As New York City mayor Eric Adams continues to roll back the city’s vaccination mandate, Nets point guard Kyrie Irving is inching closer to making his return to home games in Brooklyn.
Following the Nets’ 126–120 loss to the Celtics on Sunday, Irving said he is glad to have Adams “on my side” in the ongoing process.
“Shoutout Eric Adams, man,” Irving said, per ESPN. “It’s not an easy job to be the mayor of New York City. And with COVID looming, the vaccination mandates, everything going on in our world, with this war in the Ukraine, and everybody feeling it across America, I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes right now trying to delegate whether or not one basketball player can come and play at home.