Martin and Smith both blast book on Twitter
Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith was the first player to publicly respond to George Karl’s rips in his upcoming memoir, but Kenyon Martin brought the heat in a series of venomous posts on Twitter. Martin, who played for Karl from 2004-11, went off.
“George Karl is [a] selfish, unhappy, [miserable], cowardly person. No wonder he’s [been] fired every place he has coached,” Martin tweeted. “Having a lot of wins doesn’t make you a good coach. He was blessed with great talent.”
In a separate tweet, Martin wrote: “Everyone that’s played for that awful person and coach can’t stand the ground he walks on.”
Karl’s book blasts Smith, Martin and Carmelo Anthony, calling them “AAU babies” and “the spoiled brats you see in junior golf and junior tennis.” Karl also wrote of Anthony and Martin: “Kenyon and Carmelo carried two big burdens: all that money and no father to show them how to act like a man.”
That obviously bothered Martin.
“I didn’t have a father going up. We all know that. What’s George Karl excuse for being a terrible person,” Martin wrote.
In the book, Karl criticized Anthony’s defense, which Martin took issue with as well.
“Talking [about] Melo didn’t like defense,” Martin tweeted. “Hell he never coached defense. How does that work.”
Smith, the free-wheeling former Knick, who played five seasons for Karl with the Nuggets, also went at Karl in a tweet Thursday: “Still trying to be relevant. Sad just sad.”
Retired forward Reggie Evans played on those Nuggets teams from 2006-07 and came to his teammates’ defense.
“I had some good Denver Nuggets Teammates,” he tweeted. “That dude is old and unhappy with himself.”