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Martellus Bennett wasn’t trying to be a jerk when he tweeted about Magic Johnson

No! He didn’t mean it like that!
Dan Gartland|
Martellus Bennett wasn’t trying to be a jerk when he tweeted about Magic Johnson
Martellus Bennett wasn’t trying to be a jerk when he tweeted about Magic Johnson

Basketball fans spent most of Tuesday afternoon roasting Magic Johnson on Twitter after he was named President of Basketball Operations for the Lakers, because Magic has a penchant for tweeting tautologies and somehow managed to land a job as the head of the NBA’s most prestigious franchise. So it’s easy to read this tweet from Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett and assume he meant it as a dig. 

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Plenty of people read it that way, so Bennett had to come out and clarify that he was trying to say the exact opposite of what everybody thought. It also made him do some personal accounting. 

Aww, Marty, you’re not a jerk. Everyone else on Twitter is. 

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Dan Gartland
DAN GARTLAND

Dan Gartland writes Sports Illustrated’s flagship daily newsletter, SI:AM, and is the host of the “Stadium Wonders” video series. He joined the SI staff in 2014, having previously been published on Deadspin and Slate. Gartland, a graduate of Fordham University, is a former Sports Jeopardy! champion (Season 1, Episode 5).

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