Just minutes after suffering a heartbreaking loss to go down 3-0 in the NBA Finals, this tweet was posted from Cavaliers guard JR Smith’s account.
Shortly after, Smith denied sending the tweet, and alleging his account was hacked.
“I got out of the shower and my phone was buzzing. I did not tweet that,” Smith told Cleveland.com after his postgame locker room interview session. “I’m smarter than that.”
Smith said he thinks the Cavs can come back from the 3-0 deficit, something that has never happened in NBA history, but stated a second time that he didn’t send the tweet.
“I do believe,” Smith said. “But I didn’t tweet that. I would be much smarter than that to tweet that at literally 12:04, right after the game.”
While no team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit, that was also the case with 3-1 last year, a feat the Cavs would ultimately accomplish. Coming back from 3-0 is not unprecedented in sports history, however, with the Los Angeles Kings overcoming a 3-0 hole in the Stanley Cup Playoffs over the San Jose Sharks in 2014, and the Boston Red Sox doing the same against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series in 2004.