MINNEAPOLIS — As fans showered the Minnesota Timberwolves starters with thunderous applause when they exited the game late in a blowout win, Karl-Anthony Towns raised one hand and waved toward the Los Angeles Lakers' bench, gesturing by opening and closing his hand several times.
There was noticeable trash-talking during the Timberwolves' 124-104 win over the Lakers on Wednesday at the Target Center, and the Wolves enjoyed handing the Lakers their third straight loss.
In one particular sequence that went viral, Russell Westbrook airballed a corner 3-pointer with 3 minutes, 58 seconds left. After Towns rebounded the miss, he looked twice into the path that the airball took with a perplexed look.
«I honestly don't pay no mind to it,» Westbrook said of the Wolves talking smack. «Maybe the other guys [do]. But they weren't talking to me. They were talking to individual guys particularly, but the trash-talking doesn't bother me none.
»Nobody over there has done anything in this league that would make me pick my eyes up, like, 'Oh, they're talking mess. Let me respond.' No. It's fine. They're good. They won the game. Happy for them. Move onto the next one."
Earlier in the game, after Patrick Beverley forced a Westbrook turnover, Beverley could be seen plugging his nose as if to say something smelled bad and appeared to mouth the word «trash» twice.
Beverley, who has a history with Westbrook, took to Twitter afterward to respond to Westbrook's remark that nobody on the Wolves has «done anything in this league.»
«Playoffs every year,» Beverley wrote while retweeting Westbrook's answer. «2 western conference finals with 2 different Teams individual stats or team stats? I thought it was a team sport??»
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