Lakers coach Darvin Ham seems to have taken personal offense to flopping accusations by Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr during the teams' NBA playoff series.
Lakers star LeBron James, who hinted he might be considering a surprise retirement this offseason, made it clear at the ESPYs he will return next season.“We play a physical brand of basketball. We don’t teach flopping, we don’t teach head-snaps,”. “You see Bron, he’s got a thousand scratches on his arms, same with AD, same with Austin Reaves, same with Lonnie Walker.
“When I’m hearing different sound bites and I’m seeing the game within the game being played in the media and all that, I don’t f— with it. I don’t want nothing to do with it,” Ham said on the podcast. “I’m sorry, excuse my language, but nothing came easy for me, you know, in terms of crossing the Ts and dotting the I’s and within my career whether I was a player or coaching. ...
“I’ll be damned if I let someone else try to manipulate the way we approach our game, the competitiveness in which we come with, like we’re trying to disguise and try to pull the wool over someone’s eyes. No, we’re coming out, we’re playing smash-mouth basketball. That’s the way we teach it, that’s the way we preach it and that’s the way we’re going to execute it when the lights come on.”
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