NBA commissioner Adam Silver said on Tuesday the league has discussed giving players the COVID-19 vaccine in order to educate and influence the public.
"It's something we're particularly focused on," Silver said in a virtual conference hosted by Sportico. "In the African American community, there's been an 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.