Warriors starting small forward Andrew Wiggins appeared deeply resistant toward being vaccinated against the novel coronavirus COVID-19 as recently as last week, but he has now received the vaccine, according to his head coach Steve Kerr, reports Kendra Andrews of NBC Sports Bay Area.
Due to strict ordinances pertaining to large indoor events in the city of San Francisco (every attendee over the age of 12 needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus), it had appeared that the vaccine-resistant, maximum-salaried swingman was in danger of missing all 41 of Golden State’s home games for the 2021/22 season.
Wiggins will now be available to play every home game this season, tweets Anthony Slater of The Athletic. Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle adds (Twitter link) that Wiggins will be able to join his Golden State teammates as early as Monday, in the team’s first preseason game against the Trail Blazers.
The NBA had previously announced it would not compensate unvaccinated players for games missed in markets with indoor vaccination requirements. How much of Wiggins’s $31.6MM salary for this season would be docked per game was unclear.
“He just told me today that he was fine with us acknowledging it and that will be the end of it,” Kerr said of Wiggins’s decision, per Nick Friedell of ESPN (Twitter link). “I’m not going to answer any questions beyond that.”
He’s better for it. Regardless of how he feels about it. Same with everyone else.
Money has a funny way of changing peoples minds….
Way to go Mr. Wiggins!
Johnson and Johnson vaccine?
First of all, I am vaccinated fully and I believe it should be mandatory for everyone. But I also understand that other do not agree with me on that point. And neither of us is right. We just believe what we believe.
That being said, if your principles are not worth standing up for and suffering consequences, then just stop trying to have principles in the first place. Or at the very least, stay off the soapbox and just do as you are told. I didn’t agree with Wiggins before, but I at least respected the stand he was taking. I have zero respect for him now.
Optional vaccines dont work at all. We have a far lower overall mortality rate because we rid the world of things like polio measles mumps ect Everyone plays or it doesnt go away.
It’s not going away anyway.
Yeah this shows his “religious exemption” request was such a farce
or maybe he just gave in?
Which one of his relatives slapped the back of his head and sent him to get vaxed?
Probably his wife. It went down like this… “You mean we lose $15 million this year if you don’t get the shot?” “Get in the car we going down right now;”
LOL that is funny man….
Oh thank gawd, he won’t die now
Yeah that or thank God he has way less of a chance of infecting anyone else , or possibly, depending on their age and personal circumstances, having them take up valuable space in a hospital or worse yet killing them or anyone else they come in contact with and so on and so on. Covid is no joke. Science is real. Don’t be an ass.
should of held out a little longer. maybe stripchat would of offered him membership for life and unlimited access like they did for kyrie to get the shot.
Trade him anyway! PLEASE!
OK now ……. was that so difficult. Move on
It’s still confusing why one needs vaccination if one already had covid already like Kyrie. I thought natural immunity is better than vaccine. Besides, i think it’s the vaccinated people who are spreading the disease because they are no longer taking other precautions like social distancing, etc. I’m fully vaccinated but have some doubts because we still have cases/ deaths just the same as pre-vaccine.
Just because you get a disease once does not mean you can’t get it again. You can and people have gotten Covid multiple times. The vaccine does not even stop you from getting the disease. What it does is lessen the symptoms so that if you do get it, you have a much smaller chance of DYING from it. And a much smaller chance of needing to be hospitalized which can save a hospital bed for someone that really needs it.
Get educated people. The information is out there.
It’s all confusing and odd. Mandate everyone over 65. Go to all nursing homes and get all of them vaccinated.
We have had millions of covid positives and it was no more than common old…. FIND, weak people and get them vaccinated… Whateve it is, it’s crazy we still have so many deaths daily.
it was much more than a common cold. It also damages your lungs which a common cold can’t. It also can do damage to your heart a common cold can’t. You don’t need a breathing tube for the common cold. You need to read up on it inst=ead of spreading false information here.
I watch too much CNN. They were saying all along how so many people had no symtoms and that is why we all had to wear masks to protect each other.
Besides, if it’s so dangerous why are we not completely locked down? Football games, school, shopping malls…. It’s all confusing.
I don’t watch any cable news shows because its only opinion all of them. Try reading up and asking questions. I know people in medical services and they can tell you a lot more than what you hear. We were locked down but with people getting vaccinated we don’t have a need for it.
Bottom line is we still have 2000+ deaths daily…
I had it in January before I was vaccinated. I’m 39,work out 5 days a week, and try to eat semi healthy. It was exactly like every cold I’ve ever had. The organ damage is the exception, not the rule.
How do you know you had it, how do you know the expose did not do damage, why the death wish for people more vulnerable, why carry.
Michol If everyone old got vaccinated, the young would still pass it around and their lungs & heart would still be affected negatively. Also it sticks in the brain and sets up shop in the sinuses which can’t be a good thing.
But yes mandatory vaccination could at least be attached to benefits so would be justified, so a good idea.
Tatsu would would dislike it but concerns are selective.
Wjy are they in school then? Why arent they vaccinated yet if it’s so dangerous?
@michol the truth is most parents don’t want to be around their kids. They complained about kids being home and many families can’t afford for 1 parent staying at home all the time. Still testing vaccinations for kids.
Because some people like to be stubborn and obstinate when it comes to scientists. A segment of the population that followed a certain person just don’t to respect anything scientific no matter what. Political differences are one thing, everyone has a right to their own political beliefs no matter how misguided they may seem. But to just completely dismiss the opinion of people that have spent decades studying and working in the field of medicine and instead listen to a carnival barker that works in real estate is just crazy.
Sorry for the political post, but I am in a mood so just mute me if you don’t like it.
Pathetic to say the least. There are always 2 sides, yet some people like to blame one person for everything. He’s not the president nor the person that many unvaccinated people follow. Many black Americans and Hispanics are unvaccinated and please dont tell me they listen to this guy.
Why do people use the phrase “to say the least” and then proceed to yammer on incessantly?
And no he is not the President now, but that doesn’t stop him from holding rallies as if he were. Plus there is a large group of voters that still believe he is the President regardless of facts. THAT is pathetic.
Hiflew you are attaching political beliefs to vaccination and are off base. Wiggins, Irving, LJ are Trump fans? Who is being irrational?
Vaxxes are civil rights violations but so what. They won’t work to defeat the enemy until widely utilized. It should not be personal choice if that does not get the necessary outcomes, which is measured by using the whole population, not just one person.
The opponent here— besides covid— is solipcism (self-regard), regular insanity or cowardice, not Trump. Making the gummint out to be the enemy conspiring against you.
Not all anti-vaxxers are trump fans. I am totally aware of that. But what trump did was to legitimize dangerous theories by supporting them from the highest office in the land. Instead of being a completely fringe belief, these lunatic beliefs have been ushered into the mainstream so idiots on both sides of the aisle see them as ideas with a stamp of approval on them. THAT is what made trump’s short presidency such a dangerous thing.
Don’t apologize. Post this all day, every day. It’s good stuff, and those who in the name of ignorance deny science need to be outed and derided if necessary.
Glad that’s over with because we need to spend more time on the Simmons drama! /s.
Still have Kyrie as well!
Don’t forget Beal, now all can pounce on the poor dude!
This is why he doesn’t do good in the playoffs because he folds under pressure. ♂️
$31.6, hell of a drug