Who is the player who deprived him of the Corona vaccine of 100 million dollars?
Basketball player and Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving confirmed Monday that he refused to extend his four-year contract for more than one million dollars before the 2020-2021 season due to his decision not to receive the "Covid-19" vaccine.
"I gave up on extending my contract for another four years, for 100 million and some millions because of my adherence to my decision not to vaccinate," Irving said in statements to the media day before the start of the season.
"To sign such a contract, get vaccinated or not... there is a level of uncertainty about your future (...) so I had to face the possibility of losing my job because of this decision," he added.
Irving was forced to miss home games in Brooklyn until the end of March of this year, because the health protocol in force until then in New York prohibited unvaccinated people from entering gyms.
The 30-year-old added that he had received an "ultimatum" to be vaccinated if he wanted to extend his contract.
"We were supposed to settle everything before the training camp last season," he stressed.
It did not happen simply because of my refusal.
I just had to live with it.
It was a difficult situation to digest.”
Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks dismissed the idea of an "ultimate ultimatum" for the player, saying, "It was just a matter of dealing with people who are trusted, present and responsible.
All of us, the employees, the players and the coaches.
It wasn't about giving someone an ultimatum to get vaccinated."
At the end of June, Irving activated the clause to extend his contract for the next season until June 2023, for $37 million.
On the other hand, the other star in the Brooklyn Nets ranks, Kevin Durant, announced three weeks ago that he had reversed his decision to leave the club this summer.
Durant asked on June 30 to be included in a deal to leave the club, less than a year after extending his contract worth $198 million for four years.
Several US reports said Durant sent an ultimatum to club owner Joe Tsai asking him to either fire general manager Marks and coach Steve Nash or agree to his transfer request.
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