NBA playoffs 2018: Kelly Oubre Jr.'s war of words with Delon Wright hits absurd heights - Sporting News

The beauty of the NBA playoffs is how players who were at least once amicable toward one another in the regular season become mortal enemies as the grind of playing a single team over the span of two weeks gets to them.

Kelly Oubre Jr. and Delon Wright provide the latest example of this postseason phenomenon.

Oubre threw the first verbal punch after the Wizards' Game 5 loss to the Raptors on Wednesday. The Washington forward mentioned that Game 6 would be "a different story" and then, for some reason, directed an insult at Wright.

"The next game is a different story. We're back at home," Oubre told The Washington Post. Next came this bit of inspiration combined with a touch of an insult: "Just like Delon doesn't play well anywhere else, you know, other than at home. You can kind of chalk it up as the same story."

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Wright did score 18 points off the bench to help the Raptors win in Toronto, but the jab seemed to come out of nowhere as the two players had no prior history.

The Toronto guard initially tried to brush off Oubre's comments, but he couldn't help himself and responded.

Oubre was unsurprisingly ready to counter, but he took things a bit further than Wright probably expected.

Ignoring the insane train of logic of his last sentence — are we to gather Oubre comes back as a zombie in his own body, or a ghost? — this statement is quite inciting. It should help make Game 6 a must-watch game, and this individual matchup a must-watch battle.

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