Jovan Buha: Doc Rivers said he was surprised by Indiana’s booing of Paul George. He said he wasn’t aware that there were ill feelings still. Rivers said he expects Kawhi Leonard will received a standing ovation in Toronto based on winning a championship in his lone season with the franchise.
Fans Rumors
Michael Lee: Saw a fan here in a Jimmy Butler 76ers jersey & thought, “Man, I’d be mad if I bought a jersey for somebody who was gone after such a short time in town.” Then I saw a fan in a Kawhi Leonard Raptors jersey & thought, “That might go down as the coolest throwback ever.”
Derek Bodner: Mitchell said he wouldn’t repeat what the fan said to him. Said it was trash talking which got a little too personal. “You could tell he had a little too much (to drink) for sure.”
This wasn’t apathetic Atlanta anymore. These were the passionate plains. The Thunder fans were still reeling from Durant choosing to leave Oklahoma City in 2016 to sign with Golden State as a free agent. Eventually, Schröder made the decision to switch to the Kyrie Low 2 to start this season. “I had to switch something because you know … the KDs … people don’t want to see them in here,” Schröder said. “I was like ‘OK, let me go back to Kyries.’ “It’s better now. I don’t have to hear nothing from the crowd like ‘Why do you have these VIs on, the KDs,’ so I was like ‘OK, let me fix it.’”
“Even Russ was giving me shit sometimes like ‘Why you wearing these?’” Schröder said of Russell Westbrook, his former Thunder teammate. “I used to wear them growing up, so I felt comfortable playing in them. I had PGs on some and tried to switch them, but last year I had KDs on a lot. “People were like ‘Why you gotta wear KDs?’ I was like ‘Bro, it’s just a shoe.’”
“We’re gonna end up protecting ourselves eventually, and it’s not gonna be pretty for those fans. We don’t want that, the league doesn’t want that, we don’t want that as players, but at some point you have to stand up and you gotta protect yourself as a man.” Video showed staff members talking to fans in the area of the incident, but no action was taken.
The brother of Houston Rockets star Russell Westbrook was escorted out of Staples Center because of his role in a heated verbal confrontation with Los Angeles Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell and for “rushing the court” at the end of Friday night’s game, security officials told Yahoo Sports. “He rushed the court,” a security official told Yahoo Sports. “He was in clear violation”
