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The league will "strongly suggest" team
personnel stay up-to-date with vaccinations, per the report.
Discussions between the league and the NBA Players Association
remain ongoing about whether unvaccinated players will be
subject to periodic COVID-19 testing during the upcoming season.
Last season, the NBA did not require that all players be
vaccinated against COVID-19, but unvaccinated players or players
who did not receive a booster dose were subject to certain
protocols, such as game-day testing. Players were also held
accountable for mandates from states with their own vaccination
requirements. While the NBA said 95 percent of its players were
vaccinated heading into last season, one of the players who was
not made frequent news. The Brooklyn Nets' Kyrie Irving refused
to be vaccinated and missed the first three months of the
season. Even when Irving did return on Jan. 5, he could only
play in road games because of local mandates in New York. He
finally played his first home game on March 27, but the Nets
were eventually bounced from the first-round of the playoffs by
a Boston Celtics sweep. Another player who was not vaccinated
was the Philadelphia 76ers' Matisse Thybulle, who had to miss
three games of his team's first-round playoff series against the
Toronto Raptors. While a majority of the most stringent COVID-19
rules and mandates have been lifted throughout the United
States, Canada still requires all persons entering the country
to have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
--Field Level Media
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