Spencer Haywood Says Kyrie Irving Vaccine Stance Is ‘Unconscionable’!

And as Black Americans lagged behind in the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, Spencer Haywood has started working to promote the vaccine.

CelebnSports247.com reports NBA legend Spencer Haywood is on a mission to promote taking the COVID vaccine.

In December last year, he had tested positive for the virus. He lost his sense of taste and smell and his heart was “constantly palpitating,” he said. But he was grateful, as a cancer survivor and someone who has overcome substance abuse, that his symptoms weren’t more severe, though some still linger.

Haywood said:

When you get the disease of something, you always go back to try to help others. I didn’t want any more people to suffer. I was just fortunate, so my gratitude makes me want to do more.

Now, Spencer Haywood is teaming up with Roseman University’s College of Medicine and becoming a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council to work on programs tackling mistrust of the health care system in communities of color and increasing diversity in the medical field.

Haywood, 72, joked during an interview with Newsweek:

Use your celebrity and do something to help people.

As soon as he was able to, he went to get his first shot at Roseman University in Las Vegas and did it on camera in a bid to encourage others to also get vaccinated. But those efforts are hindered, he believes, when an NBA star like Kyrie Irving garners so much attention over his refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

He said:

I think it is truly just unconscionable what Kyrie is doing.

Irving has been sidelined by the Brooklyn Nets because of his decision not to get the COVID-19 vaccine. A New York mandate requires athletes to be vaccinated to play or practice in the city’s public venues.