going help or hurt continuity.
On Friday night, Nick Friedell of ESPN asked James Harden and Kevin Durant about whether they’ve had conversations with Irving about his vaccine status while he and other reporters asked Steve Nash about adjusting to Irving’s special status, being allowed to play in (most) road games but not even allowed inside Barclays Center.