The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers are direct rivals and, with that in mind, players are divided on both sides. In today’s NBA, the lines are often blurred by associations off the floor but, for the most part, it is fairly clear that the relationship between players on the two teams is not always friendly.
Still, there are instances in which individuals might want to reach out to one another and such an instance happened recently between Warriors forward Andre Iguodala and Cavaliers All-Star guard Kyrie Irving. In short, Iguodala sent Irving a text and, well, it wasn’t reciprocated.
When you get called out on the red carpet for not returning texts pic.twitter.com/12cXjTJFM6
— Matt Dollinger (@matt_dollinger) July 19, 2017
This is a hilarious exchange that took place at Sports Illustrated’s “Fashionable 50” event in Los Angeles on Tuesday and, as noted by SI’s Maggie Gray, Irving gave Iguodala the real-life version of “New phone, who dis?” before settling things in person. Apparently, the two players are now investing in the same company and Irving thought it best not to respond directly to Iguodala via text and, instead, he elected to wait for an in-person interaction.
It is fairly clear that the two get along, at least to a reasonable degree, based on this public interaction and Iguodala drops two different affirmations with “I like this guy!” and “we all good” at the end. In fairness, it would be a lot more fun if the face-to-face produced some fireworks in another direction but it’s still amusing. Such is life.
