Heat's Duncan Robinson taunted Celtics fans over vulgar texts
Duncan Robinson’s heel turn on the Boston fans he grew up amongst was an old fashioned case of feeling spurned by his phone getting blown up with not-so-nice messages.
As the Heat were putting the finishing touches on avoiding becoming the first team in NBA history to blow a 3-0 lead by conquering the Celtics in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals in Boston on Monday, Robinson put in a lay-up to give the Heat a 94-73 lead, and promptly turned to the fans at TD Garden and hit them with the Hulk Hogan ears move.
Robinson, who grew up in New Hampshire, a little over an hour outside Boston, explained to JJ Redick and Tommy Alter on the “Old Man & the Three” podcast that he felt conflicted, but ultimately had to taunt the Celtics fans who leaked his number and blew up his phone with some vulger messages.
“There’s a little bit of internal conflict because you’re playing on the court that you were fortunate enough to go to some games growing up,” Robinson began.
He said he planned the whole thing out, concocting in his mind a scenario where he would have been “relevant” enough in the flow of the game to warrant taunting.
He thought beforehand that would mean scoring 20 points, or hitting a big 3-pointer to give the Heat a double-digit lead, but that he had to settle for pulling out the Hogan move after a reverse layup.
Then he explained what motivated him to rub salt in the wound of his Boston brethren.
“I don’t know how this happened, but maybe somebody I went to high school with or something, because I still have the same number from high school — my number got put in a group chat somewhere,” Robinson said.
Duncan Robinson explained that he taunted the Celtics fans, despite having grown up supporting the team, because they blew up his phone with vulgar texts before Game 7. TNT
“So after we lose Game 6, my phone is blowing up from all these random New England numbers, like ‘Get f–ked, Celts in seven!’
“And they’re just like sending memes of the Curt Schilling bloody sock, and it’s all these random numbers. Like 70 texts! And I’m like ‘What is going on?’ And I’m also pissed because we’re on the heels of this bone-crushing loss, where I missed some shots down the stretch.”
Robinson said he was in his “feels” and “really worked up about it,” wondering “who the f–k gave out my number?” and “how the f–k did this happen?”
Robinson called his gesture “polarizing,” saying some people loved it while others back home felt it was a “classless” move.
He and the Heat are now preparing to take on the Nuggets in the NBA Finals, which Game 1 on Thursday in Denver.
Source: New York Post
