Portis apologizes for two 2011 tweets

Chicago Bulls forward Pau Gasol of Spain is shown in this file photo.
Chicago Bulls forward Pau Gasol of Spain is shown in this file photo.

FAYETTEVILLE — After former Arkansas forward Bobby Portis was drafted No. 22 by the Chicago Bulls on Thursday, two tweets he posted in May 2011 critical of current Bulls players Derrick Rose and Pau Gasol surfaced.

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Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose (1) celebrates with other players after scoring the game-winning three point basket during the second half of Game 3 in a second-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Chicago on Friday, May 8, 2015.

Portis, 20, was 16 and a sophomore at Little Rock Hall when he tweeted May 8, 2011, that Gasol — who played for the Los Angeles Lakers at the time — wasn’t as good a player as people think and say. Portis then tweeted May 19 using a curse term with Rose’s Twitter handle while indicating he was pulling for Miami to beat Chicago in the Eastern Conference finals, which the Heat did.

“Bulls Nation sorry for the tweets I sent 4 years ago,” Portis posted on his Twitter account after the draft. “I was a boy then. I’m a man now. And a Bull. DRose, Pau, what kinda donuts yall like?”

The tweets from 2011 have been removed from Portis’ account.

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