Did you know that Dennis Schröder and John Wall have beef? Apparently they do, and it’s getting real. Washington Post beat writer Jorge Castillo spoke with Wall before Friday’s Game 6 between the Wizards and Hawks, and the Wiz star took the opportunity to air his grievances against the young German:
Wall said wrist/hand got hit a couple times: "Then Dennis Schroder told Kent Bazemore to smack me. And I was like, ‘You come smack it.’"
— Jorge Castillo (@jorgecastillo) May 15, 2015
Wall & Schroder have had a little feud going back to the regular season. Wall said Schroder started talking trash randomly in 1 game in ATL.
— Jorge Castillo (@jorgecastillo) May 15, 2015
Listen, Dennis, there are plenty of acceptable ways to beef (Twitter is popular for that these days), but sending someone else to smack your opponent’s broken hand is not one of them. And why pick Bazemore? He seems like such a cool dude, with his towel-waving and wingspan and whatnot. Wall had the right idea to challenge Schröder, because the Hawks backup guard clearly didn’t try anything after that (if he had, we would have seen the brawl).
I personally couldn’t find any other evidence online of the Schröder-Wall “feud” from the regular season, but the smacking incident was definitely not the only confrontation between the two in Game 5. First there was some very classy pantomime from Wall:
John Wall keeps walking past Schroder while grabbing his dick. Something to keep an eye on.
— Jack Kogod (@Unsilent) May 14, 2015
Schröder tried to respond by dunking on Wall, but that did not go super great for Dennis:
If I had to guess, I’d say that right around then is when Schröder had a mini-Tonya Harding episode. In the heat of the moment, it’s understandable a 21-year-old could lose his head. Hopefully now he realizes that the dude he’s beefing with is John Wall, who humiliates people on the basketball court regularly.
(H/t Jorge Castillo, Jack Kogod and RealGM)