[外絮] Brooklyn Nets owner respects Kyrie Irv

Brooklyn Nets owner respects Kyrie Irving's beliefs,
sticks with decision to not have him with team

ByOHM YOUNGMISUK ESPN
30 October 2021, 04:09

NEW YORK -- Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai hopes Kyrie Irving "gets vaccinated
as soon as possible," but he is unsure when the point guard will return to
the team.
蔡老闆希望KI能盡快施打疫苗，但也沒有把握這位籃網PG何時能歸隊。

Tsai, however, remains certain that Irving has to be vaccinated to play for
the Nets as long as New York City continues to have its mandate.
KI必須要打完疫苗才能歸隊，而此禁令在紐約防疫政策改變前不會調整。

"I don't know," Tsai said in a sit-down interview with ESPN when asked when
he thinks Irving will play again. "Either he has to be vaccinated in order tocome back if the New York mandate is still in place. And don't ask me when
they may or may not change the New York mandate. Again, if you ask the peoplethat are making decisions at the city level, they are going to say we are
going to rely on science, rely on what the health department tells us [in
order to proceed]."
蔡老闆在受訪時表示，如果紐約防疫政策沒有改變，KI依然要去打疫苗。他也相信KI
會再次步入球場參與球賽。所以不要問我防疫政策何時調整，去問相關人士也會回答
你依照科學與衛生部門的決定。

Tsai said he has not spoken to Irving since the team's collaborative decisionon Oct. 12 to not have him be with the team until he complies with New York
City's COVID-19 mandate of getting at least one vaccination shot in order to
play at Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden.

下達禁令後蔡老闆就再也沒跟KI談過

"Last time [I] talked to him was when we made the decision that he was not
going to be playing until something changes," said Tsai, who owns the team
with his wife Clara Wu Tsai. "We haven't communicated since then."
最近一次與KI溝通，就是決定不讓KI參與所有球賽的時候。自那之後，我們沒有再與
KI聯絡過。

Added Tsai: "Obviously Kyrie has his own belief so I respect that. But we
have to make a team decision. This is not a decision about him. This is a
decision about where we go as a team. And it is just not tenable for us to
have a team with a player that comes in and out, no home games, only away
games. What do you do in practice then?

尊重KI的選擇，禁令這個決定並非針對個人，而為了團段運作。(而且也想不出其他
能更好處理的管理手段)，球隊也不能接受球員進進出出。

"This week we have a whole stretch of six home games, so we won't have Kyrie.So it became pretty clear to us. We are very much aligned among myself, [GM]
Sean [Marks], coaching staff that this has to be [the decision], especially
since we're a team with pretty lofty aspirations. We don't see any other way
of running this team."

A group of protesters gathered outside Barclays Center prior to the team's
home opener last Sunday. They were holding "Stand with Kyrie" signs and
chanting, "No vaccine mandate. Stand with Kyrie." At one point, a handful of
those demonstrators tried to make their way to the front door of Barclays
Center before being held off by security.
上週日主場賽事時，球場外有抗議人士高舉"拒疫苗、挺KI"的牌子。

"I just think that it's cavalier for people to hijack something like this
when life and death is at stake," Tsai said. "People shouldn't make it into apolitical issue. So when you see protestors, they're definitely making a
political statement. These guys are not basketball fans. They could care lesswhether someone is on the court playing or not.
蔡老闆認為，人們不應該將任何事把民眾的生命當做籌碼綁再一起，不應該將打疫苗
這件事弄成政治操作。

"They're hijacking the issue, but it's dangerous because we have a life and
death situation. The fact is, if you are not vaccinated and you catch COVID,
you have a much higher probability of getting very, very sick and end up in
the ICU and possibly die. That's the consequence."
當我們面對生死相關狀況，還這樣操做打疫苗的議題很危險。事實就是，如果你不打
疫苗，當你得到COVID-19有可能會病得很嚴重(進ICU or 死亡)。

Tsai has been a major advocate of getting vaccinated.

"I don't think it's a matter of belief," said Tsai, one of the co-founders,
board of directors members and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group. "I
think it's a matter of fact. It's science.

疫苗問題不是信仰問題，而是科學與事實。

"... We're now able to open up the economy, people are able to socialize, go
to games, full capacity Barclays Center, because people are vaccinated. That
is just a fact. I don't think it is a belief one way or the other."
我們現在能逐漸開放經濟活動、社交、看比賽，發揮Barclays中心作用，就是因為
打疫苗。這就是事實，我不認為這是一種任意選擇的價值觀(並非指宗教方面)。

Irving said on Instagram Live on Oct. 13 that he isn't pro- or anti-vaccine
but that he also respects those who aren't getting vaccinated and have lost
their livelihoods due to that decision.
KI在IG直播上表示，他並非反對疫苗，也尊重那些願意打疫苗與因為疫情而
失去親友的人。

"I chose to be unvaccinated, and that was my choice, and I would ask you all
to just respect that choice," Irving said. "I am going to just continue to
stay in shape, be ready to play, be ready to rock out with my teammates and
just be part of this whole thing. This is not a political thing; this is not
about the NBA, not about any organization. This is about my life and what I
am choosing to do."
我選擇不打疫苗，這是我個人的選擇，我希望各位尊重我的選擇。
我會維持我的體態，做好隨時上場的準備，與我的隊友一起震撼大家。
這並非政治事件、與NBA跟任何組織無關，這是我的人生與我的選擇。

Before training camp started, Marks was confident the Nets would not have
issues getting the entire team vaccinated.

"I don't think anything changed," Tsai said. "It was always a process for us
to make sure every player gets vaccinated -- during the summer, going into
training camp and going into the start of the season. And then we found out
that Kyrie was the only player that hasn't been vaccinated. So we spent some
time talking to him, try to understand his views and also for us to tell him
our perspective on the facts, the science and all of that."

The Nets have said they will welcome Irving back if he complies with New YorkCity's mandate. Tsai mentioned Irving -- who is eligible to sign a four-year,$187 million extension with Brooklyn -- multiple times along with Kevin
Durant and James Harden when discussing the team's play and future.
籃網隊也表示只要KI遵守NY的防疫準則，他們非常歡迎KI歸隊。
蔡老闆還特別點出: 誰是那個有資格與籃網簽下四年1.87億美元的約
並多次與KD、JH討論籃網比賽與未來的男人?

"I hope that Kyrie can be part of the team, part of Brooklyn long term," Tsaisaid. "But I am not going to get into the extension thing. I think we have animmediate question of whether he can play this season. and I hope he gets
vaccinated as soon as possible."

結論: 別問我何時KI可以歸隊，一切依照紐約市防疫準則。去問政府相關單位，他們會
告訴你根據現況與科學做調整。

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這樣洗好慢喔

沒注意到 噓

10/31 13:08