Andre Drummond didn’t waste much time having a little fun with the news that his former team brought in LeBron James.
Drummond, now with the New York Knicks, has already settled into his new situation, backing up Karl-Anthony Towns for the defending champions. But the timing of James signing with the Philadelphia 76ers - the team Drummond just left a few weeks earlier - gave him an easy opening for a joke.
His X account did the talking. First came a simple “Oh” paired with a sad emoji, a post that immediately got people wondering if he was hinting at regret over leaving Philadelphia. Then he followed it with a much clearer message: “I'm good where I'm at”, a line that should ease any Knicks fans who were reading too much into the first post.
Drummond also noted that he is in Connecticut right now, where he grew up and played college basketball.
The whole thing fits Drummond’s reputation. Over the past decade or so, he has built a name for himself as one of the league’s more entertaining personalities, the kind of player who keeps things loose on the bench and knows how to work a crowd online. And because he spent time with James on the Los Angeles Lakers, there’s no mystery about why he’d have a little extra fun with this one.
Now the Knicks and 76ers will see plenty of each other, since they share a division. For Drummond, though, the message was pretty clear: he’s enjoying the joke, but he’s not looking back.
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