Kenyon Martin had some harsh words for Jeremy Lin a few days back, saying “we get it, you wanna be black” after Lin decided to rock dreadlocks. Lin responded (twice) with a gracious, even eloquent answer.
Since then, Kenyon Martin deleted the videos on Instagram of him talking down on Lin and his hairstyle and received a lot of blowback. Now, TMZ has posted a video of Martin apologizing to Lin, but nevertheless called his hairstyle “hilarious”.
“Wasn’t really saying it to him, Martin said. I was just making a blanket statement, which I probably should’ve reached out to him.