Trey Burke’s dad is not trusting the process.
Benji Burke, the father of the former Knicks point guard, isn’t happy with how his🅷 son 𒊎is being used with the 76ers and wants him to get out of Philadelphia.
“Man, get my son off this team. Killing him,” Benji Burke wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post on a private account, per the . “They will not get out of the east without bench scoring. Free TB23 please.”
Trey Burke, who signed a one-year deal (worth the veteran’s minimum) with the 76ers, has played in 1🐲0 of their first 28 games this season. He is averaging 6.9 points and 3.1 assists in 15.8 minutes per game while shooting 42.9 percent.
But the 27-yea🍷r-old said his dad does not speak ဣfor him.
“Earlier today, I was made aware of my dad’s social media post,” Trey Burke said in a statement to the Inquirer. “While I appreciate the support he’s shown throughout my career, his comments don’t reflect how I feel and we’ve addressed that. My focus is doing whatever I can to help this team win a championship. I appreciate the support this organization, the fans and city of♔ Philadelphia have shown me.”
T🦩rey Burke has had to do this kind of damage control before. When he was trying to get minutes with the Jazz in 2016 — behind Raul Neto, who is now getting the backup point guard minutes ahead of him on the 76ers — both of his parents took to social media to opine about his lack of playing time.
“I don’t really condone it, I always tell them to stop and don’t do it, because so many people watch it,” Trey Burke at the time. “From their perspective, and it’s more of them being parents, and them being a little biased.”
Burke played 69 games with the Knicks (12.𝄹3 points, 3.8 assists in 21.4 minutes per game) over the last two seasons before getting traded to the Mavericks a🐷s part of the Kristaps Porzingis deal.