Thybulle will have to sit out at least two games in the first round of the NBA playoffs due to Canada's federal vaccine mandate.
Sports personality Stephen A. Smith said that Matisse Thybulle of the Philadelphia 76ers is"going to win an idiot award" for not getting a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine because it will prevent him from playing in this season's playoffs against the Toronto Raptors."I like him, I'm a fan. But I gotta tell you, he's gonna win an idiot award. He's going to win an idiot award.
Due to Canada's federal vaccine mandate, foreign travelers are required to be fully vaccinated in order to enter the country. Professional athletes were previously exempted from the vaccination rules, but those exceptions no longer apply, meaning Thybulle, who is only partially vaccinated, will have to sit out Games 3 and 4 of theESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith slammed a player of the Philadelphia 76ers for not getting both doses of his vaccine ahead of the NBA playoffs.
Smith warned that without the team's best perimeter defender of the season, the 76ers might lose in the first round of the playoffs. "Now he can't show up in Canada because Canada won't allow him in there," Smith said."So you're elite defensive player to go up against them [sic] brothers in Toronto—[Pascal] Siakam and [Gary] Trent and [Fred] VanVleet and those boys, they can play now—the fact that they don't have Thybulle available for those road games...it's a very big thing."
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