Both players were in the Chicago Bulls and disputed the position in the starting lineup
“If the Mirotic thing had been in the 90s, nobody would have cared,” said the American
In October 2017, Nikola Mirotic He was living his best moment as a basketball player. He had reached the Chicago Bulls and earned a place in the starting lineup ahead of Bobby Portis. The American was not happy with the situation and in one of the typical fights in training, always intense, in the NBA, punched in the face of the current player of the Barça that separated him from the tracks for several weeks for a jaw fracture.
Five years later, Portis has spoken again about the incident in the podcast of Chris Haynes, a journalist from Yahoo. “If you were there, you understood what happened. If not, you assume everything they say out there, “she began explaining.
He attributed his actions to competitiveness: “We are two competitive players, we played in the same position. I wanted to play and he wanted to play“.
But defended himself by claiming that new technologies ‘inflated the balloon’: “If it had been in the 80s and 90s, nobody would have cared. Social media takes it to another level”.
After that, he felt sorry for that situation had repercussions on his figure. “Obviously, I had a bad stigma and a bad reputation that stuck with me for a while“, assured the power forward.
Finally, he said that the most important thing for him was to find “inner peace”. “The thing that changed my life the most was the pandemic. Obviously, a lot of people say that the pandemic caused them to lose a lot of money, but I had the opportunity to go home and surround myself with people who really love me and care about me. I have peace again, some things that used to bother me don’t bother me anymore. Returning to that peace is the most important”, concluded the player of the Milwaukee Bucks.
