And breaking sports news tonight, the NBA's Brooklyn Nets banning all star Kyrie Irving

from any team activities until he is, quote,

eligible to be a full-time participant. Irving, who is not vaccinated, is not permitted

to play in the team's home games in New York City.

Nets General Manager Sean Mark says, quote,

Kyrie has made a personal choice and we respect his individual right to choose.

Currently, the choice restricts his ability to be a full-time member of the team and we

will not permit any member of our team to participate with part-time availability.

Discuss the state of mandate resistance with vaccine and civil rights attorney, Erin

Siri, Erin, welcome.

Thank you, Shannon. Good evening.

Your reaction to the situation with Kyrie Irving, a number of other NBA players have spoken

out and there have been different ways that their cases have been handled, but his means

he's not going to play.

Yeah, I mean, this looks like it's going to end up becoming a legal dispute and in legal

disputes, objective facts are critical and when you look at the objective facts here,

what are they when it comes to the product that they're requiring him to receive?

The COVID vaccine is confirmed by the CDC does not stop infection and transmission.

It reduces symptoms, but it doesn't stop transmission.

Also, the CDC's primary study on this topic at a Massachusetts found that the vaccinated

and unvaccinated had a similar amount of infection and viral load.

So when viewing those objective facts, what does that mean?

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