Enes Kanter Reveals How Hard It Is To Annoy LeBron James

TheSportster

By Rodrigo Lobato

Published Aug 31, 2018

LeBron James is one of the most elite players in the history of the NBA, and part of that is how focused he is on the court, even against Enes Kanter.

The New York Knicks center Enes Kanter is the biggest troll of the NBA. But apparently, not even the trash talk of the best NBA troll is enough to get into Lebron James head.

During an interview with ESPN’s Royce Young, Kanter admitted that last season when he got into a scuffle with James, even when he tried to do everything to distract The King nothing seemed to distract him.

“I would do anything to take his focus away, distract him,” the Knicks center said, “People ask me, 'Does it work?' No, it does not work. But I'm trying."

The heated exchange of words between Kanter and James was caused because the three-time MVP started to push Kanter’s teammate Frank Nikitina.

"This is a 19-year-old kid against a 260-pound dude. This is not fair,” he said, “So I get in there and we were face-to-face and we trash-talked a little bit.”

However, Kanter did get the attention of the former Cleveland player. After that game, he said that he didn’t care how Lebron would call himself—King, Queen, or Princess—the Knicks were going to fight and nobody out there was going to punk them. The next time Lebron faced off New York he appeared at the Madison Square Garden wearing “I’m King” shoes.

Nevertheless, Enes Kanter made it clear that there was no resentment when he tried to recruit Lebron to play in New York last May.

The trash talk game has changed throughout the pass of the years in the professional basketball league with the emergence of social media and Kanter knows that. Even when the Turkish player likes to tease players on the court, he is much better when he uses Twitter, although sometimes he takes it too far.

Recently when the Damarcus Cousins joined the Golden State Warriors Kanter posted a photo of the NBA commissioner Adam Silver wearing a Warriors uniform. He said to Royce Young that he was nervous that the Knicks were going to fine him.

"Yeah, the Adam Silver thing. I remember I tweeted that picture and five minutes later I sit down and think. Man, I'm gonna get fined? I texted the Knicks PR guy and said, 'am I getting fined?'

"He said, Uh oh, what did you do? I didn't get fined."

"My GM called me, though, Scott [Perry], and said, Don't poke every bear. I said, OK, I promise. I'll just poke a few."

Kanter is a really fun player to watch in and off the court, and his antics with LeBron James just add more poof of that.