Russell Westbrook blasts LeBron James for being fake

Russell Westbrook doesn't look to person a brushed spot for LeBron James anymore. According to writer Yaron Weitzman for The Ringer, the erstwhile NBA MVP has been incapable to basal his erstwhile Los Angeles Lakers teammate for a agelong time. Their collaboration, which began successful the summertime of 2021, ended successful 2023 without overmuch success, and present details are dilatory emerging that amusement conscionable however strained their narration was.

According to Weitzman, LeBron has been "quietly pushing" the thought of ​​the Lakers reuniting with Kyrie Irving — which would mean Westbrook would person to beryllium traded. Although LeBron has publically said helium wants to "let Russ beryllium Russ," helium has reportedly not been supportive down the scenes.

"I hatred that fake ****"

One incidental successful peculiar exposed their tension. During a Lakers reunion, wherever Will Smith was scheduled to springiness a speech, LeBron and Anthony Davis near the country earlier Smith arrived. They returned a fewer minutes later, feigning an overly affable atmosphere.

LeBron past started asking questions and quoting movie lines, which wholly annoyed Westbrook. "I hatred that fake ****. I conscionable can't bash it," Russ told a teammate aft the event.

Westbrook, writes the Ringer, realized connected respective occasions that LeBron was not authentic. He claimed, for example, that The Godfather is his favourite movie, but helium didn't cognize however to punctuation a azygous line. He carried the publication The Autobiography of Malcolm X to conferences, and helium couldn't adjacent explicate what it was about. He adjacent said that helium predicted Bryant's 81 points. All of that, it seems, was excessively overmuch for Westbrook, who began to spot him arsenic idiosyncratic who was perpetually acting.

Their associated escapade with the Lakers ended severely — Westbrook was transferred from the apical 5 to the reserves, and past traded. One of the astir costly combinations successful NBA past fell isolated successful grounds time.