The NBA reached a 95 percent vaccination rate for COVID-19 on Thursday, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, a notable uptick since training camps tipped off league-wide earlier this week. Draymond Green's latest comments about the shot being a “personal choice,”  though, thrust the league back to the forefront of the vaccination discussion on Friday morning—even before LeBron James expressed his enthusiastic support for them.

Reacting to Green's criticism of the vaccine becoming “political” and repressing the “personal freedoms” guaranteed to all Americans, the Los Angeles Lakers superstar and most famous basketball player on Earth added fuel to an already burning fire.

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James, previously mum on his vaccination status, clarified at Lakers media day that he was indeed vaccinated. Even so, James' remarks about personal autonomy and respecting the privacy of others with regard to the vaccine portended his eventual backing of Green's statement.

“We’re talking about individuals’ bodies,” LeBron James said at media day. “We’re not talking about something that’s political or racism or police brutality and things of that nature…So I don’t feel like for me personally that I should get involved in what other people should do for their bodies and their livelihoods.”

Approximately 700,000 Americans have succumbed to COVID-19, according to the CDC. There were over 100,000 new domestic cases of the virus last week, despite 75.5 percent of Americans 12-and-under having at least one dose of the vaccine. Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns lost several members of his family to the virus, while notable players like the Boston Celtics' Jayson Tatum continue to suffer ill effects of their prior bout with COVID-19 even long after it left their system.

Matters of public health aren't personal. It would behoove LeBron James, Draymond Green and an overwhelming majority of vaccinated players if that was their party line, lest the league's few holdouts continue to dominate media coverage of NBA players' collective stance on vaccines.