Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is having a rough start to the 2019-2020 season.
The Los Angeles Lakers bench player is averaging just 5.3 points on 35.8% shooting from the field, including a miserable 22.7% from behind the arc on 19 minutes per game. His defense has been stellar, but it has been overlooked anytime he shoots the ball.
The noise tends to get louder and louder every game, so it prompted Dwight Howard to try and put some support behind his teammates by taking to Instagram and calling out fans asking for KCP to be traded.
“Ayy ya’ll need to kil the kcp noise. He is a Laker. And we don’t do that. Let’s uplift each other. Cmon bro. We all a family.”
Howard spoke more in-depth about his comments following the 120-94 win over Golden State:
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“Because we’re a family. We talk about Lakers Nation, we talk about winning a championship, and we need everybody on the same page. KCP is my teammate. He’s my brother. And he’s a part of this family. We don’t talk bad about nobody that’s on our team,” Howard told reporters. “We’re gonna need KCP to win this championship, and I don’t think it’s right for anybody to wish any type of harm or any type of danger on my teammate. Of course there’s going to be nights where guys miss shots, miss layups but we need to set a standard. If we want to win a championship, everybody has got to have that same championship mentality. We’ve got to be on the same page. If we’re on the same page as an organization and as a fanbase and as a team, there’s nothing that we can’t accomplish.
“I don’t really like anybody talking about my brother like that. We shouldn’t do that. The fans should not do that. We’re together in this. If we win, everybody wins. That’s just how I look at it.”
