Last week, during a win over the Utah Jazz, Memphis Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane was caught on camera yelling at, then shoving teammate Santa Aldama. Bane reportedly called out Aldama’s lack of defense. When Aldama yelled back, Bane pushed the forward into the team’s bench.
Despite the altercation, Bane and Aldama agree that there’s no lingering bad feeling between the two.
“Two competitors,” Bane said. “We’re scratching and clawing against a Utah team on the road. We’re trying to push each other to be better. And that was pretty much that. I probably took it too far. I love Santi. He was in my wedding, I’ll be in his wedding. We talked right on the bench right after, hugged it out in the locker room and everything’s great.”
Aldama agreed with his teammate’s assessment of the situation.
“Little disagreement,” Aldama said. “Definitely not a good look. Not going to sit here and act like it’s nothing, but we talked about it . . . It would be worse if we had a bunch of guys that just sat down, twiddled their thumbs and just acted like they were just fine with the situation. We want to win. We’re competitive. We just said what we said and then moved on.”
