Austin Rivers, Mo Bamba, Three Others Ejected After Combat

Austin Rivers and Mo Bamba have been amongst 5 gamers ejected following slot online a combat the place each gamers threw punches.

Jaden McDaniels, Taurean Prince and Jalen Suggs have been additionally ejected.

Bamba seemed to be speaking trash to Rivers on a number of journeys down the ground.

“This is not like a cool second for me,” Rivers mentioned after the sport. “I really feel embarrassed. I am the oldest on the group. I take into account myself the chief of the group, or one of many leaders of the group. It was a bizarre recreation, and I do not suppose that helped in any respect. If something proper now, I am simply [ticked off] that we misplaced, and that I had [something] to do with that. It would not make me really feel good.”

“You clearly need to have your teammate’s again and on the identical time, you have to be an expert,” mentioned Moritz Wagner.

Rivers approached Bamba about his feedback.

“I am not going to snitch on the dude or no matter, however I simply did not like the way in which he was speaking to me,” mentioned Rivers. “For no cause, too. I do not even know that dude. I do not know something about him. Clearly, I simply know he is a participant for the Magic. And he proceeded to speak, in order that subsequent possession, once I went down there, I simply mentioned, just about, ‘Simply preserve it respectful, bro.'”

Markelle Fultz, when requested what Bamba mentioned to Rivers, instructed reporters it was “regular trash, nothing disrespectful or loopy.”