Kent Bazemore Started Bradley Beal Beef With a Hamstring Joke While Praising Stephen Curry
Bradley Beal and Stephen Curry are locked in a tight battle for the NBA scoring title. On Saturday, Beal went out and scored 50 points against the Indiana Pacers. Stephen Curry then responded with 49 points in 29 minutes against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Beal has since been sidelined with a hamstring injury. Without saying Beal's name, Kent Bazemore joked that guys were "hurting hamstrings trying to keep up" with Curry.
Kent Bazemore has to be dumbest person on earth, why tf would he say this? pic.twitter.com/5OOXp5cQus
— Steph Curry Burner (@Steph30Burner) May 10, 2021
This got back to Beal during the Warriors game on Monday night and he and his wife took to Twitter to go after Bazemore. He even retweeted a Complex post about it.
Lol should I let him live or really go off?
— Bradley Beal (@RealDealBeal23) May 11, 2021
@24Bazemore you don’t know me or shit about me bruh!!! You don’t know why I go out there and play and it damn sure ain’t for another man’s approval!!! You a straight LAME!!! But it don’t surprise me coming from you, thats what’s yo type do!!
— Bradley Beal (@RealDealBeal23) May 11, 2021
@24Bazemore ?????? pic.twitter.com/deRpNP4xcK
— Bradley Beal (@RealDealBeal23) May 11, 2021
I’ll just leave this right here...
— Kamiah Adams-Beal (@KamiahAdams) May 10, 2021
Sometimes, your best bet,
is to just shut up. ? https://t.co/ST00ga8rUV
Bradley Beal calls out Kent Bazemore over "subliminal" comments: "You a straight lame" https://t.co/ccJDhmvlUo
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) May 11, 2021
Meanwhile, Bazemore went out and scored 19 in a Warriors' win over the Utah Jazz. After the game he said, "I guess you can't joke anymore." He sounded like someone who truly didn't care that a joke had gone over someone's head and ended his comment by saying he was going to, "Just go home, love on my wife, watch some Peaky Blinders and go to bed."
Kent Bazemore talked about the tweets from Bradley Beal.#DubNation pic.twitter.com/Kxil0Bk4xz
— Mark Haynes (@markhaynesnba) May 11, 2021
The Warriors and Wizards will not meet againt his season, unless it is in the NBA Finals, so don't expect any on-court resolution anytime soon. However, this could add a little extra fire to the final games of the scoring race, if Beal's hamstring isn't scared.