Rick Fox claps back at Spencer Dinwiddie after catching a stray in Kyle Kuzma feud

Spencer Dinwiddie thought he was insulting Kyle Kuzma with a Rick Fox comparison. Rick Fox let him know just how wrong he was.

It’s the NBA beef no one asked for. No one needed. Or particularly cares about. Spencer Dinwiddie vs. Kyle Kuzma.

It started way back in January with some postgame comments by Dinwiddie after his Mavericks lost to the Kuzma’s Wizards. Dinwiddie says he was just trying to motivate his teammates but Kuzma clapped back on Twitter and the nonsense was on. Three months later, Dinwiddie is on a different team and Kyle Kuzma is at home preparing for free agency. Yet somehow, the beef persists and has incredibly looped in retired veteran Rick Fox.

How did Rick Fox get involved in the Kyle Kuzma-Spencer Dinwiddie feud?

In responding to a lengthy, shady thread by Kuzma — which was a response to Dinwiddie subtly trashing Kuzma in an interview no one would have otherwise noticed — Dinwiddie compared Kuzma to Rick Fox, who won three rings as a role player with Shaq, Kobe and the Lakers of the early 2000s.

Fox responded with a photo of himself alongside the three championship trophies he helped win and a reminder that he was a captain on those Lakers’ teams, even if he deferred to his two Hall-of-Fame teammates in offensive primacy.

The funniest part of this whole thing, besides pulling in a totally unrelated NBA veteran who has been out of the league for nearly 20 years, is that Fox is arguably more accomplished than Dinwiddie or Kuzma.

He was a significant contributor on those Lakers’ championship teams — third on the team in minutes, points, steals and assists over that three-year span. He was a plus defender who made 35.1 percent of his 3s in an era when the league average 3-point percentage was much lower. Even if you just look at the first six seasons of his career, before he joined Shaq, Kobe and the Lakers, he was at least as productive as Kuzma or Dinwiddie.

If Spencer Dinwiddie wants to keep arguing with Kyle Kuzma, that’s fine. But leave Rick Fox out of it.

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