NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday the league has discussed having players receive COVID-19 vaccines to educate and influence certain groups regarding its safety and effectiveness.
"There have been discussions. It's something we're particularly focused on," Silver said at a virtual conference hosted by Sportico.
"In the African American community there's been enormously disparate impact from COVID...but now, somewhat perversely, there's been enormous resistance (to vaccinations) in the African American community for understandable historical reasons...If that resistance continues it would be very much a double whammy to the Black community because the only way out of this pandemic is to get vaccinated.