Marks: Vax won’t be issue for Nets

Sean Marks admitted “a couple” of people with the Nets would be excluded from participating in practice if it had begun this week due to COVID-19 vaccination restrictions in New York City. But the general manager stressed Tuesday that he foresees no vaccine issues for his team, with training camp slated to open next week in La Jolla, Calif.

“Regarding if they could play today, I can’t comment on who could play and so forth,” Marks said. “There would obviously be a couple people missing from that picture, and I won’t get into who it is, but we feel confident in the following several days before camp everybody would be allowed to participate.”

City-based athletes whose teams play in indoor arenas must receive at least one dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine in order to participate in team activities, the mayor’s office announced this month. Asked later if he expected “everyone” to be compliant by the time the regular season commences Oct. 19, Marks replied, “Correct.”

“I think we all understand what’s at stake,” Marks added. “We’ve had very candid conversations. Those are individual decisions, whether a staff member or player has to come to terms with it. It’s obviously out of our control.

“We don’t see — whether it’s a citywide mandate or it’s the league mandate to follow — being any sort of hindrance to us being able to put out a team.”

The Nets are scheduled to open their preseason slate Oct. 3 against the Lakers in Los Angeles, before returning for their first preseason game at Barclays Center against the Bucks five days later.