LeBron blasts Celtics fans as Isaiah Thomas friendship begins
LeBron James stuck up for Isaiah Thomas for a first time, before perhaps meeting up with his new point guard for the first time as a teammate.
“The burning of the jersey thing is getting ridiculous now!” James ranted in a five-tweet spree Thursday. “The man was traded. What do u not understand? & played in a game after sister tragic death.”Two days after the Cavaliers-Celtics trade, James blasted Boston fans who weren’t sending Thomas off right, as all the rage these days is to set jerseys ablaze after a player leaves a team.
Broadening his target a bit, the King took aim at fans’ disrespect as a whole.
“When ‘we’ decide to do what best for us it’s ‘cowardly’ ‘traitor’, etc,” James wrote, “but when it’s on the other side it’s ‘business’ huh!?!?”
James will be in a better mood Saturday, when he and Thomas may be able to do some off-the-court bonding at the Mayweather-McGregor fight.
According to ESPN, both will be in Vegas for the mega-bout as they try to get on the same page after Tuesday’s trade, in which Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic and the rights to the Nets’ 2018 first-round pick were flipped for Kyrie Irving.
Thomas, a two-time All-Star, told The Ringer in March that he and Mayweather are longtime pals, since before Thomas entered the NBA in 2011.
With the Cavs’ regular season set to open Oct. 17, when they will host the Celtics, the team chemistry building has begun.