OAKLAND, Calif. _ Kevin Durant is resting a sprained left ankle. Draymond Green is just resting.
Enter Jordan Bell for Friday's late tipoff against the Bulls.
Yes, that Jordan Bell.
"They made it clear that they didn't want me," Bell said at Warriors' shootaround Friday.
They would be the Bulls, who sold the rights to Bell to the Warriors for $3.5 million last June after using the No. 38th pick on the power forward. Management said at the time they were focused on wing players for the pick.
Later, executive vice president John Paxson said selling the pick could earn some equity with ownership at a later date, using the example of the time ownership ponied up $3 million to help the Bulls acquire Luol Deng's draft rights in 2004.
Regardless, Bell is focused on basketball.
"I don't take it to heart like everybody else is taking it," Bell said.
Nevertheless, Bell said he has followed how some Bulls fans are focused on how he's faring since selling a draft pick for cash at the onset of a rebuild isn't the best optics. Bell played well early, has been inactive of late and now gets another chance Friday against the team that didn't want him.
"I think it's just fans being fans," Bell said. "(The Bulls) were in a rebuild, so I guess I would've probably helped them win a little bit more than they wanted to. I take it as a positive."
