Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA

podcast.

I'm Jared Weiss, and now we are talking to the athletics

Brooklyn Net reporter Alex Schiffer, who just got back from Sean Marks press conference,

where it turns out Kyrie Irving's not on the Nets right now.

He's kind of on the Nets. As Sean said, he's on the team, but not with the current members of the team.

So take that for what you will. So he's on the former team. He's on the 20, he's still on the team but not with the current members of the team so take that for what you will

so he's on the former team he's on the 20 he's still on the 2021 nets is what he's saying

he's on the bubble nuts even though he wasn't even with them down there so what the hell is going

on yeah a great way to word your question by the way um that's how i that's how I word every Kyrie question, but this one of particular.

So, so Sean Mark said to us today over Zoom that Kyrie will not, well, first they

released a statement you talked an hour later that Kyrie will not be practicing or playing

with the team until he is fully eligible, which essentially means fully vaccinated.

And now the Nets move on.

I mean, they have a preseason finale against the Timberwolves at home on Thursday.

Then they open up against a defending champions of Milwaukee Tuesday.

And yeah, I mean, this kind of puts the kibosh on any chance of Kyrie Irving being a part-time

player for the Nets this season.

And I think it's also

fair to question what it means for his, uh, his long-term future with the organization.

Yeah, it's hard to have a long-term future with the org when you are kind of suspended indefinitely

essentially because you won't get vaccinated. So what, you know what the thing that was really surprising about this was this comes

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