"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."

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 players+execs+docs+Kareem for @RollingStone: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… @RollingStone @Baxter @NetsDaily @ramonashelburne @TaylorRooks @TimBontemps @SopanDeb @TheSteinLine @EdgeofSports @deystreet NEWS for #NBATwitter crowd: In Delta about-face, NBA to make courtside players + staff (vaxxed or not) wear masks on bench. But union wins on no off-day testing + "suggested" distancing for unvaxxed players on team plane/bus. Last sticking point: the club. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…