Spencer Dinwiddie responds to Kyle Kuzma's tweets
Spencer Dinwiddie of the Nets, left, and Kyle Kuzma of the Wizards.
Spencer Dinwiddie would have preferred to focus on the Nets opening their first-round playoff series against the 76ers on Saturday afternoon. But Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma redirected his attention.
In a thread on Twitter Wednesday, Kuzma criticized Dinwiddie for not winning in the NBA, made fun of his last name and credited Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving for the Nets’ success prior to both being traded this season.
Dinwiddie questioned Kuzma’s approach to basketball earlier this week in an interview on FanDuelTV. On Thursday, Dinwiddie dismissed the tweets before citing his resume.
“I led a team to the playoffs when their max players were hurt back in 2020 averaging over 20 [points] a game. So [we] won a lot of games there,” Dinwiddie said after practice. “I’ve been to the Western Conference finals with Luka Doncic and the Mavs. Been to the playoffs every year for the last five or six years.”
He mentioned how Rick Fox won championships with the Lakers alongside Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant yet no one says Fox was the leader on that team. Kuzma won a championship in 2020 with the Lakers playing with LeBron James.
Dinwiddie added there were contradictions in Kuzma’s thread, but he said he wanted to respond using a strategy that rapper Eminem used in the movie “8 Mile” — approach him with truth because then there’s nothing to hide.
“That’s probably the last time I’ll address that because I want to focus on Philly, the team and what we’re doing,” Dinwiddie said. “At the end of the day, I spoke truth and got rebutted with 10-year-old insults.”
Evan Barnes covers the Nets for Newsday. He previously covered Memphis football and the Memphis Grizzlies and also covered prep sports in Los Angeles.
