WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Marcin Gortat blocks shots for a living. He also blocks people on Twitter for quality of life.

In fact, Gortat’s blocked approximately 1,395 more people on Twitter than he has on the basketball court in his NBA career, according to his own estimation given on the radio Thursday with 106.7 The Fan’s Grant Paulsen and Danny Rouhier.

The topic was raised when, during the radio interview, a fan had requested of Paulsen, via Twitter, to ask for Gortat to unblock him.

@tdot82 What did you do to get blocked? — Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) February 19, 2015

Here’s what that fan did to earn a block from Gortat.

And here’s how Gortat responded, before rejecting him into Twitter irrelevance.

“How hard is it to get blocked by Marcin Gortat on Twitter?” the big man was asked.

“How hard? Well, when the people are just saying just dumbass comments [sic],” he replied. “You ain’t gonna hurt my feelings if somebody said, you know, ‘Oh, that guy just dunked on you,’ or, ‘That guy dropped 20 on you.’

“Yeah, so you’re not gonna get blocked like that, you know what I’m saying? You’re gonna get blocked if you’re disrespectful. If you say something about me, you curse at my family, you say something about my family; it’s, ‘This is disrespectful.’ I don’t have to hear that.

“And I’m quite sure I have 2,000 people already blocked on my Twitter,” he estimated. “And probably 80 percent of them is from Chicago, unfortunately.”

Gortat explained he’d stopped reading Twitter for a stretch when his play began to decline this season, and only recently plugged back in to track NBA trade rumors. “There was a time when I was coming after the game, checking Twitter, and I see the guy saying something bad about me and my family,” he said. “And I’m like, ‘Oh, here we have another client who wants to join the happy group.'”

Gortat would also mention he has “probably about 300” of his own action figures in his possession, and, rather than leaving them to fill “pretty much every room” of his home, he has big time plans for what to do with them.

“The next move we want to do is, we want to go to PTI and we want to put those action figures actually behind those guys,” he said of ‘Pardon The Interruption’ hosts Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser. “They have the bunch of action figures over there. We want to make sure that mine is sticking out right in front of the camera, so. … Yeah, it’s gonna be a big time.”

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