“I got vaccinated. I can’t wait to get the booster,” NBA Hall of Famer, TNT basketball commentator and one-time potential GOP Senate candidate Charles Barkley said. “You don’t get vaccinated just for yourself. Like Adam said, you get vaccinated for your family first. You get vaccinated for your teammates second, things like that. That’s what bother me about this whole thing. I think everybody should get vaccinated.”
Barkley then discussed the Brooklyn Nets suspending star Kyrie Irving for refusing to get vaccinated. “Let me tell you somethin’, I’m really proud of the Nets for putting their foot down, for saying, ‘No, we’re not going to deal with this half on, half off. The only thing that bug me is he still gonna make $17 million sittin’ at home.”