We haven’t had a good NBA beef in a little. Fortunately, Dennis Schröder and Isaiah Thomas are here to help us out, giving us a fun feud between two of the East’s more entertaining point guards.
Things started on Friday, after the Boston Celtics beat the Atlanta Hawks, 103-101. Schröder struggled, while Thomas hit the game winner and went for 28 points and nine assists. It was a feisty matchup, as the two got hit with double technicals at one point.
After the game, Schröder said that Thomas was talking smack, which happens all the time. Schröder believed that Thomas stepped over the line, though, as he alleged that the Celtics’ guard said cursed at his mother.
“I’m playing basketball,” Schröder said after the game, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “If he think that he got to curse at my mom or say some dumb stuff about my family, that has nothing to do with basketball. That’s his choice. I’ve got too much class for that. Next one, we are going to get it.”
This did not sit well with Thomas, who refuted the allegations on Twitter. Then, on Sunday, he was asked about the interaction and repeated that this is not his style to bring someone’s family into the trash he talks on the court.
Isaiah Thomas: “From this point on, I don’t even want to talk about Denis Schroder. He's not even on the level I'm trying to be on.” pic.twitter.com/3pBQB0FTNg
— Chris Forsberg (@ChrisForsberg_) January 15, 2017
Thomas seems pretty serious that he’d never do something like this, but you’d think that Schröder wouldn’t just throw these allegations out there like this. Either way, the Feb. 27 matchup between the Celtics and the Hawks in Boston just became way more interesting thanks to the two beefing point guards.
(Via SLAM)
