Richard Jefferson is one of the better analysts around today and has been a great addition to ESPN with his humor and insights. Before turning analyst, Jefferson spent 17 seasons in the league and he was a part of that Cavaliers team led by LeBron James that stunned the 73-win Warriors by coming back from down 3-1 to win the title.
Jefferson spent his best years in the NBA with the New Jersey Nets, however, who drafted him in 2001, and in each of his first two seasons in the league, Jefferson went to the NBA Finals. Along with him for both of those trips and 3 seasons in total was Kenyon Martin, who recently shared an interesting story from their time together.
Richard Jefferson Shares His Side Of The Story On His Locker Room Fight With Kenyon Martin
Martin made an appearance on Showtime’s Forgotten Seasons, where he revealed that he once punched Jefferson for disrespecting him. Word seems to have reached RJ’s ear, and he gave his side of the story on TikTok.
That was hilarious with Jefferson making sure to point out that they both started swinging at each other. Poor Aaron Williams took a shot to the face as he tried to hold back Martin, but fights like these in the locker room seem more commonplace than you would imagine.
Martin and RJ patched things up fairly quickly by the looks of it, and they were a part of the most successful era in the history of the Nets in the NBA. The Nets made it to the Finals in Jefferson’s first two seasons, as we mentioned earlier, and those are the only two times they have made it thus far. They, unfortunately, ran into the Lakers the first time and got swept as Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant took them apart while their second trip saw them face off against the dynastic San Antonio Spurs. They put up a better fight in 2003 but Tim Duncan proved to be too much to handle and they lost in 6.
You wouldn’t have thought that this would still be the most successful era in the history of the franchise when Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving teamed up on the Nets in 2019, but the two have won just one playoff series together. Hopefully, that changes for the Nets this upcoming season as they look to put aside the drama, but the drama is never far away when you have Kyrie on your team.
