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After the Lakers loss against the Clippers on Christmas day, Kyle Kuzma’s trainer Clint Sparks trashed LeBron James on social media over his work ethic and went on to say that LeBron was scared of Kawhi Leonard.
https://twitter.com/goldlakerss/status/1210626595511132161
Kyle Kuzma’s trainer had some interesting things to say about LeBron 🤔 @SONTHoops pic.twitter.com/RHwqOidoGv
— Sami ON Tap (@SamiOnTap) December 27, 2019
Kuzma then went on to tweet and delete this message that many felt was him backing up his trainer’s thoughts about LeBron.
https://twitter.com/LACSuperFanClub/status/1210668043661168646
I can't wait to hear what #KyleKuzma has to say after #Lakers practice today…. His trainer posts comments about #Lebron on IG and Kuzma deletes a tweet of his own… are the two connected? pic.twitter.com/TJxI6RWMy5
— Tim Cates (@timcates) December 27, 2019
Before the team’s game on Saturday vs the Blazers, LeBron was asked about Kuzma’s trainer trashing him on social media and he gave a pretty measured response.
Are LeBron and Kyle Kuzma good? In the wake of social media posts from Kuzma’s trainer, I asked LeBron. He said they’ve talked about it. pic.twitter.com/dMZil6iguc
— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) December 28, 2019
Kuz came to me during practice yesterday to tell me what was going on and that was it. I don’t really care for someone’s trainer, everyone can have their own opinion and anytime anyone wants to get some notoriety they can thrown my name in it and people are going to 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.
As for his “call a spade, a spade” tweet Kuzma denied it was about his trainer or LeBron.
Was Kyle Kuzma's "call a spade a spade" tweet about his trainer's posts on LeBron? Kuzma said: "No correlation. I didn’t even see what he said at first. Obviously you guys see, I tweet things all the time. So definitely not about that. Why would I even do that? Makes no sense."
— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) December 28, 2019
More Kuz: "I just told [LeBron] that I can’t control what another man says. Obviously I don’t feel that way. Everybody knows that me and LeBron have a great relationship and left it at that. can’t control another man’s mouth and what they say so we left it at that."
— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) December 28, 2019