Many of the National Basketball Association’s best-known players reject applications to promote vaccinations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, ESPN reported, citing unidentified players and agents.
NBA invitations to many of the league’s best-known players to encourage the general public to be inoculated through public service announcements or PSAs and other means have been “greeted with a warm response,” ESPN reported.
Agents and players said resistance was consistent with the vaccine’s general skepticism among black Americans, who, according to a poll, only 38 percent expressed confidence.
Last season, blacks accounted for 74% of NBA team listings.
In addition to not being careful to take it on their own, other reasons for reluctance are promoting its use to others and the league’s animosity toward the All-Star Game, against which Los Angeles Lakers striker LeBron James has spoken.
Thirty NBA games this season have been postponed due to positive tests for the new coronavirus, contract tracking protocols and teams that do not have enough players for the games due to restrictions.
Commissioner Adam Silver told senior league general managers in a conference call that the NBA could “stimulate” teams and individuals to administer and promote the vaccine by weakening testing protocols and quarantine rules, ESPN said, citing its sources. anonymous.
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