“I follow the Dalai Lama, I follow a couple of other people,” World Peace said Tuesday. “I haven’t gotten a direct message from the Dalai. I sent him a few direct messages, but he didn’t respond. I guess he’s too good for Metta World Peace.”
World Peace wasn’t being modest — probably because that word isn’t in his vocabulary — when he said he only follows a “couple” people. He follows four accounts on the social media site, and Bryant doesn’t even make the cut. But that didn’t stop World Peace from raving about Bryant’s controversial live-tweeting of Game 1.
“I love when Kobe tweets,” World Peace said. “Kobe should tweet Game 2 the whole time, every possession, critique us, criticize us, chew us out. … I love Kobe. Kobe’s great.”
Just not so great that he’s worthy of a follow.
Bryant’s outspoken comments on Twitter about his team’s first game of the playoffs garnered a hefty amount of attention, but don’t think for one second that Kobe is stepping into World Peace’s role of troublemaker and instigator.
“I’m a distraction,” World Peace said. “I’m much more of a distraction than Kobe.”
After falling to the Spurs 102-91 on Wednesday night, the Lakers find themselves down two games to San Antonio, and, at this point, it may take a Dalai Lama follow on Twitter to turn things around for Los Angeles.