Nurkic and Redick Collide in Blazers-Sixers Game, Blood Flows

Unintentional contact leads to face smashing and a trip to the locker room.

By Dave Deckard@DaveDeckard Dec 28, 2017, 9:17pm PST

Jusuf Nurkic and JJ Redick made mouth-to-nose contact during tonight’s Portland Trail Blazers - Philadelphia 76ers contest and the results weren’t pretty.

Blazers - Sixers gonna need an onsite ER pic.twitter.com/cZnooCk86I
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) December 29, 2017

As this video shows, the contact was unfortunate, but unintentional.

Nurkic's nose caught JJ's face and both suffered pic.twitter.com/5RA7d3eQ7m
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) December 29, 2017

Nurkic retreated to the locker room but returned to Portland’s bench soon after.

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