John Stockton is likely one of the best NBA factors guards of all time. Apparently, he’s additionally an anti-vaxxer and his further anti-mask stance is why Gonzaga determined to droop his season tickets to its basketball video games.
Sure, this is identical Gonzaga the place Stockton starred from 1980 to 1984, and the place is jersey is retired, earlier than he went on to a prolonged NBA profession with the Utah Jazz, principally dishing dimes to problematic energy ahead Karl Malone.
The Spokesman-Assessment spoke to Stockton, who confirmed that Gonzaga’s determination was primarily based on his refusal to put on a masks.
Stockton stated Gonzaga Athletic Director Chris Standiford notified him of the college’s determination in a dialog the Naismith Basketball Memorial Corridor of Fame level guard described as “congenial” but additionally “not nice.”
“Principally, it got here all the way down to, they had been asking me to put on a masks to the video games and being a public determine, somebody a bit bit extra seen, I caught out within the crowd a bit bit,” Stockton stated. “And due to this fact they acquired complaints and felt like from regardless of the higher-ups – these weren’t mentioned, however from no matter it was greater up – they had been going to should both ask me to put on a masks or they had been going to droop my tickets.”
Stockton has taken a powerful stance towards COVID-19 vaccines, shutdown measures and masks mandates, initially providing his views final June in a documentary titled, “COVID and the Vaccine: Reality, Lies and Misconceptions Revealed.”
And that’s that on that.
Within the notorious COVID and the Vaccine: Reality, Lies and Misconceptions Revealed documentary, Stockton asserted that tons of of athletes, and thousands and thousands of others, have died from vaccines. Have in mind, he backed up his statements with no information, so take it as you’ll.
Perhaps Isiah Thomas ought to have gotten that Dream Crew spot…
