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NBA legend John Stockton has submitted a declaration in federal court that details the reasons for his recent rebellion against vaccines and COVID-19 restrictions reasons that are at odds with science and instead rooted in personal experiences or misconceptions. Stockton, 62, said in the declaration filed Tuesday that he noticed a pattern after he contracted the flu decades ago despite getting the flu vaccine. He said one of his children was harmed by vaccines, though he didnt say how. He also said he listened to the advice of a chiropractor who told him to consider not vaccinating my children.

It should be noted that chiropractors arent epidemiologists trained in investigating patterns and causes of illnesses such as the flu and COVID. Also, flu vaccines arent 100% effective because there are different strains of the flu, a virus that changes over time. Vaccines instead can reduce the risk and severity of the illness, according to the Mayo Clinic and other scientific sources. A pattern was emerging, Stockton said in the declaration filed in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash. I contracted the flu despite the vaccine. My child was hurt because of the vaccine. Maybe there was some truth in our Chiropractors words. I spent a lot of time over the next 30 years reading books, paying attention, and asking questions.

To find the truth, I used a mosaic approach seeking data, anecdotal information, personal experience, common-sense and contrary indicators. Stockton submitted the declaration in support of his lawsuit against Washington state officials who cracked down on COVID-19 misinformation from doctors. The lawsuit claims that some doctors free-speech rights were violated because they spoke against the mainstream Covid narrative. He and other plaintiffs also filed a motion Tuesday that seeks a preliminary injunction to stop the defendants from investigating or sanctioning physicians for speaking out in any public forum against the government endorsed Covid narrative.

Stockton, a basketball Hall of Famer, has a street named after him in Salt Lake City and a statute of his likeness outside his former NBA arena there. He noted his mother and sister were nurses and that he grew up in an environment "where we trusted our doctors, took medications as prescribed and followed the vaccine schedule at the time." He then apparently changed his mind, citing his NBA career and all the medical professionals he worked with, including the chiropractor who worked with his team, the Utah Jazz. Stockton recalled how he didnt miss a game in 17 seasons but missed 18 games one season because of surgery (1997) and four more games another season (1989-90). Two of those games were because I got the flu and spent a night or two in a Charlotte NC hospital, he said in the declaration. That season, I had received the flu vaccine.