Larry Nance Jr. hadn’t been on the Lakers 15 minutes before people were pulling his old tweets and one of them was really bad.
The Lakers said he would have to talk to Kobe about it and talk they did. While speaking to ESPN’s Jemele Hill here is what Kobe had to say.
“The kid figured it out himself,” Bryant said. “He’s a kid, man. He actually sent me a great message [Friday]. Which is really funny, I looked at it [the message] and it was like, ‘This is when you know it’s about time to hang these things up, when your teammate writes you, Hi, Mr. Bryant.’
“I was like, ‘What the f—?’ But it was really nice and apologetic about what had happened. I said, ‘Dude, listen. We’ve all said things and done things that we regret and wish we could take back. It’s water under the bridge, man. Welcome to the team.’ He writes back, ‘Thank you, sir.’ “
We all say things in retrospect we wish we could take back. Kobe only cares about winning and if Nance Jr helps the Lakers win, it will indeed be water under the bridge.