NBA fans are reacting to Kevin Durant’s response to James Worthy going nuclear on today’s NBA players. James is obviously not a fan of today’s NBA players and this is what he got to say about them during an interview with the Stoney & Jansen Show on Wednesday;
“I mean, Kareem had four years with John Wooden, Michael Jordan and I had three years with Dean Smith, Isiah (Thomas) had some years with Bobby Knight. So you learned the fundamentals.
“Not only that, you learned how to live. You learned how to balance your freaking checkbook in college, there’s a lot of things. When you don’t get that, guys are coming to the NBA who are not fundamentally sound. All they do is practice threes, lift weights, get tattoos, tweet and go on social media. That’s it.”
According to James Worthy via Side Action;
All players do now is practice threes, lift weights, get tattoos, and tweet.
Every generation is different, and of course it’s the same rhetoric all older people say about younger generations.
Twitter was quick to point out James Worthy hooker story.
In November 1990, the LA Lakers took an ordinary trip to Houston to square off against the Rockets. James Worthy, however, found himself in the news for an off-court matter.
According to an LA Times report, Worthy “was arrested Thursday afternoon on two counts of solicitation of prostitution and was jailed hours before the team’s game against the Rockets.” According to a spokesman for the Houston Police Department, the NBA star “contacted an escort service” that was being monitored and “arranged a transaction.”
When asked about the incident after that night’s game, Worthy didn’t have much to add. “Well, at this point, I really don’t have anything to say about it,” Worthy told the media. “The most common thing to say is, ‘no comment.”
It goes without saying that getting arrested isn’t a normal part of any NBA player’s pregame routine. James Worthy, however, still had a game that evening.
According to a New York Times report, Worthy paid the $500 to bail himself out of jail and was released at 7:10 PM. The forward rushed to the arena, joining his Lakers teammates for the second quarter. He apparently received quite the ovation when he entered the game and, according to Basketball-Reference’s game logs, scored 24 points to help the Lakers earn the win.
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