TORONTO - Fred VanVleet says his recent social media activity has nothing to do with his shooting slump.
The Toronto Raptors guard raised a stir when he unfollowed his teammates on Instagram this week, but VanVleet laughed it off after Wednesday’s 126-113 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday.
“I unfollowed my mom too, they didn’t care about that part,” VanVleet said with a laugh.
VanVleet said he was trying to “fight the algorithms” after seeing numerous suggested accounts on his feed.
“I’m going up and down my feed, there’s so many things that I’m not following that’s just suggestion, suggestion, suggestion, so stupid me, let’s unfollow everybody and see if it helps,” he said.