Miami Heat-Guard Dion Waiters fell against Rudy Gobert’s leg in the match against Utah Jazz, who was injured in the action. Afterwards, the center hinted via Twitter that it was a dirty action.
“Dove for the ball right…” wrote Gobert on Twitter in response to a video of the action, and the jazz band is said to have complained to the league that there was no unsportsmanlike foul against Waiters. Gobert will fail with a bone bruise four to six weeks as came out on Sunday.
But Waiters resisted the accusations:”I’ve never been a dirty player in my life,”Waiters said on Sunday,”I went to the ball. I didn’t even know it was him. That was a basketball game. He’s going to social media right now, it’s not my style. At the end of the day, all this means nothing. We won, they lost.”
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said he could understand both sides, but did not assume that Waiters wanted to hurt Gobert intentionally,”It’s hard and we hope Rudy is OK. But we’re always warning our players to follow up on Loose Balls. Dion did that,”said Spoelstra.
Waiters went on to say that he would have preferred it if Gobert had contacted him privately:”If he thought it was a dirty action, let him talk to me from man to man. Then I’ll talk to him. I saw it late at night on social media. I’m not a dirty gambler,”Waiters said.