"Crazy and disrespectful": Cotton slams WA paper

Adelaide 36ers signing Bryce Cotton has unleashed on the West Australian newspaper, following a controversial back page on Friday.

The publication ran with a headline “The Lying King” after Cotton penned a three-year deal in Adelaide, referring to the five-time MVP’s departure from the Wildcats in March.

Speaking on the Easy Days Podcast, Cotton fired back at the controversial headline.

 

 

 

 

 

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“I just find it so funny …  I broke the scoring record - the league scoring record - in December. The West Australian gifts me, you know, this big poster: King of the Jungle,” he said.

“We’re six months later now, they’re talking about ‘The Lying King’. Like, that … it’s crazy.

“So, like, I can’t wait when I go back to Perth - I can’t wait. When I go back to Perth, I’m burning that. That little gift they gave me? That’s going straight to the fireplace.

“It’s just crazy and disrespectful.

“But at the end of the day it’s not surprising, and that’s part of why I moved the way I moved.”

Cotton’s signing was a massive coup for the Adelaide 36ers, after he left the Wildcats at the end of NBL25 as a three-time NBL Champion.

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