Damon Jones Trolled Richard Jefferson After He Revealed How He Found About Being Traded From The Nets: “And Guess What? The Nets Got Better.”

The NBA can be a cold environment for players. Overnight, players who are crucial parts of their franchises can find out that they have been sent to a different team, and been made dispensable in the league. In the modern era, we’re more used to players demanding a trade and forcing their way out.

But in the past, the players did not have that much leverage. Star players being able to demand their way out of teams is a more recent phenomenon, brought about by the player empowerment era.

It can be a difficult process for players to get traded. In fact, there have been many occasions where players found out about their career future thanks to news leaking about a trade being made.

And that is exactly what happened to Richard Jefferson. Jefferson revealed a story on ESPN about how he had gone to pick up his son from school. Another kid at the school saw Jefferson and told him that his father found out he was getting traded.

Jefferson got the call from the Nets, saying that he was being traded from the team. In a brutally hilarious response, ESPN analyst Damon Jones trolled him by saying that the New Jersey Nets got better after trading RJ. Jefferson responded, saying that the next season, they had one of the worst records in the league.