Retired Rocket Vernon Maxwell, in town for the NBAAllStar Game, said his dislike of Utah is not a joke. The antagonism, he said, stems from racist abuse he experienced from Jazz fans.
“I‘d like 2 apologize Jazz fans that were offended by my tweets,” begins his pinned tweet. “If I knew u guys had internet in Utah I would’ve never made those tweets.”
“They used to talk about my mom, they used to talk about my kids, they used to talk about my pops — which, I don’t even care about talking about him; I don’t deal with his a-- anyway. But I’m just saying, it was just abusive,” he added. “And when I got a platform that I could say what I wanted to say … I try to roast Utah as much as I can. Because of that.”
As an example, he pointed to Houston’s first title, won in 1994. He more or less equated the top teams in the Western Conference that year to a rock-paper-scissors situation — the Jazz could beat the Sonics, the Sonics could beat the Rockets, the Rockets could beat the Jazz. Seattle was the No. 1 seed that season, but improbably was knocked off by the eighth-seeded Nuggets in the first round.“When they lost, that’s when we knew we were going to the Finals in ‘93-94.
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