Inside the NBA's vaccine civil war: Will Kyrie skip home games? Has the league caved to players? Does one player even get how masks work? And what's with that Moderna conspiracy theory in locker rooms?
Spoke to Jonathan Isaac, a man of God, about a time of science for my big new @RollingStone story (bit.ly/3o9cxUo)
You may remember Isaac as the player who stood up when the NBA knelt down for the anthem.
You certainly won't believe everything he believes about Covid:
"The NBA should insist that all players and staff are vaccinated or remove them from the team."
"What I find especially disingenuous about the vaccine deniers is their arrogance."
Kareem with the sky-hook truth bomb, in a land of anti-truth. bit.ly/3o9cxUo
Want more fearless sports reporting like this? I spent two years embedded with the NBA, asking real questions about real life and getting real talk, for my book: HC.com/TheHustle
And if you want more fearless reporting in general, keep an eye on the new Rolling Stone 👀✊
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"Nobody's gonna hijack my voice," Kyrie Irving says on Instagram Live. "Don't believe that I'm retiring. Don't believe I'm gonna give up this game for a vaccine mandate..."
Kyrie: "Why are you putting it on me? ... I'm just a person who's being used as an example.... For some reason, people just love to have my name in the middle of some B.S."
Kyrie: "You telling me what to do with my body? ... Entertainment's like a religion to people.... I'm a human being. I have emotions. I have feelings.
"It's not about being anti-vax or being on 1 side or the other."
On pandemic: "How many people are really thinking rationally?"