Richard Jefferson criticized Giannis Antetokounmpo by calling him a "Pippen," after the Bucks dropped another game to the Heat on Wednesday.
"Giannis might be a Pippen," he tweeted, obviously referring to Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen. "There I said! He needs his Jordan."
On Thursday, Pippen caught wind of the tweet, and dropped the hammer.
"I'm not Giannis," he wrote, "I don't have back-to-back league MVPs (he will in a matter of days—and he’s not me. The question is... who were you as a player?"
Jay Williams also called LeBron James a "Pippen," prompting James to respond the following day.
"Explain to me what the fux I gotta do with this subject matter! I’m over here minding my damn business preparing for Houston," he wrote. "And by the way I ain’t never been nobody but my damn self!"
Check out reactions to Pippen's tweet below.
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