Kings' Iman Shumpert stopped by security at Blazers' locker room

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --Kingsguard Iman Shumpert was stopped from going into the Portland locker room by arena andTrail Blazerssecurity after Sacramento's 115-107 victory Monday night.

Shumpert apparently was angry at Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic, who set a hard screen in the second half.

"Some stuff needed to be between me and him, a conversation between two men," Shumpert said. "Some stuff happened out there that we needed to have a conversation about. That's it."

Nurkic shrugged it off.

"I'm not going to worry about it," he said. "He's going into retirement soon. I'm not going to worry about a guy who's going into retirement soon."

After the game, Shumpert apologized via Twitter.

The 28-year-old Shumpert was called for a technical foul in the third quarter. He later was walked to the Sacramento bench by a teammate after arguing with someone on the Portland bench.

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