The Nets-Knicks rivalry just got personal.
Following Monday afternoon’s 88-85 win over the Knicks, Nets forward Kris Humphries took to Twitter to take a jab at the Knicks and the Garden faithful.
“Big game tonight! The Garden got really quiet on the way out! #Brooklyn,” Humphries posted on his account.
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However, the power forward’s comments did not go unnoticed. Knicks shooting guard J.R. Smith, who finished with 16 points in 38 minutes but missed the game-tying trey as time expired, took offense to Humphries’ comments and took his own shot at the Nets player.
“Wasn’t quiet when Kanye tore it down last month!” Smith wrote in reply to Humphries’ tweet.
Smith’s tweet can only be in reference to Humphries’ estranged wife Kim Kardashian, who is now dating Kanye West and is pregnant with the rapper’s child. West performed alongside Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Billy Joel during last month’s “12-12-12” Sandy-benefit concert.
Humphries and Kardashian are in a heated divorce battle as Humphries wants the reality star to admit that their 72-day marriage was “staged” and to give him a “public apology.” Sources have told Page Six that Humphries turned down a $7 million offer to “shut up and go away.”
Smith has gotten in hot water over posting to his Twitter account in the past. The Knicks star was fined $25,000 by the league last year after posting a picture of a nude woman to his account and last May tweeted about his potential departure from the Knicks, which he eventually downplayed.
Humphries finished with 11 points and 13 rebounds in 27 minutes off the bench in the Nets’ win.
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