{"id":414943,"date":"2023-01-01T18:17:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T18:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=414943"},"modified":"2023-01-01T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T18:17:54","slug":"nba-legend-john-stockton-makes-massive-claim-that-thousands-of-athletes-died-due-to-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba-legend-john-stockton-makes-massive-claim-that-thousands-of-athletes-died-due-to-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Legend John Stockton Makes Massive Claim That &#8216;Thousands of Athletes Died Due to Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unquestionably, John Stockton, whose on-court friendship with Karl Malone gave the Utah Jazz their heyday, is one of the NBA&#8217;s greatest players. But despite Stockton&#8217;s prowess on the court, he has a history of making outlandish claims without sufficient evidence. On a recent episode of the Sideline Sanity podcast, John Stockton argued that the number of athletes who had died after receiving the COVID vaccine was understated at the time. He now claims that it may have caused the deaths of 1,000 elite athletes. The Miami Heat was one of the first teams to sponsor a vaccination developed to combat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qLKD0EHrXZc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>John Stockton now claims that it may have caused the deaths of 1,000 elite athletes. The Miami Heat was one of the first teams to sponsor a vaccination developed to combat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"\u201cGoatsh*t\u201d \u2013 NBA Legend Paul Piers Chimes in With his Take on the GOAT Debate After LeBron James Dropped 47 Points\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/goatsht-nba-legend-paul-piers-chimes-in-with-his-take-on-the-goat-debate-after-lebron-james-dropped-47-points\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cGoatsh*t\u201d \u2013 NBA Legend Paul Pierce Chimes in With his Take on the GOAT Debate After LeBron James Dropped 47 Points<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>John Stockton makes shocking statement on vaccination<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;I got it from a lot of places, otherwise I would have never had the confidence to share it. That&#8217;s the beauty of it,&#8221; Stockton said about the stat he mentioned in his interview. &#8220;I have quite a system that I go through before I open my mouth, especially with statistics, and I knew that at that time 150 was dramatically low. I thought it was in the area of 300.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Stockton now thinks \u2018thousands\u2019 of athletes may have died from the vaccine<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the proof in my hands, the piece of paper with the names\u2026I think it\u2019s in the thousands now. Don\u2019t quote me on that one,I\u2019m not saying 1,000,but it might be. It\u2019s a big number\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thecomeback?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thecomeback<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w1WFfubeYl\">pic.twitter.com\/w1WFfubeYl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/1608619787449663491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s way more than that now. I think it&#8217;s in the thousands now but don&#8217;t quote me on that one,&#8221;<\/em> the NBA legend <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-183092-john-stockton-claims-a-thousand-athletes-might-have-died-from-vaccine.html\">said<\/a>. <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t say a thousand but it might be, it&#8217;s a big number.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When John Stockton initially asserted it, it was swiftly found to be untrue. 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But despite Stockton&#8217;s prowess on the court, he has a history of making outlandish claims without sufficient evidence. On a recent episode of the Sideline Sanity podcast, John Stockton argued that the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":414944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,90],"tags":[2004],"class_list":["post-414943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-utah-jazz","tag-john-stockton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}