Chris Brown says Kyrie Irving refusing COVID-19 vaccine is a ‘damn good choice’
Amid the ongoing debate about COVID-19 vaccinations, Chris Brown is standing in Kyrie Irving’s corner.
The R&B bad boy is praising the embattled Brooklyn Nets point guard, who has come under fire for got getting inoculated.
“THE REAL HERO!!! I stand with my brother,” Brown wrote in an Instagram Story over a picture of Irving. “WHOEVER DONT LIKE IT... Go live your damn life.. ITS HIS CHOICE AND A DAMN GOOD ONE. ALWAYS IN MY BROTHERS CORNER.”
The Grammy Award-winning crooner is an ardent basketball fan who has also displayed his basketball skills in several celebrity games.
Brown hasn’t made his COVID-19 vaccinations status known, but Irving recently revealed that he is neither pro-vaccine nor anti-vaccine
Irving, who won an NBA championship with LeBron James as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, has been banned by the Nets from playing because he has not received the mandated COVID-19 vaccine.
The team began the new season Tuesday night without Irving and lost 127-104 to the defending NBA champs, the Milwaukee Bucks.
On Oct. 14, the 29-year-old New Jersey-bred, Australian-born Nike spokesman broke his silence and explained his position on being vaccinated on Instagram.
“It is reality that in order to be in New York City, in order to be on a team, I have to be vaccinated,” Irving said. “I chose to be unvaccinated, and that was my choice, and I would ask you all to just respect that choice.”
Many sports commentators and prominent figures are openly slamming Irving for refusing to help curb the pandemic, which has killed more than 700,000 U.S. citizens since early 2020.
NBA great Charles Barkley blasted Irving for refusing to be vaccinated.
“First of all, you don’t get the vaccine for yourself, you get it for other people,” the Hall of Famer said on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” Tuesday. “I got vaccinated. I can’t wait to get the booster. You get vaccinated for your family first, you get vaccinated for your teammates second. That’s what bothers me about this whole thing.”
