Kyrie Irving Megathread: [Latest] NETS Will Not Offer Irving $186M Extension

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Is Bradley Beal exempt?

Seems to me his stance is the exact same as Kyrie when it comes to not getting vaccinated. I don’t have an opinion that is negative of either player.

His team isnt vegas favorites to win the title

That is me as a long-suffering Washington bullets and wizards fan.

[LightTheBeam]

I think I just lost some brain cells reading this. This is so embarrassing lol. Just throwing out random numbers with no proof and making terrible analogies Trying to equate seatbelt use to a contagious pandemic. Plus….seatbelt use mandates are actually a thing for everyone’s safety So lazy, such a snowflake, so pathetic

Sorry I live in California where the vaccination rate is 73%, and meanwhile they are forcing people to get it to even go into restaurants. My bad I was off by 7%, such a huge difference.

Listen man, if you are that scared to go outside just stay inside and wait it out. It will all be okay. You can make insults, I don't blame you. You've been severely brainwashed to think your neighbor is your enemy. I'll pray for you, god bless.

Actually it's the other way around. If you're scared to get a shot then stay inside and wait it out and quit infecting your neighbors

I have natural immunity. My antibody test proves it, and I'm also required to get a negative test to do anything.

Stay inside and stop being a super spreader please.

[Fo-Real]

Cool, between the antivaxxers and the Gruden apologists, I've blocked half of RealGM and got hours of free time back per day.

Adults can read comments they disagree with and just move on.

[MotownMadness]

Cool, between the antivaxxers and the Gruden apologists, I've blocked half of RealGM and got hours of free time back per day.

Adults can read comments they disagree with and just move on.

Yeah I never understood why someone would just block everyone they disagree with. That's kinda what makes the site interesting.

That or they just feel they need to announce it thinking it actually hurts someone's feelings they're going on the posters block list

[ATLTimekeeper]

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[Fo-Real]

Cool, between the antivaxxers and the Gruden apologists, I've blocked half of RealGM and got hours of free time back per day.

Adults can read comments they disagree with and just move on.

Yeah I never understood why someone would just block everyone they disagree with. That's kinda what makes the site interesting.

That or they just feel they need to announce it thinking it actually hurts someone's feelings they're going on the posters block list

Lol yeah, kats be like "You are on my ignore list BUCO!!! BANISHED TO DARKNESS!!!!" I imagine them stomping their feet alone at home screaming.

[DOT]

Adults can read comments they disagree with and just move on.

Yeah I never understood why someone would just block everyone they disagree with. That's kinda what makes the site interesting.

That or they just feel they need to announce it thinking it actually hurts someone's feelings they're going on the posters block list

Lol yeah, kats be like "You are on my ignore list BUCO!!! BANISHED TO DARKNESS!!!!" I imagine them stomping their feet alone at home screaming.

So what you're saying is, you read comments you disagree with, then don't move on but spend your time imagining what they're doing

Adults can read comments they disagree with and just move on, you know.

[Ben-N1ce]

Kyrie will be remembered as the modern day Ali Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks in his fight for the voiceless.

[MotownMadness]

Yeah I never understood why someone would just block everyone they disagree with. That's kinda what makes the site interesting.

That or they just feel they need to announce it thinking it actually hurts someone's feelings they're going on the posters block list

Lol yeah, kats be like "You are on my ignore list BUCO!!! BANISHED TO DARKNESS!!!!" I imagine them stomping their feet alone at home screaming.

So what you're saying is, you read comments you disagree with, then don't move on but spend your time imagining what they're doing

Adults can read comments they disagree with and just move on, you know.

Or they can read comments and imagine what they're doing while having a good laugh about it, that's our choice as well.

[levon]

The idea behind blocking someone is so you don't waste any more moments of your life reading someone's stupidity. It's not some sort of escape from healthy debate. Adults can accept others who take precautions to preserve their time and move on.

If I was Kyrie I'd just be a purse for the purseless. People barred from their jos due to vax mandates (by the way, I'd like to see data on this to see to what extent this is even a problem) don't care about celebrities not doing their jobs as an act of protest. Kyrie should subsidize the people affected. Pretty soon all of the estranged conservatives in blue states will be on the Nets' payroll, problem solved.

[DOT]

Lol yeah, kats be like "You are on my ignore list BUCO!!! BANISHED TO DARKNESS!!!!" I imagine them stomping their feet alone at home screaming.

So what you're saying is, you read comments you disagree with, then don't move on but spend your time imagining what they're doing

Adults can read comments they disagree with and just move on, you know.

Or they can read comments and imagine what they're doing while having a good laugh about it, that's our choice as well.

Never said they couldn't

I just find it funny people who claim they're superior for not being bothered by stuff other people say, while clearly being bothered enough to comment about it

It's like, if you really didn't care, you wouldn't have to tell everyone how much you don't care.

[Homerclease]

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[Mamba81p]

"voice of the voiceless" my ass
When he was asked about it, he didn't say anything. More than that, he said it was a private thing and he pushed hard against any question that had anything to do with it. If you want to be a voice, you HAVE to speak. This is just some bull excuse for him, and it seems to me that he is close to cave, so he had to come up with something.

[MotownMadness]

So what you're saying is, you read comments you disagree with, then don't move on but spend your time imagining what they're doing

Adults can read comments they disagree with and just move on, you know.

Or they can read comments and imagine what they're doing while having a good laugh about it, that's our choice as well.

