{"id":24294,"date":"2021-01-18T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24294"},"modified":"2021-01-19T03:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T03:56:59","slug":"nba-star-set-for-axe-after-food-throwing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24294","title":{"rendered":"NBA star set for axe after food throwing incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBA star Kevin Porter Jr is set to be waived or traded by Cleveland after a recent locker room outburst that left Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff &quot;shocked and disgusted&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Porter, a former first-round pick, has not played this season because of personal issues and seemed frustrated when he discovered his locker was moved to a wall with younger players, <em>The Athletic<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Porter&#x27;s old locker was reportedly given to Taurean Prince, who came over from the Nets as part of the four-team James Harden trade.<\/p>\n<p>Porter started screaming and even threw food resulting in Cavaliers general manager Koby Altman confronting Porter, who &quot;remained combative,&quot; according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>It also claims coach Bickerstaff was &quot;shocked and disgusted&quot; by what he heard and came in.<\/p>\n<p>An ESPN report claims the 20-year-old was then told to clean out his new locker and teammates were told he would no longer be part of the team.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"0e6289cc-55b2-4df1-8736-43c3f2ebd5b7\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0e6289cc-55b2-4df1-8736-43c3f2ebd5b7\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bickerstaff said he would leave questions about his status to Altman when asked why Porter wasn&#x27;t at practice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think the players will be disappointed because they have a relationship with Kevin&#8230; we all want to see Kevin be successful and I still feel that way&#8230; I hope nothing but the best for him.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Porter has been in the headlines for the wrong reasons of late. He was involved in a one-car accident in November and charged with &quot;improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle, transport loaded firearm in a motor vehicle accessible to operator or any passenger without leaving the vehicle.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Days later, two women filed a police report saying they were attacked by Porter in an incident unrelated to the car accident.<\/p>\n<p>Porter averaged 10 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists over 50 games last year as a rookie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NBA star Kevin Porter Jr is set to be waived or traded by Cleveland after a recent locker room outburst that left Cavaliers coach J.B. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24294\" title=\"NBA star set for axe after food throwing incident\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24298,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294\/revisions\/24298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}