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The bad blood between the Utah Jazz and the Enes Kanter continued to boil Wednesday night.
And while Rodney Hood helped write the most heated moment in the rivalry's latest chapter, Danté Exum is the one who may have to write the check.
For three-and-a-half quarters Wednesday night, the fans at Vivint SmartHome Arena booed Kanter every time he touched the ball. Then emotions finally spilled over. When the Oklahoma City big man walked through a crowd of his former teammates, Jazz shooting guard Hood took a swipe at Kanter's back. In the confusion afterward, however, the officials assessed Exum with a technical foul.
"That was Danté. That wasn't me," Hood joked when asked about the altercation after the Jazz's 109-89 win over the Thunder.
"Nah," Hood continued. "It was just—we ran into each other, got chippy. That will happen in a game. It wasn't nothing personal or anything like that."
Asked if he would help pay Exum's fine ($2,000 if the league does not rescind it), Hood was reluctant.
"We'll talk about it," he said. "We'll talk about it."
Kanter's request for a trade two years ago, followed up by his jabs at the organization, has left a bad taste in the mouths of fans across Utah.
"We kind of sense it," Hood said, "especially after the way he left. But it's been some time home and we've moved past it. We'll continue to move past it and just play ball."
But it will be heated while it heals.
Kanter scored 19 points in his return to Salt Lake City, working as the Thunder's top option off the bench. And while Kanter worked, the Jazz found themselves in a number of one-on-one match ups with their former teammate.
"There's always going to be a little of that," Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. "Just guys have pride. And, particularly during that segment of the game, that's their focal point is to go to him. You don't want to get hung up on that, but there's an element to it. You want to stay away from it to the degree that it's not healthy. But there's also something about being a competitor and if somebody's trying to go at you, going back at them."
Jazz forward Derrick Favors found himself in a few of those battles, as he worked his way back into action after a 13-game absence due to injury.
"I know obviously the fans don't really like ends that much but …. he's a cool guy," Favors said. "I don't really take it personal with him."
Hood, meanwhile, said he and Kanter shared a few kinder words after the game.
"Just checking each other's temperature," Hood said. "It was just one instance. It wasn't nothing malicious. We're not trying to kill each other or nothing like that. That was the end of it."
— Aaron Falk