Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving will be able to practice at the team's facility in Brooklyn, sources confirmed to ESPN, but still won't be able to play in home games because of the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The change in Irving's status is due to the city determining that the HSS Training Center, the Nets' practice facility in Brooklyn, is a "private office building" as opposed to an indoor gym -- one of the many indoor facilities that fall under the city's vaccine mandate that went into effect last month.
"It sounds like we may have Kyrie on the road with us, but I'm not sure he'll be playing, since we haven't seen him for a week, and obviously safety first," Nets coach Steve Nash told reporters before Friday night's preseason game in Brooklyn against the Milwaukee Bucks, the first matchup Irving was forced to miss this season due to the vaccine requirement.