If you have been following the Kyle Kuzma—Spencer Dinwiddie beef since it started, you have already chosen sides. But forget that you have and let’s look at it all impartially once again, after knowing what the Nets guard recently said about his former teammate in response to his “dinsh**tie” comment.
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The beef has taken an ugly turn and is as bad as it could get with both parties belittling each other with no care about how it affects their own image.
The Nets guard is the latest, who has tried to take it to another level before his team takes on Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers for the first round of Playoffs.
Spencer Dinwiddie disrespects Kyle Kuzma calling him Rick Fox of Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant-led Lakers
This beef between the former teammates doesn’t seem to have an end. After Kuzma’s response to Spence on Twitter, the Nets forward has taken time off his all-important play-offs preparation to get back at the Wizards forward, quickly this time.
Kuzma recently said Dinwiddie hasn’t won anything and that the Nets have been 11-13 since his arrival and only made it to the Playoffs because of where Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving left them.
In response to that the Nets point guard has referred to him in the 2019-20, LeBron James and Anthony Davis-led team as Rick Fox to Shaq and Kobe.
“Some people are blessed to be in situations. We don’t get mad at Rick Fox for winning a championship with Kobe and Shaq. Some people are blessed, but we can’t act like Rick Fox led them to a championship.”
– Spencer Dinwiddie on Kyle Kuzma
(h/t @ClutchPointsApp ) pic.twitter.com/TVl8e2IAtj
— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 13, 2023
He helped though. Helped them in 3 championships. That’s why he was with the team for seven seasons.
Now, Dinwiddie is a 6ft 5’ point guard who has averaged over 17 points per game multiple times in his career. If you were wondering why he is on his 5th team in 9 years in the NBA? Now you have the answer.
How the beef started?
The beef started when the Washington Wizards defeated the Dallas Mavericks in January when Spencer’s 20 points and 8 assists did not prove enough as the game ended 127-126.
After the game, the point guard said Mavs should have won the game because the Wizards were not playing winning basketball at the moment. That was clearly more of a shot at his former team than anything else.
To which Kuzma responded by tweeting, “The funny thing is they don’t play winning basketball.” Dinwiddie didn’t respond to it then and later got traded to the Nets for Kyrie Irving.
In his recent interview after the Nets made the Playoffs, he thrashed Kuzma’s entire personality for just stating the Mavericks weren’t playing winning basketball either.
In reaction to that, Kuzma sent a series of Tweets which would be a natural reaction to somebody attacking you personally. One doesn’t even have to pick a side to understand who started it and has brought it where it is. It’s just shameful.
