Even although George Karl hasn’t coached J.R. Smith for 12 years, there are positively nonetheless some exhausting emotions between the 2.
Smith threw shade on his former Nuggets coach on JJ Redick’s Podcast The Old Man and the Three this week.
“We didn’t have one out-of-bounds play, my whole time playing for this man,” Smith mentioned.
The 2013 NBA Coach of the Year noticed the video and responded in probably the most good method.
“I’m happy for @TheRealJRSmith these days with his education, golf etc,” Karl tweeted. “And he’s the second best athlete I coached after Shawn! Re: out of bounds plays, I’m sure JR was smoking weed when we practiced them but it’s 15 years ago so let’s just celebrate and move forward!”
After Smith noticed the tweet, he blocked Karl, who made it identified to everybody whereas teasing two-time NBA champion Smith.
This is JR together with his passive aggressive BS pic.twitter.com/Ic0x4h9aHJ
— George Karl (@CoachKarl22) May 17, 2023
“This is JR with his passive aggressive BS,” he wrote. LOL!
These two have had their fair proportion of beef up to now. In 2016, Karl referred to as Smith an “AAU baby” and labelled him “entitled” in his ebook.
He didn’t maintain again and additionally wrote that Smith carried “an enormous sense of entitlement, a distracting posse, his eye all the time on the following contract and some actually unbelievable shot choice.
“When we traded J.R. in 2011, I used to be dissatisfied that I hadn’t helped a clearly gifted participant advance his sport extra.’’
Smith responded to this on the time by tweeting: “Still trying to be relevant. Sad just sad.”
Can’t wait to see what occurs subsequent between the pair.
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