The flame between former Washington Wizards teammates Spencer Dinwiddie and Kyle Kuzma keeps burning. The feud has brewed since their days in the Wizards’ locker room.
In the latest chapter, Dinwiddie recently appeared on The Gil’s Arena Show with former Wizards star Gilbert Arenas. Dinwiddie addressed his most recent exchange with Kuzma.
“I think obviously he was hurt by the things I said,” Dinwiddie said. “Let me preface this: I never once said he wasn’t talented. So I never once called him a bum on the court. Everything that I said, though, was designed to be honest. It was a fact. Do I respect his talent level? Yes. Do I respect his priorities? No. And that’s why I said it.”
Dinwiddie’s comments referenced a previous exchange between the two former teammates in April. The beef resumed when Dinwiddie called out Kuzma during an appearance on FanDuel TV. Dinwiddie questioned if basketball was at the top of Kuzma’s priorities.
“I think if we look at you know him in the way he approaches life, fame, all that stuff that we can see that you know, his priorities tend to vary, Dinwiddie said. “That’s why [he] dressed the way he does, approaches basketball the way he does, the comments he makes.”
Kuzma wasted no time firing back at Dinwiddie in a rant on Twitter.
“Insecurity is loud? The Wizards and I have so much real estate on Din[expletive] Island,” Kuzma tweeted amid his rant. “This guy got signed by a team 60ms and was traded before the following season was over.”
Spencer Dinwiddie told Arenas and co-host Brandon Jennings he decided not to respond to the “fifth-grade insults” and name-calling Kuzma tweeted. Dinwiddie added he rather has a man-to-man conversation.
Dinwiddie’s stint in Washington did not go as planned. He didn’t complete his first year of a three-year, $54 million deal he signed with the Wizards before getting traded to the Dallas Mavericks. Now, he is a member of the Brooklyn Nets, looking to earn another big payday in the final year of his contract.
Meanwhile, Kuzma may have played his last game with the Wizards also. The 6-foot-10 forward expects to decline his $13 million player option for the 2023-24 season and enter free agency this summer.
Regardless of what team Kuzma and Dinwiddie are on, their feud is bound to continue brewing. Dinwiddie appears to be asked about Kuzma each time he is a guest on a show. Meanwhile, Kuzma has proven his animosity for Dinwiddie. Former Los Angeles Lakers player Rick Fox got dragged into the feud. It will be interesting to see the next time the two Kuzma and Dinwiddie are on the court together against each other
