Remember a couple weeks ago when Lakers rookie PG D’Angelo Russell caused a little bit of a stir when he tweeted that Tracy McGrady “might have been the GOAT” and then had to apologize to Kobe Bryant?
You know, this:
The rook is still hearing about it.
During a recent appearance with Laker fans, Russell tried to explain that whole “controversy” by saying that he simply had a moment of inspiration while watching some old T-Mac tape, and wants the LA fans to chill. “There’s a lot of spoiled Lakers fans,” he said.
From Mark Medina of the LA Daily News:
With one click of a button, Lakers rookie point guard D’Angelo Russell made an impassioned fan base more upset than anything regarding his Summer League play.
Russell suggested in a tweet nearly two weeks ago that Tracy McGrady is the greatest player of all time. Lakers guard Kobe Bryant and his legions of fans expressed their disapproval over Russell’s since-deleted tweet, though Russell said Bryant “was cool” about the incident.
“There’s a lot of spoiled Lakers fans. I wasn’t downgrading Kobe at all,” Russell said Saturday in an interview with the Los Angeles News Group. “I was just watching a highlight tape of Tracy McGrady and I got excited. I tweeted and the whole state of California went crazy.”
H/T: PBT
