NBA commissioner Adam Silver questioned New York City‘s vaccine mandate only applying to home teams, speculating that recently elected mayor Eric Adams could look into altering the vaccination requirement in the near future in an interview on ESPN's “Get Up” Wednesday.
Silver said that the mandate, which has prevented Nets guard Kyrie Irving, who is unvaccinated against COVID-19, from playing any home games in Brooklyn this season, “doesn‘t make sense” to him. Under the current ordinance, a player on an away team that is unvaccinated against the virus is still eligible to play at Barclays Center and/or Madison Square Garden.