{"id":355502,"date":"2021-10-20T17:02:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/charles-barkley-talks-kyrie-irvings-unvaccinated-status-on-tnt\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T17:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T14:02:41","slug":"charles-barkley-talks-kyrie-irvings-unvaccinated-status-on-tnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/charles-barkley-talks-kyrie-irvings-unvaccinated-status-on-tnt\/","title":{"rendered":"#Charles Barkley talks Kyrie Irving&#8217;s unvaccinated status on TNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Charles Barkley talks Kyrie Irving&#8217;s unvaccinated status on TNT<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Charles Barkley is annoyed with Kyrie Irving\u2019s decision to remain unvaccinated \u2013 but especially one specific aspect of it.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley \u2014 during TNT\u2019s \u201cInside the NBA\u201d tip-off show Tuesday \u2014 took issue with the fact that the Nets star will still earn millions this season, despite not playing due to his unvaccinated status under New York\u2019s COVID-19 mandate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing that bugs me is he\u2019s still going to make $17 million sitting at home,\u201d Barkley said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really am proud of the Nets for putting their foot down \u2014 for saying \u2018no, we\u2019re not going to deal with this half on, half off [situation],&#8217;\u201d the Hall of Famer said about Brooklyn\u2019s decision to ban Irving from the team until he complies with the state\u2019s vaccine mandate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>Irving will not be paid for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s missed in New York \u2014 41 at Barclays Center and two at Madison Square Garden \u2014 due to New York\u2019s COVID-19 mandate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The All-Start guard will, however, be paid for away games, as it is the Nets\u2019 decision to sideline him. <\/p>\n<p>Irving will still be paid $19 million, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/netswire.usatoday.com\/2021\/10\/12\/kyrie-irving-salary-how-much-money-will-he-lose-covid-vaccine\/\">Netswire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barkley went on to quote NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1450627741250830339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1450627741250830339%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fnba%2F2021%2F10%2F20%2Fadam-silver-charles-barkley-kyrie-irving-covid-19-vaccine-nba\">appeared on \u201cInside the NBA\u201d earlier<\/a> in the show to discuss the situation with Irving.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, you don\u2019t get the vaccine for yourself, you get it for other people. I got vaccinated, I can\u2019t wait to get the booster,\u201d Barkley admitted. \u201cYou don\u2019t get vaccinated just for yourself. Like Adam [Silver] said, you get vaccinated for your family first, you get vaccinated for your teammates second. That\u2019s what bothers me about this whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-5-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Kyrie Irving handles the ball against the Bucks in the playoffs\" class=\"wp-image-19861272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-5-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-5-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-5-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-5-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kyrie Irving handles the ball against the Bucks in the playoffs<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barkley also dismissed the public comparisons between Irving and Muhammad Ali. The late boxing legend put his fight career on hold\u00a0to not fight in the Vietnam War, and instead protest racism at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are saying he\u2019s like Ali. First of all, don\u2019t ever compare anyone to Ali. Ali went three years without boxing when he was the highest-paid athlete in the world,\u201d Barkley said, reiterating that Kyrie \u201cis going to make $17 million for sitting at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Irving-less Nets lost their season-opener Tuesday against the Bucks, 127-104. Brooklyn visits Philadelphia on Friday.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Barkley \u2014 during TNT\u2019s \u201cInside the NBA\u201d tip-off show Tuesday \u2014 took issue with the fact that the Nets star will still earn millions this season, despite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/kyrie-irving-charles-barkley.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[117760,70487,70379,32807,3674],"class_list":["post-355502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-20-21","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-charles-barkley","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}