LeBron unbothered by shot from Kuzma's trainer: 'I wish him the best'
As if Kyle Kuzma's Christmas Day attire wasn't enough of a distraction, the Los Angeles Lakers forward attracted more attention Thursday when his trainer made some observations about Kawhi Leonard being better than LeBron James.
Clint Parks made the comments on Instagram in the wake of Leonard's Clippers beating the Lakers on Christmas Day, with Kawhi outscoring James 35-23.
Kuzma himself then chimed in on Twitter, saying, "Call a spade a spade."
Here's the deleted tweets/stories with Kyle Kuzma and his trainer calling out LeBron James work ethic pic.twitter.com/Fo9uHWG2XF
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The posts were deleted by Saturday, when James was asked about the situation.
"Kuz came to me yesterday at practice, and he told me what was going on. And that was it," James said, according to ESPN's Dave McMenamin.
"I really don't care for someone's trainer or whatever the case may be, everyone can have their own opinion. Anytime someone wants to get some notoriety they can put my name in and people gonna pick it up. ... I've never met the guy, I don't know the guy, I could care less about the guy. ... I wish him the best."
For his part, Kuzma said he simply told James the words were not his, and that his deleted tweet was not related to Parks' comments.
"I just told him I can't control what another man says. Obviously I don't feel that way ... me and 'Bron have a great relationship," Kuzma said, according to McMenamin.
"If you follow me, you see I tweet random things all the time. It had nothing (to do with it)," he added. "No correlation. I didn't even see what he said at first. ... why would I even do that? It makes no sense."