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Richard Jefferson and LeBron James once put a ring on it, but their relationship is now formally over.
Jefferson, who won a championship with Jamesand the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, has announced that he is terminating the friendship to avoid questions as rumors swirl about where James will end up next.
“I don’t know, my family doesn’t know and neither do the kids,” Jefferson wrote in a note, which he posted on Snapchat.
Katherine Fitzgerald@kfitz134Looking forward to using “He works too hard and it makes the rest of us look bad” as a regular means of terminating friendships.
Jefferson, a small forward who played at Phoenix Moon Valley and the University of Arizona, hopes that now people will stop asking him about James and he can focus on his own off-season. He played just 20 games for the Denver Nuggets last season.
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But it’s deeper than that. Jefferson brings up some good points and notes “great remorse,” but can’t escape the fact that James is his “son’s favorite player and I view that as a complete betrayal of how hard I’ve worked to put a roof over his head.”
Jefferson also ends “this ‘Drake’ response” with a jab at former Wildcat teammate Channing Frye, because nothing seals the deal on sarcastically ending a friendship like an unexpected petty jab at someone else completely, right?
Mad Tatafo 