NBA star's 'deplorable' comments after 'embarrassing' Knicks loss
A pointless fight after a blowout loss.
Chants of ‘sell the team’, and a star player slammed for ignorant comments to reporters after the game.
Welcome to the New York Knicks in 2020.
To say it’s been a disastrous season would be a wild understatement, and the shenanigans to close the loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday only served to further the argument.
Grizzlies forward Jae Crowder stole a lazy inbounds pass and looked to shoot a three, with the visitors up by 18 at Madison Square Garden.
Knicks point guard Elfrid Payton was unhappy with what he deemed to be an unsportsmanlike act from Crowder - but chose to respond with one of his own.
Payton shoved Crowder while he was in mid-air, kicking off a push and shove saw Payton and Crowder ejected, alongside Knicks forward Marcus Morris.
Morris compounded the Knicks’ embarrassment when he spoke to reporters after the game, saying Crowder’s game was ‘woman-like’ in a series of comments that were immediately and roundly criticised.
Only, like, the sixth most embarrassing thing about this night for the Knicks.
— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) January 30, 2020
Deplorable stuff to cap a night at MSG where the Knicks found all the wrong reasons to enter the national discourse … https://t.co/guQvnjGmD7
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) January 30, 2020
“He's got a lot of female tendencies on the court, flopping and throwing his head back,” Morris said of Crowder.
“He's soft, very woman-like."
I apologize for using the term “female tendencies” I have the upmost respect for women and everything they mean to us. It was a Heat of the moment response and I never intended for any Women to feel as though in anyway I’m disrespecting them. Again I apologize with my comments.
— Marcus Morris (@MookMorris2) January 30, 2020
The humiliation of the Knicks wasn’t yet complete though.
Music had to be played in the arena to drown out fans who were heckling team owner James Dolan.
Knicks fans chanted ‘sell the team’ at Dolan - and not for the first time.
A loud "Sell the team" chant rises up at MSG with Knicks down 18 and a fracas on the court just broken up. MSG starts piping in loud music to break it up. Things are not going well in New York tonight. pic.twitter.com/X9zM0VQ3Vg
— Mike Vorkunov (@MikeVorkunov) January 30, 2020
But wait, there’s more. Once both teams were done getting into it, they went back to their locker rooms, where cold, pressure-less showers awaited the Grizzlies.
Baffled Grizzlies rookie Ja Morant perhaps summed up the game best.
“This is beyond me,” he said.
Ja Morant says there’s no hot water and only 3 drops of water coming out of the Knicks visitor showers.
“This is beyond me,” he said.
The Grizzlies are actively trying to get both hot water and water pressure to take showers right now.— Kristian Winfield (@Krisplashed) January 30, 2020
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