Larry Johnson was incredulous yesterday when asked about his alleged “flashing” of a Knicks’ public relations woman in the team’s locker room a couple of weeks ago.
The story, which originally appeared in a New York Magazine fluff piece about Latrell Sprewell, claimed that Johnson likes to “trick” Knicks’ director of public relations Lori Hamamoto into seeing him naked in the locker room.
In Tuesday’s Post, basketball columnist Peter Vecsey wrote about the alleged incident, according to Johnson, without having ever asked him about it.
The supposed incident, which Hamamoto claims she doesn’t remember, snowballed to the point where Johnson had to speak with NBA vice-president of security Horace Balmer yesterday after practice.
When approached about it in the players’ parking lot, Johnson vehemently denied any such incident took place, saying, “Me and Lori are great. I would never flash Lori or disrespect Lori like that.
Hamamoto said, “Larry and I have a good relationship and [this alleged incident] is not an issue.”
“Yeah, I deny doing it,” Johnson said. “I don’t flash people.”
Johnson said when the New York Magazine reporter was in the locker room, he asked Hamamoto to “tally up” his free throws, which he said he does after every game.
“The writer must have thought I was trying to get Lori to look at me,” Johnson said. “But I had my towel on the whole time. Then [the story] has gone from that to this to that to this.”