Kyle Kuzma may not be on the Los Angeles Lakers anymore, but he is certainly watching everyhting they do.
Things got off to a rough start start for the new-look Los Angeles Lakers after they went 0-6 in the preseason and lost the season opener to the Golden State Warriors 121-114.
The biggest roster move they made was trading Kyle Kuzma, Montrezl Harrell and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to the Washington Wizards for Russell Westbrook. The star guard is still good friends with LeBron James and Anthony Davis, but is certainly still some animosity over him being traded this offseason.
In a now-deleted story posted on his Instagram, Kuzma posted a screenshot of a tweet saying the “Lakers 0-7 without” him.
Russell Westbrook had a terrible debut for his new team as he scored eight points on 4-for-13 shooting and four turnovers.
Despite his performance, LeBron isn’t worried about the performance yet.
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“I just don’t want him to be so hard on himself,” LeBron said after the loss. “That was the one thing that I hoped to get through to him, don’t be so hard on himself. Go home and you’re going to see three babies that he has that might be asleep, but they’ll put a smile on his face. He has a beautiful wife and family. So at the end of the day, you go home and you’re really like, ‘OK, that was not that bad. It’s really not that bad.’”
Kuzma has spent his entire career in Los Angeles and will finally be playing his first game when the Wizards play the Toronto Raptors to start the season.
