2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Arioch]

Problem with all this line of thinking is that he can't require it of the players because the players union stood hard against that and didn't sign an MOU allowing vaccination status to be something owners can require.

They can cut him but Cuban can't keep running his mouth and he could get on trouble if he gives indication that this was a reason that they cut him.  Because if the CBA, he needs to just be quiet and cut him off he's going to cut him.

It's one thing for the government to require it, but it's another for the owners to do it with the stance the NBAPA took on it

As I pointed out before, the CBA (and the Player's Union decision not to agree to modify it) is only relevant if a team tries to get out of paying a player his guaranteed money. As long as Burke gets paid his guaranteed money, Dallas is within its rights under the CBA to waive him for basically any reason at all--including that he's not vaccinated. "We didn't like his attitude" is a perfectly valid reason under the CBA to waive a player and it doesn't matter if attitude is followed by 'towards practice, towards the coach, towards fans, or towards vaccination."

(Witness the Kyrie saga--Brooklyn's not waiving him because he's paid a hell of a lot more than Burke, and they don't want to see him on a rival team. But as long as they pay him his guaranteed money, they can tell him to go away and stay away, and there's nothing the NBAPA can do).