Did Kevin Durant purposely try to hit Bobby Portis on Friday night?
That's what the 23-year-old Bulls forward told reporters prior to Saturday's game against the Utah Jazz, which he ended up missing due to elbow soreness.
In the third quarter of Friday's Bulls-Warriors game, Durant and Portis got tangled up, and Durant appeared to have hit Portis' elbow. After the play, the two started jawing at each other and both received a technical foul, which you can see in the attached video above.
Via The Chicago Tribune:
“Yeah, that wasn’t inadvertent,” he said.