Last month, rapper 50 Cent announced that he and boxer Floyd Mayweather were setting up a boxing match with singer Chris Brown and rapper Soulja Boy as its headliners. 50 also indicated that retired NBA player Kenyon Martin, who played for the Nets, and Thomas, were on the event’s undercard.
“They really need to go ahead and get that sh*t off their chest,” 50 Cent said in his instagram post.
Martin and Thomas have been bitter rivals since 2004, when the Nets and the Knicks battled in a Hudson River playoff rivalry. After injuring his back from a hard foul, Thomas told reporters that Martin was a “fugazi,” a term popularized by former HBO original program The Sopranos which means ‘fake.