Seth Curry stoked the fire by saying the Nuggets have "a few sassy dudes" after the Trail Blazers guard clashed with Denver's Will Barton in Game 6 of their NBA Western Conference semifinal series.
That should make Game 7 in Denver even more interesting.
Curry and Barton had to be separated in the fourth quarter Thursday when things got heated at Moda Center, where the Blazers went on to set up the serie semifinal decider with a 119-108 victory.
Curry claimed Barton was to blame for their altercation.
Seth Curry with a finger in the eye by Barton pic.twitter.com/K0ssd3Sv7b
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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 told reporters.
"You know what I'm saying. I can't allow people to put their fingers in my eye.
"That's real sassy. They got a few sassy dudes over there. Front-runners. And we can't allow that."
*extreme Ryan Gosling voice*
— Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) May 10, 2019
It wasn’t over….It STILL Isn’t over pic.twitter.com/VVC3wxAAnP
Nuggets forward Barton gave a different account of the incident.
"He fell right into my knees, look at the replay. I was trying to protect myself. Curry came over and gave me a little push, I gave him a little push back and that was it," Barton said.
"We probably said some stuff, I don't remember everything in the heat of the moment."
So circle the calendar for Sunday's Game 7, game time still TBD, pending the outcome of Friday's Game 6 of the other Western semifinal between the Warriors, sans Kevin Durant, and Rockets.