![]() ![]() Said Butler: "We've been good ever since. "Ever since then, we've gotten along pretty well." "I was like, 'I'm with it, because I'm trying to save some money, too,'" Ingles said. Butler and Ingles exchanged daps, buried their beef and protected their bank accounts. The Utah forward was instantly agreeable. "We've been in this league for way too long now. "OK, man, give it a break," Butler, now a member of the Miami Heat, recalled telling Ingles during their pregame treaty. They never exchanged blows, but Butler and Ingles have traded trash-talking jabs every time their teams have met since, often resulting in double technical fouls and the accompanying four-figure fines. " staring at me like he was bloody about to beat the s- out of me," Ingles recalled. Fortunately for Ingles, his teammate Trevor Booker pulled Butler away. It left Ingles sprawled on the floor with the then-Chicago Bulls forward standing over him. There, Utah Jazz swingman Joe Ingles stood, watched and waited as the All-Star closed in.Īt this point, the quick wits, sharp tongues and competitive fires of both Butler and Ingles had been clashing for years, a powder keg sparked early in Ingles' career when he tried to blow up a screen Butler had set. JIMMY BUTLER INTERRUPTED his pregame warmup and made a beeline toward half court. NBA, Atlanta Hawks, Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz Inside the NBA's new wave of trash talk: 'It's not really a verbal assault like it used to be' It was bigger than me.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]() So this was for the girls that look like me, that's going to speak up on what they believe in. But when other people do it, y'all say nothing. I don't fit in a box that y'all want me to be in. "All year I was critiqued about who I was," Reese said. Reese believes she has helped grow the game this season. She's happy after helping lead LSU to the program's first NCAA Championship. Reese said Twitter will get enraged every time, but she doesn't mind. "I have all the screenshots of what everybody has said about me all season," Reese said. Reese said she loves reading the comments on Twitter about her. Reese and Clark were two of the most highlighted trash talkers this season, though Reese is the one who often faces blowback for her antics. View Gallery: LSU-Iowa in NCAA championship basketball: Caitlin Clark, Kim Mulkey MULKEY ON CLARK: LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey on Iowa's Caitlin Clark: 'I couldn't take my eyes off of her' ![]() MULKEY'S LA TECH DAYS: What Leon Barmore said to Kim Mulkey after LSU women's basketball reached first NCAA title game KIM MULKEY: How much LSU's NCAA championship game run has made coach Kim Mulkey in bonus money Reese had a double-double in both Final Four games and had 15 points and 10 rebounds in LSU's 102-85 win over Iowa to win the program's first national title. ![]() The biggest goal is to be a national champion, and that's what I did." I don't care to be defensive player of the year, player of the year. The biggest goal for me is the national championship. "That's the difference between me and a lot of people. "I don't care about anybody else and what they have to say about me," Reese said. The gesture was made famous by WWE wrestler John Cena, who responded to Clark's performance on Twitter.īut Reese isn't bothered by what people think of her passion and trash talking on the court. But she sparked debate online when she used the "you can't see me" gesture that Clark had used against Louisville in the Elite Eight. In the final minutes of the NCAA National Championship game, Reese pointed to her ring finger while staring Clark down. DALLAS – Twitter blew up Sunday evening when Angel Reese used Caitlin Clark's taunting against her. ![]()
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