Credit to The New York Post Article by Haddon Lockyer Unvaccinated NBA star Kyrie Irving is finally allowed to return to the court. After 74 games over the span of many months, Irving made his season debut on Sunday night on the Brooklyn Nets court in Barclays Arena. Irving's return to the game came just days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced that professional athletes and performers would be exempt from the city's vaccine mandate. In a statement to the press about the update to the mandate, Adams said: “Today, I signed emergency Executive Order 62, expanding the performance exemption to private employer mandates. This is about putting New York City-based performance on a level playing field. Day one when I was mayor, I looked at the rule that stated ‘home town players had an unfair disadvantage [to] those who were coming to visit.’ And immediately, I felt that we needed to look at that. But my medical professionals said, ‘Eric, we’re at a different place. We have to wait until we’re at a place where we’re at a low area and we can re-examine some of the mandates.’ We’re here today.” Credit to The New York Post Irving faced extreme hatred from the media and Leftist celebrities after announcing that he would not be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine or complying with New York City's mandate. Irving, however, is one of the best players on the Nets, and without him, the team has been suffering. In fact, at one point during this season, the team went 11 games without a victory. On Sunday evening, after his first game back, Irving reiterated his stance on vaccine mandates: “The point of this season for me was never to just take a stand. It was really to make sure that I’m standing on what I believe in, in freedom. Freedom. I don’t think that’s a word that gets defined enough in our society. About the freedom to make choices with your life without someone telling you what the [REDACTED] to do. And whether that carries over into nuances of our society that politicians control, or government controls …” “I’m standing for freedom. So, that’s in all facets of my life. And there’s nobody that’s enslaving me, there’s nobody that’s telling me what I’m going to do with my life, and that’s just the way I am. And if I get tarnished in terms of my image and people try to slander my name continuously, those aren’t things that I forget. I haven’t forgotten anything that anybody said. I don’t read everything, but I definitely read some things that put my family’s name in a certain position that I believe are unfair. I’ve been discriminated against. People have said things that have been biased. They’ve gone against their own morals. And where we’re living today, I have such a strong moral code of just being honest, being truthful, following God’s guidance, and just living with the results. But in terms of that, I’m a servant. I’m comfortable being in that position.” New York City has been one of the most restrictive cities in the Unites States in terms of COVID mandates. In January, the Informed Youth's Haddon Lockyer interviewed Michael Anthony, a man who was arrested for entering a Queens Burger King without a vaccine passport. Many elected Democrats are jumping the COVID-mandate ship as the November midterms rapidly approach. Have something to say about this article? Comment below! The Informed Youth is America's newest conservative source for reliable and factual news, brought to you by the Nation's patriotic young people. Learn more about us by clicking here, and sign up for our mailing list below. If you would like to support our cause, click the Donate button below.
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