The NBA announced on Friday that it rejected Canadian Andrew Wiggins’ request not to get vaccinated against Covid for religious reasons.
In order to play home games, the Warriors player must be vaccinated as required by the laws in San Francisco, where those over 12 must be vaccinated to play any sport.
It should be remembered that this not only applies to Golden State players, but also the Nets and Knicks, who must be vaccinated to be able to play the games in their respective stadiums and also to enter the training grounds.
This measure does not apply to visiting casts, since they are under the regulations of another local government.
NBA 2021-22 Live: Basketball players not vaccinated in the Nets, Knicks and Warriors will not be available
A new NBA season is about to begin and with it so do new sanitary measures towards the old normality in the stadiums.
In the last hours they confirmed that the league will adapt to local health policies according to where each franchise is located, according to journalist Shams Charania.
This will mean that, for example, in New York and San Francisco, local players must be vaccinated to be able to play games in their respective stadiums and also to enter the training ground.
This measure does not apply to visiting casts, since they are under the regulations of another local government.
In the last campaign, the vast majority of the players had been vaccinated and that helped the public to return in large numbers, who were also marked with this requirement to enter the stadiums.
Precisely Knicks and Nets, who were great cheerleaders in the playoffs, had almost all of their capacity at that time of the season both at Madison Square Garden and at the Barclays Center.
