The Lakers have been placed on blast for leaking damaging details about Russell Westbrook after buying and selling him.
The leak in query resulted in Lakers beat author Dave McMenamin having this to say on NBA Immediately:
“As one supply advised me, ‘You take away a vampire from the locker room.’ That that means a vampire sucks the blood out of the locker room.”
“As one supply advised me, ‘you take away a vampire from the locker room’.”
Dave McMenamin spoke on the Lakers shifting on from Russell Westbrook. pic.twitter.com/l4uCxvKo91
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) February 9, 2023
The “vampire” remark instantly rubbed lots of people the unsuitable method, together with Westbrook’s spouse, Nina.
“I’ve faculty aged kids who must take heed to their friends repeat the nasty issues that you just guys say on tv about their father,” she wrote on Instagram. “I suppose I’ll put together myself to elucidate to my 5 yr outdated that his dad is just not truly a vampire.”
Some took purpose at McMenamin himself, whereas others had been extra upset with whoever throughout the Lakers organisation contacted the media with such disparaging remarks.
The Athletic’s Zach Harper and Mo Dakhil actually didn’t maintain again on both entrance:
“I don’t even know if I’m allowed to say this,” Harper started on The Athletic NBA Present. “However that bullsh*t ass report that got here out about Russ — that hit-job — get the f*ck out of right here with that. That was horrible. That was so apparent. C’mon man, we gotta be higher than that as media.”
“That was actually shitty from the Lakers,” Dakhil responded. “Contemplating how a lot they speak about ‘We care about our gamers,’ and all of this bullsh*t that they throw on the market. As quickly as Russ leaves, they instantly begin unloading all of the unhealthy tales and issues like that. That’s only a full bullsh*t, bush league job from the group after they went out of their strategy to go get him, and everybody was telling them from the start it was a f*cked up commerce.”
Westbrook’s individuals have since responded by leaking quite a few constructive tales about him, together with his donation of 400 pairs of footwear to LA college students proper earlier than leaving city as a consequence of being traded by the Lakers.
