Tyakack wrote:Can we keep the covid talk in the covid thread. My god. I can't escape it. If you wanna talk covid there's literally a thread for it.
Why? It's relevant here, since Beal was rumored to be the Celtics' No. 1 trade target.
Personally I would not touch an unvaccinated player in a trade. Too much risk. The NBA wants players vaccinated for the same reason that major corporations (including Fox News, BTW) require their employees to be vaccinated: the unvaccinated are a serious threat to productivity. If I'm paying a guy 30 million a year, I don't want him missing games or infecting the other guys I'm paying millions per year. They probably won't die, but they will cause me to lose games, and the playoffs are profitable.
There's a theory that Beal is anti-vax to drive down his trade value, but he could do that by simply demanding to leave Washington.
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