The Los Angeles Lakers selected former Wyoming star Larry Nance Jr. with the 27th pick of the NBA Draft, and less than an hour after the selection a tweet Nance Jr. posted in 2012 went viral.
Seems the Lakers' new draft pick just deleted this old tweet from 2012. Probably a good idea. pic.twitter.com/kC33QuIvPL
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) June 26, 2015
Nance Jr. quickly deleted the tweet Thursday night and has not publicly addressed the issue, but his new teammate Kobe Bryant told ESPN’s Jemele Hill Saturday that he spoke to Nance Jr.