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The league said in their covid policy that any player who misses games due to local mandates will not be paid for missed games as a result. I imagine it could be argued that only local games are covered by this and Kyrie is still owed money for his away games. (Although I believe the team has the right to suspend-without-pay players for conduct detrimental to the team, so they'll likely argue that's covered). Either way, they don't get any cap relief.

Everyone probably benefits from a trade scenario where he goes to a team that is not in a city with a vaccine mandate, but with him being such a mercurial player in the last year of a contract, it's difficult to gauge what the trade value is.