Whereas other defensive stoppers lean into the villain mentality — Dillon Brooks literally calls himself Dillon the Villain — Dort doesn’t seek such a moniker. If your favorite player has a bad game against Dort, or comes away from the matchup injured, like Ja Morant did in the Rockets’ first-round series versus the Grizzlies, Dort said he does feel badly about it. “He’ll come into the locker room after the game, after something happens, and he’ll tell us, ‘Obviously I didn’t mean to hurt him,’” Thunder teammate Aaron Wiggins told ESPN.
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