PORTLAND, Ore. — After the Los Angeles Lakers’ Christmas Day loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, which was also their fourth consecutive loss overall, social media wasn’t talking about the game as much as they were talking about comments after the game from Kyle Kuzma’s personal trainer Clint Parks regarding LeBron James and his performance against Kawhi Leonard.
In the comments, Parks suggested that Leonard is the one that is “really in the lab” and that LeBron was “dodging smoke.” At the Lakers shootaround on Saturday morning in Portland, James was asked about the comments and whether there was a rift between him and Kyle Kuzma.
“No, Kuz came to me yesterday at practice and told me what was going on,” James responded to a question about him and Kuzma on Saturday. “And that was it. I really don’t really care for someone’s trainer or whatever the case may be and everyone can have they own opinion and anytime someone wants to get some notoriety people gone through my name in it and people going to pick it up. That’s why you asking me about it because my name was in it. I’ve never met the guy, I don’t know the guy, I could care less about the guy, whatever the case may be. I wish him the best.”
So according to James, Kuzma came up to him at yesterday’s practice to explain what was going on and evidently squash the beef between them. This likely won’t be the last we hear of this social media chatter regarding James and Kuzma’s trainer but at least James has said his piece.
