Ice Cube shut down a viral post that tried to drag him into the never-ending LeBron James and Michael Jordan debate, per Heavy. The @Hoopss account on X, which has hundreds of thousands of followers, shared a fake update that claimed Cube mocked comparisons between the two icons. The post offered no source, no real context and no truth.

“This is not a quote from me,” Cube wrote on Thursday once he caught wind of it. The fabricated message painted LeBron as someone who had not created anything meaningful and portrayed Jordan as the only example of greatness. The words spread fast, so Cube stepped in before people tried to twist them into something larger. Expand Tweet

When another user told him to “take the high road,” Cube doubled down. “If you let people put words in your mouth

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