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Brooklyn Nets defender Kyrie Irving will miss his seventh straight game Monday night against Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks and is likely to play his first game alongside James Harden and Kevin Durant Wednesday or Friday, ESPN said.
Irving has not played since Jan. 5 due to a combination of “personal reasons” and Covid-19 NBA protocols.
“As soon as we go through all the conditions – and maybe four or five teams can make up against us, and all year round that’s going to happen – once we figure out, ‘Okay they’re doing this tonight, this is how we attack it,’ or ‘they’re doing this tonight, this is how we are attacking, ‘once we get that it’s basically up to us,” Harden said after the first three-pointer debate in NBA history.
“I am just happy that Ky will get back. It’s a key piece of what we’re trying to do. The chemistry, the sooner we can pick that up, the sooner we can be on the court together, the more horrible hours are going to be. ”
On Friday, Irving was fined $ 50,000 by the NBA for violating Covid’s league protocols and was to lose about $ 870,000 in total, including payout For two games he lost at NBA-led quarantine this week.
Irving makes about $ 410,000 per game and a deductible salary for two games in addition to paying the $ 50,000 fine.
“Of course I’m not going to be ashamed of him, of course the group are upset that none of our players, in this particular Kyrie case, are not among us, not in the trenches with us. and so on. out, ”Nets GM Sean Marks said Thursday. “And so I don’t want to profit and say why it’s out there and so on. I have been talking to him and I will have conversations and I look forward to him being back in the gym and he will talk to this and we will sit down with him. ”