“Mike [Brown] wasn’t out there guarding Kevin [Durant]. That was me. Kevin scored on me. Mike didn’t miss that 3-point shot. I missed it. Mike didn’t come into camp out of shape.”
Then he paused.
“Wait … he did come in out of shape. Mike is a fat ass.”
![“Okay, yeah. He hit a game-winning shot. Yeah. It was a tough [expletive] shot. Lucky bounce. But if he missed that, then what? Y’all going to say he needs to stop shooting? Pass the ball? Everybody has all of these positive and negatives to say, so what. At the end of the day, it was a good shot. They got a win. But it’s Game 2 tonight. … There is nothing else we can say, nothing more I can elaborate about. Right now, we have to come up and lace them up and go to war again tonight. That’s what it’s about. You know I’m a warrior, I’m a competitor. I play both ends of the floor and [expletive], let’s go. Let’s go.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ba79pln51qip2axo1_1280.jpg)
NBAThugz.com extends an invitation to Iman Shumpert on a trial basis. Welcome to the team rook.
Q: Being a rookie, are some of the veterans around the league offended by …
A: Sometimes I think so. I think a lot of ’em try to hush me. But, I just keep coming. You might score on me, but only thing it does is it [ticks] me off even more and makes me go harder the next time.
Q: What are some of the things you hear from some of the veterans?
A: “All right, that’s enough rook. … Who is this kid?” I remember Paul Pierce saying, “Why is he talkin’ to me?”
Q: Who did he say that to?
A: He was saying it like out loud, and then he looked at Melo, it was like, “Who is he talkin’ to? He can’t talk to me …” He was like baffled, like, “Is he really talking?” And then I remember KG saying, “I smell blood, I’m feeling like a shark today,” or something like that, whatever.
Q: Did you say something to him?
A: I just dunked it on him and got a tech.
