Mo Speights subtweets LeBron James after NBA Finals win, then turns account non-public

Mo Speights discovered himself in a little bit of sizzling water on Twitter after taking a shot at LeBron James following the Lakers star’s newest NBA Finals championship.

Speights on Tuesday tweeted “Simply the messenger…” accompanied by a side-by-side picture of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan with the caption, “Again then, we used to rejoice threepeats. Now children are on the market celebrating 4 titles in 10 tries and name it greatness.”

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Not too lengthy after, Speights backtracked on his unique tweets, saying he meant no disrespect to James, who has performed in 9 of the final 10 NBA Finals (his first Finals berth got here in 2007). He additionally earned his fourth NBA Finals MVP along with his newest championship over the Warmth.

Speights has since modified his Twitter account to personal.

Speights’ tweet is humorous on a number of accounts, not least of which is that he joined the league in 2008, six years after Bryant’s threepeat (2000-02) and 10 years after Jordan’s second threepeat (1996-98).

Furthermore: Speights is barely a one-time NBA champion. He was part of the Warriors’ 2014-15 group that beat James’ Cavaliers 4-2 within the Finals (a sequence wherein he performed three video games and averaged 5.Three minutes, 3.zero factors and 1.7 rebounds per sport). He was additionally on the Warriors’ 2015-16 group that gave up a 3-1 Finals result in James’ Cavs. In that sequence, he performed 4 video games, averaged 4.6 minutes, 1.5 factors and a pair of.zero rebounds per sport. He additionally took the final shot of the sequence:

Any means you take a look at it, it was a dumb tweet by Speights that got here again to chew him within the butt.