Schroder: Thomas trash-talked my mom, but 'I've got too much class for that'

Dennis Schroder said nothing would go down between him and Isaiah Thomas on Friday night so long as Thomas didn't slap him. Well, Thomas didn't slap him, but things weren't exactly civil between the two competing point guards.

As he torched Schroder and the Hawks in the second half on his way to a game-high 28 points, Thomas was heard shouting to the crowd in Atlanta that Schroder "ain't nothing."

Apparently, things didn't stop there. After the game - which the Celtics won thanks to Thomas' tiebreaking step-back jumper with two seconds to play - Schroder told reporters Thomas got personal, and that he refused to stoop to the same level.

"If he think that he got to curse at my mom or say some dumb stuff about my family that has nothing to do with basketball, that's his choice," Schroder said, according to Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I've got too much class for that. Next one, we are going to get it."

The bad blood between the two goes back to the teams' first-round playoff series last year, which the Hawks won in six games. In Game 3 of the series, Thomas slapped Schroder across the face, and Schroder retaliated in short order with a dirty screen.

Thomas, for his part, didn't feel he had anything to answer for after Friday's game, and instead doubled down on his dismissiveness of Schroder.

"Every time I step on the floor I want to win the battle," he said, according to MassLive's Jay King. "He's not somebody I'm worried about."

And win the battle he did. Emphatically. On top of his scoring output and crunch-time moxie, Thomas dished out a game-high nine assists and was a plus-13 in 36 minutes. Schroder went 2-of-11 from the field, had as many fouls as points (four), and was a game-worst minus-23.

"I'm worried about doing what's best for my team and getting my team a win," Thomas added. "I'll worry about the rest later."