Andre Drummond caused quite a stir on social media on Tuesday. In a reply to a fan on Instagram, Drummond said that he would have “dominated” the paint for the Lakers if Frank Vogel played him more.
Drummond then used the attention he got from that reply to promote an NFT collection that he’s dropping on Friday, as well as a pair of “Kareem Abdul-Drummond” shirts that were inspired by a tweet from Skip Bayless. No, seriously: this all happened.
At the time, it seemed like Drummond was just capitalizing on the attention he was getting on social media, and while that may have been the case, Drummond said that everything from the reply to the fan on Instagram was all part of his plan to promote his NFT collection (via ESPN’s “The Jump”):
“It wasn’t an issue to begin with.