"I said that at the free throw line and I felt cool in the moment. I felt great. I was like 'that was so sick, that just came out of nowhere. You're brilliant' but then afterwards I was like 'ah it's pretty lame' – I was criticising myself immensely."
The exchange came shortly after Adams has agreed to a lucrative extension with the Thunder in 2016, which he detailed in his 2018 book 'My Life, My Fight'.
"He didn't know how to respond to that because it was so dumb, but it got him to shut up for a while, so I guess it worked," he wrote of the interaction. "I decided to retire from trash talking after that game and go out on a win."