“He called me the N-word and I was not happy about it,” Salah Mehri said about an altercation Wednesday with Warriors rookie Jordan Bell.

Warriors rookie Jordan Bell was at the center of two separate altercations with the Mavericks' Devin Harris and Salah Mejri on Wednesday in Dallas. The latter of which supposedly started when Bell called Mejri a racial slur.

“He called me the N-word and I was not happy about it,” Mejri told Def Pen Hoops. “I told the referee, ‘Hey, he can’t call me that.’ I don’t want to be called that word. I don’t think it’s a big deal, but for real, I don’t know the kid, I don’t know his name, I don’t know his number.

"The only thing I remember is the dunk he made against us [in October], but he can do whatever he wants. Backboard, behind-the-back, throw it to the fans, he can do whatever he wants. We’re playing basketball.”

Bell acknowledged after the Warriors' win that Mejri and the Mavs were likely upset with a last-minute showboat dunk he had against Dallas in October.

Rookie Jordan Bell to ESPN on the two mini altercations last night with Salah Mejri and Devin Harris in Dallas. Asked if he felt targeted from when he threw the ball off the glass and dunked it with the game already decided on Oct. 23. pic.twitter.com/2F0VYm4cZt — Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) January 4, 2018

The comments made to ESPN led Mejri, a Tunisia native, to clap back on social media Thursday.

Who’s son is this? At least he knows my jersey’s number because i don’t know a shit about him... — Salah Mejri (@50Mejri) January 4, 2018

Mejri, who has his fair share of run-ins with opposing players despite playing just 12 minutes per game the past three seasons, will have to wait until Feb. 8 to hash things out with Bell.



