Andrew Bogut: “This League Is So Two-Faced”

 

 

Tonight, the Dallas Mavericks newcomers Andrew Bogut and Harrison Barnes will return to Oracle Arena to take on their former teammates – the Golden State Warriors. In typical Andrew Bogut fashion, he didn’t hold back when it came time to reflect on the whole situation.

 

When discussing how certain media outlets had reports of “anonymous comments” made in regards to Bogut’s durability, he fired back immediately.

 

“But that’s how it is,” Bogut said to USA Today. “I don’t buy into the sources thing. I don’t buy into all that (expletive), because this league is so two-faced and everybody is so fake. The same people who made those comments will see me tomorrow and shake my hand and ask me how my family is.”

 

“This league is full of people who are full of (expletive) and shallow, and that’s what you figure out in pro sports,” Bogut said. “It’s very hard to meet a genuine person who you can call your friend in this league. That’s just the reality, and I understand that.”

 

If you don’t remember, Bogut exited the 2016 NBA Finals in Game 5 with bone bruises to his left knee and wasn’t able to return. Tonight, he will do his best to not let the return get to him and go about his business as he always does.

 

One has to wonder who Bogut could be referring to when it comes to some of these comments. The first match-up between him and some of his old teammates from the Bay Area could be telling when it comes to interaction between some of them.

 

“I mean there’s no doubt it’s disappointing to leave one of the best teams — record-wise, those last two years … you leave a team like that and it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Bogut told USA Today. “It was bitter in a way. I wasn’t mad at anybody about it. I understood it completely. I’m not stupid.

 

“But yeah, you’re disappointed leaving guys who you battled for a championship with, and guys where everyone understood their role and it was just fun to play and be a part of that team, because every day you came in to work and everyone kind of knew their role and accepted it. It was just cool to be part of that every day. It was just automatic. You didn’t have to do any extra (expletive). That was probably the (most fun) part of it, was it was just so automatic for two years.”