Kristaps Porzingis' Twitter Account Posts, Then Deletes 'LA Clippers' Tweet

Kristaps Porzingis' official Twitter account posted and quickly deleted a tweet Saturday that read "LA Clippers" with three smiling emojis.

Marc Berman of the New York Post reported Porzingis does not always post his own tweets. It is possible someone who helps run the account meant to post something on a different account, realized the error and deleted the tweet. Berman cited a source who said it's also possible Porzingis was hacked.

The New York Knicks forward has not tweeted since or commented publicly on the matter. A representative for Porzingis said he was sleeping at the time the tweet was posted, and his account was "apparently hacked," per Ian Begley of ESPN.com.

Begley previously reported that "several teams reached out to the New York Knicks" to inquire about trading for Porzingis after he skipped the team's exit meetings. The second-year forward has grown dissatisfied with the team's lack of consistent direction, which has vacillated from rebuilding around Porzingis to acquiring instant-win veteran help.

"Absolutely, I want to stay here all my career," Porzingis told Latvian magazine Sporta Avize, per Berman. "But the thing I want most of all is winning. When the time comes, I will seriously start to think about it. Right now I just try to do my best."

Porzingis will play for the Latvian national team this summer after taking a two-year hiatus. He did not inform the Knicks he would be playing in the 2017 EuroBasket tournament and has been back in Latvia since April. Speaking to reporters when announcing his EuroBasket participation, Porzingis refused to talk about what happened with him and the Knicks at the end of the season.

"There was a lot of pressure from New York media in the last couple of weeks, a lot of questions we had no answers to," Martins Porzingis, Kristaps' brother, told reporters. "I could not wait to go home."

While it appears there was much ado about nothing with this isolated tweet, it's clear the Knicks have some repairs to make with their franchise cornerstone.