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Mike James and Jordan Loyd, who play for AS Monaco, responded to Nigel Hayes-Davis, the Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul forward who called Monaco's game style "dirty and cheap."

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AS Monaco players Mike James and Jordan Loyd responded to comments made by Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul's Nigel Hayes-Davis.

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The two players from the Monagesque club criticized Hayes-Davis's comments made to Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews.

"If matching physicality, and doing the same thing y’all doing is 'dirty & cheap' then I guess so but we haven't complained about anything all series even after we lost," Loyd wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

"We actually did the opposite. To go complain to the media about something like this IS low-character," he concluded.

James, on the other hand, posted emojis on his X (formerly Twitter) account, indicating disapproval of Hayes-Davis's comments.

Monaco's English page also did not hold back.

This reaction from the Monaco side came from the comments of Hayes-Davis.

"Obviously, it's a good team," he started off, giving credit to AS Monaco. "But like I told the guys, we deserve to win. A lot of their game plan was to be dirty and cheap. That's very low-character basketball."

Fenerbahce eliminated Monaco in Game 5 to reach the 2024 EuroLeague Final Four.

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