The NBA wanted a mandate for players to get vaccinated against COVID-19 but the players' association rejected it. However, the league can still make other moves. For example, it has announced that any player "who elects not to comply with local vaccination mandates will not be paid for games that he misses."

That policy plus the fact that both San Francisco and New York City banned players who were not inoculated from entering the Chase Center and Madison Square Garden, mean that Andrew Wiggins of the Golden State Warriors and Kyrie Irving of the New York Knicks, will miss all the home games and a huge part of their salaries

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