Portland Trail Blazers guard Seth Curry was not happy after a fourth-quarter altercation with Will Barton of the Denver Nuggets, who approached Curry in the midst of him trying to pick up fallen teammate Zach Collins.
Barton approached him and the two exchanged shoves before Barton poked his finger in his face, a “sassy” reaction Curry wouldn't forgive:
Will Barton and Seth Curry get into an argument pic.twitter.com/yrPralUpqe
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“He waited for a few people to get in between us, and when a few people were in between us he put his finger in my eye,” Curry said of Barton, according to ESPN's Royce Young. “I can't allow people to put their fingers in my eye. That's real sassy. They got some sassy dudes over there. Frontrunners. We can't allow that. We need some toughness out there and that's why we got down a little bit, we played with an edge.”
"It's real sassy, got some sassy dudes over there and we can't allow that, we need some toughness out there."
Seth Curry while recapping the skirmish in the 4th pic.twitter.com/kAI9rGD4ut
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There is no love lost between these two teams after fighting tooth-and-nail for a chance to make the Western Conference Finals, now bound to decide it all in a Game 7 at the Pepsi Center in Denver.
It's yet to be known if the league has further discipline to assess for this little skirmish, which could put these teams a player short as far as bench firepower.
Curry only scored three points in his 21 minutes, but the Blazers' bench outscored the Nuggets' reserves 42-13 — a massive difference that eventually helped the duo of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum tread water during a pivotal game facing elimination.
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