The NBA Conference Finals are officially under way and the trend is already being bucked as the Oklahoma City Thunder take game 1 at the Oracle. A game 1 win is exactly what the Thunder needed, Westbrook & Kevin Durant were on point as a duo and the Warriors blew it, something we’ve rarely seen this season.
But after the game Steven Adams was feeling himself a little bit. In a post game interview with ESPN’s Chris Broussard Steven Adams proceeded to label the Warriors as “Quick Little Monkeys”.
Uproar came immediately after the interview and immediately after the uproar he apologised for the comment.
“It was just a poor choice of words, mate,” Adams told USA TODAY Sports. “I wasn’t thinking straight. I didn’t know it was going to upset anyone, but I’m truly sorry. It was just a poor choice of words. I was just trying to express how difficult it was chasing those guys around.”
“It’s just different, mate,” he said. “Different words, different expressions, and stuff like that. But they obviously can be taken differently, depending on which country you’re in. I’m assimilating, mate, still trying to figure out the boundaries. But I definitely overstepped them tonight.”
I understand where he’s coming from. We all know that even though there are many countries that speak English the dialects are different. It’s different in the US, it’s different in the UK and it is also different in Australia and New Zealand.
Adams has been in America long enough to know that some of his New Zealand dialect would be frowned upon and in this case he dropped the ball. Honest mistake, he apologised, let’s move onto game 2.
