Will the Kyrie Irving Part-Time Experiment Work?

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Kyrie Irving is expected to play his first game of the season for the Brooklyn Nets tonight, after missing 35 games because he is not vaccinated for Covid-19. New York City has a vaccine mandate, meaning Irving is prohibited from playing home games in Brooklyn. But now, after initially saying they would not allow Irving to play part-time, the Nets have reversed course, and the team is allowing him to play on the road. ESPN’s Brooklyn Nets reporter Nick Friedell explains the Nets’ game plan, how they arrived at the decision to bring Kyrie back, and what the rest of Brooklyn’s season could look like with Irving playing only on the road. We also ask Nick about his past life covering the Golden State Warriors, and Klay Thompson’s impending comeback. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Incredibly grateful just to be back in the building.
0:05.0	Welcome back with open arms for my teammates, the whole entire organization.
0:10.0	Not gonna lie, it's been relatively tough to watch from the sideline.
0:14.0	But if I get the opportunity to get on the court and play with some of my teammates,
0:19.0	and even if it's just on the road for away games, I'm just grateful for that
0:22.4	opportunity.
0:24.7	Tonight, after months of speculation, Kyrie Irving gets the opportunity to play his very first
0:31.0	game of the season on the road in Indianapolis, officially making the Nets Point Guard something
0:36.4	unprecedented, a part-time superstar
0:39.2	who remains banned from his own home court. It's the latest twist in a characteristically
0:45.4	bizarre saga, the function of Kyrie's defiantly unvaccinated status and New York City's vaccine
0:51.4	mandate, and a would-be title contender that finds itself desperate for help.
0:57.0	So today, we ask our man on the Brooklyn beat,
1:00.3	Nick Friedel,
1:01.3	how any of this is going to work.
1:05.5	I'm Pablo Torre.
1:06.8	It's Wednesday, January 5th.
1:09.8	This is ESPN Daily.
1:13.6	So Nick Fidel, you were covering the Golden State Warriors
1:16.7	as your most recent stop before you became the Brooklyn Nets beat guy for us.
1:23.7	Another turn in your decade-long career covering the NBA for ESPN.
1:28.4	How has it been so far, man?
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