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“Fake Toughness”: Warriors’ Charles Bassey Rips Marcus Smart After Getting Punched as Draymond Green Sends Message
It was a night to forget for the Golden State Warriors. They lost Stephen Curry to an injury, saw their historic eight-game winning streak come to an end, and then watched Marcus Smart throw a wild punch at their center, Charles Bassey. The blow narrowly missed landing cleanly on Bassey’s nose, potentially adding another injury
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- EssentiallySports“Fake Toughness”: Warriors’ Charles Bassey Rips Marcus Smart After Getting Punched as Draymond Green Sends MessageIt was a night to forget for the Golden State Warriors. They lost Stephen Curry to an injury, saw their historic eight-game winning streak come to an end, and then watched Marcus Smart throw a wild punch at their center, Charles Bassey. The blow narrowly missed landing cleanly on Bassey’s nose, potentially adding another injury
- Yahoo SportsIme Udoka shares what Charles Bassey actually said to Marcus SmartEveryone had a theory about the chirping between Charles Bassey and Marcus Smart, until Ime Udoka finally set the record straight. Even with Steph Curry heading to the locker room early with an injury, the Rockets and Warriors still gave fans a tight, ugly scrap right down to the wire.
- NY PostWarriors center calls out Marcus Smart’s ‘fake toughness’ after punch leads to ejectionMarcus Smart took a swing at Golden State's Charles Bassey and got himself ejected from the Warriors’ 115-108 loss to the Rockets on Wednesday night.
- ESPNRockets' Smart ejected for throwing punch at Warriors' BasseyRockets guard Marcus Smart threw a right hook Wednesday night that grazed the nose of Warriors center Charles Bassey in the third quarter of Houston's win.
- The Athletic(subscription required)Rockets' Smart ejected for throwing punch. Warriors player calls it 'fake toughness'The Rockets guard threw a punch at Warriors center Charles Bassey.