Giants’ Malik Nabers shoots down criticism for attending concert with concussion: ‘My business’

Malik Nabers isn’t second-guessing his decision to attend a rap concert while he was working his way through concussion protocol despite the social media firestorm it created. 

Last Wednesday, the gifted rookie receiver was spotted attending a Travis Scott concert at MetLife Stadium.

Coach Brian Daboll declined to offer his opinion on the matter, saying he wanted to keep the issue “in-house.”

Nabers was cleared on Thursday and is expected to return to the field on Sunday against the Eagles after missing the last two games.

He suffered a concussion, the first of his career, late in a loss to the Cowboys on Sept. 26. 

“I mean that’s my business,” he said on Friday in his first public comments since suffering the head injury. “What I do outside this facility has nothing to do with what the media thinks or whatever they got going on, so that’s my business.” 

Nabers said he told Giants doctors he planned to attend the concert.

He declined to say what their reaction was to it, or what Daboll told him after the fact when they discussed the matter. 

As far as the negative response to him going out in public while he was still on concussion protocol, Nabers said he wasn’t having any problems with lights or loud music, so he didn’t see it as an issue.

Nabers attended the concert with teammate Isaiah Simmons, who asked him if loud music or lights would bother him ahead of time. 

“I said I’ve been playing loud music since after the concussion in the car. I go out with the lights on. I play the game with lights,” Nabers said. “So, I didn’t have anything with lights. It wasn’t making my head hurt. The sound wasn’t making my head hurt, so I was fine.” 

This is obviously part of being a big star in a big city.

Everything he does will get scrutinized.

But Nabers isn’t planning on changing how he lives his life. 

“I mean most of the time I don’t [listen to social media], but I get it sent to my phone a lot, so it’s kind of hard to not ignore it,” he said. “But they’re making me more famous than I already am, so it’s cool to me.”