Never said they couldn't

I just find it funny people who claim they're superior for not being bothered by stuff other people say, while clearly being bothered enough to comment about it

It's like, if you really didn't care, you wouldn't have to tell everyone how much you don't care.

I'm confused cause that's what the original poster was doing by trying to announce his block list.

Wouldn't he of just blocked someone instead of announcing it like he's superior as you put it?

[NyKnicks1714]

Now put on your damn seat belt, mine doesn't work unless you wear yours!

You know, I'm actually happy to run with the seat belt analogy for you people who just put your hands over your ears when informed that the vaccine does help reduce spread.

Seat belts have saved a massive number of lives since their inception, and seat belt laws have of course led to more people wearing their seat belts. You may ask why we need them, as you'd have to be an idiot not to wear one, but people still choose not to for whatever reason. But it's on the individual, right? Well does that individual pay taxes? Do they work for an employer who relies on them for labor? Do they have employees who rely on them for a paycheck? Do they have friends or family who would be devastated if they died? Bottom line: the benefits to society of seat belt laws greatly outweighs the lack of freedom to not wear your seat belt.

As of now we still have 1,400 people dying every day from Covid, down from a high (for this wave) of nearly 2,000 a few weeks ago. Most of those people would be alive today if they had taken 5 minutes to get the vaccine. Just think about that.

[NyKnicks1714]

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Don't bring up the fact that vaccines have been mandated many, many times before. It confuses people who became anti-vaccine-mandate several months ago.

[theforumblue]

Now put on your damn seat belt, mine doesn't work unless you wear yours!

You know, I'm actually happy to run with the seat belt analogy for you people who just put your hands over your ears when informed that the vaccine does help reduce spread.

Seat belts have saved a massive number of lives since their inception, and seat belt laws have of course led to more people wearing their seat belts. You may ask why we need them, as you'd have to be an idiot not to wear one, but people still choose not to for whatever reason. But it's on the individual, right? Well does that individual pay taxes? Do they work for an employer who relies on them for labor? Do they have employees who rely on them for a paycheck? Do they have friends or family who would be devastated if they died? Bottom line: the benefits to society of seat belt laws greatly outweighs the lack of freedom to not wear your seat belt.

As of now we still have 1,400 people dying every day from Covid, down from a high (for this wave) of nearly 2,000 a few weeks ago. Most of those people would be alive today if they had taken 5 minutes to get the vaccine. Just think about that.

people need to get vaccinated so they can keep providing $$$ to govt and companies? i get what you are trying to say but you just kinda killed the argument.

[Soulyss]

"voice of the voiceless" my ass
When he was asked about it, he didn't say anything. More than that, he said it was a private thing and he pushed hard against any question that had anything to do with it. If you want to be a voice, you HAVE to speak. This is just some bull excuse for him, and it seems to me that he is close to cave, so he had to come up with something.

Kyrie is your typical pseudo intellectual spouting nonsense veiled in conspiracy. At a point where people need honest, consistent, scientific based information, Kyrie is harming people who need accurate information to make critical decisions that affect not only themselves but those around them.

He's been a cancer / distraction on every single team since Lebron kicked him to the curb. I hope he retires and fades quietly into tinfoil hat obscurity.

[Johnny Bball]

Smart move by the nets. They can now minimize the distraction as much as possible and focus on a game to game plan without him. Of course, I can't imagine how Kyrie's teammates feel with him getting in the way of them possibly winning a title. This blurb makes his stance even more absurd:

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The idea that the anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-mandate crowd is voiceless is preposterous. They never shut up about it. They show up and scream at school board officials. They threaten medical staff. Their *protests* involve standing outside of schools and yelling at the kids. They're all over social media. Like 30% of elected officials in this country fall into the who cares about science and medicine crowd.

If you lost a policy debate, held your protest, and didn't change minds, you're not *voiceless,* you just took an L. Grow up.

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He is a child. You can't remove the requirement for health and safety in the workplace and blame it on freedoms. You don't want to work at hieghts and wear fall arrest gear? Its an OSHA requirement, get a new job. You don't what to wear safety boots because they are heavy? Get a new job. You don't want to listen to your employers safety programs or toolbox talks? Get a new job. Limiting risk of covid spreading in the workplace is an employer duty under probably every single OH&S act in the western world.

Irving is acting like an entitled, uneducated, child, and one that has never owned any type of workplace. It is an owner and management responibility to keep workers and the public safe as you can. It's a slam dunk for employers mandate vaccines, and in this case it wasn't even his employer, since he and the union refused, the state had to step in and do it.

The above inpacts almost every single person he is trying to front for, and be a hero for.

**** off Kyrie, just be an adult, you have a job. Do what you are expected to do to keep others at your workplace safe like everyone else will have to do.

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Or they can read comments and imagine what they're doing while having a good laugh about it, that's our choice as well.

Never said they couldn't

I just find it funny people who claim they're superior for not being bothered by stuff other people say, while clearly being bothered enough to comment about it

It's like, if you really didn't care, you wouldn't have to tell everyone how much you don't care.

I'm confused cause that's what the original poster was doing by trying to announce his block list.

Wouldn't he of just blocked someone instead of announcing it like he's superior as you put it?

Yes

But by the time I got here, the conversation had moved on, and I found both the OP and the responses to be humorous

You're confused because you have both me and the OP as being against you, and you think everyone who's against you is on the same side.